SA article: "Spark Networks: A Risky Value Outlier"

 

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4449194-spark-networks-a-risky-value-outlier
 

Spark Networks' Q1 2021 Results
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2021/05/spark-networks-q1-2021-results.html

NYTimes article: Match Group (MTCH) to acquire Spark Networks (LOV) ?
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2016/12/nytimes-article-match-group-mtch-to.html

WSJ article "Bumble, Match Have Love Left to Give"
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2021/08/wsj-article-bumble-match-have-love-left.html

about Spark Networks SE (NYSE American: LOV) Rings the NYSE Closing Bell

https://livestream.com/NYSE/SparkNetworks2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhoN5UvlBeM

THEY CELEBRATE AS IF THEY HAVE SCAMMED INVESTORS!


eHarmony pays USD 1.2 million to settle auto-renewal lawsuit
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2018/01/eharmony-pays-usd-12-million-to-settle.html
about "Dating website eHarmony's 'scientific' match ad banned" in UK
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2018/01/about-dating-website-eharmonys.html

Last May 2016, I suggested USA FTC investigate several online dating sites for misleading statements, false claims, overpromises.
Like Match, eHarmony, Zoosk, OkCupid, EliteSingles (Affinitas GmbH.) copycat of eHarmony, Tinder and others.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/05/suggested-usa-ftc-investigate-several.html

 
Spark Networks (LOV) Investor Presentation - Slideshow 7 DEC 2017 (Affinitas, EliteSingles)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/12/spark-networks-lov-investor.html
EliteSingles / eDarling sites are only copycats of eHarmony.
A prospective client will not perceive eDarling / EliteSingles sites as better, superior or different than eHarmony's ones.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/06/about-article-elitesingles-full-of-fake.html
It is also said EliteSingles USA churn rate 87% every 5 months! 

Match Group is 10 times bigger than Spark + Affinitas merge in revenue.
eHarmony is 2 or 3 times bigger than Spark + Affinitas merge in revenue and eHarmony has 750,000 paid subscribers and Affinitas in the range of 380,000.
eHarmony's sites are 3 times bigger in active users and revenue than EliteSingles's sites.
And worse, NYSE:LOV can not beat and will never beat eHarmony Inc. in United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and United States.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/08/coo-von-betreiber-affinitas-im-neuen.html 

eHarmony is a 17+ years old obsolete site. The success rate of eHarmony is less than 10%.
eHarmony is only supported by a big marketing budget and not by serious scientific evidence.
The Big Five normative test used by eHarmony and its copycats, had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons.
Now it is a HOAX, a FRAUD to use it (year 2018)  
The same for eDarling and EliteSingles sites!
 

SeekingAlpha article: A MTCH in the making for LOV?

http://seekingalpha.com/news/3232490-mtch-making-lov

NYTimes article: Match Group (MTCH) to acquire Spark Networks (LOV) ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/12/nytimes-article-match-group-mtch-to.html

The Match Group can not innovate, it needs to acquire rotten companies to show illusory success to its investors.
Or worse, every time the IAC / Match Group acquires a big online dating site, it is like if they were paying a bribery to the VC investor who had previously invested in that big online dating site.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-04-11/iac-said-to-buy-back-10-of-dating-app-tinder-for-500-million

It happened with People Media Communities in 2009.
https://techcrunch.com/2009/07/07/matchcom-acquires-people-media-for-80m-in-cash/

It happened with SinglesNet in 2010.
https://techcrunch.com/2010/02/25/confrirmed-match-com-acquires-singlesnet/

It happened with OKCupid in 2011.
https://techcrunch.com/2011/02/02/match-com-acquires-online-dating-site-okcupid-for-50-million-in-cash/

It happened also with Meetic in 2011.
https://techcrunch.com/2011/05/30/big-buy-iacs-match-com-wants-to-acquire-european-online-dating-site-meetic/

It happened when IAC / Match "acquired" HatchLabs to "develop" Tinder copycat of Badoo.
https://techcrunch.com/2011/03/31/exclusive-iac-hatches-hatch-a-technology-sandbox-to-incubate-mobile-startups/

It happened when MTCH acquired FriendScout24 in 2014 and then rebranded it to LoveScout24 in 2016.
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/internetdatinginvestments/2014/07/matchcom-acquires-friendscout24.html

Also MTCH "acquired" HowAboutWe in 2014.
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2014/06/iac-to-acquire-howaboutwe.html

Then Match acquired PlentyOfFish in 2015.
https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/14/match-group-buys-plentyoffish-for-575m-to-bag-more-singles/
PlentyOfFish (POF) 1+ year under the umbrella of Match Group in severe decadence
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/10/plentyoffish-pof-1-year-under-umbrella.html

MTCH has a big debt, in the range of USD 1.2 Billion.

Perhaps Affinitas GmbH. (in part owned by Rocket Internet SE)  (RCKZF) wants to be acquired by MTCH. They operate copycats of eHarmony called EliteSingles in English speaking countries and eDarling in other countries.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/12/elitesingles-tv-ad-needle-in-haystack.html

LOV app, More social dating vaporware.

Social dating is vaporware.
The Online Dating Industry does not need any improvement. It does need INNOVATIONS!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/global-dating-insights-2014-industry.html
Online Dating for serious daters does not need to be more social, it needs to be more effective/efficient. It needs to reduce the false positives problem.
Please read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-8-tips-to-innovate-in-online-dating.html 
The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".

WorldWide, there are over 5,000 -five thousand- online dating sites
but no one is using the 16PF5 (or similar) to assess personality of its members!
but no one calculates similarity with a quantized pattern comparison method!
but no one can show Compatibility Distribution Curves to each and every of its members!
but no one is scientifically proven!


I had reviewed over 55 compatibility matching engines intended for serious dating since 2003, when I had discovered "the online dating sound barrier" problem.

Please see:
More Social Dating Vaporware: Couplelizer
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/more-social-dating-vaporware-couplelizer.html
HINGE: data scientist used to work for the CIA
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/hinge-data-scientist-used-to-work-for.html
Twitter teams with IBM for business analytics
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/10/twitter-teams-with-ibm-for-business.html
IBM Deciphers Personality Types From 200 Tweets ?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/11/ibm-deciphers-personality-types-from.html
Article and Paper: ... computers are better judges of personality than friends and family
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/01/article-and-paper-computers-are-better.html
More Stupid Investors' series: The League
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/01/more-stupid-investors-series-league.html
More Stupid Investors' series Hinge and Happn.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/12/more-stupid-investors-series-hinge-and.html
about Datelytics, new social dating network / part 2
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/04/about-datelytics-new-social-dating_26.html
LikeIt
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/news/2013/04/likeit-to-close-down-tomorrow.html
12like, visualDNA and a HOAX
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2010/06/12like-visualdna-and-hoax.html
The optical illusion of Tinder
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/the-optical-illusion-of-tinder.html

eHarmony Mapping Love with Hadoop ???
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/10/eharmony-mapping-love-with-hadoop.html

Synapse: the Match algorithm
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/05/synapse-match-algorithm.html

Facebook
PAPER "Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior"
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/03/paper-private-traits-and-attributes-are.html

OKCupid
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/07/okcupid-lied-to-users-about-their-love.html

Zoosk SmartPick
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/zoosk-smartpick-formerly-known-as.html

PlentyofFish
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/08/big-data-use-cases-at-plenty-of-fish.html
http://www.kdnuggets.com/2014/07/interview-thomas-levi-pof-online-dating-big-data.html

article: MeetMe Has This Investor Saying I Wish I Never Met You
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/article-meetme-has-this-investor-saying.html