Proof of FRAUD from ... Affiny by Meetic (It is the same as MatchAffinity in 2010)

https://www.rencontre-sur-internet.info/affiny-le-nouveau-meetic-affinity/

"a serious dating service based on *complementarity*, thanks to the personality test"

"For those seeking a lasting relationship
Far from ephemeral adventures, Affiny helps you find the right person. With a *tailored personality test*, we guide you to profiles that really fit you and share your lifestyle and values. A little logic, a little magic, and a lot of love!"

The Big Five normative personality test, had been proven/revealed as an incomplete and incorrect model to assess/measure personality of persons. 
It is a HOAX, a FRAUD to use the Big Five normative test.  

MeeticAffinity / MatchAffinity rebranded as Affiny !
https://www.blog.rendez-voo.com/meetic-affinity-devient-affiny/

Saturday, April 10, 2010: Meetic affinity == Match affinity == Dating Direct affinity
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2010/04/meetic-affinity-match-affinity-dating.html


The Online Dating Industry is selling elixirs, tonics, snake oil liniments and other patent medicine and performing like the Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Industry before the USA Food and Drug Administration was created where any player can make any claim without any credentials.
More fraud from eHarmony UK talking about "Future of Dating 2018"
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/12/more-fraud-from-eharmony-uk-talking.html

about "Dating website eHarmony's 'scientific' match ad banned" in UK
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/01/about-dating-website-eharmonys.html
 

about GDI Editorial article: Two Psychologists Talk Compatibility Science
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/11/about-gdi-editorial-article-two.html
 
 
The Online Dating Industry needs INNOVATIONS, not more bells and whistles.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2018/01/mistakes-at-behavioral-economics-of.html

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 
 

Is Affinitas GmbH. going to close soon? To deactivate all of its sites?

Or is Alexa wrong?

Sudden Drop / Sudden Stop in some European online dating sites
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/sudden-drop-sudden-stop-in-some.html

eDarling German version
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.edarling.de

eDarling Spanish version
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.edarling.es

eDarling French version
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.edarling.fr

One year ago, last July 2013, they launched EliteSingles UK and Ireland versions for the English speaking markets, but something happened!!!
EliteSingles UK version

http://myip.ms/info/whois/62.138.116.83/k/4229736422/website/elitesingles.co.uk
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.co.uk
EliteSingles Ireland/Irish version
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.ie
Alexa shows sites stopped, in the same manner as eDarling Chile and Mexico some time ago, or eDarling Turkish version (now popular in Spain? see spike by Alexa rank).
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.edarling.cl
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.edarling.mx

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.edarling.net

Other EliteSingles versions never took off.
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.co.za
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.ca
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.com.au
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.elitesingles.co.nz

Also a Sudden Drop in other European online dating sites!

MeeticFR
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.meetic.fr
NeuDE
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.neu.de
Meetic Affinity French and Spanish versions:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.meeticaffinity.fr
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.meeticaffinity.es

Something is happening just now!

"When India and then Pakistan tested nuclear weapons in May 1998, they did so underground. Preparing a nuclear test this way generates the kind of activity that an intelligence agency should be able to pick up with months of above-ground site preparation visible in satellite imagery, but at the time the CIA managed to miss it. However, seismologists were able to find out about the tests almost instantly, and were able to determine both the location and the likely range of nuclear explosive power from the tests of Pakistan and India." Alexa is like a seismograph station for Internet sites.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/10/alexa-seismograph-station-for-internet.html
I think Alexa is right, something very big happened.

Can any of you investigate further please?
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/02/some-articles-about-rocket-internet.html

IAC's Q3 2012 results and its new Match Inc. CEO

WARNING: Before reading this post, you should had read:

"Why You Should Never Pay For Online Dating"

IAC's Q2 2012 results (and Meetic)

CEO Spotlight "A Match Made in Heaven"

"OKCupid says to Online Dating Industry to Innovate or Die"
"Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:48 am
Yagan's session, titled “Where’s Dating 2.0? The Lack of Innovation in the Online Dating Industry,” will contrast the evolution of other consumer Internet verticals with the relative standstill of online dating sites over the last decade.
.....“Our industry is missing the revolution, focusing on superfluous bells and whistles, like background checks and video-dating while ignoring the needs, desires, and expectations of singles,” said Yagan. “Why is it that sites like Digg and Facebook are free but Match and eHarmony charge almost USD1,000 per year for membership? Our industry must find a way to adapt to the business models and user experiences that singles expect in a Web 2.0 world.” ..."

Then read

IAC Q3 2012
Meetic Q3 2012

AND

IAC Announces Management Changes at Its Match Segment


MY CONCLUSIONS:
Match is stagnated and cannibalizing OkCupid, SinglesNet, Meetic, DateHookup, People's Media Communities and other rotten online dating companies they had acquired since Blatt began his tenure as CEO of IAC.
They urgently need to innovate or die, but ....  they had chosen the wrong person to manage Match,i.e. he is the kind of person who can cook a barbecue under the water, he is a smoke seller, but he is not going to innovate in nothing.

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

The only way to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry is:
*  using the 16PF5 normative personality test, available in different languages to assess personality of members, or a proprietary test with exactly the same traits of the 16PF5 
and 
* expressing compatibility with eight decimals (needs a quantized pattern comparison method, part of pattern recognition by cross-correlation, to calculate similarity between prospective mates.)
All other proposals are NOISE.

CEO Spotlight "A Match Made in Heaven"

Recently Barron's CEO Spotlight had published an article about the IAC, where its CEO talks about its vision.

It was funny because:
During the tenure of Tim Sullivan as CEO, Match entered the compatibility matching era with WeAttract's test.
During the tenure of Jim Safka, the IAC (Match) launched Chemistry (the last innovation at Match, it was during 2005).
During the tenure of Thomas Enraght-Mooney, the IAC acquired 27% stake in Meetic but lost the war in Europe.
During the tenure of Greg Blatt, the IAC bought some online dating sites like PeopleMedia's Communities, SinglesNet, YahooPersonals unit, OkCupid, 81.07% of Meetic BUT no innovation since years.


Exactly one year ago, at Goldman Sachs 20th Annual Communacopia Conference, the actual IAC's CEO had talked about Personals.


"IAC has been very acquisitive in Personals"
Yes, they had acquired rotten companies, like SinglesNet, People Media Communities, OkCupid; even Meetic, they all are like pieces of different puzzles, not different pieces of the same puzzle.

"IAC does not share databases across websites, with larger opportunity stemming not from combination but from separate growth. Mr. Blatt mentioned that going forward that approach may change and some bundling may be implemented."
Those databases are like pieces of different puzzles. Over 70% of Match profiles are fake or inactive and Chemistry is a 7+ years old obsolete site based on a Scientific HOAX.

"Mr. Blatt mentioned that there is tremendous innovation in the dating space from video to mobile to distribution across social (highlighting that no one has quite tackled social yet). He feels IAC’s Personals does not have many holes left to fill and internal development going forward is more likely; new tech is deployed globally after proving effectiveness in core market."
Ha, ha, ha, ha. That is exactly the same Tim Sullivan, former CEO of Match, said during 2003!

The entire Online Dating Industry for serious daters in 1st World Countries is a HOAX, performing as a Big Online Casino, with low successful rates.

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.
Innovations are not adding more bells and whistles to actual online dating sites.
The Online Dating Industry needs innovations but they will come from only one source: the latest discoveries in theories of romantic relationships development with commitment.
Compatibility is all about a high level on personality* similarity* between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment.
*personality measured with a normative test.
*similarity: there are different ways to calculate similarity, it depends on how mathematically is defined.
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!


What comes after Social Networking?
My bet: The Next Big Investment Opportunity on the Internet will be .... Personalization!
Personality Based Recommender Systems and Strict Personality Based Compatibility Matching Engines for serious Online Dating with the normative 16PF5 personality test. The market remain enormous!!

The Simpsons, Apple, Facebook, LinkedIn, WordPress, Google, Hotmail, Yahoo, YouTube, Blogger, Wikipedia, Bing, Twitter, Skype are BIG successes in Argentina!!!
I have the theory that if something is successful in Argentina, it could be a success in the World.
If it can NOT be a success here in Argentina, it will definitely NOT be a success in the World.
NO online dating company (for serious daters) has success here in Argentina nor Brazil or other Latin American country.

Meetic (MEET.PA) shares down

Although it was (nearly) entirely bought by the IAC (Nasdaq:IACI), shares went down.

MEETIC 1st quarter of 2012

 MEETIC 1st quarter of 2012,

Meetic 10 years, old and obsolete site.

10 years scamming members with automatic rebilling and other credit cards trickery.

 compare to MEETIC 1st quarter of 2011

The number of subscribers at 31st March 2012 was 757,332

The number of subscribers at 31st March  2011 was 872,047

Lack Of Innovation & Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry since years. Innovations are not adding more bells and whistles to actual online dating sites. Or launching new ones with the same stupidities as the old ones.


The Online Dating Industry needs Innovations, but the innovations the Online Dating Industry needs will come from only one source: the latest discoveries in theories of romantic relationships development with commitment.
Only 3 major discoveries can help to revolutionize the online dating industry.
I) Several studies showing contraceptive pills users make different mate choices, on average, compared to non-users. "Only short-term but not long-term partner preferences tend to vary with the menstrual cycle"
II) People often report partner preferences that are not compatible with their choices in real life. (FORGET Behavioural recommender systems or other system that learns your preferences)
III) What is important in attracting people to one another may not be important in making couples happy. Compatibility is all about a high level on personality similarity between prospective mates for long term mating with commitment.

Meetic sinking ship

Meetic sinking ship (losing traffic), it was entirely sold to Match (IAC).
High acquisition costs from Meetic shows Meetic can not abandon the attracting, converting and retaining marketing stages; the automatic renewal of their members's subscriptions with dirty credit-card billing trickery.

FRANCE

SPAIN

GERMANY

ITALY

the Netherlands

UK

PORTUGAL

LATIN AMERICAN MARKET: BRAZIL

Daily6 at Meetic

Daily6 at Meetic. Do you remember the Daily5 at Match?

Now Meetic offers you the Daily6, chat, and a (rubbish) behavioural recommender system  !!!

I remember posting about "Meetic not innovating" saying "Innovations are not adding more bells and whistles to actual online dating sites."

Meetic Affinity renewed its site. Only a make-up, the test is the same as 2006
eHarmony  recommends you 7 persons the first day you register
Meetic Affinity recommnends you 50 persons!!!
As Meetic is entirely sold to Match (IAC) they can fire its employees.

Clarín exclusive interview to Gandelman

Mr. Claudio Gandelman (41) is the Match Meetic 50%-50% joint venture CEO for Latin American countries.
He was recently interviewed at Diario Clarín saying "To find a partner, the Internet is more successful than going to a disco"
"Online dating is a complement, it does not replace the other offline methods."
"38% of Match - Parperfeito users have a College degree"
"Women tend to reduce a couple of years of their age, or two or three kilos of their weight, and men tend add some inches to their height in their profile self descriptions."
"The importance of a wink"

He speaks about cultural differences in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico on how the daters reach the meet in person stage.
"In Brazil daters easily meet in a bar after a virtual meeting, in Argentina daters think a bit before meeting in person, if the dater will be compatible in advance or not. In Chile it is not customary to post photos. In Mexico, women rarely send messages to men."

Please remember:
Match operates in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and other Latin American countries and Match includes Chemistry -a compatibility matching engine- inside, it is called "Cupido Diario" i.e. Chemistry is embedded in Match for Latin American countries.
ParPerfeito, powered by Meetic operates in Brazil.

He says 70% of Match users want a partner for the rest of their lives.

Gandelman does not say nothing about revenue or performance, nor the bad taste commercial nor about what he had previously said at Caras y Caretas.

Match Argentina claims 4 million Argentinean profiles, but admits they are only 1 million active profiles (not paying members, only active profiles).
[i.e. 75% of profiles at Match Argentina are useless at all, they are inactive]

Meetic not innovating.

In a previous post I had written about how IAC does not mention the word innovation in its latest SEC filings.
IAC full year 2010 FORM 10-K SEC

Also I had written about "Meetic Group 2010 revenue "up" but shares DOWN"

Now the new report says "2011 OUTLOOK Acceleration in the innovation and segmentation strategy"

"Product innovation, the growth engine behind the Group's development"
"These Apps will allow users to import and integrate into their profile their tastes in terms of
music, films and literature, their adherence to various communities and other information related to their social network usage. This wealth of information will thus allow Meetic to further improve the way it puts users in contact with each other through a new Social Matching algorithm."

That is only a (behavioural) recommender system based on personal preferences.

It will have a lot of DISTORTION!!!

Meetic "plans" to innovate, but that "innovation" is only rubbish.

ALL RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS / RECOMMENDATION ENGINES ARE RUBBISH FOR SERIOUS DATERS.

Here is the explanation


Innovations are not adding more bells and whistles to actual online dating sites.
No more Imitation. No more Improvement.
The Online Dating Industry needs Innovations, but the innovations the Online Dating Industry needs will come from only one source: the latest discoveries in theories of romantic relationships development with commitment.


Please read
"THE Lesson from latest PlentyOfFish incident"

and
"the mobile concept evolving."

Meetic Group 2010 revenue "up" but shares DOWN

2010 ANNUAL REVENUE: Euros 186.0m (+17.8%)
Mobile % of total revenue 2%

Pro forma 2009 revenue, incorporating Match's European activity as if it had been integrated on 1st January 2009, was Euros 182.3 million.
2010 revenue, which totalled Euros 186.0 million, would thus have been up +2%.

In terms of total subscriber numbers, the Meetic group had 858,197 subscribers at 31st December 2010, compared to 844,360 at 31st December 2009 and 869,022 at 30th September 2010.

The Meetic Group is slowly collapsing.

The Meetic Group is slowly collapsing.


In the same road as Be2

I am featured in the Latest Mobile Social Web 2.0 Forecasts, Challenges & Regulations 2010-2014 from Juniper Research, where I said "Perhaps by 2014, the mobile concept will be diluted (or disappear) for dating purposes with the majority of subscribers using netbooks/iPads with mobile broadband modems, or WiFi, rather than smartphones".