NEW fresh free GDI Online Dating Report 2013 2014

"USD 4.95 cost to filter out certain members on Match" says the report
"And with brands offering, and users expecting, authentication features, the fight against scammers and fraudulent activity becomes an even more pressing concern."

"We look forward to a year of inventive ideas, intuitive technologies and improved user happiness, that will push the dating industry forward into new and exciting places."

"In 2013 there was a shift in the online dating industry, and while mobile apps took the headlines, the biggest players continued to expand and push innovation, having another year of significant growth." ¿Qué?

Innovation? Where?

"mobile apps took the headlines" wait and see Q4 2013 from IAC


"2013 was the year when online dating was truly accepted and embraced by the public." who do not want to pay because Worldwide there are less than 7 million paid members in all online dating sites.

"Tinder. Although the product is essentially a variation of the much-maligned Hot or Not, Tinder have made it a simple, frictionless and fun experience, with instant profile completion via Facebook, a yes/no swiping mechanism and messaging restrictions." ... a success that has no revenue, only backed by IAC

"Zoosk improved its Behavioral Matchmaking™ technology this year, and as the underlying algorithm that powers all of Zoosk's products got smarter, singles found even greater success using our service." Wait and see its IPO

"Its reputation; 2013 saw the industry rocked by revelations involving a few unscrupulous companies’ practices, so the Online Dating Association was established to provide consumers with a more informed choice about which sites to join. In a word – trust." I hope that Association can clean the Industry from thieves!

"The long, thought-out profile and the compatibility tests are a thing of the past." ??? Do not agree at all.
Do you want to innovate in the Online Dating Industry?
Read: The 8 tips to innovate in the Online Dating Industry 2014!   
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.)
High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
It is all about achieving the eighth decimal!
With 8 decimals, you have more precision than any person could achieve by searching on one's own, but the only way to achieve the eighth decimal is using analysis and correlation with quantized patterns.
Without offering the NORMATIVE16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo. 

LIST of Obsolete Online Dating Sites

Here is a partial list of Obsolete Online Dating Sites offering compatibility matching methods

eHarmony

TeAmoRU
Chemistry
PlentyOfFish (POF) offering the PlentyOfFish Chemistry Predictor
eVow Compatibility Matching site
MeeticAffinity
PerfectMatch
True (a.k.a as SinglesBee)
Parship
eCift
Dopasowani
Doskonalapara
PembePanjur

Those sites have  high acquisition costs and can not abandon the attracting, converting and retaining marketing stages; the automatic renewal of their members's subscriptions with dirty credit-card billing trickery.


NO INNOVATIONS since years in the Online Dating Industry.
Instead of innovating, they went offline like Match with Stir events


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


WorldWide, there are over 5,000 -five thousand- online dating sites
but no one is using the 16PF5 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! The Online Dating Industry needs a very powerful algorithm like the "Teller Ulam design". In this case 100 times more powerful than actual matching algorithms.

Breaking "the online dating sound barrier" is to achieve at least:
3 most compatible persons in a 100,000 persons database.
12 most compatible persons in a 1,000,000 persons database.
48 most compatible persons in a 10,000,000 persons database.
100 times better than Compatibility Matching Algorithms used by actual online dating sites!

If you plan to use/offer the 16PF5

If you plan to use/offer the 16PF5 in your online dating site please remember:

In compatibility matching methods there are 2 steps:
1) to objectively measure personality traits or other human variables (with the 16PF5 test).
2) to calculate compatibility between prospective mates.

You can use the 16PF5, the 15FQ+ clone or hire Dr. Houran and Dr. Lange's services to develop a copycat of the 16PF5 test at the cost of USD100,000 per norm and language.
You should administer the test to persons over 26 years old (personality consolidated) and better will be persons over 35 years old who had used online dating several times and failed (like eHarmony users) You can court eHarmony users, and steal them if begin offering the 16PF5 test to assess personality.

I recommend to control if women are normally cycling or taking contraceptive pills.
In a previous post in my blog I had explained that.
Men should take the test at least 3 times and also synchronize with biorhythms (for future Research purposes).
Women not taking contraceptive pills should take the test at least 3 times:  7 days before, in their real periods and 7 days after, and also synchronize with biorhythms (for future Research purposes).
Women  taking contraceptive pills should take the test at least 3 times:  7 days before, in their false periods and 7 days after, and also synchronize with biorhythms (for future Research purposes).
"Innovations: to take the 16PF5 test 3 times"
If a person can not take the 16PF5 test 3 times, he/she is not a serious dater and should be discarded.
Lots of persons could be interested in meeting/contacting other persons sharing nearly the same personality because they will be *predictable* for them.
I think women will love a rational explanation of why they need to take the test 3 times, with these 2 fresh papers
"Human oestrus" Gangestad & Thornhill (2008)
explains that "Only short-term but not long-term partner preferences tend to vary with the menstrual cycle"
"Does the contraceptive pill alter mate choice in humans?" Alvergne & Lummaa (2009)
If you carefully read that milestone paper you will discover that although men do not take contraceptive pills, they detect women who do not take and women who take those pills or other hormonal contraceptive methods.

A Marketing campaign should be incisive in this new discovery:
contraceptive hormonal methods alter mate choice in humans because only short-term but not long-term partner preferences tend to vary with the menstrual cycle.

PLEASE DO REMEMBER:
In compatibility matching methods there are 2 steps:
1) to objectively measure personality traits or other human variables (with the 16PF5 test).
2) to calculate compatibility between prospective mates.

Breaking "the online dating sound barrier" is to achieve far better precision than searching on one's own or mutual filtering.

Actual Online Dating sites are fully intoxicated with different versions of the FFI five factor inventory / Big5 (eHarmony, MeeticAffinity, Parship, Be2) or other proprietary models instead (like Chemistry or PerfectMatch), to measure personality traits, and all of those tests are more simplified versions than the 16PF5 normative personality test.

Breaking "the online dating sound barrier" is to achieve at least:
3 most compatible persons in a 100,000 persons database.
12 most compatible persons in a 1,000,000 persons database.
48 most compatible persons in a 10,000,000 persons database.
100 times better than Compatibility Matching Algorithms used by actual online dating sites!

The only way to achieve that 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. The ensemble of the 16PF5 is: 10E16, big number as All World Population is nearly 6.7 * 10E9
- expressing compatibility with eight decimals, like The pattern 6.7.6.8.9.6.7.7.8.7.2.5.8.7.3.4 is 92.55033557%  +/- 0.00000001% similar to the pattern 7.7.6.8.8.7.6.5.8.7.4.5.7.7.3.4
Using a quantized pattern comparison method (part of pattern recognition by cross-correlation) to calculate similarity between prospective mates. guess.... LIFEPROJECT METHOD.

That is the only way to revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

All other proposals are .............. NOISE

Introduction

Online Dating sites/applications can offer 2 main proposals:
* fun dating, for flirting, for entertainment purposes, for instant gratification; mostly for persons up to 25 years old.
* serious dating, for long term mating with commitment, for marriage with low divorce rates; mostly for persons over 26 years old.

Online Dating Sites/applications can be classified as:
1.0: First Generation "Browsing/Searching Options, Powerful Searching Engines" 1.5: Hybrid; "Unidirectional Recommendation Engines"
2.0: Second Generation "Matching based on Self-Reported Data by personal preferences & likes and dislikes Bidirectional Recommendation Engines" and "Behavioural Bidirectional Recommendation Engines"
3.0: Third Generation "Compatibility Matching Algorithms" e.g. eHarmony, uses a normative version of the Big5 to assess personality and Dyadic Adjustment Scale to calculate compatibility. The U.S. site is different from the UK site, Australian site, Canadian site, etc.

Online Dating had evolved: from "Browsing/Searching Options"to "Recommendation Engines" and now Online Dating is evolving from "Recommendation Engines"to "Compatibility Matching Algorithms"

Experience had shown serious daters never use social networking sites/applications for dating purposes and Online daters belong to 3, 4, 5 or 6 online dating sites at the same time.

There is a range convergence phenomenon between the 3 mains tools online dating sites can offer: searching by your own, Bidirectional Recommendation Engines and Compatibility Matching Methods. Any member receives on average 3 to 4 prospective mates as selected / recommended / compatible for dating purposes per 1,000 (one thousand) members screened in the database.They all 3 are performing the same for serious daters, with a high percentage of false positives, like gun machines shooting flowers.

That range convergence phenomenon is what I had called "the online dating sound barrier", in 2003, when I had discovered than problem, 7 long years ago.