The world of online dating is bigger and more expansive than ever before.

https://www.jpost.com/Special-Content/Online-Dating-Everything-You-Need-to-Know-615383

Facebook Dating launches in Germany.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2020/01/facebook-dating-launches-in-germany.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

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing. 
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF6 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.

article: Science Suggests You Actually Do Have a Type, And It's Probably Your Ex

https://www.sciencealert.com/science-suggests-you-actually-do-have-a-type-and-it-s-probably-your-ex

PAPER: Consistency between individuals' past and current romantic partners' own reports of their personalities
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/06/04/1902937116#sec-7
 
PAPER: She Always Steps in the Same River: Similarity Among Long-Term Partners in Their Demographic, Physical, and Personality Characteristics
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00052/full

If really USA Government spends USD 1.2 Million on study of online dating habits ?
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/04/if-really-usa-government-spends-usd-12.html

“Top 45 Top Scientific Papers For The Online Dating Industry”
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/02/top-45-scientific-papers-for-online.html
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/internetdatingscience/2012/02/top-45-top-scientific-papers-for-the-online-dating-industry.html
Please remember: Personality traits are highly stable in persons over 25 years old to 45 years old.
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/03/biased-thesis-is-there-consistency-over.html

The key to long-lasting romance: COMPATIBILITY is exactly STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests or political views".  

Online Dating sites have very big databases, in the range of 20,000,000 (twenty million) profiles, so the Big Five model or the HEXACO model are not enough for predictive purposes. That is why I suggest the 16PF6 test instead and another method to calculate similarity.


High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
 
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF6 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.
 
WorldWide, there are over 5,000 (five thousand) online dating sites:

- but no one is using the 16PF6 (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!!! i.e. if you are a man seeking women, to show how compatible you are with a 20,000,000 women database, and to select a bunch of 100 women from 20,000,000 women database.

- but no one is scientifically proven!  No actual online dating site  is "scientifically proven" because no one can prove its matching algorithm can match prospective partners who will have more stable and satisfying relationships (and very low divorce rates) than couples matched by chance, astrological destiny, personal preferences, searching on one's own, or other technique as the control group in a peer reviewed Scientific Paper for the majority (over 90%) of its members.


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  

BIASED THESIS "Is there consistency over time in personality traits of an individual’s partners? "

https://www.doria.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/167845/martin_julia.pdf?sequence=2

Please notice there are several normative tests to MEASURE personality and several ways to calculate SIMILARITY

An exercise of similarity.
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2010/03/exercise-of-similarity.html

Online dating website eHarmony recently recruited Ver Steeg to improve its matchmaking process,
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2016/11/online-dating-website-eharmony-recently.html

The key to long-lasting romance; COMPATIBILITY is: STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".  
 
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 Secret Sauce Behind Online Dating ? There is no one yet!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/07/the-secret-sauce-behind-online-dating.html
 
Matchmakers Emerge as an Antidote to the Agony of Online Dating ???
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2019/03/matchmakers-emerge-as-antidote-to-agony.html

“Top 45 Top Scientific Papers For The Online Dating Industry”
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/02/top-45-scientific-papers-for-online.html
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/internetdatingscience/2012/02/top-45-top-scientific-papers-for-the-online-dating-industry.html
Please remember: Personality traits are highly stable in persons over 25 years old to 45 years old. 
 
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!!! i.e. if you are a man seeking women, to show how compatible you are with a 20,000,000 women database, and to select a bunch of 100 women from 20,000,000 women database.

- but no one is scientifically proven!  No actual online dating site  is "scientifically proven" because no one can prove its matching algorithm can match prospective partners who will have more stable and satisfying relationships (and very low divorce rates) than couples matched by chance, astrological destiny, personal preferences, searching on one's own, or other technique as the control group in a peer reviewed Scientific Paper for the majority (over 90%) of its members. 

The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement"

All other proposals are NOISE and perform as placebo.   

See How LIFEPROJECT METHOD calculates similarity between quantized patterns using an adapted quantum mechanics math equation same as "Teller Ulam design".  
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/07/quantifying-online-dating-revolution.html

LIFEPROJECT METHOD is like the "Teller Ulam design" for the Online Dating Industry.
In this case 100 times more powerful than actual matching algorithms.
 
Not 100% better, 100 TIMES better
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.html

BBC Future article about Online Dating

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20181211-online-dating-to-polyamory-the-truth-about-relationships

about GDI Editorial article: Two Psychologists Talk Compatibility Science
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/11/about-gdi-editorial-article-two.html

The key to long-lasting romance: COMPATIBILITY is exactly STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests or political views". 


“Top 45 Top Scientific Papers For The Online Dating Industry”
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/02/top-45-scientific-papers-for-online.html
http://www.onlinepersonalswatch.com/internetdatingscience/2012/02/top-45-top-scientific-papers-for-the-online-dating-industry.html
Please remember: Personality traits are highly stable in persons over 25 years old to 45 years old. 
 
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!!! i.e. if you are a man seeking women, to show how compatible you are with a 20,000,000 women database, and to select a bunch of 100 women from 20,000,000 women database.

- but no one is scientifically proven!  No actual online dating site  is "scientifically proven" because no one can prove its matching algorithm can match prospective partners who will have more stable and satisfying relationships (and very low divorce rates) than couples matched by chance, astrological destiny, personal preferences, searching on one's own, or other technique as the control group in a peer reviewed Scientific Paper for the majority (over 90%) of its members. 

Very easy to copycat eHarmony, but very difficult to innovate: a 100 times better algorithm than eHarmony.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/10/very-easy-to-copycat-eharmony-but-very.html 
     
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

Episode: Science Vs. Online Dating: Can Science Find You Love?
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/10/episode-science-vs-online-dating-can.html

Online dating could be worth USD 12 Billion — and it's all thanks to Tinder ???

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/match-group-stock-price-online-dating-could-be-worth-12-billion-tinder-2018-10-1027612979


Bumble Owner (Badoo) Targets Nasdaq IPO to Become World’s Top Matchmaker
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/10/bumble-owner-badoo-targets-nasdaq-ipo.html




lot of acquisitions, (but) Match Group is still small
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2018/06/lot-of-acquisitions-but-match-group-is.html

Some Online Dating Market Reports (January 2015)
https://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com/2015/01/some-online-dating-market-reports.html

NEW and FRESH Online Dating Market 2017 (via Statista)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2017/05/new-and-fresh-online-dating-market-2017.html
 
What comes after the Social Networking wave?
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.
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.   

The key to long-lasting romance: COMPATIBILITY is exactly STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests or political views".  

Which is the RIGHT approach to innovate in the Personality Based Recommender Systems Arena? 
The same approach to innovate in the Online Dating Industry == 16PF5 test or similar to assess personality traits and a new method to calculate similarity between quantized patterns.
Online Dating sites have very big databases, in the range of 20,000,000 (twenty million) profiles, so the Big Five model or the HEXACO model are not enough for predictive purposes. That is why I suggest the 16PF5 test instead and another method to calculate similarity.

High precision in matching algorithms is precisely the key to open the door and leave the infancy of compatibility testing.
Without offering the NORMATIVE 16PF5 (or similar test measuring exactly the 16 personality factors) for serious dating, it will be impossible to innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry.
 
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!!! i.e. if you are a man seeking women, to show how compatible you are with a 20,000,000 women database, and to select a bunch of 100 women from 20,000,000 women database.

- but no one is scientifically proven!  No actual online dating site  is "scientifically proven" because no one can prove its matching algorithm can match prospective partners who will have more stable and satisfying relationships (and very low divorce rates) than couples matched by chance, astrological destiny, personal preferences, searching on one's own, or other technique as the control group in a peer reviewed Scientific Paper for the majority (over 90%) of its members.

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

New editor for GDI ???

https://www.journalism.co.uk/media-jobs/editor/s75/a710557/

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Lack Of Innovation and Decadence can summarize the Online Dating Industry.
C-Level executives are more worried about their golf scores than their company’s long term strategy and innovations.
C-level executives are cooking barbecues under the water (selling smoke) and not paying attention to latest research from Academics which could be beneficial for the Online Dating Industry.

The 3 milestone discoveries of the 2001 - 2010 decade for Theories of Romantic Relationships Development are:

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. (Behavioural recommender systems or other system that learns your preferences are useless)

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, and not meet other people with similar interests or political views.

At the paper  "Perceptions of Ideal and Former Partners' Personality and Similarity" 
The authors had written
".... mismatches in personality are a frequently mentioned cause for relationship break-up. If former partners indeed have dissimilar personalities, our findings underline how difficult it is for many people to select a mate with a similar personality, or, alternatively, how little value individuals put on finding a similar partner in terms of personality.
The present study's results, as well as the results found in previous studies (e.g., Eastwick & Finkel, 2008), may be used to educate people, especially singles, about what really matters in long-term relationships, for instance, similarity in personality, instead of complementarity."

The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement"
 
  
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

Mobile payments not taking off!!!

via
2016 Mobile Benchmark Report
http://www.slideshare.net/adobe/2016-mobile-benchmark-report
http://globaldatinginsights.com/2016/11/22/people-are-downloading-fewer-new-apps-but-launching-their-existing-apps-more-as-market-tightens/

Please see also:
comScore 2016 Global Digital Future in Focus
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/11/comscore-2016-global-digital-future-in.html

Todd and Clare == UK MI6 officer ?

https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/toddandclare-dating-site-julian-assange-wikileaks-accusation?

Perhaps it was an UK MI6 mission that went wrong!
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2016/10/perhaps-it-was-uk-mi6-mission-that-went.html

Desktop / Laptop engagement has not declined!

More young adults now own a smartphone than a computer
http://vator.tv/news/2015-10-29-more-young-adults-now-own-a-smartphone-than-a-computer
but .... Desktop / Laptop engagement has not declined!


Please see: U.S.A. Digital Future in Focus 2015 (comScore Report)
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/usa-digital-future-in-focus-2015.html

UK's Dating Industry 2015: On the Rise Again!

http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/uks-dating-industry-2015-on-the-rise-again-532612141.html
http://www.leadingdatingsites.co.uk/uploads/onlinedating-market-uk-2015.pdf


Please see also:
Online Dating 2015 Sector Report
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/04/online-dating-2015-sector-report.html

Some Online Dating Market Reports (January 2015)  
 http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/01/some-online-dating-market-reports.html
 
Matching algorithms and data will decide who wins the Online Dating game  http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/matching-algorithms-and-data-will.html

Online Dating Market in the UK: GPB 165 Million 
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/02/online-dating-market-in-uk-gpb-165.html
Worldwide there are over 5,000 online dating sites, no one uses the 16PF5, no one is scientifically proven yet, and no one can show you compatibility distribution curves, i.e. if you are a man seeking women, to show how compatible you are with a 20,000,000 women database, and to select a bunch of 100 women from 20,000,000 women database.
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/03/proof-of-fraud-from-eharmony.html    
 NEW! European Online Dating Market report 2014 - 2015
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/new-european-online-dating-market.html

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 Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement", not 100% better, 100X better .
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.Not 100% better, 100 TIMES better
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.html

The Swiss Online Dating Market by Metaflake

http://www.presseportal.ch/de/pm/100018589/100778419
https://www.singleboersen-vergleich.ch/presse/online-dating-markt-schweiz-2014-2015.pdf

Please see also:
NEW! European Online Dating Market report 2014 - 2015
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2015/09/new-european-online-dating-market.html

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 Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement", not 100% better, 100X better .
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.Not 100% better, 100 TIMES better
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/05/lifeproject-method-versus-eharmony.html

Online Dating Market in the UK: GPB 165 Million

Data from Online Dating - UK / report 2015
http://www.companiesandmarkets.com/Market/Leisure/Market-Research/Online-Dating-UK/RPT1288925

Figure 1: Value forecast for UK online dating market, 2009-19  
2014: Average GPB 165 Million = USD 248 Million
Match is still the most well-known site/app.
Some consider online dating unsafe and expensive. Many concerned about misleading profiles. People don't feel online dating is trustworthy. Most have found that people misrepresent themselves. Women can feel unsafe when meeting up.

PlentyofFish (POF) biggest site in terms of computer hits. (desktop computers only)
Figure 2: Unique visits to online dating websites, via computers, August-October 2014 


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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.

The Online Dating Industry does not need a 10% improvement, a 50% improvement or a 100% improvement. It does need "a 100 times better improvement == INNOVATION"

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.

With less than USD10 Million you can copycat eHarmony 
or
 innovate and revolutionize the Online Dating Industry, killing those old & obsolete sites forever.

 

LIFEPROJECT METHOD: 100X better than eHarmony, not 100% better, 100 times better!

http://es.scribd.com/doc/223672375/LPMvEHARMONY-pdf

Some Online Dating Market Reports (January 2015)

Online Dating - UK / report 2015
http://www.companiesandmarkets.com/Market/Leisure/Market-Research/Online-Dating-UK/RPT1288925

Dating Services in Canada Market Research Report | NAICS 81299aCA | Jan 2015
http://www.ibisworld.ca/industry/dating-services.html
and where is PlentyOfFish? aka POF

Online Dating Survey in India
http://www.slideshare.net/MitVyayi/pratik-ranjeet-online-behaviour-survey



Please see also:
Thesis: Online Dating in Argentina 2014  
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/11/thesis-online-dating-in-argentina-2014.html

Please remember:
"online dating" is a broad concept to define a large group of different proposals. http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/10/article-does-online-dating-work-lets-be.html
 The Worldwide Online Dating Market 2014 / Spanish version / (full).
(all link to pages in English)
  http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2013/12/the-worldwide-online-dating-market-2014.html   
Online Dating Market full version 2013
  http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/11/online-dating-market-full-version-2013.html 
 http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/11/online-dating-market-full-version-2013_6.html
 http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2012/11/online-dating-market-full-version-2013_7.html   
The key to long-lasting romance is STRICT PERSONALITY SIMILARITY and not "meet other people with similar interests".

http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/03/big-data-dating-is-not-key-to-long.html
http://onlinedatingsoundbarrier.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/using-technology-and-psychology-to-make.html

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!

LIFEPROJECT METHOD: 100X better than eHarmony, not 100% better, 100 times better!

http://es.scribd.com/doc/223672375/LPMvEHARMONY-pdf