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July 6, 2006
Match and Yahoo Partner in Europe
Posted by Dave Evans
Markus says that Yahoo and Match are working together in Europe. I would not have believed it unless I read this article or saw the UK Yahoo! Personals landing page. There is literally zero references to the deal in Yahoo News and a couple in Google. Judging by all the convoluted traffic sharing that appears to be going on, how badly is Yahoo hurting in EU? They have never really been able to get market share there, reaching consumers in Europe requires quite a different approach from the US one-size-fits-all marketing approach.
One of the only references I found to the search term "match.com yahoo partnership" led me to this December 2000 press release:
Match.com, a leading online dating site, announced today that it has signed an agreement with Yahoo! Inc., a leading global communications, commerce, and media company, to give people a convenient and easy way to share their personal ad listings with both Yahoo! Personals and Match.com community members.
Back then Cindy Hennesy was president of Match, and Mark Hull was Sr. Producer of Yahoo! Personals.
According to the June 15, 2006 news:
Yahoo! has struck its first UK partnership with a dating provider, to launch co-branded dating channels in the UK and Germany with global dating giant Match.com. Users of Yahoo! Personals will be offered the chance to access the Match network of services, creating the biggest online dating service in the UK.
Latest Nielsen/NetRatings figures show that Match is the largest dating provider in the UK, with over 1.6m unique users in the quarter to April 2006. In the same period Yahoo! Personals clocked up 915,000 unique users in the UK, taking second place.
Yahoo Personals UK Provided by match.com. Talk about getting your peanut butter in my chocolate. No mention of Meetic anywhere, either.
What is going on with Match's EU research firm?
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1. markus![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://dating.corante.com/nav-commenters.gif)
on July 6, 2006 10:30 PM writes...
It appeared out of nowhere last week, saw it show up on a ranking system.
If you click the links at the bottom of the page you get
http://fr.meetic.yahoo.net/
Permalink to Commenthttp://it.meetic.yahoo.net/
http://es.meetic.yahoo.net/
http://tw.match.yahoo.com/
2. Fernando Ardenghi![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://dating.corante.com/nav-commenters.gif)
on July 7, 2006 5:41 PM writes...
Also see
Spanish version
http://www.ulteem.es/
"new" French version
http://www.ulteem.fr/
http://www.ulteem.com/
http://www.ulteem.it/ (appears the French version instead of the Italian?)
http://www.ulteem.nl/ (appears the French version instead of the Dutch?)
German version
http://www.ulteem.de/
I took the Ulteem 98 questions Spanish version compatibility test.
Quite long and very complete written report: values, vision and personality!!! but the compatibility/affinity between prospective mates is only a 2 integer figure like 75%.
(My matchlist: 56 women with affinity the highest=77% the lowest=65%, no one seemed to be really as compatible as a paying member will require, what I mean: I could easily reach that list of "prospective compatible women" searching by my own!!!)
99,00 Euros per 3 months
149,00 Euros per 6 months
Regards,
Fernando Ardenghi.
Permalink to CommentBuenos Aires.
Argentina.
ardenghifer@gmail.com
3. James J.![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://dating.corante.com/nav-commenters.gif)
on July 7, 2006 8:13 PM writes...
I wonder if we can expect major changes to the Yahoo Personals US and Yahoo Personals Premier properties. Yahoo Personals Premier hasn't really been able to reach its full potential as part of Yahoo Personals, a spinoff like Chemistry.com might be a good idea there. Yahoo might then turn Yahoo Personals free and combine it with some of their other properties to form a social network like what was outlined in that Forbes article.
Permalink to Comment4. Brian O'Neill on July 8, 2006 12:12 PM writes...
I really do not understand this move. Yahoo had a far better UK site than match, it was a look easier to use and had more profiles.
Match is a pain in the ass to use these days, you need to be a subscriber even to view messages.
Oh well its good for the rest of us as yahoo personals was a strong competitor.
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