Author: Pamela Lugten
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The Dutch Love Brokers
Global Love Report – June 14, 2023 English summary by Pamela Stephanie Cristel Leeuwenhaag and Marieke Slingenberg are “De Liefdesmakelaars” or the Love Brokers. They previously worked in social services prior to starting their business. According to Slingenberg, she had been considering the idea of a matchmaking agency for some time. She often spoke to…
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Dating Apps Help Encourage Singles Be More Unconventional
Global Love Report – June 7, 2023 English summary by Pamela Stephanie People in their 30s tend to look for stability. They would either start a family—the average age to give birth to a first child is 31, according to the Spanish National Institute of Statistics—or purchase a house. And that may be why Spanish…
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Report: More Matchmaking Agencies in Korea Since COVID
Global Love Report – May 17, 2023 English summary by Pamela Stephanie According to South Korea’s National Tax Service, currently, there are more matchmaking agencies in Korea today than before the pandemic. The number of matchmaking agencies in Korea in February 2023 was 1,841. This is a 17% increase compared to 2019. However, before 2019,…
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More French Singles Use Agencies But A Change is Needed
Global Love Report – May 17, 2023 English summary by Pamela Stephanie French singles are choosing to use a matchmaking agency to find a partner. These singles–who are 32 to 37 years old–chose “traditional” matchmaking agencies for different reasons. This is even though 22% of new couples that started dating in the last 12 months…
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Global Love Spotlight: Joan Paiement
GLR Spotlight is an interview series featuring Matchmakers, Dating Coaches & Relationship Experts Global Love Report – May 10, 2023 Interviewed by Global Love Report GLR Spotlight was created to feature some of our industry peers as a way for our community to get to know one another – Learn from what has worked successfully,…
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Dating’s Economic Woes: Canceled Dates and Who Pays the Bill
Global Love Report – May 3, 2023 English summary by Pamela Stephanie French dating app Happn recently researched dating expenditures to figure out dating’s economic woes. According to their research, 85% of singles surveyed go on a date at an average of one date per month. (31% would spend between €1 and €25 on the…
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IBJ launches Matching App Laboratory
Global Love Report – May 3, 2023 English summary by Pamela Stephanie IBJ launches Matching App Laboratory, an information hub for Japanese singles. Available on their corporate website, this new information center provides singles with the latest data on dating and the how-to for successful marriages. With this information hub, the company hopes that singles…
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Background Checks on Clients
Global Love Report – April 18, 2023 Written by Pamela Stephanie Online dating has a security issue. And we’re not talking about hacked accounts or data sold to third parties, either. Most online dating platforms don’t screen their users. So just about anyone can create an account without verifying their ID. It has become such…
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Young French Singles Choosing Matchmaking Agencies
Global Love Report – April 12, 2023 English summary by Pamela Stephanie Young French singles are choosing matchmaking agencies to find a partner. And why is that? According to the Founder of Elite Connexion agency, Guerda de Haan, it’s because they feel that agencies are more private and more secure. Furthermore, agencies provide them with…
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Global Love Spotlight: Recel Tayor
GLR Spotlight is an interview series featuring Matchmakers, Dating Coaches & Relationship Experts Global Love Report – April 6, 2023 Interviewed by Global Love Report GLR Spotlight was created to feature some of our industry peers as a way for our community to get to know one another – Learn from what has worked successfully,…