Author: Pamela Lugten

  • Global Love Spotlight: Lara Besbrode

    GLR Spotlight is an interview series featuring Matchmakers, Dating Coaches & Relationship Experts Global Love Report – September 15, 2021 Interviewed by Pamela Stephanie 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, as…

  • CEO: AI no match for Experienced Matchmakers

    Global Love Report – September 8, 2021 A review article by Pamela Stephanie The number of domestic marriages in Korea may have dropped by almost 13,000 compared to last year. But it doesn’t seem to deter matchmaking agencies in Korea. Duo, one of the largest matchmaking companies in South Korea, is actually seeing an increase…

  • UR Students Established Matchmaking Team

    Global Love Report – September 8, 2021 A review article by Pamela Stephanie UR Matched is a matchmaking service aimed at students at the University of Rochester in New York. UR Matched utilizes Instagram in order to help their fellow students find love. The team at UR Matched—whose founder remains anonymous, with only her pseudonym…

  • Global Love Spotlight: Keyoka Russo

    GLR Spotlight is an interview series featuring Matchmakers, Dating Coaches & Relationship Experts Global Love Report – September 8, 2021 Interviewed by Pamela Stephanie 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, as…

  • Dating App Hiring Unlucky Daters as Date Advisors

    Global Love Report – September 8, 2021 A review article by Pamela Stephanie While matchmaking agencies and dating platforms have coaches who tell singles what they should do to get a date, one particular app has decided to go a different way. Instead, the dating app, POM, is offering £300 per day for people who…

  • CarpeDM: New Dating App for Black Women

    . Global Love Report – September 1, 2021 A review article by Pamela Stephanie A new dating app for Black women is working with matchmakers in order to create better opportunities for their users. The aim of the app, CarpeDM, is to help Black women find “healthy, stable relationships,” according to one of its founders,…

  • Global Love Spotlight: Debra L’Heureux

    GLR Spotlight is an interview series featuring Matchmakers, Dating Coaches & Relationship Experts Global Love Report – September 1, 2021 Interviewed by Pamela Stephanie 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, as…

  • Japanese Agency Offering Coaching for Men Only

    Global Love Report – September 1, 2021 Summarized in English by Pamela Stephanie Professional “Love Support” company, Last Partner, offers date coaching for men only in Japan. Established in 2020, the date consultation agency is currently offering a Personal Training package exclusively for men. CEO Makoto Toki initially started the service because he was concerned…

  • Irish Dating Experts: Singles Wary About Contact

    Global Love Report – September 1, 2021 A review article by Pamela Stephanie Two Irish dating experts are claiming that Covid is causing people to forgo dating apps and also to be wary of physical contact. Jennifer Haskins, Introductions Director of Two’s Company, a matchmaking agency, explains that people are fed up with other users’…

  • Match is Beta testing New Features, Including Human-curated Matches

    Global Love Report – August 25, 2021 A review article by Pamela Stephanie Dating platform Match is beta testing their newest feature, “Matched by Us”. This new feature is aimed at users who are older and who are generally tired of swiping, sending and receiving messages, and not getting the results that they want. According…