Category: Featured Articles

Global Love Report – April 14, 2020
A review article by Adrina

In an audio interview, Matchmaker Kristi Price shares that since the start of the pandemic she has seen a growth in singles using dating apps. This growth has also resulted in more cases of love scams thus she advises singles to be more cautious online. 

Kristi also shares how work has changed for her during this period and how her company has adapted to these changes! 

Yahoo covers this interview, which you can read or listen to here

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Global Love Report – January 22, 2020
A review article by Derry Ar Rasyid

Vegan matchmaking service ‘Find Veg-Love’ has launched an online dating course for vegan singles. The course will cover weekly topics such as: 

• Loving yourself, 
• Compatibility and love languages, 
• Dating, and 
• Essential communication skills for healthy relationships. 

Find Veg Love founder Karine Charbonneau created this course because the opportunity for vegan singles to find love is limiting. It appears that it is hard for vegans to meet people who share the same passion and lifestyle. By creating this course, she hopes to be able to gather like-minded people and hopefully help them connect and develop romantic relationships. 

Read the full story by VegNews here!

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Global Love Report – January 20, 2020
A review article by Derry Ar Rasyid

Users of dating apps are getting tired of swiping due to the rising amount of scamming and ghosting. Will traditional dating rise again in 2020? 

A survey conducted by Nathan Yau of FlowingData compares the changes between how singles used to meet back in the 1960s versus today. The study found that it was common for couples to meet through friends, colleagues, or in a social setting in the ‘80s, ‘90s and early 2000s. By the end of the ‘00s, online dating started to become more popular. Even though the opportunity to meet other singles has expanded, dating apps have not been shown to be the more effective way of helping singles get into a relationship that would lead to marriage. In fact, modern dating is even more stressful now – with ghosting, catfish accounts, and receiving unsolicited pictures being seemingly common and unavoidable. 

It makes one wonder whether a traditional way of meeting such as through matchmakers or offline dating platforms and events,  are going to be more efficient for dating in the 2020s.

Jenny Haward of The Sydney Morning Herald covers the story here! 

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Global Love Report – Feb 3, 2020
A review article by Adrina Ong

According to a statement released by Kinokuniya Sydney, they discovered that a dating coaching company was using its premises as a training ground for approaching and picking up women. 

The statement further went on to apologize to their customers and reassured them that the staffs were all aware and are on a lookout for any harassment within the store. They did not identify the dating coaching company but shared that they have already reached out to the company privately. 

Read the full story covered by PerthNow here. 

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Global Love Report – Feb 3, 2020
A review article by Adrina Ong

A single British man who grew tired of using dating apps decided to hire a billboard, and create a webpage to promote himself in the hopes of landing a date.

The billboard, which features the man’s picture wrote: “Single? Date Mark. This could be the sign you’ve been waiting for. Visit DatingMark.co.uk”.

This approach seems promising since there have been 1004 applications so far!

Read how he came up with this idea here.

The original article was covered by Lucy Quaggin of 7 News.

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Global Love Report – Jan 10, 2020
A review article by Adrina Ong

Lisdoonvarna, a spa town in County Clare in Ireland, ran its annual Matchmaking Festival through the weekends of September 13th – 15th, September 20th – 22nd and September 27th – 29th of 2019.

The Matchmaking Festival, which has been ongoing for the last 150 years – is the event responsible for 3,000 marriages!

As described from the festival’s website:

“Matchmaking is an Irish tradition that’s as old as time. It began in Lisdoonvarna when visiting gentry came to ‘take the waters’ at this spa town and looked to match their children with someone suitable from the upper classes. With the harvest safely in and September being the peak holiday month, many bachelor farmers began to flock to Lisdoonvarna for a spa town vacation– and in search of a wife.”

Organized by Willie Daly, grandson of Lisdoonvarna’s original matchmaker, the festival successfully attracts up to 40,000 visitors and includes activities such as speed dating, old fashioned dancing, and more!

This original article was covered by Rachel O’Connor of The Irish Post.

Read the full story here.

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Global Love Report – Jan 10, 2020
A review article by Adrina Ong

AI (Artificial Intelligence) devices in Japan are being applied as “matchmakers” in hopes of helping singles create more opportunities to meet potential marriage partners in a convenient manner.

Information such as a person’s basic profile, daily habits, and lifestyle are collected by the AI and can be shown to potential partners during their first meeting.

This is especially useful in Konkatsu (Spouse Hunting) parties, such as an event held by Matchmaking agency Zwei in June 2019 where participants were given a wristband. Once the wristband picks up that contact has been made through human touch (for example shaking hands), their profiles will be screened on a tablet, enabling these singles to view each other’s basic data.

This helps singles to skip basic small talk and dive into deeper conversational topics to get to know one another. According to Zwei, the use of technology has improved the success rates of matchmaking by 10 to 20 percent.

The use of technology systems may also remove the tedious process of registering with matchmaking agencies, making it more appealing to young people in certain areas in Japan where marriage rates are low.

This original article was covered by Kyodo News.

Read the full story here.

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