Dating & Social Platforms
Grindr is the world's largest social networking app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people. Launched in 2009, it uses location-based technology to help LGBTQ+ individuals connect for dating, hookups,…
From Grindr keeping Olympic athletes safe to Tinder paying out millions for charging over-30s more, plus the Hinge founder's mysterious…
From Tea's controversial web comeback and Partiful's new Crush feature to Grindr's ambitious retail plans and a Japanese corporate matchmaking…
Pedro Pascal is Daddy of the Year, Switzerland is twink central, and 76% of Gen Z daters would let AI…
Dating apps are taking new approaches to help people find connections. Cerca introduces a social circle-based matching system that only…
From Bumble's upcoming AI-powered matchmaking app to Japan's new virtual girlfriend service where AI characters can actually reject you, the…
The dating app world has been anything but boring this month. Between security breaches exposing driver's licenses, a new service…
Porn site Bellesa has blocked access to UK users, saying it was "no longer possible" to comply with age verification…
Porn sites and platforms allowing the sharing of porn have launched tougher age verification processes for UK users, to comply…
Height is often a clinching factor on dating apps, so Tinder has finally joined the measurement party by rolling out…
Grindr has launched Woodwork, a new service offering erectile dysfunction pills through telehealth collaboration, initially available in Illinois and Pennsylvania.…
Just in case the buzz of posting about being in the top 0.01 percent of listeners for the Psych Labrador…
Suspicious about someone’s declared height on a dating app profile? Turns out that AI can root out height-related lies, to…
The march of AI into the heart of the dating app world continues apace. A new Japanese dating app eschews…
A new app called Duolicious has earned a reputation as the dating app of choice for users of the controversial…
Is this the end of an era for Bumble? Men can now initiate conversations with women on the app first,…
There are many reports of predatory behavior from dating app users (usually men), but are dating apps themselves "predatory"? A…
We're half way through March 2024, and back with another roundup of dating app news updates, and this month's update…
Feeld had a bad December 2023, with the app going down for days, leading to many unfulfilled meet-ups. There was…
Are dating apps as we know them being slowly phased out of relevance? With Tinder spinning its wheels to attract…
With October now fully upon us and September a fast-fading memory, there's just time to round up some of the…
Joel Simkhai, founder of Grindr, has launched a new gay and queer hookup app called Motto, designed to create better…
It's another busy time in the dating app world, with a new Tinder-like app for travellers arriving at the same…
Grindr is aiming to appoint a new LGBTQ+ CEO and is set to become a public company, as part of…
Olympic athlete accommodation zones have a reputation for being hotbeds of hook-ups, fuelled by both dating apps and the continuous…
When you're engaging with sextech—be it smart sex toys, sex robots, the digital realm, virtual reality (VR), apps, sending sexy…
A Tinder-like dating app for the BDSM community has launched in beta form in Germany. Aimed at fetish fans, the…
Meet Group, the company behind dating apps including MeetMe, hi5 and Tagged, has a new way of verifying user photos.…
Users of LGBTQ+ dating app Grindr have reported being ghosted by the company itself, having been banned without being given…
Gay hookup app Grindr has announced its teaming up with safety experts to help protect its users. The URSafe app…
LGBTQ+ hook-up app, Grindr has confirmed that it has removed its ethnicity filter, after extensive criticism. The company, which has…
Technology has made a casual hookup easier than ever to arrange, without needing to go through scam websites that promise…
From tomorrow, you can sign up to a beta version of BedPost, an app designed to make managing your sexual…
Wasn't online dating meant to make the world a (slightly) better place – or at least make finding love (or…
What began as an Instagram account for sharing personal ads, Lex app is now the hot new dating and social…
More than 1.5m users of threesome dating app 3Fun had their data exposed right down to their real-time location, in…
Parent company of gay dating app Scruff, Perry Street Software, has bought its LGBTQ rival Jack’d, while acknowledging the company's…
A serious security flaw has been discovered in gay dating app Jack'd which made thousands of private photos publicly available.…
It's not that often that you'll find the publishing arm of a business reporting much negative about its own parent…
UK charity National Ugly Mugs (NUM) has teamed up with Reason Digital – a digital agency that works with not-for-profit…
File this one under 'oh, crap', because if you're a Grindr, Jack'd or Hornet (or indeed, all of them) user…