Online dating and personals will increase from $900M in 2007 to $1.9B in 2012, according to the recently published JupiterResearch report, “US Paid Content Forecast, 2007 to 2012.â€
Despite the grave outlook in some press reports, there are no signs that the eruption of social networks has burned the paid online personals market. Personals remain one of the larger paid content categories online. Only music and games are bigger, or attract more than 10 percent of online users.
Originally posted on February 11, 2008 @ 5:13 am