Dating apps Bumble and Hinge attracted more downloads worldwide in 2021 than the previous two years. Meanwhile, Tinder outpaced them both by at least 54 million downloads—albeit 8 million fewer downloads than its lead in 2020.

The outage also had a serious impact on Delta flights, Disney theme parks (guests could not check in online), day traders (Robinhood and Coinbase were offline), as well as dating app Tinder. A bad software update in June took out content delivery network Fastly and resulted in a global outage that took out CNN, The New York Times, Bloomberg, and Reddit.

Services running on AWS servers that went offline included Disney Plus and Delta Airlines; network games like PUBG, League of Legends, and Valorant; various Amazon services like Kindle ebooks, Amazon Music, and Ring cameras; as well as Tinder, Roku, Coinbase, and Venmo, among others.

Services running on AWS servers that went offline included Disney Plus and Delta Airlines; network games like PUBG, League of Legends, and Valorant; various Amazon services like Kindle ebooks, Amazon Music, and Ring cameras; as well as Tinder, Roku, Coinbase, and Venmo, among others.

“Total daily messages sent across all of our products and daily average swipes at Tinder are higher today than they were at the end of February,” Duby said in Match Group’s shareholder letter. Though the pandemic is certainly driving consumers to dating apps, we expect user growth to slightly decrease in 2021 and level off through 2023.

IAC spun off Match Group (Tinder and Hinge’s parent company) in 2020 and Vimeo this year, slanting its portfolio toward content rather than tech. Meredith acquired some of its best-known publications in 2018 with its purchase of Time Inc. for $1.8 billion—it soon sold off Fortune, Time magazine, and Sports Illustrated, focusing more on female-oriented publications. Dive into the numbers:.

eMarketer principal analyst Mark Dolliver and vice president of research Jennifer Pearson discuss the wonderful world of online dating. Who's on which platforms? What do people like and dislike about it? They then talk about Valentine's Day spending, "OK Boomer" age discrimination and the link between smartphones and mental health.