Bauer Media Goes From Strength To Strength

What an incredible few months it has been for Bauer Media! Since the latter part of 2010, Bauer Media have not only seen their revenues rocket, but basic member registrations have also been on the rise without showing any signs of slowing down.

January was a record month for both basic member registrations and revenue. The…

Monday, February 28th, 2011

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Spotlight: Joe Thomas!

It’s Friday! It’s Spotlight time! Introducing Joe Thomas…

WHAT DO YOU DO?
I work in Customer Care.

HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN WITH THE COMPANY?
I have worked for the company for nearly two and a half years.

WHAT DID YOU WANT TO BE GROWING UP?
I wanted to be a fireman when I was little – I blame Fireman Sam,…

Friday, February 25th, 2011

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Valentine’s Day Marketing Comms Campaign: Results

The Marketing Comms Team launched a 7-day campaign over the Valentine’s Day period with the main objectives to encourage more member-to-member messaging in the build up to Valentine’s Day and to enrich the database with freshly updated profiles.

Surveys took place across the General, Mature and Adult networks to find out our members’ views on Valentine’s…

Thursday, February 24th, 2011

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New Dating Brand ‘Flirt Naughty’ Launched by Global Personals Ltd

Windsor, UK, 23 February 2010 – Global Personals Ltd, the most successful privately owned online dating company in Europe, has launched a new dating site FlirtNaughty.com in response to consumers requiring a “casual, fun and safe dating experience.”

Coinciding with the release of blockbuster movie No Strings Attached featuring Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher, FlirtNaughty.com…

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

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Banners, Love Them Or Loathe Them – Pt 1.

When HotWired decided to make money from their website in 1994, they set in motion events that would come back to haunt us all, but effectively gave me a career for the last decade: the creation of banner ads. AT&T were the first to hand over some money to HotWired to display the beast they…

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011

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Open-Source Software at Global Personals

Open-source software has always been at the heart of web development. We feel that as we’ve gained so much from the ope-source and technology communities, it’s only fair that we give a little back…

Monday, February 21st, 2011

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Spotlight: Stacey Pragnell!

This week, It’s Stacey’s turn in the Spotlight! Read on to find out more…:-)

WHAT DO YOU DO?

I work as a Customer Care Executive, which involves offering advice to members on everything from technical guidance with the site to advice on their love life! This involves responding to all Support queries via email and on the…

Friday, February 18th, 2011

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Mature Dating Market Continues To Boom

According to research by the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), men and women who were between the ages of 40 and 69 were most likely to use online dating websites in order to find love, with 36% of the respondents saying they found their current partner on the internet.

Dr Bernie Hogan, research fellow at the OII,…

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

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Valentine’s Day – A Busy Time Online For Singletons

This week Amy Loudon, Partner Account Assistant, provides some really interesting stats and thoughts on Valentine’s Day…

Let me start by saying HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY! For weeks we’ve been surrounded by heart-shaped balloons, haven’t been able to move for over-sized boxes of chocolates and have been in constant proximity to ‘I wuv you’ cards at all…

Monday, February 14th, 2011

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Spotlight: Dush Patel!

This week we give Dush a grilling with our Spotlight questions. He has a particularly inventive super power request…read on to find out more!

WHAT DO YOU DO?
As a Technical Support Engineer, I provide help and support to all internal users with any IT related issues.

HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN WITH THE COMPANY?
Since 19 Apr 2010…

Friday, February 11th, 2011

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