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Fantastic Start To May!

We have had a great start to the month! The number of full members on our platform is 41% greater than May last year, with the average number of upgrades per day over the past week being the highest we’ve ever seen with a 120% increase compared to the same time-frame in 2010! We have… Read more

Another Media Brand Joins Our WhiteLabelDating.com Platform…

We are excited to announce our latest media partnership with Vitality Publishing Ltd. After researching the market for the best white label provider, Vitality chose our platform WhiteLabelDating.com as their supplier of choice for being the best dating platform in the industry. Vitality Publishing sells over a million magazines each month and attracts more than… Read more

Join Globaldev At Silicon Milkroundabout

This Sunday (15 May), globaldev will be joining some of the UK’s leading tech startups to hold the very first Silicon Milkroundabout recruitment fair in Shoreditch, London. Targeted at computer science graduates, the event aims to attract hundreds of bright developers to meet with and raise awareness of exciting local startups. At last count, over… Read more

Spotlight: Karen Jakeman!

It’s time for another Spotlight – a chance for us to introduce some of the great team here at Global Personals. This week, it’s Karen’s turn to answer our quick-fire questions… WHAT DO YOU DO? I work in the Finance Department as the FP&A Manager (Financial Planning and Analysis Manager, not as a Financial Accountant… Read more

When Is The Right Time To Sell?

As the founder and CEO of one of the world’s largest privately owned dating companies, I’m often approached by people who have a dating domain or website and are looking to sell it. The growth of the dating category around the world and in particular the growth of white label sites within the category has… Read more

Banners, Love Them Or Loathe Them – Pt 2.

In my last post I talked about how the first banner advert hit our computer screens in 1994, and over the following 17 years, they have grown into the multimedia interactive spaces that you see now. To call them merely banners in many cases on some of the larger publishers is a bit of an… Read more

Spotlight: Andrew Scrivener!

Another short week, which means today is ‘fake Friday’ for most of us here in the Global Personals office! We asked Andrew our Spotlight questions – some really handy website recommendations in there! WHAT DO YOU DO? I’m the Designer for the WhiteLabelDating.com Team so my role is to really support them by offering design… Read more

A Day To Remember!

So the big day is nearly here… the day when Prince William will finally be off the market and my dreams of becoming his princess are well and truly over Not everyone will agree with me when I say that Miss Kate Middleton has to be the luckiest girl in the world, but to me… Read more

Spotlight: Rosanna Leach!

Because of the Bank Holiday, technically today is ‘Friday’ for most of us in the office. Therefore ‘Spotlight’ is a day early this week! Please meet Rosanna, or Rosie to her friends WHAT DO YOU DO? Well I started off as a Customer Care Moderator, then in November, moved across to be a ‘Supportie’ on… Read more

Global Personals Makes Finals In Media Momentum Top 50

Global Personals has been selected for the Media Momentum Top 50, the awards recognising the most innovative and fastest growing companies in the European Digital Media Economy, organised by GP Bullhound. CEO’s and founders of the 50 fastest growing companies will be attending the event at W Hotel in Barcelona, to participate in the CEO… Read more