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SeekingArrangement.com Now In UK
BELFAST TELEGRAPH - May 21- SeekingArrangement.com, a dating site which links wealthy men with young women, has been launched in the UK. Brandon Wade, the founder of seekingarrangment.com, says the US site has 80K UK members. The site claims a million members in America, with 10 women ("sugar babies") to each man. "40% of the sugar babies are students who need help with their tuition fees," Mr Wade said."The next largest group is single mothers." The "sugar daddies" are chiefly bankers, entrepreneurs and chief executives in their early 40s with an average income of £170K a year. They spend £2,862 a year on "sugar addiction" and are 13 years older than the women.
by Andrew Johnson
See full article at Belfast Telegraph
People From Wealthy Suburbs Are More Likely To Have Affairs
THE TELEGRAPH - May 7 - Married dating site AshleyMadison.com has revealed data on where their members are living in Sydney; with a majority of the 'cheating' suburbs located in high income areas. But while Woollahra, Bondi, Coogee, Palm Beach and Manly made the top of the list - working class areas such as Penrith also recorded a high level of people wanting to cheat on their partner.
The top cheating neighbourhoods in Sydney
#1 – Woollahra
#2 – Bondi
#3 – Penrith
#4 – Cronulla
#5 – Coogee
#6 – Palm Beach
#7 – Newtown
#8 – Wollongong
#9 – Manly
#10 - Marrickville
Students Join Sugar Daddy Dating Sites
DAILYMAIL.CO.UK - Apr 24 - Female students are flocking to 'sugar daddy' dating sites to meet rich older boyfriends as they struggle with debts which will average £53K for those starting degrees this year. SeekingArrangement.com has released figures showing the 20 British universities with the highest number of students joining the controversial site. Top is Nottingham University with 61 sign-ups, followed by the University of Kent (57) and London School of Economics (51). Cambridge University came fourth with 46 students signing up to the dating website. The SeekingArrangement site is clearly more than happy with the influx of student signups. New members who are also students are upgraded by the site to a premium account, and they are given a 'college sugar babe' stamp on their profile. Members with these stamps get three times more responses than regular female members of the site. 35 % of the site's 50K UK members are students.
by Deborah Andrews
See full article at DailyMail.co.uk
AshleyMadison Acquires Ohhtel.com
OPW - Apr 18 - The infidelity service AshleyMadison.com has finalized a deal to acquire Ohhtel.com, the South American infidelity dating site. The financial terms of this acquisition were not disclosed. As part of this transition, Ohhtel.com is shutting down its online dating service and instead changing its product offering to Live Sex shows and Erotic video chat.
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Infidelity In France: It's Okay To Stray
GLOBAL POST - Apr 10 - The French have the world's highest level of tolerance towards infidelity. Unless it’s women who are cheating. According to Gleeden.com, the extramarital dating site 53% of those questioned in France said it was possible to cheat on your partner while still loving them. It was the highest rate for all countries surveyed by Gleeden. Maryse Vaillant, a celebrated French psychologist and author of the book Men, Love, Fidelity, famously said that wives should welcome their husbands' extra-marital affairs as a sign of a healthy marriage because a "pact of fidelity is not natural but cultural." "It's different to the US where cheating on your wife is seen as very bad, by the wife, the cheater and the whole community. There, people would rather get divorced and remarry, whereas in France we can imagine someone being married and having relationships at the same time", he added.
Naughty America Partners With AshleyMadison.com
XBIZ NEWSWIRE - Apr 6 - Naughty America partners with Avid Life Media, operators of AshleyMadison.com. Paying members of Naughty America will now find a co-branded site within the members' area showcasing AshleyMadison.com, as well as CougarLife.com, a dating site geared toward older women seeking younger men, and vice versa.
by Bob Johnson
See full article at XBIZ Newswire
Sugar Daddies In LA Are More Generous
HUFFINGTON POST - Mar 29 - Angeleno "daddies" spend more sugar on their "babies" than anywhere else in the U.S., according to five years of mostly self-reported data from SeekingArrangement.com. Angeleno sugar daddies spend an average of $5,710 a month towards gifts, travel, dining, shopping and allowances for their ladies. Nationally, daddies only spend an average of $4,357 a month on their sugar addictions. There are ~2.31 sugar daddies for every 1K men in LA, their average age is 41, and they rake in an average of $415K a year with a net worth of $8M, according to the site.
Gleeden Comes To America
HUFFINGTON POST - Mar 26 - This month, AshleyMadison.com, America's largest online extramarital dating service, celebrates its 10th anniversary and rapid growth worldwide. Hoping to grab a piece of this digital pie, Gleeden is now stepping up its marketing efforts in the U.S. It was launched in France in 2009 by two French brothers, Teddy and Ravy Truchot, who were approached by several women and fellow employees with marital issues. "The women voiced their need for a place, a playground for adults, where they'll be able to be in control and carry out an extramarital affair with utmost discretion," said Gleeden spokesperson. Gleeden positions itself as the first web site run exclusively by and for women.
400K Brits Logging On Each Week To Have An Affair
DAILY MAIL - Mar 20 - Bored housewives are behind a surge that has seen more than one million Brits signing up to extramarital dating websites to have an affair. Figures show up to 400K unique users are logging on each week in the hope of committing adultery. One of the largest websites MaritalAffair.co.uk claims to have ~600K members. AshleyMadison.com said it received a new British member every 45 seconds. ~150K Britons use the site each week. The company said it acquired ~10K new users the day after Valentine's Day, and most of them were married women.
by Leon Watson
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The Business Of Infidelity Experiences Record Growth
PR WEB - Mar 5 - AshleyMadison.com is celebrating its 10th anniversary by continuing with aggressive global expansion plans. AM now generates $60M in annual revenues. “In spite of what anyone says, infidelity is big business,” says Noel Biderman, CEO of AshleyMadison.com. “If you had asked me 10 years ago if AshleyMadison.com would now be in 17 countries, with sites in five languages and 13M members, I would have said, ‘impossible’,” says Biderman.
Cash-rich Sugar Daddies Meet Goal Seeking Sugar Babies
QQ MAGAZINE - Mar 2 - SeekingArrangement.com is a dating site set up by 41-year-old MIT graduate Brandon Wade in 2006 that acts as a "fixer" for "modern sugar daddies" and "goal-seeking sugar babies". The site has now ~ 600K paying members. Many claiming these "arrangements" amount to little more than solicitation and prostitution. "The site started because of my own personal frustrations with meeting women online," Brandon explains. "I wanted to create a site where I could meet beautiful, open-minded women - simple as that. The stereotypical notions of gold-digging women and lecherous old men just don't apply any more." Over 80% of female members online have a college degree - these women aren't dumb. They all have goals. "Gentlemen are a dying breed, especially in America. There's this feeling that women have gone through a lot to fight for feminist rights, and now they are, indeed, equals. But they've lost something along the way. In becoming equals, so the etiquette of being a traditional gentleman - standing up when they enter, opening doors, paying for dinner on the first date - has been lost. This is what draws a lot of women to the site, and I think being taken care of by a stronger man is - deep down - what a lot of women really long for."
by Jonathan Heaf
See full article at QQ Magazine
Ashley Madison Targets Mobile Domain
DOMAINNAMEWIRE - Feb 19 - Avid Life Media, the company behind affair personals site AshleyMadison, has filed a UDRP complaint to get the domain name AshleyMadison.mobi. The domain is owned by someone in China. The registrant has listed the domain for sale on Sedo with an asking price of 10K GBP.
Seeking Arrangement Link Young Men To Rich Men
8NEWS NOW - Feb 19 - Men simply say what they're net worth is and what monthly allowance they're willing to give. SeekingArrangement.com founder Brandon Wade started the website in 2006. A few months back, the Las Vegas-based business topped one million users. There are 10 women for every man on the site. The website says that 15% of their client base are gay and lesbian, and sugar mommy's are on the site too, looking for young men.
by Nathan Baca and Alex Brauer
See full article at 8News Now
Sites That Cater To 'Discreet' Encounters Thriving
USA TODAY - Feb 14 - For Noel Biderman and others who have founded dating websites for married people, it's a lucrative business. "The day after Valentine's Day is one of our biggest days of the year," says Biderman, founder and CEO of AshleyMadison (AM). Some of the sites are based in Europe and increasingly have become international, with their eye on the USA. "American people are really hypocrites about infidelity," says Teddy Truchot, co-founder of Gleeden, which launched in Europe in 2009, moved into Australia and entered the U.S. market last fall. "Everything from the U.S. which comes to Europe is about infidelity," says Truchot. "You see cheating all over TV and in real life." Data from 2010 from the General Social Survey shows that 19% of men and 14% of women reported ever having had an extramarital partner. AM earns well over $60M a year, suggests online dating industry analyst Mark Brooks. Biderman says that estimate is "on target," but he's expecting greater revenue this year ($100M). Industry tracker Brooks counts well over 30 cheating websites. He is quick to disclose that he has been a paid consultant for many online dating services, including those he calls "philanderer sites." "The philandering sites are specific to people who are wanting to be discreet," he says. "As much as I abhor these sites, they do actually do something good for the industry. People can be who they are on the philanderer sites," he says, rather than have married people claiming to be single, which happens on singles dating sites, he says. Biderman says it took five years to get the first 1M anonymous members. Currently, ~2.3M are registered and considered active by logging in or taking an action within the past 30 days. Brooks says he's surprised that in 10 years, Biderman's site hasn't had a lot of direct competition. Part of it, he says, is that "people don't like to start that kind of business." But Gleeden is ready to take that on.
by Sharon Jayson
See full article at USA Today
Valentine's Day For Cheaters
CHICAGO TRIBUNE - Feb 13 - Everyone knows Valentine's Day is Feb 14th. Not quite as as many may know that Feb 13th is Mistress Day. "79% of married men that we polled planned to spend Feb 13th with their mistress," said Noel Biderman, the founder of AshleyMadison.com. Biderman said, despite having a company slogan that states "Life is short — have an affair," he is not trying to convince people to cheat, but merely creating a community of discretion for those who do. With~13M members throughout 17 countries, it seems like it's caught on. While the majority of the members are married men seeking women, Biderman said 22% are single women seeking married men. And Biderman said when you factor in hotels, jewelry and luxury travel, the infidelity economy is a trillion-dollar-a-year business.
by Jen Weigel
See full article at Chicago Tribune
Shagbook.com Launches Mobile-Enabled Website
PRESS RELEASE - Feb 2 - UK-based adult dating site Shagbook.com is now offering a mobile-enabled version of its website, allowing daters the option of accessing the site from their smart phones and tablets, from anywhere in the world.
‘Sugar Babies’ Seek Friendship And Help With Tuition
MIAMI HERALD - Jan 25 - Three Florida schools, including Florida International University, have had so many students join a sugar-daddy dating site that they’ve been included in the site’s ‘Top 20’ universities of 2011. For the women on Seeking Arrangement.com, what they’re seeking is often dollar-specific: as much as $10K a month, or more, to date a certain well-heeled man. College students make up about 40% of the Sugar Babies on SeekingArrangement.com. 10 to 20 escorts are removed daily.
by Michael Vasquez
See full article at Miami Herald
AshleyMadison.com Expanding In Australia
THE TELEGRAPH - Jan 16 - AshleyMadison, an online dating agency targeting people seeking extra-marital affairs, is expanding its company in Australia due to high demand for the service. The growing dating trend has already attracted ~500K members in Australia with women accounting for 40% of its clients. Ashleymadison.com founder and CEO Noel Biderman said Australia had the fastest growing female membership in the world due to the high proportion of successful career women.
by Samantha Williams
See full article at The Telegraph
College-aged Girls Looking For Sugar Daddies Online
DAILY MAIL - Jan 16 - Sky-high tuition loans are turning more college-aged girls to the internet in hopes of wrangling in a wealthy suitor through an online dating site since it appears to be more profitable than an extra shift at the local coffee shop. Seeking Arrangement brands itself as ‘the elite sugar daddy dating site for those seeking mutually beneficial relationships’ and was established in June 2006. The site has announced that it is seeing a spike in the number of female college students. New York University students top the list, followed by those at the University of Toronto and Penn State University. Even Harvard and UCLA made the top ten.
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