Saturday, March 3, 2007

Online Dating Services More than Double Ad Spending in Three Years

eHarmony.com, the biggest ad spender

Ad spending for dating services has been growing at an unprecedented rate over the past three years according to Nielsen Monitor-Plus via PRNewswire.

In 2004 (January-November) total U.S. media spending was $149 million; 2005 (January-November) total spending was $310 million; for January - November 2006 total spending was $430 million.

In 2006, most dating services companies spent their advertising dollars on Cable TV with $130.6 million in reported ad spending, the Internet ranks second at $127.3 million and Spot TV follows with $75.1 million.

Leading the bulk of the TV spending — and heading the top of the list — are eHarmony.com with $110.1 million in total spending and IAC's Match.com with $66.4 million in total spending.

1 comment:

MediaTrust said...

we need to be participating in this verticle in a more meaninful way. we need to get more leverage out of our www.engage.com marketing relationship to attack and close other dating sites.
can we do a release with them similar to the one we are doing with playphone?