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Business Wire
21 minutes ago
- Business
- Business Wire
Bumble Inc. to Announce Second Quarter 2025 Financial Results on August 6, 2025
AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bumble Inc. (NASDAQ: BMBL) today announced that it will report financial results for the second quarter ending June 30, 2025, following the close of market on Wednesday, August 6, 2025. The Company will host a live webcast of its conference call to discuss the results at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time on that day. The webcast of the call, the earnings release, and any related materials will be accessible on the Investors section of the Company's website at A webcast replay will be available approximately two hours after the conclusion of the live event. About Bumble Inc. Bumble Inc. is the parent company of Bumble, Badoo, Bumble For Friends, and Geneva. The Bumble platform brings people closer to love by enabling them to build healthy relationships. Founded by Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2014, Bumble was one of the first dating apps built with women at the center and connects people across dating (Bumble Date), friendship (Bumble For Friends) and professional networking (Bumble Bizz). Badoo, which was founded in 2006, is one of the pioneers of web and mobile dating products. Bumble For Friends is a friendship app where people in all stages of life can meet people nearby and create meaningful platonic connections. Geneva is a group and community app for people to connect based on shared interests. For more information about Bumble, please visit and follow @Bumble on social platforms.
The Star
19 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Star
What's your sign to keep swiping?
The daters are down. The dating apps feel universally terrible. (Or, as one person noted, the apps are where 'I keep meeting the devil incarnate.') But out of an unlikely font of romantic inspiration – the New York mayor's race – came a sign of hope. 'Zohran shows that if you're pure of heart, Hinge is fine, good even,' one dater posted. 'Maybe I should give it a try again,' another posted. They were responding to the revelation that Zohran Mamdani, 33, the Democratic mayoral nominee, had met his wife, Rama Duwaji, 27, an animator and illustrator, on the dating app Hinge. If they could do it, maybe all was not lost. App dating seems to need a boost these days. Artificial intelligence-powered matchmaking and tightened security are just some of the ways that the dating app companies have tried to shore up engagement, but some users continue to express fatigue over online dating, and Match Group and Bumble have lost billions in market value since 2021. A 2024 Forbes Health Survey reported that 78% of daters said they were feeling mentally and physically exhausted by the services. A 2023 Axios/Generation Lab survey of college and graduate students across the country found that 79% of respondents did not use dating apps. In my conversations with dozens of match seekers in writing about dating for the past 2 1/2 years, people have said that using dating apps can feel like another job, that it's difficult to truly gauge compatibility through a screen and that they prefer meeting people in real life. Still, three in 10 adults are still using the apps, according to a 2023 Pew Research Center study. And people feel like they can't fully give up. So New Yorkers, and politics watchers, and romance fans in general seized on Mamdani's Hinge success as a small, unexpected moment of reassurance that it is possible to actually meet someone, that it's not all endless swiping and disappointment. 'It definitely gives me hope that they found each other on Hinge – I think in general, I feel a little bit disillusioned by the apps,' said Jenny Gorelick, a comedian and writer living in New York City who also volunteered for Mamdani's campaign. In her Substack blog, 'Night Out', she writes about her experience exploring New York's nightlife as a single woman. 'I've only ever, in almost a decade of dating on Hinge, had one boyfriend that came from the app,' she added. 'Out of 220 matches on Hinge, one boyfriend is not amazing odds.' Mamdani seems to know that his story may feel like an outlier, but he encouraged singles not to give up. In an interview with the podcast 'The Bulwark' in June, the subject of dating came up. Cameron Kasky, one of the show's hosts, expressed his dismay over New York City's social scene and his love life. 'In terms of dating, it has been a disaster for me lately – my heart has been broken, I have broken hearts,' he said. He explained how difficult he had found it to make connections in real life, something he pointed as deeply affecting members of Gen Z. How, he asked Mamdani, would he as mayor revitalise the New York social scene? 'I met my wife on Hinge, so there is still hope in those dating apps,' he replied. Jeniea Howard, a 32-year-old content creator who often recaps her app dates online, even the failed ones, agreed that there was hope out there. Her move to Washington, D.C., from New York City two months ago did not stop her from using Hinge, the only dating app she's currently on. It has, in fact, become one of her main reasons to stay on: to meet new people in a new environment. 'I met my ex on Hinge, and we dated for close to three years, and we really only broke up because we weren't as compatible as we originally thought,' she said. 'If I found him and he was great, I'm sure I can find somebody else,' she added. She also worked from home and said that because all of her hobbies weren't the type of things that would attract straight men – pole dancing, boutique fitness classes, drag shows – she realised that she probably wouldn't meet her man in any of those spaces. 'I'm not going to change up my entire life and the things that I love doing, so let me go back on this app and maybe I'll have more luck, because the chances of me running into someone were a little bit slimmer,' she said. Like Howard, Akiera Charles hasn't abandoned the apps. She re-downloaded Hinge on July 1, just two days after she had broken up with a man she had dated for about a month. After venting about her breakup on Instagram, she said, part of getting back on the app was because she wanted to take her mind off her ex. The other reason, though, was that she still had hope for the app after dating someone she had met on Hinge for about a year. 'Since that point of me meeting that person on Hinge and it being successful initially, I still hold out that type of hope, like maybe I am going to find my person on Hinge,' she said. She also has friends who have had success stories on the app, including one woman who is married to, and recently had a baby with, a man she met on Hinge. 'If all of these people around me are meeting their person on Hinge,' she said, 'there has to be something in this app.' – ©2025 The New York Times Company This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
Metro
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Metro
Dating app horror: I discovered he got a girl pregnant after finding him on Bumb
I stared at my phone in disbelief. I'd been sent my recent ex's Bumble profile via a friend of a friend and at the very top of his bio it read: 'Dad to be'. We'd only broken up about four months ago, and granted it was my decision to end the relationship, but it seemed so soon. At just 20 years old I thought it surely had to be a joke. So, my curiosity got the better of me and I dropped him a message and straight up asked him if it was true. Yes it is , he wrote. He went on to tell me that in his 'rebound' relationship after me, he'd only been using 'the pullout' method, and it hadn't gone to plan. The real shocker? This happened about two weeks after we'd broken up. The woman, who was a few years older than him had decided to keep the baby, even though it was clear they weren't going to stay together. Honestly, all power to her. This was why he was on Bumble looking for his forever person, and in fairness, I saluted him for being upfront about his situation. He was also still being very supportive to the mother of his child and is, to this day, from what I can see from sporadic Facebook posts, a great dad. Love reading juicy stories like this? Need some tips for how to spice things up in the bedroom? Sign up to The Hook-Up and we'll slide into your inbox every week with all the latest sex and dating stories from Metro. We can't wait for you to join us! To my shock, he asked if I'd ever be willing to get back together and be a stepmother to his kid, but as I'd barely entered my twenties, I didn't feel that was the path for me – plus none of the reasons we'd broken up had changed. Why am I telling you this story? Well, it came up in the ever hot topic of dating apps in the latest episode of Metro's sex and relationships podcast: Just Between Us. Our caller had met her long distance boyfriend-to-be (hopefully) on Hinge, which my co-host Diana Vickers and I agreed is the most relationship friendly app of the bunch. I met my long-term partner Sam on Hinge after coming across his dreamy blue eyes and making the first move, and nearly two years in, it's been my best decision to date. But with the benefits of dating apps come the downsides too – one of them being that cheating has become much easier. This is something both our caller Rebecca and I had experienced, and it really does suck. In fact, this negative experience gave us both a form of anxious attachment – but you can learn more about that in the episode. Before the apps, you had to actively go out and look for someone to cheat with, but in the age of Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, Feeld and more, the temptation is just a tap or two away. Being scorned does feel like a pretty universal experience too, with YouGov stats indicating that 48% of Brits have been cheated on. Furthermore, 33% admit to cheating on their partner. Diana had a similar experience when she realised she'd nearly become The Other Woman. For most stand up comedians their arena is a stadium. For Ted Pullin, it's his kitchen table and a microphone wedged on the end of a wooden spoon. His quintessentially brutal British humour has exploded in popularity on TikTok, where he roasts people's dating profiles – no holds barred. The videos show screenshots of someone's dating profile and he then savagely picks them apart in excruciating detail, commenting on facial expressions, poses, outfit choices and poor chat. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video So I sent mine in to be roasted. Questioning which online persona from my profile would actually turn up on a date, he said: 'Will it be the f**k-off-face dog-thief or will it be the melanin intolerant Brit abroad?' Honestly, who knows? I got called out for attempting to flex my celebrity following, but upon hearing it consists of John Cena, Ted said: 'If I was a nine-year-old boy, that would get me really excited.' Want to see what else was wrong with my profile? Read more here. 'There was a guy and we were chatting online but he wouldn't meet me again and I didn't understand why,' she says on the podcast. More Trending 'Then I saw he'd posted a picture of him and his partner that moved in with him… I don't know if it worked out because he's been trying to reach out again.' But our caller Rebecca's story is proof that dating apps do still work in 2025, despite claims that they're dying. You've just got to have your red flag radar on in your search for The One. View More » Listen to the full story at Just Between Us now, available wherever you get your podcasts. Do you have a story to share? Get in touch by emailing MetroLifestyleTeam@ MORE: I'm the tennis-mad fan who proposed on Henman Hill at Wimbledon MORE: I married an AI bot – my human wife doesn't mind at all MORE: My kids were hurt by my outburst – until I said this
The Star
2 days ago
- Business
- The Star
AI dating app features aren't landing with Gen Z, new survey finds
Bumble has similarly wrestled with revenue and paid-user slumps in recent quarters. — AP Dating app companies' sizable investments in artificial intelligence could be in vain as Gen Z users remain wary of the new AI features, a new Bloomberg Intelligence survey found. Gen Z, which broadly dates less than older cohorts, reported higher discomfort than millennials with using AI to draft profile prompts and responses to messages, or to modify profile pictures, according to a survey of nearly 1,000 US respondents. The questionnaire was conducted by Attest on behalf of BI between May 15 and 29. For many users, this new class of features may also be superfluous. The research found that nearly 50% of respondents didn't have problems creating a profile on their own, without the assistance of AI, and that most don't struggle having conversations with potential suitors. The report did not mention any companies by name, but the AI features it describes are available today – including profile photo selection on Tinder and Bumble, and prompt suggestions on Hinge. The findings suggest these tools may not be addressing user needs, which could, in turn, threaten margins if these features aren't widely used, said BI technology analyst Nicole D'Souza, who wrote the report. The findings underscore the challenges that companies such as Match Group Inc and Bumble Inc face as they invest heavily in AI to court the key demographic of younger users, who have different social mores than other generations. While many of these apps were created and designed around millennials' habits, Gen Z is more likely to abstain from dating, according to D'Souza. And those who do participate are choosing long-term relationships over casual ones. Pandemic-era isolation may have also led them to prefer meeting people in person, she added. The shift has resulted in eight straight quarters of subscriber declines at Match, which owns brands like Tinder, Hinge, and OkCupid. Rival Bumble has similarly wrestled with revenue and paid-user slumps in recent quarters. Match chief executive officer Spencer Rascoff, who took the top job in February, has said his company failed to "recognise and respond to changes in the younger demographic' as millennials aged up. Executives at Match have pointed to the use of AI as a way of boosting engagement among Gen Z, which now makes up about half of the monthly active users at Tinder, Match's largest brand. But BI's D'Souza suggests "AI can't rescue dating apps' if Gen Z is dating less and more hesitant to pay for subscriptions. The discomfort with the use of AI tools may also signal "a potential disconnect between product strategy and user sentiment,' she wrote. Apps that cater to Gen Z's preferences are faring better with young users. Hinge, a service known for emphasising long-term relationships, has been able to sustain double-digit subscriber growth. Tinder, meanwhile, has struggled to shake its reputation as a "hookup app,' and executives have recognised the need to revamp it and prioritise user needs over short-term profit. Some of its new products are meant to help reinvent the brand, such as a double-dating option that Tinder is positioning as a low-pressure way for people to meet dates with friends. – Bloomberg
Vancouver Sun
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Vancouver Sun
Dating app aims to help Disney singles find their happily ever after
Dating apps like Tinder, Bumble and Hinge are about to get some competition — particularly for those who are on the hunt while at a Disney theme park. Single Riders, a play on the lines at Disney World for solo guests or those willing to ride alone, wants to connect Disney lovers with fellow fans. Joe, one of the app's developers, announced on Single Riders' social media accounts that it will allow Disney and other theme park enthusiasts to plan dates at various parks and discuss their shared interests. And for those who simply want to build platonic friendships, that's an option as well. The developer, who described himself as 'more of an ideas guy' than 'genius coder,' invited fans to submit ideas and what features they would like to see on the app. Joe — who is wearing a fuzzy hoodie inspired by Monsters, Inc. character James P. Sullivan, a.k.a. Sulley — also noted they will soon start searching for beta testers. 'We're really excited, it's coming along pretty well,' he enthused. A post shared by Single Riders App (@singleridersapp) TikTok users were more than happy to share what they want to see on the app and the suggestions appeared to show that many were already invested. Plan your next getaway with Travel Time, featuring travel deals, destinations and gear. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of Travel Time will soon be in your inbox. Please try again Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. 'I go to the parks alone and it would be AWESOME to have a feature that shows if other singles are at the parks at the same time,' one person wrote. Another asked, 'Can there be an option to make friendships too? Like Bumble has. Sincerely, married Disney adults who would love Disney friends.' Joe responded: 'Yes, absolutely we will have that option.' A second person suggested: 'Give date options around the parks while you have noted that you have met up!' Several commenters believed that including filters like location, age, height, education and political affiliation, which other dating apps offer, is the way to go. One user begged, 'Please don't hide preferences/filters behind a paywall,' but woman disagreed, saying, 'Charge for it to keep the trolls and unserious ones out.' Another mused: 'Maybe I will finally find my Prince Charming!' The creators said that the app will be available anywhere in the U.S. when it launches.
