PlentyofFish Media

PlentyofFish Media

Plentyoffish.com is a 100% FREE online dating site, and is constantly improving based on your feedback. You will notice everything on this online dating site is done so that you can quickly meet people you have personally selected. Also, we are the only major dating site that allows our single users to block messages from whole groups of other users they aren't interested in. No other dating site does this. They wouldn’t restrict matching groups because that restricts their chances of making money from you. Money? Who Cares I am well aware that Plentyoffish.com could make millions of dollars per month as a subscription service. However, this dating site wasn't created to mine user’s pocketbooks. Plentyoffish.com is here to make a difference and help people find "the one". It was created by members spreading the word about it, and is FOR the members.

Website:
http://www.pof.com
Address:
2625 - 555 W Hastings St
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Blog Posts About PlentyofFish Media

According to Plentyoffish Founder the Future of Online Dating is Mobile
Yesterday Plentyoffish.com Founder Markus Frind declared on his blog that the the Web is dead and the future of online dating is mobile. Considering his stats, it hard to argue with him. In the... [more]
Canada's Top 100 Startups
Rank CompanyAlexa Rank 1   HootSuite Media, Inc. 222hootsuite.comAlexa: 222  2   PlentyofFish Media 294pof.comAlexa: 294  3   whos.amung.us... [more]
Canada's Top 100 Startups
Rank CompanyAlexa Rank 1   HootSuite Media, Inc. 214hootsuite.comAlexa: 214  2   PlentyofFish Media 281pof.comAlexa: 281  3   whos.amung.us... [more]
Vancouver's PlentyofFish listed on World's 100 Most Valuable Startups
Business Insider this week released its "2011 Digital 100: The World's Most Valuable Startups." Unsurprisingly, the number one spot is held by social network Facebook, although calling it a... [more]
Alberta's PlentyOfSyph parodies Vancouver's PlentyOfFish (and pisses them off in the process)
"Find the pearl in my bearded clam." PlentyofSyph.com is the result of Alberta's public health authorities creating a parody of Vancouver's PlentyofFish.com to essentially scare and... [more]
Mama said to knock you out: Plentyoffish hacked, CEO Frind complains to alleged hacker's mommy
Bad news for Plentyoffish users: your information has been stolen by hackers. The question is, who are these hackers? Plentyoffish CEO Markus Frind [pictured] only heard about the attack because... [more]
Ke$ha's latest music video features shameless product placement – Vancouver's PlentyOfFish among them
Ke$ha, the reliably trashy, awfully nasty rising popstar, recently released her latest music video. The video is for generic club-pop track "We R Who We R." While the song couldn't be less... [more]
Lavalife, online dating pioneer, acquired by regular ol' phone personals company
Two weeks ago, venerable dating website Lavalife was acquired by First Media Group, the owners of Quest dating hotlines. Being purchased by a dating line might seem a little ironic, because... [more]
One Canadian site named to Top 100 World's Most Valuable Internet Startups
The Silicon Alley Insider published their SAI Digital 100 today which is what they believe are the "World's Most Valuable Internet Startups". To come up with the Top 100, SAI evaluated more than... [more]
PlentyofFish.com to launch iPhone App
Markus Frind of Plenty of Fish Media and his growing team were out in force at last week's Launch Party Vancouver event. He is clearly no longer a one-man shop and it looks like his site is going... [more]
Vancouver Tech Jobs of the Week
Here are five job opportunities that caught our eye on the Techvibes Job Board this week. Check out the full job descriptions and be sure to apply if you're interested. Senior Web Developer -... [more]
Plentyoffish being challenged (or courted) by Match.com
Earlier today Paidcontent reported that the online dating space is getting ugly and Vancouver's Plentyoffish.com is right in the middle of a new controversy. IAC’s Match.com is demanding... [more]
How Plenty Of Fish Tapped Lady Gaga's Telephone
The most-talked about aspect of Lady Gaga's Jonas Akerlund-directed music video for "Telephone," which premiered last week, was not the nudity, girl-on-girl kissing or mass-murder sequence but... [more]
Super Rewards caught up in Virtual Currency controversy
TechCrunch's Michael Arrington was busy over Halloween weekend. After stirring it up (video) on Friday at the Virtual Goods Summit in San Francisco, he penned Scamville: The Social Gaming Ecosystem... [more]
ComScore's Top Startups in Canada - May 2009
As a follow-up to PEER 1's May 2009 Canada Startup Index on Monday, comScore has provided us with their take on the top contenders based on March 2009 data. In the above chart, the Online %... [more]
He's Just Not That Into Wholesome Online Dating
According to this interesting Globe and Mail article, more and more Canadians are signing up for dating sites that make commitment-phobia a "thing" to embrace, rather than "a thing" to hide. ... [more]
ComScore's Top Startups in Canada - April 2009
As a follow-up to PEER 1's April 2009 Canada Startup Index yesterday, comScore has provided us with their take on the top contenders based on February 2009 data. In the above chart, the Online %... [more]
Frind gets Serious about a Paid Model
PlentyofFish's Markus Frind announced last week plans to add a pay option aimed at customers who want to show that they’re "serious" about meeting someone. According to Frind's blog,... [more]
ComScore's Top Startups in Canada - March 2009
As a follow-up to PEER 1's March 2009 Canada Startup Index on Friday, comScore has provided us with their take on the top contenders based on January 2009 data. In the above chart, the Online %... [more]
Plentyoffish goes shopping
Plentyoffish's Markus Frind announced on his blog today that he's looking to acquire a complementary PAID online dating property. I’m letting hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues... [more]
Frind prepares tombstone for Match.com
Mashable's Jennifer Van Grove wondered aloud today if paid online dating sites are dead? She wonders if the recent launch of DowntoEarth, a completely free dating site with an interesting... [more]
Canada Startup Index - January 2009
Rank CompanyTTR 1   MetroLeap Media Inc. 342metrolyrics.comTTR: 342Compete: 268Alexa: 416  2   PlentyofFish Media 475plentyoffish.comTTR: 475Compete:... [more]
Vancouver Startup Index - January 2009
Rank CompanyTTR 1   MetroLeap Media Inc. 342metrolyrics.comTTR: 342Compete: 268Alexa: 416  2   PlentyofFish Media 475plentyoffish.comTTR: 475Compete:... [more]
Is Frind reconsidering free for Plentyoffish?
The online dating market has been tracking the economy closely and experienced a major slowdown in traffic over the past couple months. Although, Vancouver-based Plentyoffish.com has been enjoying... [more]
ComScore’s Top Start-ups in Canada - November 2008
As a follow-up to our November Sun Startup Essentials Canada Start-Up Index yesterday, we've arranged with comScore to get some real data behind what our numbers mean. While we agree that Alexa and... [more]
Digital Media People to Watch in BC Update
The British Columbia Day Act states that the first Monday of August is a legal holiday to be observed as British Columbia Day. So I figured today was an appropriate time to... [more]
Plenty of Users for Plentyoffish.com
Mashable reported today that Vancouver's very own Plentyoffish is on top of the dating world in the US and UK according to a recent comScore report. The dating site founded in 2003 by Markus Frind... [more]
Digital Media People to Watch in BC in 2008
One of the benefits of blogging about technology in BC is the opportunity to meet and interact with innovative technology leaders and evangelists everyday. During 2007, we've had the... [more]
Plentyoffish... free, profitable.. destined to fail?
Plentyoffish.com is a Vancouver success story frequently sited as a perfect example of how a one-man operation powered by simple online ads can make a fortune. But Mashable, a Web 2.0 blog (which... [more]

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