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20 years after the creation of Meetic, the flourishing online dating business

2021-11-19T18:28:11.805Z


SURVEY - While the practice has conquered all generations, the competition is raging. No less than 2000 dating sites and applications are listed in France.


Meetic, Tinder, Bumble, Grindr, Gleeden, Amours Bio… Applications and sites have continued to flourish on the French virtual dating market.

This month of November marks the 20th anniversary of Meetic and, since its creation, the situation has changed a lot.

When the entrepreneur Marc Simoncini created Meetic in November 2001, being present on dating sites was a real taboo.

"

At that time, no one is bragging about it, no one is saying it, it is considered to be something sulphurous, almost shameful,

" says Héloïse des Monstiers, communication director of Meetic.

A look at this type of meeting which has greatly evolved over these twenty years since today, according to the latest Ifop survey dating from October 2021 on "

online dating

", 1 in 3 French people has already experienced it.

Read alsoMeetic sets out to conquer the fifties

This increase is primarily due to the growth in Internet use and the number of applications that offer differentiated services attracting

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Source: lefigaro

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