Dating

Dating has always been a big part of the services that we provide to our newspaper and radio station partners at Advanced Telecom Services.  In fact, when Advanced Telecom Services expanded its newspaper personals programs to the United Kingdom, Czech Republic, and Taiwan, it became the very first vendor to bring newspaper classifieds-based personals to those countries.

Today, the personals business has changed quite a bit since we provided our voice personals service to the New York Times and The Guardian.  No longer are consumers dialing 900 numbers to leave personal voice messages in a sophisticated IVR system like the ones we’ve operated here since 1989.  Instead, the dating industry has moved online and to the mobile phone.

Online dating is simply better, because you can see what the person looks like.  That’s a big difference from the phone-based newspaper classifieds sections and the radio station sponsored personals programs that we operated from our Evanston, Illinois-based Spark Network Services offices.

Advanced Telecom Services’ MatchLink online dating affiliate program is in a unique position to offer its media customers a turnkey, branded, online dating solution, but with the power of the Match.com database behind it.  We have a unique API hookup to the Match.com database that enables us to access the largest singles database in the country of Match.com.

To see what a sample MatchLink newspaper website looks likes, click here.

MatchLink is a great source of non-traditional revenue for your digital newspaper and it also provides stickiness by encouraging singles to come back to your website over and over.

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