Latest updates from SparkChambers and the dating world
44% of online daters get targeted by a romance scam. Of those who engage, 74% fall for it. Almost three-quarters. These numbers don't come from some clickbait survey. They're from the Norton Insights Report 2026. And before you think "that would never happen to me" – that's exactly what the other...
Whitney Wolfe Herd built Bumble into a billion-dollar app. Now she wants to destroy the entire swipe model.
79% of dating app users are exhausted. If you recognize yourself – that third Tinder match this week who ghosted after "Hey :)" – you're not alone. Justin McLeod knows this problem intimately. He built Hinge, the app "designed to be deleted." Now he's leaving his own company to build a new AI...
Tinder has a problem. And finally, the company is admitting it. While 53% of singles report Dating App Burnout and monthly active users dropped 9%, the app is pulling the emergency brake: The Tinder Update 2026 introduces Chemistry - a new feature powered by Tinder AI that aims to eliminate...
Venus Berlin turns 29. For an adult expo, that means you've been around for nearly three decades while most of your competitors went bankrupt. Or became irrelevant. Or both.
77% of online daters in the US would consider a relationship with an AI. At the same time, 81% of respondents report feeling lonely.
Three matches tonight. You should be excited. Instead, you're scrolling through profiles with zero enthusiasm, secretly hoping one of them cancels. Same conversation as always. "So what do you do for work?" Yawn.
128,600 Germans live as swingers. But how often do you think about the person next to you in the supermarket maybe living a completely different side on weekends?
Sarah, 28, from Berlin, had AI rewrite her bio last month. Three days later, she had four dates lined up. "I didn't even know I could sound that interesting," she says.
54% of people check their smartphone during dinner. For Gen Z, it's 79%. And 10% - yes, one in ten - interrupt genuine intimate moments to look at their phone.
Last week, a friend told me she'd deleted Tinder. Then Bumble. Then Hinge. "I can't do this anymore," she said. "I had a date with someone who seemed great in chat – and then he spent the entire time on his phone, still swiping."
Imagine this: You've been chatting with someone for weeks who seems absolutely perfect. Then come the requests for money. And later you find out the dating app already knew this person was a scammer. But didn't warn you.
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