Listen to our Head of Communications Meredith Davis on Date/able as she talks about what it’s like being a dating professional by day and actual dater by night – and how through that process she met someone awesome. She discusses optimizing dates for experiences, learning about your preferences, and how to actually enjoy dating!
Check our CEO & Founder Amanda Bradford on Date/able as she talks about dating on The League. Hear her discuss the reasons she created the app and her mission to change gender roles in society. She also talks about her own dating life as an alpha, career-oriented woman
Want to learn about how to get off our long waiting list or how to increase your score on The League? Make sure to listen in!
In honor of the one and only St. Valentine himself, we had our data team pull some stats? on 100 LeagueLove? couples who have taken the next step in their relationship to find out how they got from match to matrimony?(or a new ER contact for some!). We also highlighted a few of our favorite LeagueLove stories on our website www.theleague.com/love.
THE FACTS
Messages Sent: LeagueLove couples sent an average of 34 messages before exchanging numbers compared to other matches who sent an average of 10 messages. Yes that’s right, LeagueLove couples actually got to know each other’s personality a bit! If you and your match have each sent about 15 messages each, well, now’s the time to ask one final question and take it offline!
Message Content: Over 70% of Leaguelove conversations said each others’ first names and ended at least 1 sentence with a “haha” or emojis. While a few couples moved to text before scheduling, over 80% suggested meeting up in THE NEXT WEEK followed by a posible activity as part of their 34 messages.
Prior Matches: Our Leaguelove couples had an average of 84 prior matches before Hearting ‘the one’. This means this was not their first rodeo – sometimes you gotta kiss a couple frogs to find your prince(ess)!
Initiation & Engagement: LeagueLove women are go-getters! 1 out of every 3 straight League couples started with a woman messaging first. In the straight LeagueLove relationships that resulted in engagement, the woman spent less time per day on the app than the man did, but leveraged their Concierge 3x more and had 3x the initiation rate of a typical female user, even after normalizing for profile popularity.
League Score: Our LeagueLove couples all had extremely high League Scores. What does this mean? In addition to having a popular profile that gets ‘Hearted’ a lot, a high League Score also indicates low flakiness, high initiation rate, and a solid attendance rate at our daily 5PM Happy Hours 🙂 The most interesting part of this tidbit is that our LeagueLove couples, on average, were only 1 standard deviation away from their partners League Score, whereas across all the matches in The League, the deviation is close to 3! This means our LeagueLove couples must have a spidey-sense to recognize others who use The League in an eerily similar manner!
Age Difference: LeagueLove couples have an average of a 3 year age difference average difference compared to non success stories with a 6 average age difference. Of course for some, age is just a number, but it looks like on The League dating those within 3 years of your own age may lead to a more long-lasting relationship!
Education Ranking: Over 50% of our LeagueLove couples went to colleges/universities that were ranked similarly in terms of cost and acceptance rate, and over 80% had the same level of degree obtained. Those who believe in investing a lot of money for their education tend to prefer others who also believe in investing a lot of money into education. Makes sense.
Game Changers: 20% of our LeagueLove users used a Power Move to ‘land’ their partner, of which half used the Power Move feature anonymously (the other user sees them right away but does not know if they had liked them already). The other half chose to Power Move explicitly, choosing to send a sweet or funny note to the other user via their Concierge and appearing in their feed with a filled in green heart to indicate interest.
While there may not be an exact science when it comes to love, but having these data points in your back pocket gives you a formula that has resulted in success.
– The League Team
Whether you’re celebrating ‘Palentine’s Day,’ ‘Galentine’s Day‘ or Singles Awareness Day, our Events team has sourced the top 2018 Valentine’s Day events for singles. While we all love a good evening of crafting, Rosé and stalking our ex’s on social media, this year you should celebrate V-day proudly, loudly and Single AF!
Let’s all take a stand against these punny euphemisms for Valentine’s Day and reclaim this Hallmark holiday! Check out our list of awesome events and join our movement to take over Valentine’s Day!
– The League Team
We know you like your NYE parties like you like your dating apps– highly curated options that match your selective preferences. That is why this year we’re curating your NYE parties like we curate your matches. How did we source them? Our Events team partnered with our Event City Scouts to find the best events in the below 15 cities by rating them across the following three categories:
So if you were planning on hanging in with a bottle of wine, and some popcorn, take a look at our curated NYE events perfect for singles. With our list of all-star parties, the ball won’t be the only thing dropping it low this New Year’s Eve!
– The League Team
Oh, the holidays: the time of year to close your laptop, sign out of your work email, and spend some quality time by the fire. Just kidding! We know you’re a busy professional who is probably answering pings on New Year’s Day! Between finishing up Q4 work goals and organizing the family for a holiday card, it may be hard to think about dating during the holiday season. Luckily, we’re thinking about it for you! Our goal is to optimize your dating life, so you can ABD (always be dating), and to help with this, we had our team pull stats on the best days to log in during the holidays!
You worry about the fruitcake and figgy pudding and we’ll worry about finding you a bae before V-Day
– The League Team
WELCOME YOUR PITTSBURGH, TAMPA & ORLANDO FRIENDS INTO THE BIG LEAGUES: We’re so excited to announce that as of today we’re officially live in 30 cities. Rounding out our thirty flirty and thriving are Pittsburgh, Tampa, and Orlando.
GROWTH THAT WILL MAKE YOU GO WHOW: At the beginning of 2017 were only live in 6 cities. As of today, we’ve officially saved 30 cities from the terrors of Tinder. We’re continuing to build high-achieving, intellectual power couples both nationally and internationally and we couldn’t have done it without your help! As thanks to all those who helped build out our incredible community by 5x, those who have endorsed at least one friend this year will receive a VIP ticket! We have big things planned for 2018 so your continued support is invaluable!
Friend don’t let friends date down…
Thanksgiving is meant to be a time to relax and be thankful for happiness, health, family, and friends. But how is that possible when your family makes passive-aggressive comments about your single status?
While we can’t prepare you for awkward dinner conversations over the current political climate or yet another conversation about why the Kardashians are famous, we can arm with some great stats for when your family asks why you’re still single:
Make sure all your single friends can survive their Thanksgivings at home as well: We’re celebrating Friendsgiving beyond just the dinner. Endorse your single friends by Nov 27th and you’ll be entered to win one of 50 complimentary, one year memberships (including the expedited review)! Send them an endorsement (Settings—>Endorse a Friend for The League) You will only receive credit for an endorsement if a user creates a brand new League profile this week using the link you sent to them! If they already were on the waitlist, no gravy!
The League dating app Founder & CEO Amanda Bradford interviews Jon Golden, former VP of Product at AirBNB, who started at the company when it was 10 and just left after seeing it grow to over 1,000 employees. Tune in to hear some of the things he learned along the way!
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