A very lucrative business model are partner finding sites on the internet. The operators of such sites were able to increase their turnover by 29% in the year 2007. Germans spent 85 million Euros on finding a partner online. This was revealed by a market study carried out by the Jupiter Research market research institute. For 2008, another increase to 103 million Euros is predicted.
In many other countries people also appreciate the possibilities provided by the internet to find one’s dream partner: in Western Europe turnover is expected to increase from 317 million Euros to 393 million Euros in 2008.
Currently about 6.3 million Germans visit online dating services each month. This figure is the finding of another study by the Comscore market research institute on behalf of BITKOM. In the whole of Europe the number of internet users visiting such sites amounts to 33.5 million each month. 
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German are really into online dating for they spend for these services.They spend on such services to find their best partners.Given this information, there is an opportunity for online dating services that will target German nationalities.
Yes, I think online dating is the future. Now there are also online dating magazines that you cand either surf online or download to your PC in PDF format. I think online dating is easier when you have the good advice of your friends :)
thanks for this great informative post :)
Our daughter just got back from German last month and has been raving about it ever since. It seems to me that we really need to get into other countries, they are getting into the US so why not? Online that is lol Great info, love reading and getting some new information to go with!
Ronnie
WOW! And I thought the biggest players in online dating are from the US. It seems that a lot of niche targeting is happening in europe and it’s working… at least for the german market. Thanks for sharing this information :)