SpeedDate steals Zoosk payment page… Zoosk counters by stealing their profile layout

Disclaimer: I ran acquisition at Zoosk and later consulted for SpeedDate

Over a year ago SpeedDate ripped the Zoosk payment page and later took it down after getting a nasty letter from the CEO. Now it appears Zoosk has taken some major inspiration from SpeedDate’s latest design.

I was on Facebook the other day and noticed an update from one of Zoosk’s engineers about a recent design. To my surprise it looked really familiar… then it hit me, it was a rip of SpeedDate’s profile layout.

I haven’t heard many good things about the company lately.

I’ve had off-the-record conversations with a few VCs that were pitched by Zoosk to raise up to another 50M in funding without positive feedback. Word on the street is that while revenue grew in 2010, many of Zoosk’s marketing efforts were not profitable for most of the year.

Obviously I don’t have access to the day-to-day numbers anymore but from what I’ve heard it all seems to add up. Zoosk is no longer the leader in the Facebook application space, does very little direct marketing and I haven’t seen Zoosk launch a landing page test since I left the company in 2009.

This entry was posted by Nicholas Abramovic on Monday, January 31st, 2011 at 10:04 pm and is filed under Affiliate Marketing, General, Search Marketing, Social Media. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a thought provoking comment, or trackback from your own site.

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