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Holidating: 4 Tips & Strategies to Saving Money on Gifts This Holiday Season

December 7, 2012

“Holidating” is an ongoing Match.com blog series focusing on data from a recent Match.com survey on singles and the holiday season. Stay tuned for more posts examining the data in the upcoming week!

saving money holiday season

Even though Black Friday and Cyber Monday have already passed, many of us still have quite a bit of holiday gift shopping to complete. In fact, giving gifts is one of singles’ most cherished holiday traditions, with 45% saying they love giving presents more than attending parties or decorating.  Read more…

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Holidating: This Season, Why Not Give The Gift of Charity? By Kristan Turns

December 6, 2012

“Holidating” is an ongoing Match.com blog series focusing on data from a recent Match.com survey on singles and the holiday season. Stay tuned for more posts examining the data in the upcoming week!

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With the lights hung and ornaments arranged, shoppers discover themselves at that point in the season where they’ve begun frantically hunting for gifts to place under trees. But what to buy?? Read more…

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Holidating: Holiday Parties- Singles Like To Go, But Hate to Throw!

December 5, 2012

“Holidating” is an ongoing Match.com blog series focusing on data from a recent Match.com survey on singles and the holiday season. Stay tuned for more posts examining the data in the upcoming week!

Holiday Party

Singles! It is time to be the life of the party… the holiday party, that is. When we asked single men and women across the country to rate their favorite holiday traditions, going to holiday parties ranked high in the minds of singles. Read more…

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Holidating: ‘Tis The Season to be Single? By Whitney Casey

December 4, 2012

“Holidating” is an ongoing Match.com blog series focusing on data from a recent Match.com survey on singles and the holiday season. Stay tuned for more posts examining the data in the upcoming week!

tis the season to be single

Unlike one of the most likable holiday movies, Love Actually, this season, singles are admitting that, it is NOT Love, Actually…it is more like the movie, The Breakup. Read more…

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Holidating: It’s the Most Romantic Time of the Year by Dr. Justin Garcia

December 3, 2012

“Holidating” is an ongoing Match.com blog series focusing on data from a recent Match.com survey on singles and the holiday season. Stay tuned for more posts examining the data in the upcoming week!

Romantic Holiday Season

Do you remember your first real kiss? I do. I was in High School. It was a late afternoon in December. Huge snowflakes were descending on New York City, the type that blankets the ground in glittering white. Read more…

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Match.com Presents: Holidating

November 30, 2012

Holidating by Match.com

Tis’ the season to be single, and Match.com is celebrating the best time of the year with all-new “Holidating” data. Read more…

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Match.com Presents: Sports and Dating

November 1, 2012

Would you date someone who cheered for your team’s biggest rival? How important is it for your match to like sports? Match.com asked over 1,000 singles just how big a role sports (and fandom) play into people’s dating lives, and singles LOVE their sports! Check out how sports stack up in the dating world below:

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Who is the More Kissable Presidential Candidate?

October 31, 2012

In a recent poll conducted by Match.com and Happen Magazine, singles responded overwhelmingly that when it comes to kissing, Barack is the right man for the job! Out of over 2500 responses, the poll revealed 61% of Americans believe Barack Obama would be a better kisser than Mitt Romney (who won 39% of the votes). Who do you think would be the better smoocher?

Tell us in the comments below! 

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Political Questions Answered by Singles

October 30, 2012

There’s no doubt that the 2012 Presidential election is fiercely in full swing, but did you know that a single’s political affiliation speaks volumes in regards to their views on sex and love? Match.com’s Singles in America 2012 study has uncovered which political party’s constituents are doing it more, who’s doing it less, and which ones do it best. We asked a few singles on the streets of Austin, Texas to share their thoughts with us in the video below.



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Fidelity: More important in a relationship, or in America’s president?

October 29, 2012

The answer may surprise you! Match.com’s Singles in America 2012 study revealed that 81% of women said fidelity in a relationship was a “must have,” versus 91% of women who said it was a “must have” in a presidential candidate.

Why do you think fidelity is more important to singles when it comes to the President of the United States?

Tell us in the comments below!

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