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Tinder’s daily users grow for the first time in three and a half years as Hinge payers jump 23%

Match Group's revenue and payers fell again in the third quarter, but Tinder's daily users finally grew year on year and Hinge added paying users faster than ever.

By On Dating Journal Editors Published 03.11.20264 min read

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INDUSTRY · 25.10.2026

Character.AI is for sale in bankruptcy, and 12 million users’ chats are not part of Disney’s deal

Disney has bid $20m for a licence to Character.AI's technology, but not the app or its users' conversations. Now dozens of US states are fighting over the sale rules, and what happens to those chats is still open.

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INDUSTRY · 13.10.2026

Tinder’s daily users grow for the first time in three and a half years as Hinge payers jump 23%

Character.AI is for sale in bankruptcy, and 12 million users’ chats are not part of Disney’s deal

Bumble agrees $1.3bn takeover by Ithaca Holdings and will go private

Match Group results: Hinge surges 22% as Tinder’s slide begins to slow

Grindr buys PrEP provider Freddie’s parent PurposeMed in $250m health push