Instead Quantcast found them in the north, in states like Montana and Minnesota, and in Alaska. Its biggest fans, perhaps surprisingly, weren’t located in the country’s Millennial-packed major cities.
Tinder scored a respectable second place. POF was especially popular in the south, southwest, and midwest. It may not have the hype of its newer, fancier competitors, but in this case slow and steady won the race. Overall, old-school dating service PlentyOfFish won the most states with its free app. And they’re not always what you’d expect. They found that not only do different states have different preferences, preferences seem to come in clusters. Technology company Quantcast reviewed over 480,000 searches from JanuFebruto discover which dating services singles in America prefer.
With the amount of media attention Tinder receives, you’d think it was the only dating app on the market - or if not the only option, at least the most popular one.īut the numbers tell a different story.