Lavalife celebrates 20th anniversary - Leading Personals Service Has Hooked Up Singles for Two Decades!

Remember a world before online dating? Lavalife does.
This year, Lavalife, a leading provider of products and services designed for singles, celebrates its 20th anniversary.
For two decades, Lavalife has paved the way for singles, along the way introducing new technologies and services that bring people together in a changing world and have ultimately changed the landscape of the dating industry.

Lavalife, originally called Teleclassifieds, was founded in 1987 by five young Toronto-based entrepreneurs who had been experimenting with then-breakthrough IVR technology (Interactive Voice Response). Since 1987, the company has grown to become one of the largest providers of phone-based personals services, the #1 online dating site in Canada, a leader in mobile-based personals services, and an industry leader throughout the globe. Lavalife has set a precedent of adapting quickly to new technologies, a tradition that continues today as Lavalife offers new ways for singles to connect.


A brief timeline outlining 20 years of Lavalife:

1987 Teleclassifieds began with phone-based classified services that included personals, pets, furniture and apartments

1988 Teleclassifieds becomes Telepersonals, with only a phone-based personals service that allows singles to meet and talk via phone

1994 Traditional dial-up systems (CompuServe, AOL, Prodigy) begin to provide Internet access. The World Wide Web begins to enter private homes.

1997 Webpersonals launches, allowing singles to come together online in new ways.

1999 Telepersonals expands during the 1990s from its home in Toronto to over 40 cities in North America and Australia.

2001 The Lavalife brand launches across Canada, the United States and Australia.

2004 Lavalife Mobile debuts, allowing singles to expand their interaction to mobile devices.

2006 Lavalife Magazine launches, offering a new style of magazine on the internet with special content just for singles.

Lavalife is one of the most recognizable brands in Canada and is also well-established throughout the United States and Australia. “We have invested heavily in the development of the Lavalife brand over the past few years and we have developed a powerful lifestyle brand that resonates with cosmopolitan, open-minded, youthful singles.” stated Marina Glogovac, Lavalife’s Chief Executive Officer. “It is incredible to see how the personals industry has changed and evolved over the past 20 years,” added Glogovac. “When we launched Teleclassifieds in 1987, we were the first to launch telephone-based personals. Voice continues to be the largest part of our business, and we recently transitioned it onto a VoIP-based platform, enabling us to acquire additional voice customers via the web.

Today we are also the North American mobile dating leader with half a dozen mobile-based chat and entertainment products, and this will continue to be a high-growth zone for us. With our historic experience in voice, web and mobile, we are well prepared for the multi-channel consumer universe and converging communication platforms.”

Voting is Open for Lavalife Top 20 sexy Singles!

If ever there were a sure way to find a date, this is it. Lavalife, a leading online dating site, is on the prowl for the top singles in North America. Thousands of men and women have already thrown their proverbial hat in the ring, and final voting has kicked off to determine who will reign as Lavalife’s most eligible singles.

During the past month, singles and dating experts at Lavalife have hand-picked 20 finalists from the Lavalife Top Singles Search who stood out from the crowd with a winning attitude, an engaging profile, and those intangibles that make you think, "Wow... I have to get to know that person better." Now it is time for singles to decide who will be named “Lavalife’s Top Singles.” What Do You Have to Do?

Voting takes place until March 20, 2007. Just log onto http://lavalifetopsinglesearch.com to check out the Top 20 Singles and let us know who you think should be named Lavalife’s Top Singles! You don’t have to be a Lavalife member to vote, but it certainly increases your chances of meeting these top singles if you join and send them a smile! And the Winner Is... On March 21, once the voting is over, Lavalife will announce four winners – two women and two men - who will share in all the public adulation and, more importantly, get a heap of attention for their profiles. Not only will they get bragging rights as a certified "top single," they are also scheduled to be featured in http://www.LavalifeMagazine.com and will each receive a $1,000 shopping spree.

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Men Fake Orgasm Too!!

When it comes to faking orgasms, are men just as guilty? A surprising new Lavalife poll shows faking orgasms are not just a woman's prerogative. An astounding 48% of the 9,100 men polled on online dating site Lavalife.com say they too have faked an orgasm.

"When it comes to faking orgasms, people assume that it's primarily done by women," says Ambrose Diaz, a contributing editor to Lavalife Magazine, who recently researched the topic and wrote a story on the practice ... or lack thereof. "The poll we conducted on http://www.Lavalife.com shows us that it's definitely not just women who are faking it, but a large number of men as well."
How do men do it? "Wearing a condom makes it easy," says Diaz. "According to my research, the men who have faked an orgasm without a condom just told their partners they didn't ejaculate very much."
According to Diaz, many of the reasons men fake orgasms are similar to those of women: they are tired, they just want to be done, or they just aren't into sex that particular night. Some thought they were going to lose their erection or felt they were lacking an emotional connection.
In comparison to the men, 82% of the 6,350 women who were surveyed say they have faked an orgasm.

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