Spray Date was an
online dating
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website
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run by
Spray Network AB Spray Network AB is a Swedish Internet company that runs the web portal spray.se. Spray was founded in 1995, was bought by Lycos Europe, but was sold to Allers in 2006. spray.se has about 750 000 visitors per week.
In 2004 Spray bought the Swedis ...
. It was mostly free, but for a fee, users got access to larger images and more search options. Spray Date was discontinued in 2013 when match.com acquired the site. Its users were then migrated to the main
match.com
Match is an online dating service with web sites serving over 50 countries in twelve languages. Its headquarters are in Dallas, Texas. The company has offices in Dallas, West Hollywood, San Francisco, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, and Beijing. Match is ...
site itself.
Overview
The site was available in several countries and the
Swedish
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Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically:
* Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland
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version had at its peak over 700 000 members (August 2008) and was at the time the largest dating site in
Sweden
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.
[Dalademokraten: Stor stark eller blondin]
/ref> The average age of the members was between 25–49. Seventy percent of members claimed that they have gone on a date with someone from the site; while a third claimed that they met their partner via the site.[
Spray Date has also arranged cruises for singles.Frontface Magazine: Den Som Söker Skall Finna]
Nr 5, 2006 Spray date was only available in Swedish.
See also
* List of online dating websites
This is a partial, non-exhaustive list of notable Online dating service, online dating websites and mobile apps.
All services in the list that have an entry, whether they support heterosexual connections, currently support homosexual connections.
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References
External links
Spray Date
Online dating services of Sweden
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