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| Type of business | Public |
|---|---|
Type of site | Social networking service |
| Available in | English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Turkish, Malay, Indonesian. |
| Traded as | Nasdaq: MEET (2014–2020) |
| Founded | April 2005; 19 years ago (2005-04) (as MyYearbook) |
| Headquarters | , |
| Owner | ProSiebenSat.1 Media |
| Founder(s) | Geoff Cook David Cook Catherine Cook |
| Parent | ParshipMeet Group |
| URL | www |
| Advertising | Banner ads, custom ads |
| Registration | Required |
| Current status | Active |
| Written in | PHP |
The Meet Group, Inc. (formerly MeetMe) owns several datingapp networking services including MeetMe,hi5,LOVOO, Growlr,Skout, andTagged. The company has offices inNew Hope, Pennsylvania,Philadelphia,San Francisco,Dresden, andBerlin.
Two siblings, Dave and Catherine Cook, created myYearbook during theirSpring break of 2005. They persuaded their older brother Geoff, who had founded EssayEdge and ResumeEdge from his Harvard dorm room, to invest in their project. At the launch of the site, Dave was a junior in high school and Catherine was a sophomore; the project was initially activated atMontgomery High School, in suburbanNew Jersey where they attended. The site was created entirely by workers in India.[1]
In 2006, myYearbook raised $4.1 million fromU.S. Venture Partners andFirst Round Capital. In 2008, it raised $13 million in a Series B round.[2]
In July 2011, myYearbook announced it had agreed to be acquired by Latino social networking site Quepasa.[3][4][5] In June 2012, the company formed from the combination of myYearbook and Quepasa was renamed MeetMe.[6]
In October 2016, MeetMe acquiredSkout for $55 million.[7][8]
On April 3, 2017, the company acquiredif(we) and rebranded to The Meet Group.[9]
In September 2017, Meet Group acquired German dating app Lovoo[10][11] for $70 million USD.
In 2020, The Meet Group was acquired byProSiebenSat.1 Media with a parent company, ParshipMeet Group, being formed to manage both The Meet Group andParship.[12][13]
In 2022,Tumblr announced its livestreaming service Tumblr Live, based on The Meet Group's product Livebox.[14] In 2024, Tumblr announced that they would be discontinuing Tumblr Live as of January 24, with options for users to migrate to MeetMe.[15]
