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Realising Your Dreams Just Got A Lot Closer

WAYN (Where Are You Now?) launches WAYN Dating in time for St. Valentine’s Day

WAYN – the world’s largest travel and lifestyle focused social networking community with over 15.4 million members globally, has surprised many by announcing that they will be launching a Dating service called WAYN Dating, which is due to go live at 12pm GMT on St Valentine’s Day.

WAYN Dating (http://wayndating.com) aims to match-make people from around the world based on what they love to do. Peter Ward, co-Founder and co-CEO of WAYN remarks: “This very much in line with WAYN’s new vision. WAYN is all about helping people realise their dreams, by meeting cool people to do fun stuff with, so it was a natural progression for us to consider launching a dating service that is tailored to helping singletons do what they love with someone they would love to do it with.”

WAYN Dating will be revealed at a pre-screening this Friday at a glamorous party in London’s only rooftop Private Members Club – the Kensington Roof Gardens in Kensington, which will be attended by some well known celebrities both old and new. Peter Ward and Jerome Touze, the two co-founders of WAYN and WAYN Dating, will be at the event to make a special announcement and mingle with a select group of friends from the tech and media industry as well as WAYN members from around the world.

The co-founders are staying tight-lipped about the new service in the meantime, which will aim to provide users worldwide with a successful matchmaking facility based on timing, place and desired activity; something that is already hinted on the WAYN Dating countdown page (http://wayndating.com)

Jerome Touze shared: “WAYN Dating will initially launch as a live BETA, with many unique and exciting features coming to the site in the near future. We’re aiming to create an aspirational service that builds on the core values of what WAYN is all about, but in a dating context. It should be a lot of fun!”

A recent Valentine’s survey conducted by the social network shows that from a sample of over 8,000 WAYN members (55% of which were single), 45% regarded shared interests and friendship as the most important criteria when looking for a partner. Also, almost half of those polled (46%) claimed that companionship, sharing similar interests and lifestyle were the most important considerations when looking for a relationship. Those without a sense of humor were seen as the biggest turn offs.

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Where Are You Now? (WAYN.com) releases ‘build-your-own’ travel community

Leading travel, location and lifestyle social networking site WAYN.com (Where Are You Now?) launches a third party whitelabel service allowing partners to plug into a 13.5 million member global community. The announcement is made this week at the e-Business Academy in Lillehammer, Norway.

WAYN revealed that selected partners will be able to deliver own-branded versions of WAYN’s unique location-based online community.

The whitelabelling proposition enables third parties to deliver location-based search results, offering their users the ability to see who’s where, research locations, explore profiles, view photos, trips and reviews, all based on their whereabouts.

Social networking is known for strong user engagement, high repeat traffic and retention; by providing this whitelabel opportunity WAYN looks to provide traditional websites with an opportunity to gain an instantly involved community, without building from scratch.

WAYN can offer options ranging from full whitelabel services, through to plug-in widgets to help other forms of e-business gain from the strengths of social networking.

The aim is to help location-centric entities maximise the attraction of their offering through people and user generated content. Retailers such as flight operators and hotel sites will also be able to reduce dropoff and encourage their users to interact post-purchase.

On average, WAYN users spend 16 minutes on site per visit, return twice per month on average, and view approximately 30 pages per session. The standard ecommerce transactional site would receive 5 page views per user and fewer repeat visits from consumers.

“We have the world’s biggest location based social network. People use WAYN to see who’s where, to ask strangers what to do in their city, to find out who’ll be coming to their town, and to socialise on a literally global scale” comments Matt Jerwood, WAYN’s director of business development “By opening up the WAYN service to others we aim to initiate partnerships which will result in engagement on non-community sites and non-traditional distribution of the community through innovative and open minded companies.”

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UK Social Network set to launch travel insurance on Moneysupermarket.com

WAYN.com (Where Are You Now?) having recently announced the launch of their travel insurance product, has today confirmed that it intends to compete with leading travel insurance providers on top UK comparison site, moneysupermarket.com.

WAYN.com boasts over 1.9 million UK members and has been investing heavily in travel related tools to cement its position within the travel niche.

Purchasers of WAYN travel insurance on MoneySupermarket.com will be able to redeem a free one-month WAYN VIP membership.

WAYN has seen a huge increase in growth and popularity in recent months, largely due to opening up to the site to free interaction and introducing a number of new and innovative offerings which have increased the stickiness of the site.

Matt Jerwood, Director of Business Development commented: “We don’t think any other social network has done anything like this and it’s an exciting new step for us. As well as providing travel tips and forums for exchanging travel advice, we want to offer great services and encourage responsible travelling. Having WAYN Travel Insurance ranked highly on Moneysupermarket.com will show just how much we are dedicated to getting the best quality for the best prices.”

WAYN travel insurance is currently available via the Travel pages on WAYN.com and will be listed on Moneysupermarket.com in time for the summer.

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