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Now that Badoo is under this umbrella with Bumble, there is some potential for Bumble to inculcate some of their culture into what's going on at Badoo, bring it some of the safety features, things like that, and clean up what's going on on that platform.
So there is some room for expansion, but very much the story being driven by Bumble today. When you look at performance of the business, Sex dating Sector 3 there's been this impact from the pandemic. What are we seeing as far as performance of the business over the past year or so during the pandemic? Sanchez: Yeah, absolutely. But inthe pandemic did not help Sex dating Sector 3 dating apps and revenue growth significantly slowed.
Logically it makes sense. If people are being cautious around meeting new people, they're going to probably be spending less time and less money on online dating apps. It does make sense that revenue growth slowed. In a sense, this could actually be an interesting reopening play as we look to what happens after the pandemic. I think that's one of the interesting dynamics Sex dating Sector 3 these online dating platforms. To your point, Luis, maybe there's not an incentive to accelerate your rate of matches in a time where, listen, I'm not going to go meet anybody who I match with because it's during a pandemic.
But there is an incentive to have a presence on these online platforms, so maybe I will have a date whenever the world at some point returns to normal, whether that's on Bumble or one of these other platforms, which I am sure we will talk about Match briefly.
When you look at Bumble, one last thing Sex dating Sector 3 wanted to talk about on their S-1 before maybe we give some final thoughts and move on to Match is, anytime I look at any S-1 filing or any kind of prospectus from a company, it's a practice thing, you Control F and you put in material weakness and see if anything pops up. We did see one pop Sex dating Sector 3 that in the Bumble S-1 saying there was a material weakness in their financial reporting.
Any concerns around that language, Luis, as you peruse the S-1? Sanchez: A material weakness refers to the internal accounting policies of a company.
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So, how accurate the reporting might be or how many checks they have on their numbers. This is an Sex dating Sector 3 audit of a company's ability to give confidence that all the numbers are right.
Having a material weakness come up in the risk section is never a positive thing, but it doesn't necessarily mean that there's something wrong with the company. Certainly, a material weakness can mean that the company has a mistake and may need to restate its financials.
But oftentimes, it just means that they need to Sex dating Sector 3 their financial software or they had some turnover in their accounting department and they just need to reorganize their records or something like that. There's actually an interesting study done by KPMG that found over the past four years, as much of Sex dating Sector 3 third of all U.
Actually, let me retract. Maybe sometimes it is a positive thing, because recently Roblox came out, they were going to IPO at the end of last year and it came up that they had an issue with their accounting. As it turns out, they need to adjust their revenue higher because of some squishiness they have in terms of how they estimated their deferred revenue.
It's usually not a good thing, Sex dating Sector 3 I guess sometimes it does lead to a revision higher. I would say it's definitely something worth noting, and if you continue following the company, eventually they'll let you know when they've resolved this issue.
Sciple: We'll have to watch what happens with Bumble moving forward. Clearly, some concerns around slowing revenue growth inbut they have a very strong brand. Lots of tailwinds behind them, as far as the Sex dating Sector 3, we will see what happens.
The thing, when you look at Bumble's attractiveness and relative to this online dating space really begs the question of the alternatives.
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The big alternative out there is Match Group, that's the big dog in the space, the top dog and first mover, to use the David Gardner Rule Breakers language. Meilin, I know you've done some work on Match Group, analyzing Sex dating Sector 3 company. Just high-level, can you compare and contrast Match Group from Bumble, the company which we've been talking about so far?
Quinn: Definitely, yeah.
I've looked a little bit into Match Group, I'm a fan of the company. One thing that comes to mind, I Sex dating Sector 3 a recent college graduate, I remember being surprised that many of my peers were using the Hinge app. Hinge is owned by Match Group. I was surprised that Hinge was gaining traction because it again seemed like so much effort. I'm Sex dating Sector 3 sure you have to answer certain prompts about yourself on your profile.
In order to match with someone, you have to respond to one of the replies they give to one of those questions. If you look at Match Group's quarterly Sex dating Sector 3, Tinder has been growing its user account pretty rapidly and it actually just turned profitable in quarter two of So, being profitable for Hinge is at least one thing, Hinge has that, Bumble does not, although Hinge is a much smaller brand than Bumble.
But I would say the biggest differentiator between the two stocks or two companies is just Match Group's portfolio approach to dating apps.
It's the ninth highest-grossing non-gaming app on Google Play, the highest-grossing one-on-one live video and audio chat app globally, so really a significant player in this market.
Sciple: Yeah, just sheer scale. You mentioned Hinge as part of Match's portfolio, they do have 14 properties. As you mentioned, Hinge is probably the most directly analogous as far as competing with the market that Bumble is going after, these more committed relationships, those sorts of things.
Hinge's tag line is the app that's designed to be deleted, and Sex dating Sector 3 really been some exciting growth from that property to your point. I pulled some stats Hinge estimated to have tripled revenue inestimated to have grown its Sex dating Sector 3 base 20 times since Match acquired the company, it was something that was treading water before Match acquired them. Luis, when you talk about the importance of Tinder to Match as a business, is there a way to understate how much Tinder is driving the bus for this company today?
Sanchez: It's the majority of the company's revenue. However, in the past couple of quarters, we've actually seen the non-Tinder side of Match's business grow faster than Tinder. That's actually been a really interesting development that has caused people to realize that, "Hey, this company is more than just Tinder. It goes all the way back to when it was just Match. It's really interesting to see that they could actually reaccelerate the growth of some of their older apps by taking some of their learnings from an app like Tinder and saying, "Hey, this monetization feature, people seem to really like it on Tinder.
Let's see if people like it on Match. Sciple: They have all these little incubators around these different assets that the company owns. That brings me to a topic we were discussing a little bit before we taped the show, this idea of Match, which has historically been a very acquisitive company.
You can almost call Sex dating Sector 3 a roll-off in the online dating space, doubling up lots of different companies versus Bumble, which you could say it's maybe innovating a little bit Sex dating Sector 3. They were the first mover on Bumble's Bee line product, it was actually something that Tinder imitated with Tinder Gold.
Is that a fair distinction to think about Bumble as the innovator in the space and Match Group as the acquirer? Or are we just not giving Match Group enough fair credit for the work or the innovations that they're doing? Quinn: I think it's clear that Match is making efforts to innovate. You mentioned, Luis, Match is reaching into live streaming through its PlentyOfFish platform, and they just acquired a company called Hyperconnect, and that offers some more live streaming video capabilities.
I don't know if I'd necessarily say that Bumble is more of an innovator than Match Group. Sanchez: I think it's really hard to say because they're all copying from each other and running their different experiments.
I think the Hyperconnect acquisition is really interesting because they're acquiring really popular apps in Asia where they Sex dating Sector 3 do things a little bit differently. Hyperconnect isn't as much a dating app as it is just like a live streaming and social app, but there's definitely some interesting things you could learn about the way that they use their apps in Asia and the way that even companies like TikTok operate, like the algorithms.
There's so much happening that you could just look across different types of apps. It's interesting. IAC is a rollup of a lot of different apps across different categories including Angie's List and Expedia. You just got to think that there are probably things that IAC learned at Angie's List that they applied to Match and vice versa. It's hard to say where the innovation is coming from, it might not even be coming from other dating products, right?
Sciple: Right. I guess one of the counterarguments you could say is that, "Hey, is Facebook an innovator? There's no argument to be made that this online dating is this next wave of social media becoming more intricate, online becoming more impactful, and how Sex dating Sector 3 meet and being Sex dating Sector 3 core driver of how people meet others.
They have Hyperconnect as two apps, Sex dating Sector 3 Luis mentioned, in this live streaming feel. But the interesting one for me is Azar. Azar offers live video and audio chat, and can instantly translate voice and text for users that speak different languages. It's the ninth highest-grossing non-gaming app on Google Play, the highest-grossing one-on-one live video and audio Sex dating Sector 3 app globally, so really a significant player in this market.
To begin with, as Sex dating Sector 3 mentioned earlier, they've had some success with their PlentyOfFish product, with live streaming. It looks like they may be looking to push into that a little bit more.
A really interesting quote is, Match Group CEO Shar Dubey sent a note to employees that she expects the market for helping people connect what she called social discovery, that's this market that Hyperconnect plays in.
She expects that market to be twice the size of dating and then she says, "The augmented reality technology that Hyperconnect is developing in connection Sex dating Sector 3 that will fundamentally change the way humans connect online. What are your thoughts on her quote, that this social discovery one-to-one video chat is going to be twice as big as dating in the future? Sanchez: It sounds a lot like social networking.
Look how big of a business Facebook is. Look how big of a business Twitter is. Look at how fast the company like TikTok is that has emerged, video entertainment with social networking. When I saw this Sex dating Sector 3, it got me really excited for a few different reasons.
You could tell that the tech is really good and they talk about their AI algorithm, they talk about their video infrastructure. They also talk about these AI filters and it reminds me a lot of Snap chat.
It seems like there's a lot of things there that they could probably transfer over to make the core Tinder or OkCupid apps better. But what also gets me excited is Match finally getting into Asia, and after this deal, they're going to have a fourth of their revenue coming from Asia, which has been a market that they haven't really been able to tap as well.
I think that there is an interesting way that they could probably grow more to social networking, but there's a lot Sex dating Sector 3 to it than that, in my opinion. Quinn: I pretty much agree with what Luis said. I'll just add that the Azar app is part of its Hyperconnect acquisition.
It's the app that translates voice and text where users speak different languages, that especially seems very compelling to me as the world becomes more globalized. I'm really excited to see how that evolves. Sciple: Yeah, Match historically has had some really significant success in integrating acquisitions. It's exciting to see where things go from there.
One last thing on Match before we hit the road, we mentioned earlier, Luis, how Bumble's revenue growth has performed during the pandemic, and we did mention that non-Tinder brands have helped pull the company along somewhat, but I just want to double underline, how has Match performed Sex dating Sector 3 the past year?
How did the company hold up during the pandemic? What should we be paying attention to with them going forward as far as drivers for Sex dating Sector 3 business? Like I said before, that was largely driven by the non-Tinder apps. If you think about it, it makes sense that the non-Tinder apps did better because if you think about what Tinder stands for, it's synonymous with being more spontaneous, meeting someone out of a bar app or hookup app, and that's probably a behavior that people are less inclined to do in this Sex dating Sector 3.
Whereas apps like Hinge are more about developing longer-term relationships, and you could definitely see people probably invest more or still be willing to invest more into relationships that they could probably wait till after the pandemic is over or when things are safe to meet up. It'll be interesting to see what happens next. The company did give pretty good Sex dating Sector 3 that basically revenue is going to keep growing at like a hiking rate. What we could actually Sex dating Sector 3 is that Tinder business reaccelerates faster than the rest of it if Tinder is more associated with going out to bars and meeting people in person.
That'll be an interesting thing to watch. I think the last thing, one of the stories here that I think is really interesting is just the difference between where Match is today and where Bumble is. As Bumble continues to grow, it'll be really interesting to see if they could catch up to Match's margins. That could definitely be a bull case for owning Bumble. Sciple: Absolutely. As we're heading out here intohopefully reopening this year, folks returning to dating, I want to ask you Mainland, are you betting on the roaring 20s?
Do you think all the online dating is going to snap back in a big way with reopening? Quinn: I think the data indicates that these levels of online dating engagement Sex dating Sector 3 here to stay, and on top of that, here to grow, whether we like it or not. It actually indicates that we don't exactly love it. But the fact is, more and more dates are meeting their spouses and dates on online dating apps. I think a couple of ways to think about that, there's more competition out there, and so sometimes when things get more competitive -- but the market is changing in any way, in any event.
I don't think there's any turning this ship around. Online dating is likely to become more and more important in the future. We're doing everything online.
The whole Internet stock evac was happening with GameStop and all these other things. I think the Internet's only going to become more and more relevant. So as we talk about this trend of very exciting and I think there's lots of growth ahead, I want to ask both of you, this question. As Sex dating Sector 3 Match and Bumble, which would you be most excited to invest in today and why?
Meilin, I'll let you go first. Quinn: Sure. As I said, I'm a big fan of Match. For now, this seems like the more compelling investment to me. My thesis on Match that, No. It has something for everybody and for any stage and someone saving life. It continues to grow revenue. It's net income positive. So between all of this, I think Match Group is well-positioned to capitalize on the growing market of Sex dating Sector 3 dating. I see that the Match Group can still compete and thrive alongside Bumble.
I don't necessarily see that this is a winner take all market. Before we started recording, you mentioned that Bumble's IPO S-1 mentioned that people use on average about two, three dating apps.
I think the whole ecosystem is just really positive. I don't think this is an either, or. I think people are probably using both. They're trying everything they like and maybe they're Sex dating Sector 3 more money or more time on the one that seems to work for them. In that sense, I like them both. I think you could probably own both.
I don't think you have to own either one. I think you could just go on the ecosystem. I think they both have different things. They offer different things for different investors. Bumble is going to be that higher-growth in terms of their revenues growing pretty fast, but their margins still have a Sex dating Sector 3 way to catch up.
It is a really innovative culture, so they could probably come out with some things that they're not doing today that maybe they see Match doing. Whereas Match, they have 14 Sex dating Sector 3 apps. They're really acquisitive. The Hyperconnect deal is really interesting.
They'll probably continue to acquire more things. It seems like it's hard for you to go wrong with Match if you hold it for a long term. I think if I had to make one prediction right, is that while there's a lot of people dating online today, I feel pretty confident that this is only going to increase in the next decade. If you own Match, you definitely get exposure to all of that.
I think if you own Bumble, you get a lot of exposure to all that too.
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Maybe Bumble is a little bit more risky because it's just two apps versus But it's such a well-run company and they've done such a good job since they were founded. I don't think it's a bad bet to make here either. Sciple: I think for me, I own Match Group. I don't own Bumble today.
I would like to see them report a few earnings reports and get settled in the public markets. But I do think Match is the top dog, first-mover, and for that reason, probably the one that I'm most excited to invest in. I think with Bumble though, if you're really excited about the founder, the CEO, and the story, and the culture, I think you can certainly tell a story about how they can execute and close that gap with Match Group on profitability and how they can become more relevant going into the future.
I think the market is picking up for multiple folks to win and I would be excited to continue following this space as it develops. I think it's only going to become more and more important and there's probably going to be other different ways to get your hooks into this business as an investor. As this market develops, we'll be talking about it more on the podcast. But until then, Luis and Mainland, thank you so much for joining me and I hope to have you on again sometime soon.
Sciple: As always, people on the program may own companies discussed on the show and The Motley Fool may have formal recommendations for or against the stocks discussed, so don't buy or sell anything based solely on what you hear.
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