Land of the Giants: The Hidden Hand Behind Your Swipes

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4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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This week, we bring you an episode of The Cut and The Verge’s latest season of Land of the Giants: Dating Games. This episode is all about Match Group, the company that went on an acquisition spree and now controls two-thirds of the dating apps market. To hear more stories about how dating apps became a billion-dollar industry and the algorithms that control your love life, subscribe to Land of the Giants wherever you subscribe to podcasts. Hosted by Sangeeta Singh Kurtz (@sangeetaskurtz) and Lakshmi Rengarajan (@Shmi_So_Far) Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:06.0	It's Recode Media, Peter Kafka, and that is me. And today has our semi-annual, more or less, tradition where I treat you to an episode
1:12.9	from our fantastic Land of the Giant series produced by our pals at Vox Media Podcast Network.
1:19.6	This season is called Dating Games.
1:21.4	It's hosted by my colleague Sanjita Singh-Kurtz and Lakshmi Ranja Rajan.
1:25.8	They're diving into the stories of how dating apps became a
1:28.1	billion dollar industry and the algorithms that control your love life. Those damn algorithms.
1:34.1	This week, I want to share an episode. I think you guys will particularly like. It's about
1:37.0	Match Group, the company that built itself up through acquisitions and now controls two-thirds of
1:42.8	the dating app market. So take a listen,
1:45.0	you're going to like it, and if you're not subscribed, go ahead and subscribe. You know how to do
1:48.7	that. See you soon.
1:54.9	Lakshmi, I want to tell you about this guy. A dating app guy? Sort of.
2:01.5	He's been using dating apps for nearly a decade.
2:04.7	But a few years ago, he discovered something about them that made him feel a little cheated.
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