DRESDEN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- LOVOO, a leading European dating app, today announced the launch of live video in France and Switzerland.

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LOVOO Live enables users to broadcast and view live-streaming video, invite others to join their streams, chat, and earn virtual gifts, creating more authentic interactions and making it even easier to meet new people. The release of live video in France and Switzerland follows the launch of Live in Austria two weeks ago, where an average of 15% of users engaged with video on the first day.

“Early Live data from France and Switzerland is good, with the average user watching more than 15 minutes per day and the average broadcaster streaming for more than 45 minutes a day, levels comparable to what we saw in the early days of video on our MeetMe app,” said Geoff Cook, Chief Executive Officer of The Meet Group.

“What has been surprising is the rapid adoption of gifting on LOVOO,” continued Cook. “On MeetMe, it took 6 months from the launch of gifts to reach 2% of viewers giving gifts. On LOVOO, we achieved that milestone in the first week. Since gifting is the centerpiece of our video monetization engine, we are heartened to see this early data. We believe it is a testament to our ever-improving video platform, which enables us to build a feature once and rapidly deploy it across four different apps of scale. We expect to continue to execute on our plan to roll out LOVOO Live on a country-by-country basis throughout the second half of 2018, with the next major releases planned in Italy, Spain, and Germany.”

Said Florian Braunschweig, co-founder of LOVOO and GM Europe for The Meet Group: “We believe that livestreaming will play an important role in the future of dating. Our users want to show themselves and their world, and livestreaming video is a powerful technology that delivers not only authenticity and connection but also entertainment. Dating, relationships, and love are inherently interesting, and we believe Live will become an important new feature for LOVOO.”

About The Meet Group

The Meet Group (NASDAQ: MEET) is a portfolio of mobile social entertainment apps designed to meet the universal need for human connection. We leverage a powerful live-streaming video platform, empowering our global community to forge meaningful connections. Our primary apps, MeetMe®, LOVOO®, Skout®, and Tagged®, entertain millions of mobile daily active users, generating untold numbers of casual chats, friendships, dates, and marriages. Our apps, available on iPhone, iPad, and Android in multiple languages, combine product innovation with sophisticated data science to both entertain and connect our audience. The Meet Group has a diversified revenue mix consisting of in-app purchases, subscription, and advertising, and we have offices in New Hope, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Dresden, and Berlin. For more information, visit themeetgroup.com, and follow us on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn.

About LOVOO

Founded in 2012, LOVOO is a leading European dating app and the largest German-speaking dating app by downloads. The company is based in Dresden and Berlin, Germany, and is available in 15 languages around the world. LOVOO changes people's lives by changing how they meet through innovative location-based algorithms and app radar features helping people find successful matches. Learn more about LOVOO by visiting LOVOO.com, downloading the app on iPhone or Android, subscribing to the LOVOO blog, or following LOVOO on Twitter and Facebook.

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements in this press release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including whether the early Live data from France and Switzerland will prove indicative of future data, including the average user watching time and the average broadcaster streaming time, the rate of gifting adoption on LOVOO in the future, whether we will continue to improve our video platform as expected, whether we can rapidly deploy features across our four apps as expected, whether we will roll out LOVOO Live on a country-by-country basis throughout the second half of 2018, with the next major releases being in Italy, Spain and Germany, whether livestreaming will play an important role in the future of dating, whether our users will continue to want to show themselves and their world, and whether Live will become an important new feature for LOVOO. All statements other than statements of historical facts contained herein are forward-looking statements. The words “believe,” “may,” “estimate,” “continue,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “should,” “plan,” “could,” “target,” “potential,” “project,” “is likely,” “expect” and similar expressions, as they relate to us, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. We have based these forward-looking statements largely on our current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends that we believe may affect our financial condition, results of operations, business strategy and financial needs. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ from those in the forward-looking statements include the risk that our applications will not function easily or otherwise as anticipated, the risk that we will not launch additional features and upgrades as anticipated, the risk that unanticipated events affect the functionality of our applications with popular mobile operating systems, any changes in such operating systems that degrade our mobile applications’ functionality and other unexpected issues which could adversely affect usage on mobile devices. Further information on our risk factors is contained in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including the Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017 filed with the SEC on March 16, 2018. Any forward-looking statement made by us herein speaks only as of the date on which it is made. Factors or events that could cause our actual results to differ may emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for us to predict all of them. We undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise, except as may be required by law.

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