Latest / The Cubby and Christine Morning Show / A Big Change Hitting This Dating App
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- 0:00Speaker 1: It's one of six point seven six fifty with Kubby
- 0:02Speaker 1: and Christine in the morning, producer Christian producing in the background.
- 0:05Speaker 1: And if you're doing the dating app thing. There's a
- 0:08Speaker 1: big change happening with Bumble.
- 0:10Speaker 2: It is Bumble is doing away with the swipe and
- 0:16Speaker 2: the rule that only the woman can communicate first, which
- 0:20Speaker 2: is like the whole foundation of Bumble.
- 0:21Speaker 1: That's how it all started. It was different, it was unique,
- 0:24Speaker 1: yep and boom. Now it's like the other ones. I
- 0:27Speaker 1: guess it's.
- 0:27Speaker 2: Going to be by starting in September, Bumble's going to
- 0:31Speaker 2: get a end the swipe. They're going to remove infinite
- 0:34Speaker 2: profile flicking in favor of curated, deliberate and high impact,
- 0:39Speaker 2: high intent matching signals.
- 0:41Speaker 1: Okay, not really sure.
- 0:42Speaker 2: So maybe they're making suggestions for you or something like that.
- 0:45Speaker 2: But now, for the first time in Bumble history, the
- 0:48Speaker 2: guy can make the first move. Wow, that's a big deal.
- 0:52Speaker 1: You met Eric on Bubble?
- 0:53Speaker 2: I certainly did. Fiance I reached out to Eric first.
- 0:57Speaker 2: He responded like that. Also, they are stretching out the
- 1:00Speaker 2: response window from twenty four hours to seventy two hours,
- 1:04Speaker 2: all right, because they realize, you know, sometimes it takes
- 1:06Speaker 2: a minute for people to get back to you. You're
- 1:09Speaker 2: not going to be able to do it on the
- 1:11Speaker 2: desktop web version anymore. That's going away.
- 1:15Speaker 1: Oh they're taking that away.
- 1:16Speaker 2: Kind of didn't even know it existed because I've always
- 1:17Speaker 2: done it on my phone. So yeah, it'll just be
- 1:19Speaker 2: about the phone. And they're going to do real life
- 1:22Speaker 2: gatherings and venue partnerships to fight dating fatigue.
- 1:25Speaker 1: Okay, there we go. Man, my Space is coming back.
- 1:28Speaker 1: Oh yeah, bumble. Changes are happening. Yeah, what's going on
- 1:31Speaker 1: in the world of tech?
- 1:32Speaker 2: Yeah, a lot, a lot of changes. I guess it's
- 1:34Speaker 2: time for a refresh, right, Yeah.
- 1:36Speaker 1: And refresh my memory. What are you working on? You
- 1:39Speaker 1: got the headlines and what else?
- 1:40Speaker 2: I've got the headlines. If somebody around you is in
- 1:42Speaker 2: a bad mood today, especially at work, this could be
- 1:45Speaker 2: the reason.