{"id":9875,"date":"2013-10-13T12:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9875"},"modified":"2013-10-13T04:14:37","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T08:14:37","slug":"the-economics-of-ashley-madison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-economics-of-ashley-madison\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Ashley Madison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/101313_0637_TheEconomic1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"762\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ashley Madison is a &#8220;dating&#8221; service that focuses on facilitating extramarital affairs. According to Lynnley Browning it&#8217;s incredibly successful:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The site made $30 million last year and expects $40 million this year.<\/li>\n<li>There are now 12.7 million members in the United States and 8.7 million overseas.<\/li>\n<li>The fastest growing markets are in Japan and Hong Kong.<\/li>\n<li>It makes its revenues by selling credits that allow male members to use its secure email facilities. People can buy additional services such as a $20 &#8220;Travelling Man&#8221; program for business travelers.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s also insurance in the form of a $249 guarantee that promises a full refund if a member is unable to set up an encounter within three months.<\/li>\n<li>Women can use the site&#8217;s basic features for free.<\/li>\n<li>The city with the most infidelity is, of course, the seat of American politics: Washington D.C. 6.2% of all residents are members of the site almost twice as many as second placed Austin.<\/li>\n<li>Males who work in finance are most likely to use the site. The same is true for females in education.<\/li>\n<li>Membership spikes after days with celebrations of commitment such as Valentine&#8217;s Day and New Year&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<li>There are four times as many 39 year old men as there are 38 year olds. The fear of turning 40 appears to have a weird effect on men.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full article has many more details, talks about other services that users can purchase, why if it ever has an IPO stocks will likely be a bargain, and the (married) founder of the site and where he got his inspiration. Find it <a href=\"http:\/\/mag.newsweek.com\/2013\/10\/11\/wall-street-loves-a-cheater.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/mag.newsweek.com\/2013\/10\/11\/wall-street-loves-a-cheater.html\">Newsweek<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2013\/10\/assorted-links-937.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashley Madison is a &#8220;dating&#8221; service that focuses on facilitating extramarital affairs. According to Lynnley Browning it&#8217;s incredibly successful: The site made $30 million last year and expects $40 million this year. There are now 12.7 million members in the United States and 8.7 million overseas. The fastest growing markets are in Japan and Hong [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/101313_0637_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9875"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9883,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9875\/revisions\/9883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}