Chinas Gay App Blued Taps Into Pink Economy Ecnscn

1. 2016-06-02 08:57 China Daily Editor: Xu Shanshan. Blued, China's most popular gay social-networking app, said on Wednesday it has completed Series C and C+ rounds of financing,...

Jun 2, 2016 Blued, China's most popular gay social-networking app, said on Wednesday it has completed Series C and C+ rounds of financing, and netted several hundred millions of yuan in those two rounds, without disclosing details. Its valuation has reached more than $300 million, according to the company.

Jun 2, 2016 Blued, China's most popular gay social-networking app, said on Wednesday it has completed Series C and C+ rounds of financing, and netted several hundred millions of yuan in those two rounds, without disclosing details.

Jun 2, 2016 Blued, China's most popular gay social-networking app, said on Wednesday it has completed Series C and C+ rounds of financing, and netted several hundred millions of yuan in those two rounds, without disclosing details. Its valuation has reached more than $300 million, according to the company.

Jun 2, 2016 Gay app Blued taps into pink economy. - Chinadaily.com.cn. Blued, China's most popular gay social-networking app, said on Wednesday it has completed Series C and C+ rounds of financing, and netted several hundred millions of yuan in those two rounds, without disclosing details. USEUROPEAFRICAASIA. HOME. CHINA. WORLD. BUSINESS. LIFESTYLE. CULTURE.

Dec 4, 2014 Out of the closet and onto your phone: the rise of Blued and Chinas gay community. Geng Le is not his real name. But the online persona was an important protection when, 14 years ago, he ...

Jan 8, 2015 BEIJING (Reuters) - Hua Ruobin started using Blued two years ago to meet other gay men in China, setting up weekend dinners or dates in karaoke bars. The gay dating app has been a godsend for Hua ...

That means businesses and the pink yuan must take the lead in a very robust way. Gay socializing app called BlueD one example of the robust consumer power of Chinas LGBT+ community. With 27 million members, BlueD is the most popular app of its kind on earth. The social apps official endorsement wasnt easily acquired.

June 16, 2020 at 9:15 PM 2 min read. (Bloomberg) -- The owner of Blued, Chinas biggest LGBTQ dating app, has filed for a U.S. initial public offering. Beijing-based BlueCity Holdings...

Jul 16, 2020 But it was the launch of Blued in late 2012 three years after Grindrs debut that marked the companys biggest transformation, turning it into a tech pioneer. Today, the app offers both social networking and livestreaming services to gay men inside and outside China.

Jul 5, 2018 The Chinese gay dating app Blued boasts 40 million registered users worldwide while being based in a country where most LGBT men and women still feel locked in the closet, writes Saa...

Oct 26, 2022 Finka used to be considered Blueds major rival in the Chinese market, before its operating company was bought by BlueCity in November 2020 for 240 million yuan ($33.4 million), arguably the largest acquisition in Chinas pink economy. Finka continued to operate as a separate app after the acquisition.

2016-06-02 11:53. Blued, China's most popular gay social-networking app, said on Wednesday it has completed Series C and C+ rounds of financing, and netted several hundred millions of yuan in those two rounds, without disclosing details. Its valuation has reached more than $300 million, according to the company.

Mar 9, 2017 China even boasts the worlds most popular LGBT socializing app, called Blued, whose more than 3 million active daily users surpasses even global gay hookup phenomenon Grindr. Late last...

Jun 17, 2020 HONG KONG -- The operator of China's largest gay dating app, Blued, is planning an initial public offering in the U.S. despite Washington's growing suspicion of Chinese companies...

Jun 2, 2016 Blued, China's most popular gay social-networking app, said on Wednesday it has completed Series C and C+ rounds of financing, and netted several hundred millions of yuan in those two rounds, without disclosing details. Its valuation has reached more than $300 million, according to the company.

Dec 1, 2016 To promote the games, Zhu plans to cooperate with Blued, an international gay hookup app headquartered in Beijing that has more than 27 million users, about 20 percent of them from outside China.

Dec 8, 2014 Blued, a gay hookup smartphone app, recently received a $30 million cash injection, the largest-ever investment in a gay-focused app in China. Similar gay matchmaking apps have...

Jan 15, 2019 (Yicai Global) Jan. 14 -- Blued, China's biggest social app for the gay community, has banned all suspicious accounts, which were actually minors claiming to be adults. Blued is discussing technical solutions with service providers in an effort to link to a third-party identity verification system, operator Beijing Blue City Brothers Cultural ...

Aug 22, 2022 The founder of BlueCity Holdings, the operator of Chinas largest gay dating app Blued, resigned as chairman and CEO of the company on Monday shortly after the company was privatised and ...

Dec 1, 2016 Blued is part of the Pink Economy. Such firms offer LGBT-specific services such as live webcasts. These will have likely earned several hundreds of millions of yuan in revenue by this year-end, said Geng Le, CEO of Blued CEO. "The performance of live webcasts is beyond our imagination.

Jun 2, 2016 Blued, China's most popular gay social-networking app, said on Wednesday it has completed Series C and C+ rounds of financing, and netted several hundred millions of yuan in those two rounds, without disclosing details.