eHarmony Celebrates Seven Year Anniversary Reaching 17 Million Registered Users

PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- eHarmony, the Internet's #1 trusted relationship service, today announced that more than 17 million people have now registered to use the only website that brings singles together with scientifically-developed principles of compatibility based entirely on the study of marital success. During the last six months alone, eHarmony set new performance records in all key financial metrics and membership levels, growing its subscriber base by more than 30% year-over-year. eHarmony launched its website on August 22, 2000.

"We have enjoyed phenomenal growth over the past year," said Greg Waldorf, CEO of eHarmony. "There are tens of thousands of marriages happening every year because of eHarmony, and with that many success stories spreading the word, it should come as no surprise to anyone that eHarmony added more than one million new registered users per quarter over the last twelve months."

Notable Milestones Over the Past Year -- With the launch of eHarmony Labs (http://www.eharmonylabs.com/), eHarmony became the first online relationship service to launch a commercial research organization dedicated to researching life's most important relationships. In-person research is conducted within a laboratory setting, featuring four observational rooms and a state-of-the-art digital video control room. eHarmony Labs is led by a team of five PhD researchers who will leverage research findings to bring to market new products and services. -- eHarmony also launched a new Canadian website, (http://www.eharmony.ca/), the first country-specific site the company has introduced. During the first six months since launching eHarmony.ca, the number of registered users in Canada has tripled. First Comes the Research, Then Comes 90 Members Marrying Every Day

In 1997, after witnessing first hand the devastation divorce was having on families and society, Dr. Neil Clark Warren, a clinical psychologist and founder of eHarmony, began collaboration with Dr. Galen Buckwalter, who was then a Professor at the University of Southern California. Breaking new ground in the study of interpersonal relationships, Dr. Warren and Dr. Buckwalter set out to identify the pattern of profiles between married couples that were consistently associated with the most successful marriages. This unique National Study of Marriages provided the basis for the now patented eHarmony Compatibility Matching System(TM) which matches compatible singles who have an exceptionally high probability for long term marital success.

Today, the success of eHarmony is nothing short of extraordinary. On an average day more than 90 eHarmony members marry as a result of being matched on the site.* In studies conducted in 2003 and 2005, eHarmony research has shown that singles who were matched by eHarmony and later married are significantly happier than couples who met by other means.

"The foundation of eHarmony's success is the extensive marital research we have conducted and the commitment we have made to this research is second to none," said Waldorf. "eHarmony was the first online relationship service to use a scientific approach to match highly compatible singles and the first to offer a personalized program to help married couples strengthen their relationships. There are more firsts to come and our ongoing commitment to groundbreaking research is leading the way."

  * A Harris Interactive poll indicated that over 33,000 eHarmony members
    married in a twelve month period ending August 31, 2005.

  About eHarmony

Backed by 35 years of clinical and empirical research, eHarmony (http://www.eharmony.com/) is the Internet's #1 trusted relationship service and the only site dedicated to building the relationships of both singles and married couples. eHarmony was founded by one of America's best-known relationship experts, best-selling author and clinical psychologist Dr. Neil Clark Warren.