Scruff has a love/hate relationship with programmatic advertising. When the gay dating app, which now has more than 12 million users, first came on the scene in 2010, its monetization strategy could ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Online dating as a gay man has its share of horror stories. It's also a rite of passage dating back to the Craigslist m4m era.

Scruff founders Eric Silverberg (right) and Johnny Skandros (left) have defended the app’s feature that allows users to filter out entire races in their search for love, lust and companionship, but is ...

Gay dating app Scruff has bought its competitor Jack’d, after the latter was fined for exposing users’ private photos. Earlier this month, Jack’d agreed to pay $240,000 to 7,000 users in New York ...

After years of requiring users to list the color of their skin on their profile to allow for race-based filtering, Scruff is finally making its “ethnicity” field optional. So why the sudden change?

Scruff, one of the most popular gay hookup apps, announced today that it will buy competing app, Jack’d, for an undisclosed amount. Combined, the two apps will have approximately 20 million users.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Perry Street Software, a New York-based gay mobile software developer and the parent company of SCRUFF, has acquired Jack’d, one of the first and most diverse gay, bi, trans ...

Scruff, a gay dating app, is launching a new live quiz show, called Hosting, that’ll live inside the app. Shockingly, and truly I’m shocked, this isn’t the first dating app to try its hand at an ...

We recently published a story on gay apps and rated their services (or lack thereof). Today on Bearotic (yeah, I know), Net Bear posted this nifty piece about the iPhone app Scruff. For those who ...

Apple has clarified that a recent change to its App Store guidelines is only targeting illicit apps that use dating as a cover and won't result in the ban of legitimate apps like Grindr or Scruff. The ...

Mikelle is the former editorial director of digital for PrideMedia, guiding digital editorial and social across Out, The Advocate, Pride.com, Out Traveler, and Plus. After starting as a freelancer for ...