Zoosk purchased Woo Media for its properties’ commercial traction and for access to its 10 million active users.
Woo Media was created by Stephen Stokols, an American entrepreneur, technologist and executive in 2007 after a conversation with his sister about the difficulties using an online dating service.
Previously, Stokols served as the Vice President of new revenue opportunities at BT Group where he was responsible for evaluating applications of browser-based voice and video technologies.
The Woo Media network had over 10 million active users with an average of 20 thousand registrants per day at the time of the sale to Zoosk.
WooMe was an Adobe Flash based online dating platform,[15] which enabled users to meet in live interactive video sessions via webcam.
ShufflePeople was a random interactive video introductions site that, like ChatRoulette and Omegle, enabled people from around the world to meet.
[20] Woo Media removed the picture, issued an official apology to Crawford for the oversight, and introduced screening measures.