Hey, we both love Negan. Let’s go grab some dinner!
In a unique move, top dating service Match.com just announced that they’ll be hosting online viewing parties of “The Walking Dead” as episodes air on AMC, hopeful that the new initiative will allow fans of the series to come together and, hey, maybe even find their soulmates in fellow fans. Why, you ask? Well, they’ve run some tests and determined that, and this should come as no surprise to anyone reading this right now, “millennials are 270% more likely than those of other generations to be turned on by someone who watches the same shows as they do.”
CEO Mandy Ginsberg noted that we humans are more entertainment-obsessed than ever before, and that could be the key to finding true love here on the internet:
We realized that with singles in America today, one of the things that they connect on the most is the shows they watch and they love, and we wanted to figure out how to replicate what’s happening in the real world on the Match site and on the app.
People didn’t used to talk about series’, but now we all sit down and blow through them pretty quickly, so we think about shows in terms of series’, and no one talked like that five years ago. If we can have people connect over series’, that’s something we’re very excited about. I think it could change the game in terms of starting real conversations.
Match will allow users taking part in the weekly “The Walking Dead” viewing parties to either chat in groups or message one another privately.
Hey, you just never know when, where or how you’ll meet your Maggie/Glenn!
