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  • Dating app Bumble takes a ‘Stand for Safety’

    Dating app Bumble takes a ‘Stand for Safety’

    KOLKATA: Women-first dating app Bumble has launched a new initiative, Stand for Safety, as part of its mission to create a safer, kinder and more respectful internet.

    In partnership with Red Dot Foundation's flagship public safety platform Safecity, Bumble is releasing a safety guide to empower women in India to identify, prevent and combat rising digital abuse; a furtherance of its commitment to a zero-tolerance policy for hate, aggression or bullying of any kind.

    “Through Bumble’s Stands for Safety initiative, we hope to equip and empower women in India with crucial information to understand and recognise, prevent and fight digital abuse. We are happy to collaborate with Safecity who has been doing incredible work on creating safer spaces for women worldwide. We will continue to demonstrate our commitment to creating safer, healthy relationships on our platform and in our communities,” Bumble VP global strategy & operations VP Priti Joshi.

     A recent nationwide survey by Bumble found 83 per cent of women surveyed in India experience online harassment of some kind, and one in three women experience it weekly. A further 70 per cent of women believe that cyberbullying increased since lockdown was announced in 2020. Over half (59 per cent) of women surveyed said they feel unsafe and just under half (48 per cent) feel angry.

    Red Dot Foundation founder ElsaMarie D’Silva commented, “Many women are silenced and intimidated in online spaces due to harassment and bullying directed towards them. Today's environment requires everyone to be comfortable and knowledgeable when accessing and utilising digital spaces for various aspects of life. We hope our safety guide will help them navigate these spaces safely and confidently.”

    The Bumble community in India can access the safety guide within the app under its recently launched Safety + wellbeing centre, a resource hub built to help our global community to provide them with a safe and healthy dating experience.

    Bumble is committed to fostering a safe and inclusive space for its community to connect for healthy and equitable relationships. As a geographic-specific feature for Bumble community in India, a woman can choose to use only the first initial of her name to create her Bumble Date profile and can share her full name with connections when she feels ready and comfortable. Bumble has a robust block and report feature within the app, and has made it easy for its community to block and report anyone who makes them uncomfortable on our app, or anyone who's behaviour goes against the community guidelines.

    The social networking app also has a photo verification feature to help prevent catfishing within the app. Another Bumble feature that leverages AI, Private Detector is able to capture, blur and alert users that they've been sent an unsolicited nude image making it the user’s choice to either delete, view or report the image. Bumble recently updated its terms and conditions to explicitly ban any unsolicited and derogatory comments made about someone’s appearance, body shape, size or health, and became one of the first social networking apps to ban body shaming.

    The app uses automated safeguards to detect comments and images that go against its guidelines and terms and conditions, which can then be escalated to a human moderator to review.

  • Bumble launches ‘Find Them On Bumble Bizz’ marketing campaign

    Bumble launches ‘Find Them On Bumble Bizz’ marketing campaign

    MUMBAI: Bumble, the women-first social connection app with over 60 million users worldwide debuted ‘Find Them On Bumble Bizz’, a fully-integrated, multi-market campaign celebrating 25 remarkable Indian women with inspiring stories of personal and professional success. This is the second in the brand’s #FindThemOnBumble series, following the incredible success of a New York City launch in fall 2018. The campaign format is localised by market and is expected to be developed for additional markets in the Americas, Europe, and Asia before the end of the year.

    The campaign features Bumble Global Advisor and investor, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, along with 25 inspiring women from Mumbai, Delhi, and Bangalore, including Akanksha Hazari, Alicia Souza, Ambika Anand, Anjula Acharia, Anusha Dandekar, Devita Saraf, Dr. Kiran Lohia, Dr. Karishma Vijan, Falguni Peacock, Hanna Stromgren Khan, Imaan Javan, Mitali Wadhwa & Sharnamli Mehra Adhar, Namrata Purohit, Pooja Dhingra, Pernia Qureshi, Shilo Shiv Suleman and Tanvie Hans, to name a few.

    Highlighted by an extensive outdoor, bus shelter, corporate park, press and print campaign, ‘Find Them On Bumble Bizz’ arrives after Bumble spent months connecting with real users in India to learn their personal stories across love, friendship, business and living an empowered life. What resulted is a collection of portraits and images that will be featured on dozens of outdoor placements across neighbourhoods in cultural and commercial hubs.

    The goal of the campaign is to not only underline success stories, but also generate awareness about the Bumble Bizz community where ‘making the first move’ could potentially introduce a user to a mentor, a new client or a job opportunity. In keeping with this, each woman in the campaign represents a distinct, yet relatable voice and aspiration that modern Indian professionals are seeking as they look to expand their experience and networks.

    "It has truly been an exciting six months since our launch in India. Every new user and first move made reiterates our belief that the modern Indian woman is online for myriad of reasons and wants an experience built with women in mind,” said Bumble founder and CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd. “Our goal at Bumble is to create an inclusive and empowering experience for people to connect, and now that we're expanding globally, we're seeing our mission resonates across many cultures. Find Them on Bumble Bizz brings to life the result of these efforts. Each of these dynamic women have continually led by example, proudly claimed their place in the spotlight, while helping set the stage for future generations of women.”

    Priyanka Chopra Jonas shares her excitement, “Intelligent, inspiring, passionate, hardworking, ambitious… Indian women are all this and more and I am so proud to be part of the ‘Find Them on Bumble Bizz’ campaign that puts a spotlight on some amazing women and celebrates their individuality and achievements. Our goal at Bumble has always been to constantly encourage women to make the first move, be it for business, friends or love. The immense number of these varied connections that have been made on Bumble in the short time since launch in India, is a sign that women across the country have truly embraced this simple, yet powerful idea.”

    Coinciding with the launch of the campaign is the news of Bumble’s recent positive growth numbers in India. In only six months, women have made the first move on Bumble nearly three million times. Moreover, over a third of Bumble users in India are women and 60 percent of those women are active users of Bumble for more than just dating.