The Dating List · for business
The Dating List is a curated guide to kosher-friendly date spots that people open when they are deciding where to go this week; this handbook is the reference for businesses in it — what the guide holds, where you can appear, what each position costs, and what we report back.
The guide covers New York and New Jersey. Every figure on this page is read from the live directory rather than typed by hand, and refreshes hourly.
506
published listings in the guide
Four surfaces carry every listing: the home hero, the ranked category list, the Discover row and the deals row. Those four names are used throughout this handbook, and they are the four things a partner can buy.
506 published listings across 99 towns in New York and New Jersey, reviewed one at a time.
Every spot in the guide is read and approved by a person before it goes live. We would rather keep a short list that is right than a long one that is not, so the directory grows slowly, one trusted place at a time, and nothing is scraped or auto-generated into it.
We start with kosher-friendly places, because that is who this was built for — a specific community, planning real evenings, in the neighborhoods they actually date in. Listings are organized by category and by town, so a dater sees what is near them rather than what happens to be popular somewhere else.
Paid placements are labelled Featured or Sponsored beside the name, everywhere they appear. We do not blur the line between editorial and advertising: the guide is worth something to a partner only because daters believe what is in it, and that is the one thing we will not spend.
Published listings only. Applications in review are not counted.
Four positions in the guide are for sale. Each is shot from the live app with the exact real estate ringed, so you are looking at the thing itself rather than a description of it.
Always labelled
Every paid position carries a visible Featured or Sponsored label beside your name, in all four places below.
$299/mo
$199/mo
$149/mo
$49/mo
Most positions exist a fixed number of times. This is how many are running in the app today, and how many are not.
Membership and placements on one sheet. A membership is what your listing can do; a placement is where it appears. A placement sits on top of any membership, including the free one.
Scroll the sheet sideways to read the rate column.
| Line | What it covers | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Membership | ||
| Starter | Get listed and reach daters actively planning dates.Verified listing on The Dating List · Basic profile (hours, links, photos) · Appears in search & category browsing | Free |
| Growth | Rich profile plus the full analytics you need to grow.Everything in Starter · Rich profile: gallery, menu & booking links · Full analytics dashboard · Monthly performance report | $49/mo |
| Elite | Priority support and included marketing placement credits.Everything in Growth · Included placement credits each month · Priority listing support · Early access to new placements | $149/mo |
| Placements | ||
| Homepage Hero | The rotating spotlight at the top of the app's home screen — the most visible spot on the platform.One rate across the guide · 5 positions | $299/mo |
| Discover Featured | Top placement in the 'Featured this week' row on the home screen.One rate across the guide · 8 positions | $149/mo |
| Category Top Spot | Rank #1 in a category (e.g. Restaurants) — the first listing daters see when browsing that type.Priced per category · 2 positions | $199/mo |
| Deal Banner | Promote a special offer as a disclosed deal banner on your listing and in the deals row.One rate across the guide · no fixed limit | $49/mo |
Everything here is month to month; there is no contract, and a membership or placement simply runs to the end of its paid period if you stop it. Prices are starting rates and may be refined at launch. Nothing is charged until we turn billing on, and we will tell you clearly before that happens.
Applications are open, and a person reads every one. Apply to be listed — it takes a couple of minutes and costs nothing.
Every partner gets a dashboard. This is the whole vocabulary it uses — what each number means, and what it does not. The web and iPhone breakdown is shown for every metric, so you always know which platform is driving a result.
Profile viewsEvery time a dater opens your listing.
Unique visitorsDistinct daters reached, not just raw views.
Web vs iPhone splitHow many came from the web app and how many from iOS.
The taps that signal intent — the ones that turn a listing into a booking, a visit, or a plan.
Website clicksTaps through to your site.
Booking clicksReservations started from your listing.
Menu clicksDaters checking what you offer.
DirectionsRequests for how to get to you.
Phone clicksCalls placed straight from the app.
Add to dateYou made it onto someone's actual plan.
SavesDaters bookmarking you for later.
List addsAdded to a dater's shortlist of options.
When you run a placement, it is measured beside your organic numbers rather than in a separate report.
Placement impressionsHow many times your featured spot was shown.
Placement clicksTaps on your featured placement.
Trends over timeEvery metric above, charted daily and weekly.
Over time
What we do not promise
Two halves of the same job. Yours takes a few minutes; ours is the part that keeps the guide worth being in.
Tell us about your spot: the name, the category, the areas you serve, your hours, and the links daters need. It takes a couple of minutes, there is no cost to apply and no contract to sign, and no credit card is involved. Restaurants, bars, activities and experiences are all welcome, and a single venue or a whole group of locations can be run from one partner account.
Once you are live you keep the listing current — hours and availability, photos and gallery, category and tags, website, booking and menu links, description and highlights, contact and location details. Change any of it as often as you like. When you want more reach, add a placement; when you do not, stop it at the end of the month.
We read the application. Our editorial team checks the details, tidies the copy so the listing reads like the rest of the guide, and places you in the right categories and the regions you serve — human review, no auto-generated filler. When you are published you get a partner login, and daters find you in search, in category browsing and on the map.
After that we quick-approve every edit you make, usually the same business day; that light review is exactly why daters trust what they find here. We track and report the numbers above, and we label every paid position Featured or Sponsored, wherever it appears.
New York and New Jersey, growing week by week and one trusted place at a time. If daters go on dates near you, you should be findable here.
Listing, membership and placement terms are set out in full on the terms page.
There is no partner mailbox yet. The application form is the way in — anything you write on it reaches a person, and you can ask a question there without committing to anything.