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 ...

As mobile apps continue to dominate our lives, SCRUFF, the two-year-old online social-network for bears, jocks and guys next door, has just stepped up its game with a brand new iteration, SCRUFF ...

Jeff uses the Scruff app, which locates other Scruff users (read: available gay men) in real time, to chat and meet up with guys in his neighborhood, or to just make new friends. “A neighbor (whom I ...

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 ...

Log on to one of the many gay dating apps available for a smartphone and you’ll see an ocean of torsos, biceps, and sometimes other body parts (i.e. maybe a penis). It’s no surprise that these apps ...

The app's parent company is still on the hook for $240,000 in fines for its failure to protect user privacy. Former Reporter/Editor Just two weeks after being fined hundreds of thousands of dollars ...

Gay dating app Scruff has banned images of men in underwear or swimming trunks, after it was suspended from the Google Play app store several times. Scruff said it had changed its profile picture ...

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. It's a high-risk, high-reward activity. Yet, despite the BS, the best gay ...

In the works for six months, the latest version of SCRUFF 4 has over 100 new features including video, and in a first for social apps, a transgender community profile option and search. Among the ...

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 ...