Pre-Dating Speed Dating Podcast: How Does It Work? Is it Better?
In 2024 & 2025 speed dating is so popular, and people are ditching apps and dating sites for in-person singles events. But is it for you? Speed dating is all about meeting new people efficiently in a relaxed and friendly environment. If you’re single, and open to meeting someone for a relationship, speed dating is […]
NPR Morning Edition: Our quest for romance through dating apps is only making us lonelier, studies find
Original Article: https://www.npr.org/ HEARD ON MORNING EDITION Tired of swiping left and right? And out of patience? You’re not alone. Our quest for romance through dating apps is only making us lonelier. LEILA FADEL, HOST: Tired of swiping left and right on the apps? Are you just over it? You’re not alone. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: That […]
The Seattle Times: Dating IRL – Seattle’s creative, in-person dating events are booming in a post-lockdown world filled with dating app fatigue
(Jennifer Luxton / The Seattle Times) Aug. 30, 2024 By Sarah-Mae McCullough, Seattle Times features producer Seattleite Jamie Matthews went on 32 first dates in 2022. The majority of them 一 80% 一 came from apps like Tinder and Hinge, he said in a TikTok video recapping his dating life, with just 7% resulting from in-person meet-cutes. […]
Pre-Dating DC Speed Dating at Pinstripes in Georgetown on georgetowndc.com
LATEST NEWS: Pre-Dating Speed Dating and Lock & Key Events is hosting a speed dating event at Pinstripes (1064 Wisconsin Ave NW) on Sunday, August 25 from 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm (ages 24-39) and 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm (ages 35-49). https://www.georgetowndc.com/news/speed-dating-event-at-pinstripes LATEST NEWS: Speed Dating Event at Pinstripes GENERAL • AUGUST 19, 2024 Pre-Dating […]
Pre-Dating featured on BBC Business Matters: Why are in-person events like speed dating replacing apps?
Full Episode. Interview Starts at minute 44:51 https://www.bbc.co.uk Host Ed Butler: As we’ve been asking already in the show, is the course of true love running a bit less than smooth for the world’s best known dating app. Advertisement: You went a little wild and took your Tinder date home… to meet your entire family. It […]
Pre-Dating featured on BBC World Business Report: Is Speed Dating the answer to Tinder’s failing?
Full Episode. Interview Starts at minute 22:36 https://www.bbc.co.uk Presented on BBC World Service’ WORLD BUSINESS REPORT. The latest business and finance news from around the world, on the BBC. Hosted by Ed Butler. Tinder Advertisement: You went a little wild and took your Tinder date home… to meet your entire family. It starts with a […]
Dating in Madison can be difficult in the heat, but its not impossible
With temperatures on the rise the amount of things you can do outside lowers. Many people end up just staying inside to try and stay cool, but even with the heat there are still many things you can do outside! Here at pre-dating we provide many events for singles to get out and make connections […]
Pre-Dating Featured in The Keene Sentinel Newspaper: Minutes to Mingle Keene New Hampshire Speed Dating
For some, dating can be stressful and scary. Dating apps can have old profile photos, fake profiles or even married people being untruthful. Published in The Keene Sentinel May 30th 2024 https://www.sentinelsource.com Tina Selig, of Pre-Dating Speed Dating, grew up in Keene and landed in the Boston and New York area running speed dating events […]
Washington Post: A surge of scams, fake AI-generated profiles and harassment making dating apps increasingly unfriendly to users. 4 in 10 users have encountered a scam on a dating app, 2 in 10 have fallen for one, according to Kaspersky
From the Washington Post | By Tatum Hunter March 6, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EST Dating apps have gotten so bad that speed dating is in againDrowning in dating app fatigue, singles are reviving the analog practice of showing up and talking to strangers SAN FRANCISCO — Seven men and six women sit scattered around […]
Pre-Dating featured on CNN
Singles are sick of dating apps. Here’s what they’re doing instead By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNNWed February 14, 2024 www.cnn.com New YorkCNN — Many singles are tired of swiping on dating apps. They’re going old school to find romance. Speed dating, singles mixers and other group dating parties have made a comeback since the Covid-19 pandemic ended as singles […]
Pre-Dating featured in the WALL STREET JOURNAL
Remember Speed Dating? It’s BackDaters with swipe fatigue are signing up for singles’ nights and speed-meeting events ‘It’s like reclaiming agency over your dating life,’ said one speed-dating attendee. ROGER KISBY FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL By Rachel Wolfe Feb. 14, 2023 10:19 am Speed dating, a relic of the “Friends” era, is having a moment. […]
Award-Winning Short Speed Dating Film by Isaac Feder
Speed Dating | A Singleton Struggles To Make A Connection l Award-Winning Comedy Short | Isaac Feder | A winner in the FILMSshort Festival. A little short film featuring a speed-dating newbie as he encounters a series of comically incompatible women before making a connection. What do you think? Is this an accurate depiction of […]
Pre-Dating featured on WBAL News Radio | Single Baltimore Baby Boomers Back On The Dating Trail
With Baby Boomer’s getting divorced at historically high rates, there are more Baby Boomers back out there in the dating market this Valentine’s Day week in the Baltimore-area. “By this age you have an idea and you’ve had a lot of experiences to know what you are looking for and you don’t make any exceptions […]
My match rate went from being picked by 10% of the speed daters to as high as 50%
Quiet frankly, I rarely was picked to match with any of the women I met. I was a loser in Speed Dating. It turns out that not everybody is naturally good at introducing themselves in 6 minutes… An Excerpt From The Art Of Speed Dating, a how to guide to speed dating written by the staff of Pre-Dating […]
Zombie Speed Dating in Seattle by Pre-Dating
In the ‘SPIRT’ of Halloween, Now Even the Walking Dead Get To Find True Love! Seattle, Washington: Can a single zombie find love at a speed dating event? Pre-Dating thinks everyone deserves a warm body to keep them going… and we love to sink our teeth into some juicy fun. “People interested in dragging themselves […]