00:00Would you trust your friend to pitch your best or worst qualities to a whole group of potential
00:05love interests? These Londoners are giving it a go and hoping it will be love at first slide.
00:10Date My Mate sees friends pitch their single pals to a group of strangers through a carefully
00:16curated PowerPoint presentation. Guests can either attend as a presenter, a single being pitched or
00:22simply a spectator there to witness the night's events unfold. The return to the pub, albeit with
00:27a digital aid to get the conversation going, comes as many young people are reporting experiencing
00:32dating app burnout. In 2025, Tinder reported a seven percent downfall of people paying for their app
00:38compared to the same period in 2024. So we started Date My Mate back in February as a one-off
00:43Valentine's Day dating event. It's a dating event where people pitch their friends to a room full
00:48of singles. You prepare the slides beforehand, we put it up on the big screen and your best friend
00:53comes up and stands here and presents you to a room full of single people and it's just so much
00:57fun.
00:58We've had first dates, second dates, third dates. We had one event where about 15 singles went and
01:03played late night bowling after our event. I think there's huge dating app fatigue now. I've got loads
01:09of single friends and I just hear horror stories of them being ghosted and just not meeting the right
01:14people. So I really think we've hit a bit of a cultural nerve and people just really want to meet
01:19people in person. They want to come to the pub like they used to and be set up by their
01:25friends.
01:25Yeah, I've been out of dating apps for like a year and a half now and I refuse to go
01:30back. So I told
01:31them I want to meet someone in person and if this is the way I have to do it then
01:35that's what I've got
01:36to do. You can't get your real persona over a dating app really. So I think also having your friend
01:44who
01:44can see from an outside perspective give their opinion on you is just like a fun way to have
01:52your personality presented to other people. So would you trust your mates and a conspicuous
01:58PowerPoint presentation to find you the love of your life? There's only one way to find out.
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