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Dating apps as agents of culture change: How they are going about doing cultural re-engineering

Hamsini Shivakumar, Founder of Leapfrog Strategy Consulting, writes that big-budget brands like Tinder and Bumble have made branded content their format of choice. They are focused on normalising dating, removing the negative stigmas of ‘hook-up' culture and laying the grounds for the longer-term development of dating practices in India