We are shutting down

A farewell: reflecting on an incredible journey

The project started in March of 2024. Since then it has monitored more than 800 events, in all European countries and in more than 400 cities.


After careful consideration, I have decided to shut down this project. While the growth and engagement over the past year have been incredibly rewarding, in a way that I am more confident than ever that the Tango community needs such a project, it became clear over time that the necessary interest from organizers that would make the project viable, simply wasn't there.


Still, I'm proud of what was achieved, clearly reflected in last year's statistics; especially considering that all of this was accomplished without any backlinks or amplification from event organizers:

  • Unique Visits increased by over 600%, showing strong interest and organic engagement.
  • Google Clicks grew more than 2000%, reflecting meaningful user interaction.
  • Google Impressions rose by over 1000%, extending the reach far beyond expectations.

Tango Events and Memories is high on the Google Results with more than 20 keywords being at the top 5 positions.


The project run surveys and data analytics, identifying interesting trends in the Tango Community. All these have been shared on the project's Facebook page.

We served as a portal for Tango Events in Europe in a categorization per type, location and country, month and even 'early bird' dates, that was embraced by the thousands of monthly visitors, and the hundreds of registered users - sending even up to 500 visitors to the organizers' own websites and facebook pages.

Termination of the Facebook page

  • The Facebook page, which has not been updated for long any way, will move to archive mode by the end of 2025 but probably sooner.

No more surveys and analytics

  • There will be no more surveys, or data and trend analysis.

Event management and organizer services

  • Effective immediately, no new events will be added to the website. The existing events, as well as the site with all its functionality, will still be available until the end of 2025.
  • The organizers will still have the opportunity to modify their events, until the end of 2025. No image replacement will be available.
  • New event submissions will not be accepted, regardless of the communication channel.

Memento ordering

  • No Mementos are available to be ordered, effective immediately. Although the page with the explanation of the mementos will remain to ensure minimum disruption, the order functionality is terminated.

Member services

  • Member services, such as the bucketlist, event checklist, the personal profile and personal invitations will remain available until end of 2025.
  • The service of announcing services from members to other members, such as accomodation and tango clothing is terminated immediately. Although members can still register their services, these will not be offered to other members.
  • Mail notifications about Early bird dates will remain active until the end of 2025.

Personal data collected

The project was designed as a safe and secure space - no data was ever offered for sale, advertising or any other money making activity. The service is designed with top-notch security and there has not been any data breach, compromise, or anything similar. Rest assured, the intention is to keep it like that. Specifically:

  • All personal data collected via any means (event collection, messages received, account registration etc) with the exception of mail messages sent to us, will be deleted on the 31st of December 2025.
  • Mail messages sent to us will be purged by 31st of January 2026, including all traces of email addresses.
  • Logs from third party providers such as AWS Simple Mail Service, will be purged by 31st of March, 2026.

Advertisements and sell

When the project started, I made the decision to not follow the established marketing playbook that I find annoying. No default opt-in, no repeated annoying reminders, no mail harvesting, no newsletters for the sake of "keeping on top of mind". Also, no advertisements as I believe advertisements, especially excessive and unrelated ones, just lower the user experience and that beats the (my) purpose.

Out of respect to the people who trusted me with their data, I have decided that the project, code, website, layout, concept ets is not for sale. The data will be completely wiped out.

The end

On the 31st of December, 2025 the data of the site will be purged, while a farewell page will remain as a testament of what has been achieved.

Thank you for the cooperation, collaboration and support. See you at the next event.

Tango Events and Memories is shutting down. Read more here