Here is the summary of the sixth annual Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards. These awards honour the best dating services of 2012 in eleven different categories.

The top award is the Single's Choice Award and is decided by visitors to this site by a poll which ran from October 2012 until January 2013. The poll asks 2 questions. In the first you must recommend your choice for the top dating site from a selection of the eight leading dating services on the internet. The second question is similar and allows you to choose your selection from eight free dating sites. In this category only, the top three choices receive either a Gold, Silver, or Bronze award.

Single's Choice Award

	Recipient Match.com The Gold Single's Choice Award recipient for 2012 is Match.com. This is the sixth year in a row this dating site has gotten first with just over 30 percent of the vote. For full award information see the article:2012 Dating Sites Reviews Single's Choice Award
	Recipient eHarmony Our Silver award goes to eHarmony in 2012. This matchmaking service is a popular online destination for singles interested in long-term relationships. For full award information see the article:2012 Dating Sites Reviews Single's Choice Award
	Zoosk Zoosk received the Bronze Single's Choice Award this year. Zoosk has won this award once before back in 2010. For full award information see the article:2012 Dating Sites Reviews Single's Choice Award

Our next set of awards is the Editor's Top Picks. This category contains an overall best dating site award along with ten other awards for the different niche dating categories. At DatingSitesReviews.com we took a long and hard look at each online dating site we have reviewed before deciding which site is most deserving for an award in a category. Most aspects of the dating site which affects a members experience is taken into account by us when determining the winner.

Editor's Top Picks Awards

	Recipient Match.com The Editor's Top Pick Over All award goes to Match.com in 2012. This dating site also won the gold in the Single's Choice Award which was voted on by you. Ever since the Awards started in 2007 Match.com has been the winner. For full award information see the article:2012 Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards - Over All
	Recipient OurTime.com OurTime.com is the winner of the Editor's Top Pick Senior award for 2012. This is the first time Our Time has been the recipient of one of the DSR Awards. This dating site has clearly made huge gains in popularity in the last year. For full award information see the article:2012 Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards - Senior
	Recipient eHarmony Our Editor's Top Pick - Match System award once again goes to eHarmony for their ability to created meaningful long-term relationships. Their matching algorithm is still at the top in our opinion. For full award information see the article:2012 Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards - Match System
	Recipient ChristianMingle.com The Editor's Top Pick - Christian award goes to a dating site that has over 10,000,000 members now, ChristianMingle.com. This service is now the largest dating site designed for Christian singles. For full award information see the article:2012 Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards - Christian
	Recipient Seeking Arrangement Seeking Arrangement is the recipient of our Editor's Top Pick - Wealthy award for 2012. Their well-developed site has many wealthy people looking for fun single sugar babies. The Seeking Arrangement service has been discussed on Dr. Phil, CNN and 20/20. For full award information see the article:2012 Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards - Wealthy
	Recipient Cupid.com The Editor's Top Pick for a dating site in the United Kingdom goes to Cupid.com. This service has won a few awards this year based on how popular they have become in Europe. For full award information see the article:2012 Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards - United Kingdom
	Recipient How About We A very interesting dating site is the winner of the Editor's Top Pick - Innovative award for 2012. How About We is the recipient of this award for the unique way they spark chemistry between members, by suggesting first date ideas. For full award information see the article:2012 Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards - Innovative
	Recipient Lavalife The 2012 Editor's Top Pick - Canadian award goes to Lavalife. This Canadian owned and operated dating service is still number one when it comes to the great white north. For full award information see the article:2012 Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards - Canadian
	Recipient Passion.com Passion.com is the recipient of the Editor's Top Pick - Sexy award for 2012. This is a dating site for single men and women who are interested more in hooking up than finding the love of your life. For full award information see the article:2012 Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards - Sexy
	Recipient RSVP Our DSR Editor's Top Pick - Australia award goes to Australia's most popular dating site. RSVP continues to offer singles down under the best chance to meet the one. For full award information see the article:2012 Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards - Australian
	Recipient OkCupid The Editor's Top Pick - Free award goes to OkCupid in 2012. This popular free service is well known for matching singles. Their personal matching tests are a great way for members who know what they want, to find their match. For full award information see the article:2012 Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards - Free

Recipient of Gold Match.com

Recipient of Silver eHarmony

Recipient of Bronze Zoosk

The 2012 Dating Sites Reviews Single's Choice Award poll was closed on January 1st, 2012. It ran for 3 months and received just over 650 votes. The first question of this poll asked which paid dating site would you recommend for our Single’s Choice Award. This post takes a look at the results. In our opinion this award is our most important award and this is why it is the last one we give out. This award is voted on by our visitors which collectively spend much more time on dating sites and run into many more situations than we do. We deal with online dating sites everyday here at DSR but our visitors experiences make them the true experts.

For 2012 we listed the top online dating sites for you to vote on. There was eight in the list in which three will receive an award, Gold for first, Silver for second and Bronze for the third most votes.

The recipient of the Gold 2012 Single's Choice Award is Match.com. They received 30.5 percent of the vote which works out to 199 votes. 5 of the dating sites received under 10 percent of the vote which shows Match.com has a huge lead in popularity. Match.com also received our Editor's Top Pick - Overall award earlier this year.

The recipient of the Silver 2012 Single's Choice Award is eHarmony. This matchmaking site received 23 percent of the vote which is a half percent more than last year. eHarmony also received an award for Editor's Top Pick - Match System which is no surprise. This is eHarmony’s 5th year in a row winning this award.

The recipient of the Bronze 2012 Single's Choice Award is Zoosk. Zoosk has been around since 2007 and has won this award once before in 2010. This year Zoosk received 78 votes which is 12 percent of the total vote.

Here are this year's standings for the Single's Choice award for all dating sites in the poll.

1. Match.com
2. eHarmony
3. Zoosk
4. Chemistry
5. Lavalife
6. Badoo
7. PerfectMatch.com
8. Date.com

We here at Dating Sites Reviews (DSR) would like to thank everyone who voted for the 2012 Single's Choice Award. The results of the poll help our visitors in 2013 to figure out which service is best for them. It also helps us tailor the needs of our users and better report on the sites and services that interest them.

Recipient PlentyOfFish.com

The 2012 Dating Sites Reviews Single's Choice Award poll launched in the afternoon of October 1st, 2012. In 2 months we had over 300 votes and by the new year when the poll closed January 1st, 2013 we had 652 votes cast. This poll on the best free dating site is important as it is voted on by you, our visitors. The is because our visitors are also the members that make up these dating sites and you and your experiences are ultimately what makes a dating site successful.

For this survey we included 8 of the top free dating sites. A dating site is considered free when a member can create a profile, search for matches, and communicate with all members via mail for no cost and with no credit card required. A free dating can offer an upgraded membership that can include other perks but it must keep the core dating site experience free.

The 2012 Single's Choice Award for a Free Dating Site goes to Plenty Of Fish (POF). This is the fourth straight year that POF has won this award. This year they received 30 percent of the vote which is 197 of the votes. POF seems to have experience a bit of a drop in popularity since last year when they had 39 percent of the vote.

Here are the final results of the poll:

1. Plenty Of Fish (POF)
2. OkCupid
3. DateHookUp.com
4. Meetup
5. Craigslist
6. BookOfMatches
7. Mingle 2
8. Matchdoctor.com

OkCupid came in second place again this year. This was the closest race we ever had for the top spot. OkCupid had almost 27 percent of the vote which is just 3 percent off of POF. As a comparison the difference in 2011 between these two dating sites was 15 percent of the vote. Third place went to DateHookup which was just 3.5 percent off of second place, again very close. In 2011 DateHookup ranked fourth and was over 14 percent off of second place. All of the other dating sites in the poll scored under 10 percent of the vote. There is quite a large difference this year between the top 3 dating sites and the rest.

Read our review of PlentyOfFish.com for more information about this online dating service or visit PlentyofFish directly.

Recipient OkCupid

The recipient of the Editor's 2012 Top Pick - Free Award goes to OkCupid. This service has always been geared towards singles finding long-term relationships. This is in part due to the fact that it has always promoted it’s matching system, the mathematicians behind it and their member tests. The tests are created by members to help in the match process and can be about almost anything.

While this service is not the biggest free dating site, its members argue that it produces the best matches. The reason for this is the match questions and member tests. Most questions have 4 parts:

• The question
• The answer (multiple choice)
• The question’s importance to you
• An explanation of what the question means

No question is required for OkCupid to produce matches but the more you answer truthfully the greater chance you will meet someone special by searching for members with a higher average match score. Questions can be marked private and you can change answers when needed. When viewing someone’s profile you can also compare your answers with their public answers. Profiles also let you know roughly how often the person replies to a message. This is useful to let you know what chance you have of receiving a reply back to a message you send.

OkCupid qualifies as a free dating site but it does have a paid upgrade option. The free membership allows you to create a profile, search and communicate with members. The monthly paid upgrade gives you additional search abilities, more privacy options and marks your profile as an A-List user. The paid upgrade also removes all advertisements and allows you access to rating pages and to see who likes you.

Read our review of OkCupid for more information about this online dating service or visit OkCupid directly.

This Year's Runner Up for this award is: Plenty of fish

Recipient RSVP

The recipient of the 2012 Editor's Top Pick - Australian Award goes to RSVP. RSVP.com.au is Australia’s most visited online dating site. They have more than 1,200 new singles joining everyday through their website and via the mobile phone dating applications.

Mobile dating is now a major part of RSVP. Not only do they have a mobile web version of their dating site but they offer a dating app on both the iPhone and Android smartphones. With the dating app you can search for singles using a wide range of options, view and update your profile and send and receive emails and kisses. You can also see who has viewed your profile and who has read your email. Purchasing of stamps and managing your RSViP subscription is also possible along with contacting customer support.

RSVP is for singles living in Australia only. It is free to join as a member and reply to messages but you must purchase stamps to send messages via chat or email. Using stamps allows you to pay as you go. With 1 stamp you have 30 days of unlimited contact with that person, and that person with you.

Read our review of RSVP for more information about this dating service or visit RSVP directly.

This Year's Runner Up for this award is: Match.com

Recipient Passion.com

The Editor's Top Pick - Sexy Award goes to Passion.com. This site is part of the FriendFinder Network and has 10’s of millions of active members from around the globe. Passion.com has the most members in the United States, followed by the United Kingdom and then Canada.

This dating site has become much more like a social network in the last year. Profiles now have statuses and you can write testimonials about other members. You can even create your own friend mini network. One of the more popular features is blogging. You can create your own homepage and then write posts about anything that interests you. There are currently over 500,000 blogs with almost 19 million posts. Members can view your blog posts, pictures and also write comments.

Passion.com is an ideal website for people who are interested in an intimate encounter or hookup. There are many ways to connect with members via chatting, talking on the phone, webcams, or participating in interest groups. This service is free to join and reply to messages but costs a monthly fee to send members messages.

Read our review of Passion.com for more information about this dating service or visit Passion.com directly.

There was no runner up in 2012 for this award.