Awards

It is the beginning of October so that means it's time to start thinking about the Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards. Looking back I see we have been running these awards for 12 years now. All I can say is WOW! 😀🤪😀

The 2019 Single's Choice Award poll has been now setup and we have decided to change a few things around this year. The Single's Choice Award before always asked 2 questions of our visitors. The first was, which Paid dating site or app they recommended as the best service, and the second was, which Free dating service they recommended. This year we have decided to take the free vs paid out of the mix and just ask which dating site or app they recommend. The online dating industry has changed a lot in the last few years. There are a lot less major players in the industry now and as a result they are a lot bigger. Mobile phones with their dating apps have also made online dating completely mainstream for young adults and seniors alike. People are not worried as much about free vs paid anymore, it is still a consideration, but not enough in our opinion to ask separate questions on.

The Single's Choice Award poll allows you to help decide which dating service is considered the best of the year. This is the top award by Dating Sites Reviews (DSR) and is given out on Valentine’s Day in 2019.

What is your favorite service? Let us know by casting your vote in the Single Choice Award:

Here is the summary of the 11th annual Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards. These awards honor the best dating apps and sites of 2017 in 11 different categories. These will be the dating services worth checking out in 2018 for those interesting in online dating.

Our top award is the Single's Choice Award and is decided by this poll that all of our visitors can vote in. This poll ran from October 1^st 2017 until December 31^st 2017. The poll asked 2 questions. The first question asks you to recommend your choice for the top dating service from a selection of the ten leading dating services on the internet. The top three dating services who receives the most votes will be the recipient of a Gold, Silver, and Bronze award. The second question is similar, but it asks you to recommend your selection from 10 of the most popular free dating services. With the free question there is only the gold award for the service with the most votes.

Single's Choice Award

Recipient Match.com

Our Gold Single's Choice Award for 2018 goes to Match.com. This dating service has been around since the late 90's and has remained the top choice for singles in North America and abroad thanks to it's easy of use and large number of members.

For full award information see the article: 2018 Dating Sites Reviews Single's Choice Award

Recipient eHarmony

Our Silver Single's Choice Award of 2018 goes to eHarmony. This matchmaking service is known for its algorithm for matching members together based on not just regular attributes like location and physical appearance but personality.

For full award information see the article: 2018 Dating Sites Reviews Single's Choice Award

Recipient OurTime

The 2018 Bronze Single's Choice Award recipient is OurTime.com. It says something when a niche dating service makes it into our Single's Choice Award. This dating service for senior singles must have struck a chord with it's members because they certainly turned out to vote them as their favorite dating service.

For full award information see the article: 2018 Dating Sites Reviews Single's Choice Award

Recipient Plenty of Fish

The 2018 Single's Choice Award for a Free Service recipient is Plenty of Fish. It is no surprise that POF continues to be the popular choice for singles looking for a free dating service. They continue to innovate the dating space and bring in new features to make it easier to find that special someone.

For full award information see the article: 2018 Dating Sites Reviews Single's Choice Award - Free

Recipient of Gold
Match.com

Recipient of Silver
eHarmony

Recipient of Bronze
OurTime.com

The 2018 Dating Sites Reviews Single's Choice Award poll was launched on October 1st, 2017. It ran for 3 months and then closed for voting on December 31st, 2017. 393 people cast their votes in the poll. The first question of the poll asked:

What paid dating site or app would you recommend for the Single's Choice Award?

Voters could choose 1 dating service from a selection of 10 of the top dating services in 2017 as selected by the Editor's. For this award the top voted dating service for the above question receives the Gold, second place gets Silver, and for third Bronze.

The recipient of the Gold 2018 Single's Choice Award is Match.com. Match received just over 27% of the votes cast in the poll which is 95 votes. This is a strong showing as it is 7% more votes when compared to last year and almost 5% more votes than our Silver recipient this year.

The recipient of the Silver 2018 Single's Choice Award is eHarmony. This popular dating service gathered 75 votes which gave it over 19% of the total votes cast. This is 5% more votes than in the previous year and 6% more votes than the Bronze recipient of this year.

The recipient of the Bronze 2018 Single's Choice Award is OurTime. This niche dating service for singles 50 years and older received 51 votes which is almost 13% of the total votes cast. This is the first time that OurTime has been a Single's Choice Award winner which is to be commended especially for a dating service that doesn't cater to the entire single pool.

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

Recipient
PlentyOfFish.com

The 2018 Dating Sites Reviews Single's Choice Award poll open for voting on October 1, 2017 and was closed for voting on December 31, 2017. In the 3 months that voting took place the poll received a total of 393 votes from visitors to our site.

This award is the result of the votes on the second question from the poll which asks the reader what in their opinion is the best free dating service (includes websites and dating apps). The top 10 free dating services as choosen by our Editorial team are given as options for the visitor to select from. The dating services selected met a number of criteria. This includes having the core features of the service being free (like profiles, searching, and messages), and having enough members and visitors everyday which would give the average user a good chance of finding a partner within a couple of months.

The recipient of the 2018 Single's Choice Award for a Free Dating Site or App is Plenty Of Fish. This is the 9^th straight year in a row that Plenty of Fish has won this award. Plenty of Fish received 109 votes which is almost 28 percent of the total vote. This is down 3 percent compared to last year.

Here are the final results of the poll:

Recipient
Plenty of Fish

POF (Plenty of Fish) is the Editor's Top Pick - Over All Award recipient for 2018. There was a bunch of stand out dating services this year but we felt POF landed on top thanks to a list of improvements we saw in 2017 and the large number of our visitors who spoke up saying that POF was the service which helped them to find their current partner.

POF launched in 2003 and since then they have had over 150 million people register on their service who have had over 1 billion conversations using either the website or dating apps (available for iOS and Android). Being a free dating service helps them succeed since users do not have to worry if the person they are sending a message to can reply or not (on paid services usually only paid members can reply). With the tools POF provides and their ease of use, members find dates so quickly that in less than a month 30% of members have already found their match.

Recipient
Plenty of Fish

Plenty of Fish (POF) is the recipient of the Editor's Top Pick - Free Award for 2018. Just like last year, Plenty of Fish continues to give members a great platform to meet and communicate on. This year the statistics are even more impressive. POF now has more than 150 million registered users of which they add 65,000 new ones every day. On average 4 million users log into and use POF every day (website and app). With all of this activity, POF says, every year 1 million relationships are the result of members meeting on their service.