Awards

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Plenty of Fish

The Editor's Top Pick - Free Award recipient for 2016 is Plenty of Fish (POF). Straight from their online press page, POF lists just how popular the dating service is. Worldwide Plenty of Fish has over 100 million registered members since launch and they are adding 55,000 new members every single day. On average 3.6 million people log into POF either via the website or dating apps, and have over 10 million conversations.

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eHarmony

The Editor's Top Pick - Innovative Award winner of 2016 is eHarmony. Late in 2016, eHarmony made a number of bold moves by launching several big new features for their website and dating apps which continue to roll out early in 2017 for some locations. One of the more exciting ones is that eHarmony now shows you your compatibility score with your matches. You can see your top 3 attributes for matching which predicts a long and successful relationship plus, members will also be able to drill down further to see how they match in other dimensions of compatibility (for all 29).

eHarmony also reduced the initial profile questionnaire so that it will take most users only 10 minutes to sign up for a free membership, fill in the profile, and start receiving matches. Previously completing the profile took on average 40 minutes. Members will still be able to fill in the expanded eHarmony profile at a later time to ensure that they will receive the same high quality matches as before.

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MillionaireMatch

The recipient of the 2016 Editor's Top Pick - Wealthy Award is MillionaireMatch. One of the oldest wealthy dating services around MillionaireMatch has been matching wealthy singles and admirers since 2001 and now has almost 3 million active members. You can access MillionaireMatch via their website (at MillionaireMatch.com) and dating apps found on iTunes (iOS) and Google Play (Android).

Members you will find on MillionaireMatch include CEO's, lawyers, and doctors. To become a member it is as easy as using your Facebook account to login (you share only the information you want) or by manually creating a free profile. One of the main safety benefits of MillionaireMatch is the feature they offer members to verify their profile information. Any paid member can do this and can verify their, photo, age, and city location. Millionaire members can also verify their income.

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Tinder

The 2016 Editor's Top Pick - Dating App Award goes to Tinder. 2016 was another big year for Tinder being the most popular dating app on iOS and Android. It's estimated value was pegged at $1.2 billion USD in 2016 and it has now more than 1.5 million paid subscribers (end of Quarter 3 in 2016).

In 2016 Tinder introduced a number of new features for it's members including the paid feature Tinder Boost which allows members to jump to the front of the line and get your profile seen by other members first. Tinder also added dozens of new gender identity options, and Smart Photo which figures out which of your profile photo's people like best. Tinder also partnered with Spotify to allow sharing of your favorite tunes along with a partnership with Giphy which enabled GIF support in all Tinder messages.

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Adult FriendFinder

The recipient of the Editors Top Pick - Sexy Award for 2016 is Adult FriendFinder. Launched in 1996 AFF has become one of the largest adult dating services for members looking to hookup. With over 40 million members on Adult FriendFinder looking for all sorts of activities there is sure to be members local to you that you can meet up with.

What makes Adult FriendFinder a great hookup community is how active it is. Members constantly are posting photos, videos, and communicating to each other via real-time chat and text messages. AFF is free to join and create a profile. Once complete you can search for members and view part of their profile, small versions of the pictures, and watch some user videos. You can also communicate with members on the instant messenger. This allows you to get a taste of what the service is like. If you want to do more like the ability to send messages and read complete profiles, you will need to subscribe to Adult FriendFinder.

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Christian Mingle

The recipient of the Editor's Top Pick - Christian Award for 2016 is Christian Mingle. You can access this dating service via their website and on apps (for your iOS and Android phones). Christian Mingle continues to be a leader in the Christian niche dating space and is one of the most popular online dating services in this category.

From a recent survey it was found Christian Mingle has one of the highest ratio of women for a dating site of just over 58% (see Story). They also continue to partner with church communities to offer virtual communities to match members together. With their online community now with over 15 million like-minded members, if you are looking for someone who's faith is important part of their life, then Christian Mingle can help you create those connections.