Awards

Recipient
Match.com

The Editor's Top Pick - Over All Award for 2012 goes to Match.com. Since we started the DSR awards 6 years ago Match.com has earned the Over All award every year. Match.com’s continued membership growth and great site design has led it year after year to be our top recommendation of a dating site for someone wishing to try out online dating.

The new thing last year for Match.com was their Stir Events. These events are designed to bring singles together who are looking for a relationship in a environment designed to make meeting new people fun and stress free. In 2012 they held over 1,600 events across 80 cities the United States. Over 150,000 singles attended these Match.com Stir Events.

Match.com was also the most searched paid dating site on Google in 2012 according to the Google Zeitgeist report. They clearly outpaced other rivals through word of mouth recommendations and their smart advertising on TV and off.

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

This Year's Runner Up for this award is: OkCupid

It is October and the start of award season for us here at Dating Sites Reviews. To start it off we have released the Single's Choice Award poll for 2012 on October 1st. This signals that our annual Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards is now under way. These awards recognize the best online dating sites of 2012 in a number of categories. In 2 months it will be 2013 (where did 2012 go!) and these awards are a great signal to our visitors in the coming year on what we and our previous visitors recommend. The Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards have been given out annually for the last 6 years. To see our past award winners you can visit our Award Winning Dating category.

The Single Choice Award is our most important award since it determined by you. If you would like to voice your opinion then please take the poll below. The poll has 2 questions. The first asks you to choose your top paid dating site from a list of 8 popular dating sites. The second question of the poll then asks what your favorite free dating site is. Once again you will then choose your answer from a list of the top 8 free dating sites. The dating sites listed in the poll was determined by the Editor’s here at Dating Sites Reviews. If you have not already please cast your vote now:

Here is the summary of the fifth annual Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards. These awards honour the best dating services of 2011 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 2011 until January 2012. The poll asks 2 questions. In the first you must recommend your choice for the top dating site from a selection of the 8 leading dating services on the internet. The second question is similar and allows you to choose your selection from 7 free dating sites. In this category only, the top 3 choices receive either a Gold, Silver, or Bronze award.

Single's Choice Award

	Recipient Match.com Our Gold award goes to Match.com with 33 percent of the vote. For the fifth straight year this dating site has come out on top. For full award information see the article: 2011 Dating Sites Reviews Single's Choice Award
	Recipient eHarmony The Silver Single's Choice Award recipient for 2011 is eHarmony. Their match making system makes this dating site a popular choice. For full award information see the article: 2011 Dating Sites Reviews Single's Choice Award
	Badoo In one year Badoo came out of nowhere to take the Bronze in the Single's Choice Award. This European owned dating service is one to watch. For full award information see the article: 2011 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 11 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 This was an easy selection this year. The Editor's Top Pick Over All award goes to Match.com. This popular dating site was not only our pick but yours as well with the Single's Choice Award. For full award information see the article: 2011 Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards - Over All
	Recipient eHarmony No one can beat eHarmony with their match system and the research they back it up with which is why they have been chosen for the Editor's Top Pick - Match System award. For full award information see the article: 2011 Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards - Match System
	Recipient ChristianCafe.com ChristianCafe.com is the recipient of the Editor's Top Pick - Christian award. This dating site is owned and operated by Christians who take pride in their business. For full award information see the article: 2011 Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards - Christian
	Recipient Lavalife There continues to be only one dating site for Canadians and that is Lavalife. Lavalife again received the Editor's Top Pick - Canadian award. For full award information see the article: 2011 Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards - Canadian
	Recipient eHarmony Our Top Pick for the most innovative dating site this year is eHarmony. Their mobile dating apps are great to use and had many new features in 2011. For full award information see the article: 2011 Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards - Innovative
	Recipient SeniorPeopleMeet.com Our Editor's Top Pick Senior award for 2011 goes to SeniorPeopleMeet.com. This is the third year in a row that this dating site for seniors has received this award. For full award information see the article: 2011 Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards - Senior
	Recipient MillionaireMatch.com The recipient of our Editor's Top Pick - Wealthy award goes to MillionaireMatch.com. More wealthy men continue to use this service than any other of the similar niche dating sites we have reviewed. For full award information see the article: 2011 Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards - Wealthy
	Recipient Passion.com Passion.com is the recipient of the Editor's Top Pick - Sexy award. For men and women who are interested in discreet encounters then this service is for you. For full award information see the article: 2011 Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards - Sexy
	Recipient Match.com UK The Editor's Top Pick for the United Kingdom goes to Match.com. According to a blind survey, Match.com members has had more relationships and marriages in the United Kingdom than any other dating service. For full award information see the article: 2011 Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards - United Kingdom
	Recipient RSVP RSVP, Australia's largest dating service is the recipient of the Editor's Top Pick - Australia award for 2011. For full award information see the article: 2011 Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards - Australian
	Recipient Plenty Of Fish The Editor's Top Pick Free award goes to Plenty Of Fish (POF.com). This dating site has the most members when compared to any other free dating service. For full award information see the article: 2011 Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards - Free

Recipient of Gold
Match.com

Recipient of Silver
eHarmony

Recipient of Bronze
Badoo

We wrapped up the 2011 Dating Sites Reviews Single's Choice Award poll today. It ran from October 1st, 2011 and ended today, January 30, 2012. We almost reached 1000 votes, the most we ever have had. In total we had 987 voters who answered 2 questions. The first being which paid dating site would you recommend for the "2011 Dating Sites Reviews Single's Choice Award". The second question asked which free dating site you would recommend.

The annual Single's Choice Award is our most important award we give out. This is because it is voted on by you. Collectively our visitors spend many more hours online with these dating sites compared to what it is possible for us to do. We do have our own opinions as well which is why we have the Editor's Top Pick awards. These awards are based on our own experiences as well as the comments we receive from visitors throughout the year.

For 2011 we listed the top eight dating sites for you to vote on. The three dating sites which received the most votes will get an award, Gold for first, Silver for second and Bronze for third.

The recipient of the Gold 2011 Single's Choice Award is Match.com. We also gave this dating site the Editor's Top Pick - Overall award as well. Match.com received 331 votes, which is 33.5 percent of all votes. Most other dating sites in the poll only were voted on about 8 percent of the time which makes Match.com almost 5 times more popular than most other sites.

The recipient of the Silver 2011 Single's Choice Award is eHarmony. eHarmony has won this award 4 times in a row. They had 22.5 percent of the vote which works out to 222 votes. eHarmony's match system is as popular as every with users which is also why they were the recipient of the Editor's Top Pick - Match System award as well

The recipient of the Bronze 2011 Single's Choice Award is Badoo. This up an coming social dating site made great strides in popularity in only one year to be able to earn the bronze award. While they only had under half of the votes than what the winner of the silver award received, Badoo did get a respectable 95 votes, which works out to almost 10 percent of all votes.

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. Badoo
4. Zoosk
5. Chemistry
6. Date.com
7. PerfectMatch.com
8. Lavalife

Thanks to everyone who took the time to vote for the 2011 Single's Choice Award. Our visitors in 2012 will appreciate knowing which dating services are the most popular.

Recipient
PlentyOfFish.com

The 2011 Dating Sites Reviews Single's Choice Award poll launched October 1st, 2011. By January we had almost 1000 votes cast beating the previous year by just under 200 votes. For the last 3 years we have asked our visitors to recommend the best free dating site. We consider a free dating site one that allows members to create a profile, search for members and communicate with any member by mail messages. A free dating site in our poll may offer paid features but the basic dating features one would need to actually find and communicate with someone must be available to all members for free.

The 2011 Single's Choice Award for a Free Dating Site goes to Plenty Of Fish (POF). This dating site continues to win this award year after year. They received over 39 percent of the vote in 2011 with 388 votes. This is an increase of 6 percent when compared to 2010.

Here are the final results of the poll:

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

OkCupid came in second this year with almost a quarter of all votes (237), followed by Craigslist with just under 10 percent of the vote. Craigslist fell by one position this year but it was almost two since DateHookup.com had only one vote less than Craigslist at 95 votes. This was all followed closely by BookOfMatches with just over 8 percent of the vote, which is 80 votes. Finally Matchdoctor.com and Mingle 2 brought up the rear with 49 votes and 42 votes respectively (under 5% each).

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

Recipient
PlentyOfFish.com

The dating site Plenty Of Fish or POF.com as they like to be called now is the recipient of the Editor's Top Pick - Free Award. The site has millions of members and has on average 30,000 new people joining every day. It is by far the largest free dating site on the internet and the amount of different types of single people you can meet on this service is huge.

2011 was a big year for POF. One of the main complaints about the service before was the look and feel of the website. Well this changed in 2011 with a completely redesign site. While the colors did not change much the new layout portrays POF as a much more modern and professional service. The instant messaging service was also retooled and reintroduced in 2011 (the chat system was dropped surprisingly in 2009 for some reason). Plenty of Fish also is now available in 4 languages. Besides English, French, Spanish and German versions is offered. Finally the POF dating app received a number of updates throughout the year and is now available not only for the iOS, but Android and Windows 7 now.

The one dating site everyone checks out is POF.com. It offers enough free features that members can browse, connect and communicate with other members without paying a cent (there are additional paid features available). If you are new to the world of online dating, you should definitely check them out.

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

This Year's Runner Up for this award is: OkCupid