Dating Services

Recipient
eHarmony

The Editor's choice for the Top Pick - Innovative Award for 2011 goes to the matchmaking service eHarmony. Last year eHarmony continued to improve their mobile and tablet applications which resulted in a huge surge in popularity. The eHarmony mobile dating app has now been downloaded more than 1 million times and gets downloaded on average 10 thousand times a day.

eHarmony's mobile dating app has been updated several times throughout 2011. Each update has brought new improvements like the streamlining of the profile creation process. They have reduced the number of profile questions to 100 while ensuring that with less questions the matching process will still produce high quality matches. The interface has also received an update which requires less key presses when answering questions and relies instead more on the touch screen. eHarmony's mobile questionnaire now takes about 10 minutes to complete and it will auto save after each question so if you run out of time you can always come back later to finish your profile.

If you are looking for a highly innovative dating service that takes technology seriously and offers a great user experience not only online but through the iPhone and Android devices, then you should consider checking out eHarmony.

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

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

Recipient
Lavalife

The recipient of the Editor's Top Pick - Canadian Award for 2011 goes to Lavalife. Since their launch in 2001 Lavalife quickly became one of the top picks for online singles in Canada looking for love.

With Lavalife's 3 exciting communities you can join (casual dating, relationships and intimate encounters), it doesn't matter if you are just looking for some fun or a long-term relationship, members can easily distinguish what you want. Another great thing about Lavalife is that they allow free members to reply to paid members messages. Unlike some other dating sites, doing this makes sure that their customers can communicate with all members on the dating site and not just other paid members. Besides email, Lavalife allows members to communicate in a number of different ways including video, by phone (100% anonymous) and instant messages. With all of these communication methods, it allows members to easily get to know their match before making that big step of meeting in person for the first date.

Lavalife, is a popular dating site for Canadians and since it has 3 distinct communities available under one dating site, you should be able to meet someone looking for the same type of relationship without any problems.

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

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

Recipient
ChristianCafe.com

The 2011 Editor's Top Pick - Christian Award goes to ChristianCafe.com. This Christian owned and operated dating service saw continued growth this year and remains our number one recommended dating service for Christian singles. If your faith is important to you and you want your dating service to take into consideration your religion and the part it plays in your life then this site is ideal for you.

ChristianCafe.com had increased media exposure this past year through radio and TV. This helped to increase the popularity of this already active dating site and brought in many new members. The CEO appeared on the Boundless Radio Show and the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) as a dating expert. He also took the time to explain why his dating site for Christian singles is an ideal way to find your soul mate.

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

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

Recipient
eHarmony

This year the Editor's Top Pick - Match System Award once again goes to eHarmony. We have been handing out this award since 2008 and every year eHarmony has been the winner. The fact that eHarmony’s matching system delivers high quality matches to their members which are not just based on what a member wants, but also on what personality traits that scientific research suggests works best in a relationship, is the key to this dating site’s success.

With eHarmony being in business for more than 10 years they have had a chance to really refine their service. In 2011 they continued to do so by adding additional features and information to their existing website and improving on their mobile applications. 2011 was the year mobile dating in general really took off and eHarmony made sure to meet their members demands by releasing high quality and fully functional apps.

eHarmony is one of the most popular matchmaking sites online. If you are looking for a long-term relationship with a matching system backed by relationship studies and if you are more interested in being match on personality and not just someone’s interests then eHarmony is a dating service you should try.

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

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

Recipient
Match.com

The recipient of the Editor's Top Pick - Over All Award for 2011 is Match.com. This dating site year after year continues to be in our opinion one of the best choices for singles who wish to find a date through an online service.

What more could you ask for in a dating site? The service has lots of members, a 6 month guarantee, mobile apps for all types of phones, a robust and easy to use interface and, lots of dating tools to help you to find your match. Match.com is designed for all types of singles. Whether you’re a senior just getting back into dating and discovering you can now do it online, to a busy professional whose time is short and knows what they want in a relationship.

For over 10 years Match.com has been the leader in online dating and in 2011 it was no different. They continued to refine the online dating process by improving their matching algorithms and adding such features for communication as filtering your email by attributes of the senders profile, and VIP mail. We were also introduced to DateSpark which helps members interested in each other, to take that first step and meet in person. DateSpark allows members to suggest on their profile their ideal first date. If another member finds the date interesting they can comment on it which not only helps break the ice but has them already planning the first date.

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: eHarmony

According to OPW Plenty of Fish had a Christmas party in which 40 employees went to a high class resort for 2 days and nights. It's good to see that the company values their employees. One of the many ways in which a company can help drive success is to make sure that their employees are happy and passionate about the company's product.

By the way, the last time we had an employee count at POF was in 2009 and it was only 4. They certainly have grown in a few short years.