Dating Services

Recipient Adult FriendFinder

Adult Friend Finder is the recipient of the Editors Top Pick - Hookup award. The grand daddy of adult dating sites, this service got its start back in the late 1990s. Since then it has grown to have more than 67 million members join in the United States alone and over 100 million worldwide in the last 25 years. With these type of membership numbers your sure to find members living near you who are interested in hooking up and having an intimate encounter.

The new year typically brings new dating trends, and according to Match, Zoomancing, icing out, and coupling season will be the breakout stars, at least in the UK.

Match Dating’s Expert Matchmaker Hayley Quinn has predicted that these trends will take off in the new year, after closely watching the pandemic alter dating habits at an unprecedented level.

“Zoomancing,” or virtual dating, isn’t going away anytime soon, she told the U.K.’s Mirror. In fact, Match reported that 18 percent of its users continue to date virtually, even when they could have met in person. This is in large part due to Covid infection surges throughout the last two years and the emergence of new variants that have continued to cause more concern, even as more people get vaccinated. Lockdowns might not be required anymore, but singles remain cautious with people they are just getting to know. Plus, dating virtually offers people a chance to get to know each other before meeting in real life.

Recipient eHarmony

The 2022 Top Pick - Match System award winner is eHarmony. For those who wish to swipe through endless profiles looking at just the photos need not continue reading as this dating service is all about matching. Your matches are decided by a complex matching algorithm which uses the answers from the Compatibility Quiz you take when you create your eHarmony Profile and are compared with the Compatibility Quiz results with other members on eHarmony. This Compatibility Score defines your mutual compatibility and is based on 32 personality traits. The higher the score the better the long term relationship potential.

Dating app Match has partnered with Candace Bushnell, the international best-selling author who inspired the Sex and the City series, to help its members find love during dating’s high season.

According to Tech Crunch, beginning on “Dating Sunday” January 2nd, the highest-trafficked day for dating apps, and through the following week, Candace is overseeing matches for the “Expert Picks” feature. Expert Picks allows users to take a quiz to receive hand-selected matches from Match’s team of experts, (including from Bushnell for the busiest week of the year).

"As the creator of Sex and the City, I know a catch when I see one," said Bushnell in a statement. "I can't wait to play matchmaker for Match members to help them get out on great dates and find the love they deserve in 2022."

Recipient OurTime

OurTime is the 2022 recipient of the Editor's Top Pick - Senior Award. This dating service for singles 50 and older from People Media (and owned by Match Group) remains one of the most popular in the niche. With millions of members and millions of installs of the OurTime Android and iOS app, this dating service is the ideal choice for older singles in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

Exploring your options and being “consciously single” top the list of dating attitudes going into 2022, according to a new study by dating app Bumble.

The company conducted a survey of its members to find out where they stand on dating compared to before the pandemic began, and to identify new trends and practices as we head into the high season for dating app users. The first Sunday after New Year’s has typically been the busiest day for dating apps, and Bumble expects this year to be no different. Rival dating app Tinder also expects Sunday January 2nd to be the busiest day for online dating in 2022, specifically between the hours of 7pm and 10pm.

Yahoo! News noted the highest volume of messages sent over dating apps in the US are typically exchanged from the first Sunday in January and throughout the month, tapering off before Valentine’s Day.