Awards

Recipient
eHarmony

For the Top Pick - Match System Editor's award, the recipient in 2016 is eHarmony. Since 2008 eHarmony has been our award pick for the top online dating service with the best automated matching algorithm. No other dating company has put the research resources into ensuring their members are matched with a compatible partner. Several years ago it was reported that eHarmony spends over $3 million a year on researching matchmaking, which includes 6 full time PH. D. Researchers (see Story). As you can see eHarmony values quality or quantity when it comes to matches.

Recipient
OurTime

The dating service OurTime is the recipient of the Editor's Top Pick - Senior Award for 2016. OurTime is accessible via their dating app (for Apple and Android) and website at OurTime.com. The service is designed for singles who are 55 or older and are looking for love.

A basic membership is free at OurTime and takes only a few minutes to complete. From there you can either continue on and finish all of the profile, or start searching on the dating service for people that spark your interest. You will be able to view their profile's and pictures but will only have limited communication options unless you upgrade your membership.

October is here and the awards season is approaching fast for us. It is time to release the 2016 Single's Choice Award poll.

This poll decides the Single's Choice Award which is given by Dating Sites Reviews (DSR) to showcase what our visitors feel is the best free and paid dating site and/or app in 2016. This award is given out on Valentines Day and is the grand finale of the Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards. The first question of the poll asks you to give your pick for the best paid dating service. The second question of the poll asks you to pick your top favorite free dating service. A dating site or app is only considered free if a member can create a profile, add photo's, search and/or receive matches, along with communicating with messages at no cost and with no credit card required (and with no time limit). Free dating services may still offer some sort of paid upgrade but the core of the features must remain free and enable members to use the service unhindered for free.

Please go ahead and cast your vote in the Single Choice Award:

Here is the summary of the 9th annual Dating Sites Reviews Choice Awards. These awards honour the best dating services of 2015 (includes websites and apps) in 11 different categories. These will be the sites and apps worth checking out in 2016 if you are thinking of trying online dating.

Our top award is the Single's Choice Award and is decided by a public poll that all visitors can vote in. This poll ran from the beginning of October 2015 until January 2016. The poll asks 2 questions. The first questions asks you to recommend your choice for the top dating service from a selection of the eight 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 eight of the most popular free dating sites. With the free category there is only a gold award.

Single's Choice Award

Recipient Match.com

Our Gold Single's Choice Award for 2015 goes to Match.com. Match continues to win this award showing that their popularity continues to grow even after being in business for 20 years.

For full award information see the article: 2015 Dating Sites Reviews Single's Choice Award

Recipient eHarmony

Our Silver Single's Choice Award of 2015 goes to eHarmony. If you want to fine a long-term relationship and want to see matches based on your personality then this veteran dating service could be the one for you.

For full award information see the article: 2015 Dating Sites Reviews Single's Choice Award

Recipient Christian Mingle

The 2015 Bronze Single's Choice Award recipient is Christin Mingle. Christian Mingle last won this award in 2013. If your faith is important to you then you will want to meet other like minded singles and Christian Mingle is where you will find them.

For full award information see the article: 2015 Dating Sites Reviews Single's Choice Award

Recipient Plenty of Fish

The 2015 Single's Choice Award for a Free Site recipient is POF. It is no surprise that POF won this award again. They continue to be one of the most popular free online dating websites and dating apps (both iOS and Android).

For full award information see the article: 2015 Dating Sites Reviews Single's Choice Award - Free Site

Recipient of Gold
Match.com

Recipient of Silver
eHarmony

Recipient of Bronze
Christian Mingle

The 2015 Dating Sites Reviews Single's Choice Award poll was launched on October 1st, 2015. By the beginning of January, 2016 when we closed the poll it had 459 people cast their votes. For the first question of the poll, it asked our visitors what paid dating site or app would you recommend for the Single's Choice Award. This question had 8 possible answers and included the top dating services of 2015. For this award the top voted service receives Gold, followed by Silver, and for third most voted site, Bronze.

The recipient of the Gold 2015 Single's Choice Award is Match.com. Match.com grew in popularity again this year and received 8% more votes than last year. For 2015 Match received 148 votes which is 32.24% of all votes cast.

The recipient of the Silver 2015 Single's Choice Award is eHarmony. eHarmony received 85 votes which is 18.52% of the total votes cast. This is roughly the same percentage of votes they had last year. This dating service continues to grow and launched several localized versions of their dating service in the past year.

The recipient of the Bronze 2015 Single's Choice Award is Christian Mingle. Christian Mingle received 60 votes which works out to 13.07% of all votes cast and 3% more votes than last year. This dating service continues to attract members thanks in part to a new and approved dating app which launched last year combined with a revamped web site.

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. Christian Mingle
4. Fitness Singles
5. OurTime.com
6. Are You Interested
7. Zoosk
8. Badoo

We would like to thank all our visitors who cast a vote this year for our Single’s Choice Award. The results of this award help guide our users to choose the best dating site or dating app for them. Each of the winning services receives a award badge on their review showcasing their accomplishments. All award winners are also added to the 2015 Award category.

Recipient
PlentyOfFish.com

The 2015 Dating Sites Reviews Single's Choice Award poll was closed for voting at the end of 2015. In the 3 months it was open to voting the poll received 459 votes which is exactly 100 more than last year (which is a little weird). This poll is design to find out what our visitors feel is the best dating service. For this award we are looking at the top free dating site and/or app. The top 8 free dating services where picked by the Editor's to be contenders. In order for these dating services to be selected they needed to meet a number of criteria. This includes having a review on Dating Sites Reviews, having the core features of the service being free (including, profiles, searching, and messages), and being a service which is popular with our visitors.

The recipient of the 2015 Single's Choice Award for a Free Dating Site is Plenty Of Fish (POF). This is the seventh straight year in a row that POF.com has won this award. In 2015 POF received 134 votes which is 29 percent of the total votes cast. POF came in a little stronger this year as it received 4 percent more of the vote compared to last year.

Here are the final results of the poll:

1. Plenty Of Fish (POF)
2. OkCupid
3. Tinder
4. Meetup
5. DateHookUp.com
6. ChristianDatingforFree.com
7. Mingle 2
8. Craigslist

The top 3 dating services received 70 percent of all votes. POF received 4% more votes than OkCupid which came in second place at 24.8 percent. Rounding out the top 3 was Tinder which had 16 percent of the votes which is 75 votes in total.

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