Last Thursday, the winners of the first ever European Dating Awards were announced at a one-day dating industry event in Amsterdam.
Following GDI’s inaugural European conference, the European Dating Awards brought delegates from around the world together to celebrate excellence and expertise in all areas of the dating industry.
This year there were 10 different award categories, including Online Dating Brand of the Year, Dating App of the Year, Dating Expert of the Year, Best New Dating App and Best Niche Dating Site, as well as Matchmaking Agency of the Year.
Picking up the biggest awards of the night were Adopte Un Mec, who secured Online Dating Brand of the Year, and French dating app Happn, who won Dating App of the Year.
Amsterdam-based exclusive dating platform The Inner Circle was also one of the big winners of the evening, picking up the award for Best Niche Dating Site.
The company’s CEO & co-founder, David Vermeulen, was also congratulated on his individual success, being named Dating Entrepreneur of the Year.
Speaking about the awards, Vermeulen said: “We are thrilled to have won, not one, but two awards at last week’s ceremony.
“We were blown away when we got nominated, so to win in such a competitive category is really special.”
Speaking about the event, The Dating Awards founder Charly Lester said: “This year we had entrants from over 15 different European countries, including the Ukraine, Sweden, Belgium, Lithuania, France and the Netherlands.
“It’s really exciting to see recognition of the Dating Awards spreading around the world, and the Awards going to really deserving world-class companies. Bring on New York and the US Dating Awards!”
You can check out a full list of all the winners, highly commended and finalists below.
Earlier this week, we shared a roundup of some of the best news, announcements and insights to come from the GDI conference, which you can read here.
You can also see all the pictures from the dating conference on our Facebook page.
Check out all the European Dating Awards winners and finalists below:
Online Dating Brand of the Year 2016
Adopte Un Mec (Winner)
The Inner Circle (Highly Commended)
EliteSingles
Twoo
Zoosk
Dating App of the Year
Happn (Winner)
Adopte Un Mec
The Inner Circle
Twoo
Zoosk
Dating Entrepreneur of the Year 2016
David Vermeulen (Winner)
Saskia Nelson (Highly Commended)
Claes Settergren
Sarah Ryan
Tim Taylor
Matchmaking Agency of the Year 2016
The Vida Consultancy (Winner)
B-Loved
Diolli
Match Made Abroad
Simantov
Best New Dating App 2016
Mint (Highly Commended)
Whispar (Highly Commended)
Ciao Date
Did I See You
JigTalk
Best Niche Dating Site 2016 Winner:
The Inner Circle (Winner)
ActivityDate
Christian Connection
EliteSingles
Expatica Dating
Innovation within the Dating Industry 2016
Free Dating Platform (Winner)
Zoosk (Highly Commended)
Hey Saturday
ioSquare
The Inner Circle
Scamalytics Safer Dating Award 2016
ScamSurvivors (Winner)
EliteSingles (Highly Commended)
ActivityDate
ioSquare
Zoosk
Best Dating-Related Marketing Campaign 2016
Hey Saturday (Winner)
Christian Connection (Highly Commended)
Adopte Un Mec
Bristlr
Meetic
Best Customer Service 2016
Christian Connection (Winner)
Bristlr
EliteSingles
Simantov
Zoosk