Finally spring came. A season that promises great deals and business activity. It seems that the spring Sun gives strength not only to the nature but to people and business as well. And very soon we will witness a rapid growth of business activity both online and offline. Actually we can say that March is the first business month, therefore we can congratulate you with the beginning of a new business year. However we cannot start the new year without finishing the previous one. And it is high time to sum up the results of our annual Ecommerce Journal Awards.
Almost two months thousands of Internet users devoted to their favorite services were fighting with each other by voting in our poll. This year there were 8 categories including the following: The best payment system of 2010, The best exchanger of 2010, The best autoexchanger of 2010, The best e-commerce blog of 2010, The best DDoS protection of 2010, The best forex broker of 2010, The best online Poker room of 2010 and The best online Game of 2010.
This time the main rivals of last year competition for title ‘The best payment system’ Perfect Money and Liberty Reserve were left behind by Solid Trust Pay online payment system with 32% preference. The second place was given to Global Digital Pay payment processor (26%). The leaders are followed by Liberty Reserve (16%), AlertPay (15%) and Perfect Money (11%).
This year no one could match Goldexpay in category The best exchanger of 2010. 59% is a brilliant result for the service offering exchange of e-currencies. Its main competitor WM-center gained 27% only, however this result allowed the exchanger to leave far behind Insta-change (10%) and Trainex service (4%). The more pleasant thing is that Goldexpay wins the title of the best exchanger for the second time in row.
The most interesting competition was in category The best autoexchanger of 2010 where the winner of the ECJ Awards 2008, and 2009 Intexchange withstood the pressure of Autoconverter and Onlychange autoexchnagers. However even this time Intexchange has proved that it deserves its name and the title of the best service. The results look as follows: Intexchange (37%), Autoconverter (36%), Onlychange (23%), X changer (3%), E-obmen (1%) and Superchange (0%). As we can see, only 1% detached Autoconverter from the victory. A great pity indeed. However we hope that next year will be more successful and next year award will be assigned to it.
In category The best e-commerce blog of 2010 there was no battle at all. From the very beginning Money-news-online became a leader. By the end of the poll 60% of readers gave their preference to this blog. The other results were as follows: Hyipnews (30%), Hyipblogger (6%) and EcommerceTimes (4%).
In category The best DDoS protection of 2010 there was nothing new this year again. This year Dragonara service again won the title of the best DDoS protecting service. Its colleagues and rivals came to the finish with the following voting rates: Block Dos (25%), Black Lotus (16%), and Prolexic (12%).
One of the surprises for us was situation in category The best forex broker of 2010. A new company InstaForex which has never been listed in our ECJ Awards listing had a great starting! From the very first day and till the last day of voting they were the unquestionable leaders. A great start for them and we hope that next year InstaForex will show even better results. As for the figures, they are as follows: InstaForex (33%), Fxopen (23%), Alpari (18%), FXclub (14%) and FXclub (12%).
The best online Game of 2010 is World of Warcraft. At least 49% of our poll participants think so. 18% of all voters preferred Allods, 17% - Perfect World, and 16% voted for Line Age.
And the last category was The best online Poker room of 2010. Here the struggle was also very intense. PockerStars, Full Tilt Poker and PartyPoker always compete with each other, however the voters had their own criteria and chose the best service basing on their feelings. The table of results looks as follows: PockerStars (26%), Full Tilt Poker (22%), PartyPoker (20%), PKR (13%), Pacific Poker (10%) and Everest poker (9%).
We congratulate the winners of this year! We hope that they will continue showing the same brilliant results and provide excellent services. You did a great job, and we sincerely wish you further success and development. However this does not mean that any of those services is worse than others. The thing is luck and activity of the users. Dear users, please be active! And this will help us to make our services even more perfect, since everybody knows that only competition leads to development of the best services providing best products! Let’s make the e-commerce world better together!