Branded Surveys Reviews and Features

Branded Surveys

343 4th Ave, Suite 201, San Diego, CA   92101 US
Tel:    Contact: https://surveys.gobranded.com/page/contact
Operated by: Branded Research Inc.

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KEY FEATURES:

> How Branded Surveys works
> Earning a payout
> How much points are worth
> Branded Leaderboard
> Is Branded Surveys Legit?

In November 2017, MintVine rebranded itself as Branded Surveys. The company has been running online surveys since 2012.

Branded Surveys is an online paid surveys site that offers users the opportunity to answer online surveys in exchange for rewards including cash and gift cards.

Over 13 million people in the USA, Canada and UK are members of the site and over $62 million has been awarded in payouts.

Take Surveys, Earn Rewards

Branded Surveys provides its members the opportunity to participate in online surveys on its Go Branded website, in a wide variety of different topics in exchange for rewards. Formerly known as MintVine, in 2017, the panel completely redesigned their website and took on the new name, 'Branded Surveys'. Branded offers its members tons of different rewards options and issues gift cards within 48 hours of transactions being processed.

New Member Bonus

New members of Branded Surveys can get a $1.00 (100 point) joining bonus by simply creating an account and taking the profile survey. After completing the survey, 100 points will be instantly credited to your account. That's a whopping 20% of the points needed for your first cash out!

Registration is quick – use your social account or email to sign up. No promo code is required to take advantage of the bonus.

Earn a Payout in as Little as One Week!

Payouts on Branded Surveys range in value for surveys and can be as high as 300 points. If you are not the best fit for a survey, you will still be rewarded with points for answering even a couple of questions - compensating you for your time and inching you forward to your first payout, be it a cash payment, gift card or other reward.

How to Redeem Points

When you complete a survey, you will be rewarded with points and your survey answers will be sent directly to Branded Survey’s market research clients. Once you have earned a minimum of 500 approved points ($5.00 USD), a redemption button will become active in the "My Points" section of your account, allowing you to cash out your earnings and redeem your points.

Rewards

When you're ready to request a cash out from your Branded Surveys account, click the redemption button and choose from over 300 different rewards!

• PayPal cash payments
• Bank transfer - USA only
• Amazon gift cards
• Pre-paid virtual credit cards
• Gift cards including: eBay, Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Chipotle, Airbnb, and more!

You can get paid directly to your bank account, allowing you to get your hard earned cash even faster! Upon approval of your withdrawal (1-2 business days), a payout will post to your bank account within 24-48 hours (USA residents only). This withdrawal method was formally known as Branded Pay.

Redemptions take approximately 1-2 business days to process, and all rewards are digital. Gift cards will be issued as e-gift cards, and cash payments will be sent electronically. A valid phone number may be required to verify your identity to cash out your rewards.

Promo Codes

Promo codes on Branded are available for users to input into their member accounts, and will credit accounts with free points. These promo codes are available via special contests and promotions, though they aren't available often.

Survey Lengths

The average survey on the platform takes 11 minutes to complete, but the estimated completion time will always be listed on survey invitations (which are e-mailed, or can also be found listed in your account). Not only can you take interesting surveys, but daily poll opportunities and online focus groups are also offered.

Many surveys, as well as the platform itself, is posted on the gobranded domain name. Go Branded is the same as Branded Surveys - it's simply what the panel uses in their url.

Daily Polls

Log into your account daily to receive 5 points for taking the quick poll available on your Branded Surveys Dashboard. You may complete one poll every 24 hours.

Earn Extra Points

Local Deals are provided by businesses and offer additional opportunities to earn points with Branded Surveys. These opportunities are also listed in your Branded Surveys dashboard. The more points you earn, the more qualified you will be for additional opportunities.

How Much Points are Worth

Branded Surveys uses a very simple points conversion system. 500 points = $5 USD, so 100 points = $1. Therefore, each individual point is worth 1 cent, or $0.01.

If you are located in Canada or the UK, you will receive your rewards in your local currency, converted from USD. For instance, a $10 USD payment issued to a Canadian would be equal to approximately $12.50 CAD. $10 USD issued to a UK resident would equal approximately £8.00.

Branded Elite

Branded Elite is Branded Surveys’ rewards program. There are three levels of membership depending on your monthly survey activity. The badge levels are Bronze, Silver and Gold. Each badge level grants members the opportunity to earn weekly bonus points.

As you take surveys throughout the month, you can advance through Bronze, Silver and Gold badge levels. You must meet the minimum survey requirements each month to keep your badge through the next month.

• Complete 2 surveys per calendar month for Bronze
• Complete 10 surveys per calendar month for Silver
• Complete 25 surveys per calendar month for Gold

Earn Weekly Rewards

As a Branded Elite badge member, you can earn a weekly bonus when you complete 12, 20 or 30 surveys per week (Monday-Sunday). Your bonus is a percentage of your total approved survey points for the week.

• When you complete 12 surveys per week, you can earn a 5% bonus as a Bronze member, a 10% bonus as a Silver member and a 15% bonus as a Gold member.

• When you complete 20 surveys per week, you can earn a 12% bonus as a Silver member and a 17% bonus as a Gold member.

• When you complete 30 surveys per week, you can earn a 14% bonus as a Silver member and a 19% bonus as a Gold member.

Re-qualify to Keep Your Badge Status

To maintain your badge color, members are encouraged to keep participating. Note that badges are subject to change on the first of each month if there was minimal participation for the duration of the month.

Branded Leaderboard

Increase your daily payout by getting on the Leaderboard. The Leaderboard tracks the Daily Top 50, Weekly Top 50 and Monthly Top 20 performers and rewards members for their survey completions.

• Daily Top 50 leaders = 50 points
• Weekly Top 50 leaders = 200 points
• Monthly Top 20 leaders = 300 points

Remain Active to Win Daily, Weekly & Monthly Prizes

Remember that for every survey you complete, you will get submitted into a daily, weekly and monthly random prize drawing. Win up to 50 extra points in a daily drawing, 500 points in the weekly drawing and 1000 points for the monthly drawing. The more you participate, the greater number of entries you will receive for the drawings.

Generous Referral Program

Log in to your Branded Surveys account to retrieve your unique referral link which you can share with friends and extended family members to earn extra points. Earn up to 500 bonus points (worth $5!) for each friend referred, based on your current badge status and the badge your friend earns. You can earn points twice for the same referral! First, when they earn a silver badge, and again if they achieve a gold badge.

Benefit Your Friends

Your friends also benefit by using your referral link! Upon signing up, they have the chance to earn up to 500 bonus points. They'll receive a 200 point bonus if they reach Silver badge level, and 300 points if they become a Gold badge holder.

Alternatively, Branded also offers an affiliate program for website owners and influencers who are able to drive a large number of sign ups to their site.

Take Surveys from Your Phone

Branded Surveys offers a mobile app that is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, giving both iPhone and Android users the opportunity to take surveys from their phone.

The app functions almost identically to the Branded Surveys website, making it intuitive and easy to use. Receive survey notifications directly onto your phone via push notifications, instead of having to sort through email. When you receive a push notification from the app, simply click the survey alert and you will automatically be brought to the survey start page.

Use the Branded Surveys app just as you would the website - take surveys, check your account balance, and redeem your rewards whenever ready.

Is Branded Surveys Legit?

Branded Surveys is a completely legitimate paid survey site and is not a scam. Although users of the site may have different experiences interacting with the site and taking surveys, the operating company is a credible market research firm that has issued over $60 million dollars in rewards to its members - confirming that Branded Surveys is legit.

You can learn more and find out what Branded Surveys users think of the platform in the reviews section below.

Eligibility: USA, UK, Canada residents 16 years of age and older.

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February 4, 2020 by serge from Canada

Because of their privacy change you can no longer have a VOIP cell phone or landline therefore I lost all the money I was saving for an upcoming trip. I do not know which cell company doesn't have Voip or who does not have a cell but DO NOT BOTHER!!!

January 31, 2020 by Tanya from Canada

I went to redeem my points, and was taken to a form where I needed to verify my email address, mailing address and phone number. My phone number was refused by the system, with the explanation that my phone number needs to be a proper cell phone number - not a land line or a VOIP. This makes no sense at all - I've received payment through PayPal and eGift cards using Tango without ever needing to provide a "proper" cell phone number. However, I've tried two proper cell phone numbers and still have this response. I emailed customer service and was told that I would need to provide a copy of my cell phone bill. This is completely unnecessary and with cell phone accounts being hacked, there definitely should be an appreciation why I am refusing to provide this information. Considering that you're being paid pennies for most reviews while multinationals use your information to make billions, they surely should make an effort to ensure their participants are paid.

January 29, 2020 by Maxine from United States

On January 16th of this year I contacted the illustrious and infamous Customer Service at Branded Surveys. Lo and behold they did respond rather quickly to my situation. I've been taking their TV Surveys for nearly two years on a regularly consistent basis. Last week I took the entire TV survey to completion and then there was a problem at the end. It did not take me back to My Members page. Of course I took screenshots and provided a link. Instead, they only gave me a partial amount of only 10 points!!! Normally for these TV Surveys I get 35 points! Of course I contacted customer service to try and get back the rest of my deserved 25 points and here was their lame reply:
That is the general protocol to report surveys in case of issues, and we appreciate that.

But, our records show otherwise and hence the credit was partial.

Thank You,
Shilpa M

Last week on January 22nd I was having difficulty taking the Daily Poll which I've rarely, if at all, had any trouble with. Naturally, I contacted Customer Service once again to inform them of this problem. Shilpa M. stated he would look into it. Well…he came back with a response it was working fine on their end (of course it is…how convenient!). As it turned out he never gave me the five points for at least reaching out to them in a timely manner. Had this been MintVine or the early days of Branded Surveys (when MintVine was probably still around with their rebranding) they would NOT have hesitated to give me the extra 25 points from the TV Survey and the 5 points from the difficulty I was having with the Daily Poll. As matter of fact MintVine would have compensated me with some additional courtesy points.

Now Branded Surveys won't even give you any frigging points even if you contact them in a timely manner. Yes, I have noticed their automatic robo-response emails saying to please contact us. Don't fall for their B.S. line because you'll likely get very little to nothing. Last year starting in September I began seriously burning out doing their surveys after three years because I rarely qualify for their surveys, the ones I do make you go through the whole process and then they tell you you're not qualified, you don't receive any DQ points here or there. There's not any incentive to actually keep you even if you’re a Branded Elite Gold Member. You have to work extra hard and it just not worth it. These last few months Branded Surveys has truly gone downhill. I do feel a sense of déjà vu from another survey company called Survey Junkie I was with about a year ago. The way Branded Surveys has become was exactly like Survey Junkie, a complete rip-off!!! Could Branded Surveys soon become Survey Junkie?

January 29, 2020 by John from United States

I just signed up for an account last Friday January 25th. I had several surveys that I completed and was told I wasn't qualified... I contested one of them and they rightfully gave me the points deserved. Today I tried doing more surveys and kept getting, "technical error" I reached out to support and this is the response I received:

Hello,

Thank you for reaching out to Branded Surveys.

At Branded we expect our users to answer survey questions truthfully and to the best of their ability.

At times we will check to ensure the quality of your survey answers. It has been brought to our attention that your responses were rejected.

Unfortunately, this has caused a block on your account and you will no longer be able to participate in surveys.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Thank you,
Hanna

I have been doing surveys for over 15 years for a number of survey companies: Ipsos, mysurvey, yougov, paidviewpoint, oneopinion, etc. providing honest and truthful responses and have never been accused of wrongdoing.

January 29, 2020 by Gianna from United States

It went from one of the best survey sites to one of the worst when they changed it to Branded. Not worth the effort.