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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January 26, 2020 by FRANCISCO from United States

I started with them under yahoo.com account (over 3000 points) i tried to redeem and they told me to switch to another email because it was not compatible with yahoo, them did so and move it to aol.com, try to redeem and collected more points again the same story, I switched to gmail, still no payment

January 23, 2020 by Sean from United States

Don't use this site... It is a complete joke and they take advantage of users. After years of using mint vine and now Branded Surveys, every time I try to make a withdrawal lately it gets cancelled and somehow, a large point survey is suspiciously 'cancelled' even though I've participated and spent my time.

Over the rears I've completed home tests, face to face studies, skype and long term focus groups. Since the rebrand, the points for surveys has drastically gotten worse, with a few cents for 30 minutes work.

I've even contacted directly, companies using their services to enquire if the points they're offering to complete market research for them is fair and legit. For example, they offered 20cents for participation in a 35 minute survey for NYU. I contacted the survey research lead at NYU and they directly sent me $5, saying they "won't use them" going forward as 35 cents was not what they were expecting participant's to be taking at all.

For those of you still members of Branded, as yourself, is spending 15 minutes on a survey for 30 cents worth it? No, you're worth more than that.

Compared to other sites such as opinion world and Paidviewpoint.com, the points awarded using Branded is becoming a joke and completely unfair.

Furthermore, they consistently make you work hard to rectify errors from their system which mean you're not getting points. The fact that the past 2 times I've tried to withdraw money have been cancelled, after years of no issues at all. As soon as I can get access to the money I'm entitled to, in deleting this account. Don't use them at all. Go elsewhere.

Oh and I've found the companies execs on LinkedIn - so if you want to make a direct complaint, I'd suggest going to the top! The customer service is terrible.

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I have to say, my experience of Branded Surveys is consistently getting worse. This is coming from someone who's been a regular survey taker on a number of panels for 16 years - during which time I've taken part in tests/focus groups/month long research amongst other things. I put in the effort and do so with honesty - something lacking here at 'BS'.

I spend far too long getting screened-out compared with other panels I've used in the past. I've looked at the past seven days - and I've been screened out of 211 surveys, of which 38 were over quota meaning I started or even completed a survey but was not given a payout/full payout.

How many surveys was I able to complete...... 38!!!! That is ridiculous, that's a 15% success rate - in other words for every 20 surveys you try to take, only 3 will be successful.

Customer service has been unapologetic and poor, with consistent bugs and errors resulting in not receiving payment for your surveys. Often you respond to an email and get a robotic answer, they don't even take the time to fully read your complaint.

Personally, I think this is a panel that is questionable. The reality is that Branded Surveys gets a payment from their client for every survey taken, they take a cut and pass on part of that payment to the panellist as compensation.

So when you spend hours on surveys and these 'errors' take place, the Market Research client gets their data, Branded Surveys gets their payment, and the panellist gets nothing but the feeling that they've spent time on something for nothing, haven been taken advantage of!

The lack of payout on high-reward surveys that take a long time (20-60mins) is so consistent, it's a joke. The tech team then require you to provide a screenshot to prove you've taken the survey. There have been a number of occasions where I have taken screenshots because I know what their system is like - and even THEN they say 'we have no record of you taking this survey'!

I'm being conservative when I estimate I've lost out on approx. $35-40 worth of points in combination of the larger payout surveys and the multiple small payouts. You're expected to screenshot EVERY survey to PROVE you did indeed take it. THEN, even if you do send the screenshot - you still won't get compensated!! They're having a laugh at our expense while taking their cut!

The points system is simple - 1000 points is $10, which is the minimum required to withdraw. However many of the surveys pay extremely low for the amount of time you're putting in.

I am going to finish out the tax year with Branded - then close my account. I wouldn't recommend them to real survey takers who put in time and effort, like myself. Steer clear, and don't waste your time!

January 19, 2020 by Tonya from United States

Although the minimum payout for this site is only $10.00 it's not worth the time it takes to reach that payout. You "don't qualify" for survey after survey.

January 19, 2020 by phil from United Kingdom

Since the above site changed from mintvine it has gone downhill fast, they used to give 10 points (now 5 for daily poll,started marking you bronze,silver or gold badge.on the dashboard, rejecting surveys saying you are rushing them. If you are on pc when survey comes in 90% of the time you cannot do it. Also when it was mintvine you used to get 30 points fairly regularly if you could not do certain surveys. Not worth the time and effort.

January 17, 2020 by Diana from Canada

Yeah I completed a crap ton of surveys and played games to receive points was at almost 5000 points then 4000 of them taken away I did complete them and Was APPROVED for completing them then bam gone, and the excuse I'll get is oh well the partner survey didnt like the answers so they took the points. That dont matter if are approved then we are entitled to the points . We take the time to honestly answer the surveys so we are entitled to the points.