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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March 21, 2019 by Lindsay from United States

I'm updating my original review because the site has changed so much.

Branded Surveys no longer gives a small monetary incentive for disqualifying from a survey. It was a nice gesture, getting a little something for our time and trouble, now it's quite rare. Occasionally you'll be given a few profiling questions that may or may not reward a few cents upon completion but it's not always a sure thing.

They also did away with their referral program which is a huge slap in the face to users who were willing to promote the site. I haven't recommended the site this this change (see how that works? I hope you guys at Branded Surveys are paying attention.).

Their surveys, which previously had high rewards compared to many other sites, now pay quite low. For example, Branded Surveys just gave me $0.60 for a survey I saw on another site for $4.00.

It's ridiculous to cut so many money making opportunities from their users while simultaneously cutting the payouts from surveys.

This site went from being one of the best to just being mediocre.

They pay and are fairly reliable but that's about all I can say. Customer service responses are spotty at best.

March 9, 2019 by Terry from United Kingdom

Have been with site now for about a month and reached the 1000 point stage so decided to claim an evoucher. Anyway they have validation system which forces you to enter info including your phone before claiming. Went on and had everything validated and asked for email back which validates that. Click on button 6 times and no email back. Contacted through customer support and told to change my email address, no reason given at first, when queried this informed that they have a problem with a lot of BT email accounts. I did point out that they had replied to me on the email address they were having problems with. Have emailed back pointing out the following "Seems to me you guys have a security issue with your email system if bt mail is blocking it, have no problems with other companies etc, rather than passing the buck why don't you contact btmail and find out what the issue is with your system and resolve it, that's how a responsible company operates " will wait replay with interest.

Update: took the plunge and followed advice about changing email address. Well what a load of rubbish need to validate new and old address guess what new address worked re confirmation old one didn't. Even though I am contacting them via the email address that supposedly doesn't work,absolute rubbish

Update 2: Don't bother contacting them on their facebook page, first told to contact with email, which I already had, so sent another message and told no one was there?

Update 3: Problems at last sorted out once fixed plenty of surveys on site though you are bombed out of quite a few, will persevere

Update 4: Getting worse even when part completing surveys, more times than not no points awarded

March 5, 2019 by Aria from United States

I was supposed to receive my payment almost 2 days ago yet customer support won't even respond to my emails. The tab next to my payment even days "past due" next to the payout date. I just want to receive my payout.

UPDATE: I've recently tried to cash out twice and both my payout attempts have been rejected. They keep claiming its because I needed to update my profile so I updated it and my payments still won't get processed. I was supposed to get paid March 1st and my payment wouldn't process...then I was supposed to get paid March 6th but my payout was just rejected again, This has never happened before. I CAN'T EVEN RETRIEVE MY MONEY NOW.

March 3, 2019 by Kelli from United States

Payout takes a while but they have a lot of surveys to try and at least give you a few points if you don't qualify.

February 28, 2019 by Catherine from United States

I posted a good review previously but now let me join the chorus of reviewers here who wax nostalgic about MintVine and lament what that site has become since it sold its soul to Branded. It's unconscionable that so many surveys pay less than 25 points (= 25 pennies) even when they take 15 to 25 minutes of your time. For a 3-8 minute survey, I will do it but no longer will I accept such a small reward for a lengthy survey. My monthly earnings with this site have been reduced by 75%.

Branded is also horrendously klutzy and inconsistent. Sometimes you are sent directly to a survey, other times to a screen that says "We are finding you a survey" and then when it finally loads, 90% of the time I get DQ'd -- and then there is another klutzy process before you get a chance to try again. It's a misery.

As for their new rewards system, I find it hard to understand. Once I did get an email telling me I'd been awarded 100 points but I didn't see them added. If I had to activated those points somehow, it wasn't explained.

The upshot is that Branded is the last on my list of survey sites to visit a day. I belong to four others. I would advise anyone and everyone who is still with this company to skip all survey that reward less than 30 points. Otherwise, they will continue to take advantage of us.

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BELOW IS MY GOOD REVIEW AND I RECANT IT!

I've been taking surveys with Branded, and its previous site MintVine, for about 16 months and each month I earn $35-$40. That's not too bad, especially since I will never qualify for surveys on certain topics such as automotive (no car), chain restaurants (don't use them), or parenting (no kids). There are some frustrations, without a doubt. It's awful when you take a long survey, and do it diligently, and then get a message that the survey is "over quota." They need to make an agreement with their clients that any survey taker accepted in to a survey will be able to finish that survey and receive credit.

I have had some very cordial email encounters with Amit, who has usually given me credit for a survey when I've had a problem. But I don't always report problems because, alas, there are so many of them, so many "over quota" problems and issues with surveys that break down after a certain point.

I have no issues whatsoever with payment. I feel that the points are credited in a decent amount of time and the monies paid out fairly quickly. They are far better at approving points than, say, ClearVoice, where the points seem to take forever to clear.