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 13, 2019 by Taneicia from United States

One thing I don’t do is base my choices off of other peoples reviews but when there are ALOT of the same reviews stating The exact same thing, nine times out of 10 it’s true. None of the recent reviews are good for branded surveys but I didn’t care I went ahead and gave it a shot and all the reviews are correct the website sucks. I don’t know if there are glitches causing the issues but I’ve heard from a dear friend that branded surveys was once Mint or something of that nature and it was awesome back then, I wish they would fix the website or whatever they need to do because it’s also a lot of fantastic reviews from last year as well so I hope they fix the issues To gain their great reputation back because there are terrible reviews on five different sites that I’ve seen .

Edit : my issue was that once I created my profile which consisted of me answering questions about myself, occupation, family etc. it just kept taking me back to that same part after I would submit my answers I tried at least three times I thought the questions were great but after I would submit them It just took me back to the page that says start I couldn’t move on from there unfortunately

February 8, 2019 by Derrick from United States

I have never in my life, had a problem with using mintvine or branded at all. I was originally using paypal but switched over to direct deposit with my bank and my payments have always been sent. Customer service is really give or take to be honest. Sometimes they respond and help you the way they should other times not so much. I get disqualified more than I complete surveys and with them not giving out as many points for trying it really sucks. also I wanted to point out that its very frustrating when your doing a survey and your 20 mins into it and then the survey ends and you get nothing for at least trying considering you just spent 20 mins of your time. overall though this site is good and worth your time. values use to be lower and times to complete higher but in the last month or so it seems to have stabilized out. so bottom line is try it and see for yourself, you dont like it god knows there more survey sites out there.. literally .. hundreds of sites.. do your research!

February 8, 2019 by stephen from United Kingdom

Like many others who have left review I am or maybe should say was a long serving member. They have gone from hero to zero and will never acknowledge that they have changed the site to their massive advantage and and against their users. They ignore what people say that the value of surveys has declined. I carried out some research over the past few days. Of 100 surveys offered 39% offered less than 2 points per minute (assuming the survey length was honest which i doubt see below). a further 22% offered between 2 and 3 points per min (assuming the same). Of the remaining surveys I only managed to complete and be rewarded for 7 surveys and of this 39 higher value surveys about 40% lied about the length of the survey. They claim they are not aware of incorrect survey lengths but when you take a survey of say 4 min and the first page tells you the survey is 15 mins not likely that they don't know it. I cannot fully comment about the surveys under 3 points per min as quite honestly i refuse to answer these surveys it only encourages them to lower the points more and more.If nobody answered a low value survey they would be forced to increase the reward (or maybe it would just encourage them to lie more about the survey length)

January 30, 2019 by howard from United States

I have $30 worth of points @ have no way of cashing out no reply to my emails no way of getting help disappointed

January 28, 2019 by Xendria from Canada

I used to have nothing but good things to say about this site a year or so ago, but now I can't find it in myself to give them a compliment on anything.

Everything good about them has worsened, I can't even say they're just like most other survey sites now, because I think they're worse than that.

Surveys mess up constantly for me on there now, and dealing with their new customer service makes me want to rip out my hair, whereas before I'd be willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and had much patience in dealing with them when there was a rare problem.

They also can't handle negative feedback on the support section of their site and are quick to bury them, as well as give the same contrived responses that half the time make me wonder if they even bothered to read anything I, or others, have said. This includes when they respond to people on here.

Surveys are no longer paid well, and badge bonuses might as well not exist, as it's very difficult to complete the amount of surveys per week they want you to do, not to mention worsening it for people who already -earned- their badges was a rather underhanded move.

Such a shame, as they used to be one of the best. I think if they felt they were losing too much money by being so generous with their survey takers, they should of only brought on small changes, not these drastic ones that just make it an awful time all around and no longer worth visiting.

Time to move on to greener pastures.