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 10, 2017 by Bill from United States

I originally wrote this review in 2015, today, Jan 9. 2017, mintvine put a reply under my review. "We're sorry you had a negative experience with Mintvine, we appreciate your feedback." Yeah, so? Why didnt you respond to my MANY inquiries why I cant access your site any longer? Why did you screw me out of $20+ in rewards? Like an apology almost 18 months later, fixes anything? How lame! I'm sorry you're still in business, in Sandy Eggo, full of illegal aliens and eternal hippies! Why don't you put on some big boy (or girl) pants and tell me why I've been screwed by your lousy outfit?

I joined this site in May or June, They only require $10 to cashout PayPal, which I did on 7/11, they paid it out on 7/14. Good, I thought, easy to get pts and cashout and get paid. Well I tried to cash out again on July 27, it was rejected, I sent inquiry Aug 4, never heard back, now they send me invites with nothing in them! I see this happening to others, I think they went out of business, or they are very selective of whom they allow to continue, they just ignore everyone else. They still owe me almost $20 for surveys I took! As another has stated in their forum, no redeem button comes up so I can cash out, and, as another stated, some of my surveys that I took several months ago, have not been approved or rejected and added to my cash out eligible total. I thought it was a classy outfit, had a nice looking site, nice activities, paid you something even if you didnt complete a survey, but not they seem to have slunk off to never-never land without so much as a heads-up. However, some people recently report very good things about them. I think they are playing some kind of favoritism game and not letting everyone in on it. I'm done with them...if you get something from them, good for you! But I think they are being very dishonest with the rest of us! And yet, they always harp on honesty and integrity. Typical hypocritical behavior!

January 7, 2017 by Samantha from Canada

I've been using this site for quite some time with no issues until now. I do most of my surveys through their offer pages (my survey and peanut labs), however sometimes use survey street. The issue with survey street is the points are pending for 15 days. Which is annoying but not a huge issue. I completed a survey for 90 points. After the 15 days of pending it became approved. I even made a withdraw at that time with no issues with that. I withdrew all my points at the times so I know these points were not pending or rejected as it allowed me to and also said on that specific survey 'approved'. Withdraws take some time so I was completing more survey and earning more points. So 13 days AFTER these points were approved and and 29 days AFTER I completed the survey, the points are now showing rejected and 90 points came off my total. Now like I said I had already had these points approved and redeemed them, so technically these 90 points taken are point I earned from other surveys. I've contacted the site multiple times explaining this issue. The first three responses I received were generic explanations on how 'pending' points work, and were very obvious the first 3 emails I wrote weren't actually read. Now I'm getting rude, patronizing emails. I even sent the screen shot showing the date I completed the survey and the date it became rejected (29 days after completing, much longer then the 15 days they told me pending surveys take to clear), and I have yet to get a response from the last email. I used to love this site, however this issue and the way its being handled is extremely disappointing to say the least.

January 6, 2017 by Amanda from United Kingdom

I must have poor demographics, because I get screened out of practically every survey with Mintvine! I don't know whether others experience this. However, I have been paid a couple of times without fault, so this nudges the score up slightly.

December 31, 2016 by william from United States

i start work on mintvine 20 days ago.i rich 10$ in 3 days than i see my survey was pending.so waiting for approve my survey.after 14 days i saw my all survey is approved.than i cashout my payment in 24th December.i saw my payment will be clear 30th December.now today i receive my payment.

thanks mintvine.i like this

December 29, 2016 by Jacqueline from United States

Mintvine is one of the first survey sites I have joined. So far I have been paid three times. I like that the surveys have good payout. I have had one survey that was 360 points. It does not take long to reach the payout. I get approved for most surveys. The only downside is that sometimes when I finish a survey I don't get any points and that is a little frustrating. Besides that Mintvine is my favorite survey site.