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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September 10, 2014 by Yusef from United States

Surveys: Once you've filled out your profiles, there are two primary sources of surveys. Big ones, which are worth 100 points or more and are infrequent (they compensate you with 5 points if you do not qualify), and the funnels.

The funnel system, your primary source of points, is an automated portal that finds outsourced surveys for you to complete. Unlike big surveys, not qualifying for a funnel survey will not compensate you with anything; however, all completed surveys award points associated with that specific funnel (ex. 70-point funnel awards 70 points per successful completion). You can take as many funnel surveys as you like, and each completion awards points.

Big surveys aren't too rare; I've gotten one or two a day, and I have qualified for and completed several in the past week. If you want to qualify more, do not rely on email. Check the site regularly. By the time you get notifying email, the surveys will have been on the dashboard for at least an hour.

Successfully completing any survey shows the points on your dashboard, and points are categorized either as 'Approved,' 'Pending,' or 'Rejected.' All successfully completed surveys will remain in pending for two weeks, which gives the survey companies time to validate the data. This also means that from the time you register, you will likely have a two week buffer before your first payout. From then on, provided you remain active, you can cash out at least once a week, if you complete at least two funnel surveys a day and your daily polls.

A new poll appears everyday. Completing this poll awards 5-10 points. Each poll refreshes after 24 hours. I estimate the poll refreshes at 7 AM PST/10 AM EST. You do not get points for filling out older polls, only new ones.

There's also an offer section, with both free and paid offers that award points for completion. Both sections are lacking, but the site owner is working on weeding out bad offers, especially those that require installing software. Maybe this section will be noteworthy in the future.

100 points equals $1. When you first join, you get 200 points for completing your main profile after registration. There are several other profiles that altogether award 150 points, bringing your start-up to 350.

Cash out is at 1000 points. You can choose Paypal, Amazon, or Dwolla. They warn you that failure to use a correct email and/or verified Paypal account will cause you to lose your points when you redeem. It is crucial that you make sure your Paypal information is accurate and properly linked with the email you used for Mintvine. I suspect this is where the main issue people not getting their Paypal cashouts comes from.

I would recommend Dwolla for this site. The complications with Paypal don't happen with Dwolla. Mintvine seems so keen on pushing Dwolla that they offer a bonus 50 points for making it your chosen payment method (pending until your first Dwolla payout).

Support and Feedback: It's clear they not only want to streamline the occasional hiccups on their site, but are constantly looking to improve the site in general. Several times, I completed a survey but did not get credited. A simple report to customer support usually rectified the issue in 24 hours.

There's a feedback area with suggestions from other panel members. Many of these are taken to heart. Some are put under review, others are in planning, and others have become part of the site. Really good ideas merit points from the staff. These guys are serious about improving everything.

Following up, Dwolla is the way to go. Every 1000 approved points automatically enters your Dwolla account over 1-2 business days. It takes 1-2 more to wire that money into your bank account if you wish. On both points, it's faster than Paypal.

August 21, 2014 by James from United States

I am on disabilty and not employed. The initial profile questions do not have an option for this. I checked available options closely for "Not Employed" on which type of job I have and as far as I could tell (it was a long list) there was no "I do not work" choice available. Upon seeing this I immediately terminated my account. Plenty of other survey sites out there that have it together. I know have the unemployed option. 2/5 stars because at least the sign up bonus was decent.

August 17, 2014 by Bruce from United States

8/15/2014 I eventually got enough points for ten dollar cash out after a couple months. The cash out was made to my PayPal account within two days. But the only reward option currently is pay pal. You get five cents credit when you are screened out or complete a poll (two to three times a week) initially once you had taken the background surveys you usually only got one survey you qualify for in a month and one or two poll questions a week. Now you get about one survey a week. They have also set up a "funnel" with partners for more survey offers. The downside is they don't tell you how many points these are worth. Perhaps even more significant is that it appears, unlike their own surveys, that you don't get a nickel when screened out of these. I sent a query to customer service three days ago but have not gotten a reply back. Customer service is below average. They notify you by email when a new survey comes in. It is okay if you are patient.

August 4, 2014 by mike from United States

Mintvine started out good,but now you are lucky to get passed the "Yikes the survey has been paused."I try to qualify for a survey..If I am lucky I will get 1 every 2 months amid the 20 to 30 I try to qualify for..of which I receive 5 points.. .

July 28, 2014 by Chris from United States

I haven't done many surveys on this site. Maybe a couple when I remember to log in to check. I do the daily poll when I think about it. I have cashed out once for $10 (1000 points). You get 5 points even if you don't qualify for the surveys. I got my reward within 24 hours. A+ as far as that goes.