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.

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 a wide variety of rewards:

• PayPal cash payments
• Bank transfer - USA only
• Amazon gift cards
• Pre-paid virtual credit cards
• Other 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.

Referral Program

Log in to your account to copy your unique referral link which you can then share with friends and extended family members to increase your account balance. Receive 50 points as a gold or silver badge holder whenever your friends and family reach the silver badge status. Branded also offers an affiliate program for website owners and influencers who are able to drive a large number of sign ups to the 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 $34 million dollars in rewards to its 13 million 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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July 12, 2023 by Joyce from United States

Again, after filling out open ended questions and completing 10 minute surveys, I get the 'error missing session' message.. So I report it and get a 'rejected' response right away from customer support. I stopped wasting time explaining to them. I have been with them for several years. Customer service has slid completely down hill the past few months.

July 9, 2023 by Matthew from United States

Update: Finally had enough wasted time. I'm quitting Branded Surveys.

OK, I haven't quit Branded Surveys - yet. But man! The amount of wasted time filling out the same questions a million times, even carefully providing a lot of very useful information only to be told after several minutes "Nope, never mind, you get nothingnothingnothing" is just wrong.

Yes, I have cashed out a few times, for about $5 each time, and that process is quick and easy. That's a good thing.

But I get the feeling this must be a site that makes money on my surveys by sort of brokering out... that is to say, the URL of the site that I go to for each survey keeps changing, sometimes several times for just one survey, so I suspect Branded Surveys is taking some of the money that would otherwise go to the survey taker when third parties are actually conducting the survey. I don't know. And is that even relevant? Well, it is when I have to re-enter the same basic data points 2, 3, 4 or more times before I ever get to a survey.

And it feels abusive when I take a lot of time to enter data, explain in detail some opinion, give a lot of information that is certainly valuable to the organization conducting the survey, and then after 20 minutes or more, after providing honest data on my part, they go "buzz off, you don't get anything."

Seems very frustrating at times, like most of the time I get an email notice, even if I click within a few seconds of the email arriving, it says "Full already." Lots of very low paying survey opportunities, but you can skip those. It is also annoying to have to enter the same dozen or so data every single time, and sometimes I have to enter that same dozen data two, three, four times all during one survey! Ugh!

However, the payout via PayPal works very well

April 5, 2023 by Lily from United States

When it works it's great, but it doesn't always work as it should. First, surveys load slower than I've seen elsewhere. You choose a survey then prepare to play a few hands of solitaire while a page tells you it's taking you to a survey, then another page does that, then another... while you watch the endless spinning spokes. More often than not you will be told the survey is full or you didn't qualify (though you were presented with the survey because it matches your profile). If you are lucky enough to be accepted into a survey about 50% of the time you will complete the survey in earnest and at the end be told you didn't qualify, the survey was full, or just receive a time out message. This is why I have learned you must take screenshots during the course of the survey to prove you've completed it. Then you have to take the time to contact customer service where you might or might not receive a response and may or may not be awarded the points for your time. I have not encountered such a high rated of this happening on any other survey site and it does make me wonder, because while we the survey takers receive pennies for our time I assume the surveys are lucrative for the company and if they don't pay out of lot of these 'pennies' then it's better for their bottom line.

Updated on 4-3-23
I've been a member for some time. Up until a month or two ago many of the surveys offered often paid somewhere between 100 and 200 points, each point = 1 cent. Estimated completion times would be between 10 and 20 minutes, in reality usually longer. I had enough surveys offered that I would average about $15 - $20 per month on this site. But, the past month or so I have not seen a survey over about 60 points, and those are rare, most averaging in the 30 to 40 point range with estimated completion times around 17 to 20 minutes. Hardly worth the time anymore.

March 14, 2023 by Katie from United States

I did many, many surveys over several days--every one that I was invited to do. In about half of them, I only answered a handful of questions before I was disqualified. But I completed several very long surveys and spent a good amount of time to carefully do them. When I racked up 500 points, I finally learned what my time is worth: $5. It was very interesting and a little fun to give my feedback, but some of the longer more in-depth surveys were like work. So it was a little disheartening to only earn $5. My time is worth more than 75 cents an hour! I'd rather play video games.

August 14, 2022 by Jeanette from United States

not working that well can't get my rewards on google pay