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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May 22, 2019 by renee from United States

This survey site is not worth your time. Most surveys disqualify me and the ones that I spend a lot of time trying to complete will disqualify you in the last frame.

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

January 14, 2019 by Beth from United States

This really pains me to write this review. This site used to be wonderful when they were Mintvine. Over the last few months, they have taken away all the great incentives, and have made it impossible to qualify for surveys. Gold members were given extra perks and they haven taken all of those away. I was a loyal member, and used to be excited about taking surveys on this sight. Sadly, no longer. I wish the company would listen to its members and return to the original forum, instead of the revamped one.
**UPDATE**
I decided to give Branded Surveys another try since receiving their response. I still cannot understand how they feel that their revamped program could benefit anyone. As a gold member, their daily polls were worth 10 points, and after a 10 day streak you were awarded 100 points. Now it is 5 points per poll and the poll streak had been taken away. After so many attempts, you were awarded 30 points, called "You're an Ace". They took that away. The so called elite bonus is almost next to impossible to attain. I don't know what has happened, but I used to qualify for quite few surveys, and now I am screened out of 98% of them. LISTEN to your members instead of making excuses. It was always a fun rewarding experience with Mintvine. Now it is frustrating and not worth the effort.

December 12, 2018 by June from United States

Have only been doing surveys with this company a short period of time.never had enough points to cash out. Right now I have 956 points plus 345 points was not approve.It seems like they will not allow me the 345 points so that I can cash out..

November 6, 2018 by peter from United Kingdom

I am an elite member on this and have seen it change in the last month from a decent and honest site to a one where 1 star is too high. They have cut the benefits from being a loyal member and replaced it with nothing but an empty promise that they are revising the programme but they never say when or with what. If they were a reputable company they would do the cuts and replace on one go not just the cuts. If this was not enough they have reduced the rewards on almost every survey to the point where I am being asked to do surveys which dont even pay 1 cent per minute. Today I have noticed that they are trying a new trick maybe because people are getting wiser and not doing the surveys for a tiny rewards. Now they have started to misrepresent the time taken. Today I was invited to complete a survey for 60 points for 1 minute, my first reaction was too good to be true, I was right the very next screen told me it was a 50 minute survey> I can appreciate that survey lengths cannot be completely accurate but 50 times more. The next survey I completed was given no points and the activity was not recorded on the system, I have read the many reports here where others have the same grievances Branded survey never answer many of the questions just the stock reply and empty response that they are revising the reward system. Come on please answer the questions as to why all these detrimental changes have occurred.