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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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REDEEMING REWARDS

Once you have earned a minimum of 500 points, you will have the option to redeem your points for cash or gift cards. Choose any amount over $5.00. Gift cards are awarded in $5.00 increments. Alternatively, choose PayPal or a bank transfer for payment. Redemptions are processed within 1-2 business days.

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.

How Branded Surveys Works

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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.

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Payment and Rewards

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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.

Payment threshold: Receive a reward with a minimum of 500 points ($5.00) in your account.

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.

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Survey Taking Experience

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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.

Member's Tip! Answer questions as honestly as possible so the data collected is accurate and the surveys you qualify for are relevant to you. This makes it much easier to complete surveys quicker.

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Branded Elite Program

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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.

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Community Features

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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.

Branded Surveys App

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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.

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Is Branded Surveys Legit or Scam?

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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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Branded Surveys Reviews (1513)

5 Star Reviews (710) 46.9
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4 Star Reviews (222) 14.7
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3 Star Reviews (121) 8.0
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2 Star Reviews (108) 7.1
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1 Star Reviews (352) 23.3
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Account Blocked / Beware

January 29, 2020 by John from United States

I just signed up for an account last Friday January 25th. I had several surveys that I completed and was told I wasn't qualified... I contested one of them and they rightfully gave me the points deserved. Today I tried doing more surveys and kept getting, "technical error" I reached out to support and this is the response I received:

Hello,

Thank you for reaching out to Branded Surveys.

At Branded we expect our users to answer survey questions truthfully and to the best of their ability.

At times we will check to ensure the quality of your survey answers. It has been brought to our attention that your responses were rejected.

Unfortunately, this has caused a block on your account and you will no longer be able to participate in surveys.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Thank you,
Hanna

I have been doing surveys for over 15 years for a number of survey companies: Ipsos, mysurvey, yougov, paidviewpoint, oneopinion, etc. providing honest and truthful responses and have never been accused of wrongdoing.

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Branded Surveys responded to this review on January 30, 2020

Hello John,

We like to ensure that we maintain an active and honest panelist base. At times, our partners will reject surveys that were completed due to incomplete responses, or lack of engagement. We do apologize if this caused you any trouble and wish you all the best.
they never pay you

January 26, 2020 by FRANCISCO from United States

I started with them under yahoo.com account (over 3000 points) i tried to redeem and they told me to switch to another email because it was not compatible with yahoo, them did so and move it to aol.com, try to redeem and collected more points again the same story, I switched to gmail, still no payment

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Branded Surveys responded to this review on January 28, 2020

Hello Francisco,

We're sorry that you're experiencing issues with redemption. It does appear that we had sent your payment information to your gmail account. We appreciate your patience!
Points taken

January 17, 2020 by Diana from Canada

Yeah I completed a crap ton of surveys and played games to receive points was at almost 5000 points then 4000 of them taken away I did complete them and Was APPROVED for completing them then bam gone, and the excuse I'll get is oh well the partner survey didnt like the answers so they took the points. That dont matter if are approved then we are entitled to the points . We take the time to honestly answer the surveys so we are entitled to the points.

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Branded Surveys responded to this review on January 17, 2020

Hello Diana,

We are so sorry to hear about this mix up.
We recently discovered that one of our partner’s has been erroneously approving survey completes more than once.

Rest assured, we have corrected your account balance to reflect the actual number of times which you participated in our surveys and offers.
Used to be a good earning site.

January 14, 2020 by Donna from United States

Not anymore. Has really gone down hill in the last few months. Not sure what's happening but it takes a lot longer to hit $10 than it used to. Survey offers are usually around 20-30 cents, underpaid. Really sad to see what used to be a good site turn bad. Seems to be happening a lot lately.

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Branded Surveys responded to this review on January 15, 2020

Hello Donna,

Thank you for the feedback. Please check out our Partner Surveys page for additional reward opportunities! You can also update your profile information, but retaking your bonus profile survey - this ensures that we have as much information about you as possible so we can match you to more surveys!
Not good anymore

December 15, 2019 by Vites from United States

I have been a member of this panel for several years (From when it was MintVine) and it has been through a lot of changes making it harder to earn. The majority of survey estimated time is way off or misleading and upon completing some you are told you're not a match or quota is full.
Now, recently i have seen a lot of my payment request been reject and points been deducted or missing from my account. I thought this was a thing of the past. For those missing points they will say are for surveys that has been rejected and would normally be recorded in my account earnings. Now its not the case anymore, Points are now missing from my account without it been recorded in my account earning stating for which survey and the survey value. I honestly feel that this Panel has now become a waste of time. It was one of my go to Panel now i'm quitting. Points value for survey are now longer attractive and with misleading estimated time. You complete some and get no points at the end or some points will later be rejected or missing.

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Branded Surveys responded to this review on December 16, 2019

Hi Vites,

We appreciate you taking the time to share your experience. It's important to remember that you can report trouble surveys via the "Report Issue" button located on your "My Points" page.
Although your points are approved right away, your survey responses still go through a review process. Having a rejected survey can negatively impact your current point value - though this should absolutely be recorded in your All Earnings page. if you have any additional questions, or need further information regarding your point balance you can reach out to us directly at [email protected] - Thank you!