Is anyone familiar with Arbitron Mobile?

SchminkyCat

It sounds a bit like the Neilson mobile thing, but i've not heard of it before today.

I got a Crowdology survey email which directed me to the Arbitron mobile site and apparently I am eligible to download the app. You get paid £1.50 for signing up and £4 per month after.

But I am a little unsure about how it works and am wondering if I am going to have to pay for connecting to the internet through my mobile? Can I choose when the app connects through my phone to the internet? We have wi-fi at home so it will be free when i'm here, but if I am out, can I stop the app connecting to the net so I don't use up my data allowance?

SchminkyCat

Can anyone help?

white_rosette

Hi I downloaded the Arbitron app a while ago. To be honest I forgot that I had it then I got an email saying that someone had paid £5 into my Pay Pal account. I was a bit dubious that this might be a scam email so I logged into my Pay Pal without going through any links in the email and sure enough I had £5 in there. I then got paid another £5 a few days later.

All in all it looks ok. Basically it just runs in the background monitoring your phone usage just to get a better idea of what people use there phones for. I assume they then use this info to advise phone makers what people want. You don't even know that it is there and once it is installed they don't ask you to do anything.

My only problem is that the payments seem very sporadic. I was paid £5 on the 17th August and then £5 on the 29th August. I haven't been paid anything since this so am trying to find out when and how often I should be paid.

cally6008

Quite a few of us did this through Swagbucks.

I'm one that will not be paid out (by the looks of it).

Seems very hit and miss as to whether they decide to pay out or not

merlin1234

I have had the Arbitron mobile app for about 15 months now and have always been paid.
the way it works is that every 25/30 days payments are manually (not automatically) paid to paypal. so this makes the payment somewhat sporodic and it may be more than a month before you get paid.
Then on the odd occassion it may look like you have been paid twice in the same month as they catch up