Making cash from online survey sites - new MSE guide

KxMx

I've given up with NewVistaLive, relying on their own surveys takes ages to reach a reward, and their third party partner has gone from the excellent Dynata to the dire Sampilicious

Still getting on well with Y Live, latest £50 payout in October (50 points) and currently have 19 points. 

Bazzalona13295

KxMx said:

I've given up with NewVistaLive, relying on their own surveys takes ages to reach a reward, and their third party partner has gone from the excellent Dynata to the dire Sampilicious

Still getting on well with Y Live, latest £50 payout in October (50 points) and currently have 19 points. 

They're like buses, Y live surveys. I was on 48/49 points for what seemed an eternity (probably 3 weeks) but after redeeming like you I'm on around 20pts only a couple of weeks later.

calleyw

Not sure why say curious cat is agency and you don't get any money. I just cashed out £25 to paypal a few days

Slinky

Andrew30000 said:

Andrew30000 said:

Thanks for the info. Here my 2pennies

Ipsos - not sure why this is described as a must, very long surveys for very little rewards, poor design and lagging. Not worth it.

YouGov - been on here years it's ok, does take a while to get there but the surveys aren't too long and don't screen you out, plus you can get invited to focus groups 

Curious Cat - waste of time it's an agency and takes the cash that's supposed to go to you

NewVista - looks ok so far, fair survey length for reward and they give you 500 PTS just for signing up

Populus live / Y - used to be good payer ( if you can cope with the screen outs and technical issues which is why I left after 1 payout) , it's changed from what it was seems to have gone downhill 

Prolific Academic - very well designed site, just joined

Crowdology - rubbish don't bother

Update: now understand why Ipsos is rated highly, and would recommend, surveys can be repetitive and long but there are plenty of them so you can get past the payout threshold pretty quickly. It's not a fun site but it does have more surveys than any other one I've been on

Are you referring to Ipsos Isay? I'm seeing this and Ipsos websites listed.

SonOfPearl

Andrew30000 said:

Thanks for the info. Here my 2pennies

Ipsos - not sure why this is described as a must, very long surveys for very little rewards, poor design and lagging. Not worth it.

YouGov - been on here years it's ok, does take a while to get there but the surveys aren't too long and don't screen you out, plus you can get invited to focus groups 

Curious Cat - waste of time it's an agency and takes the cash that's supposed to go to you

NewVista - looks ok so far, fair survey length for reward and they give you 500 PTS just for signing up

Populus live / Y - used to be good payer ( if you can cope with the screen outs and technical issues which is why I left after 1 payout) , it's changed from what it was seems to have gone downhill 

Prolific Academic - very well designed site, just joined

Crowdology - rubbish don't bother

I think everyone's experience will vary. I've been with Populus/Y Live for quite a long time and although I am sometimes screened out, it's always very early on and only happens about 10-20% of the time. I've never had any technical issues whatsoever and regularly cash out £50 every 2/3 months or so. The surveys and site are good quality IMO.

mjm3346

SonOfPearl said:

Andrew30000 said:

Thanks for the info. Here my 2pennies

Ipsos - not sure why this is described as a must, very long surveys for very little rewards, poor design and lagging. Not worth it.

YouGov - been on here years it's ok, does take a while to get there but the surveys aren't too long and don't screen you out, plus you can get invited to focus groups 

Curious Cat - waste of time it's an agency and takes the cash that's supposed to go to you

NewVista - looks ok so far, fair survey length for reward and they give you 500 PTS just for signing up

Populus live / Y - used to be good payer ( if you can cope with the screen outs and technical issues which is why I left after 1 payout) , it's changed from what it was seems to have gone downhill 

Prolific Academic - very well designed site, just joined

Crowdology - rubbish don't bother

I think everyone's experience will vary. I've been with Populus/Y Live for quite a long time and although I am sometimes screened out, it's always very early on and only happens about 10-20% of the time. I've never had any technical issues whatsoever and regularly cash out £50 every 2/3 months or so. The surveys and site are good quality IMO.

I've been with Pop/Y Live since 2010 and have never had any technical/payment issues or late screen outs. I have over the years belonged to 30 plus survey sites and the only ones that get and are worth my time now are Y-Live, Consumer Pulse and Pinecone (Neilson tracking takes no time). When I was a You Gov member they seemed to pay 50p per survey regardless of length and most were well over 2.5 mins which is all the time they should get for 50p based on the y-live rate. 

Andrew30000

Andrew30000 said:

Thanks for the info. Here my 2pennies

Ipsos - not sure why this is described as a must, very long surveys for very little rewards, poor design and lagging. Not worth it.

YouGov - been on here years it's ok, does take a while to get there but the surveys aren't too long and don't screen you out, plus you can get invited to focus groups 

Curious Cat - waste of time it's an agency and takes the cash that's supposed to go to you

NewVista - looks ok so far, fair survey length for reward and they give you 500 PTS just for signing up

Populus live / Y - used to be good payer ( if you can cope with the screen outs and technical issues which is why I left after 1 payout) , it's changed from what it was seems to have gone downhill 

Prolific Academic - very well designed site, just joined

Crowdology - rubbish don't bother

Correction - maybe I was a little hasty with my reviews. Having been back on it a few weeks now it's been really good especially Y live Ipsos and Prolific. Thank you 

Andrew30000

Slinky said:

Andrew30000 said:

Andrew30000 said:

Thanks for the info. Here my 2pennies

Ipsos - not sure why this is described as a must, very long surveys for very little rewards, poor design and lagging. Not worth it.

YouGov - been on here years it's ok, does take a while to get there but the surveys aren't too long and don't screen you out, plus you can get invited to focus groups 

Curious Cat - waste of time it's an agency and takes the cash that's supposed to go to you

NewVista - looks ok so far, fair survey length for reward and they give you 500 PTS just for signing up

Populus live / Y - used to be good payer ( if you can cope with the screen outs and technical issues which is why I left after 1 payout) , it's changed from what it was seems to have gone downhill 

Prolific Academic - very well designed site, just joined

Crowdology - rubbish don't bother

Update: now understand why Ipsos is rated highly, and would recommend, surveys can be repetitive and long but there are plenty of them so you can get past the payout threshold pretty quickly. It's not a fun site but it does have more surveys than any other one I've been on

Are you referring to Ipsos Isay? I'm seeing this and Ipsos websites listed.

Yes that's it - Ipsos Isay

mjm3346

Referrals are not allowed and one of the top google comments was

"The worst survey app I have used so far. Some surveys literally offer less than 20p for apparently 35 minutes"

Andrew30000

I've found a new one not on MSE top 25 but should be. It's an app called ATTA poll (with a red/orange A logo on a white background) on Google Play Store, not sure if it's on Apple. It's a good one if you're short of cash as you can easily get over the £3 payout threshold and it's instant payment to PayPal. Once you've signed up and completed the profile surveys, there's a constant list of surveys available one the app which tells you the reward and the approx time. You will get screened out a bit but it doesn't really matter because you can just move onto the next one. I cashed out about £12 in the first few days after finding it. And it links to other survey companies so you might get better money going direct on some of them, or you could even do it on both! Some are low paying but you do get ones over £1 per surveys and because it links to other companies surveys they are quite varied. You might need to find a US zip code on Google because it doesn't seem to accept a UK postcode but it didn't seem to matter that it doesn't match with your street address. Enjoy!