UK Online Paid Survey Websites
(consumer opinion panels)

The Coffee and Cocktails Lounge (you must be aged 18+ to register with this panel)

The Coffee and Cocktails Lounge is a new and exclusive discussion community where you talk about your likes and dislikes for all things coffee, including coffee-based liquers and other drinks. You have the opportunity to say what you like and don't like about these drinks and how they can be improved. In each month that you participate in and complete the panel surveys you are entered into their monthly draws. This is a totally new panel to us and we'll be back with a fuller review soon.

Springboard Online Research Panel (seeking new male and female panel members)

Springboard is a fresh and professional paid survey panel for the UK where you get rewarded for taking online polls. You usually receive between 50p and £2.50 per fully completed survey on various subjects including current affairs, politics, new and existing product research, and much more. The payout threshold is currently £25 by cheque or you can choose to donate what you have earned to a UK charity. We have found their surveys to be well-designed, interesting and relevant, plus they state at the beginning of each survey what the reward will be and how long they anticipate the survey will last. It is a promising panel with good rewards and they are currently looking for new male and female panel members in the following age groups:
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MySurvey Paid Survey Panel (must be over 16 years of age)

MySurvey is a worldwide and established online consumer research panel. You are asked for your opinions on a variety of topics and each time you qualify to fully undertake the research (and are not screened out) you will receive MySurvey points which can then be exchanged for a very good choice of rewards. You can redeem them for Paypal payments, online gift vouchers or high street vouchers, and charity donations. This paid survey panel is a combination of several well-known market research organisations such as Lightspeed and TNS. It is a professional panel and the paid surveys are usually well written and interesting. It also seems to be an active panel with regular invitations to take part in their online research.

The Fitting Room Fashion Panel (new male panelists only)

The Fitting Room is a new online forum and opinion panel which is seeking your views on fashion and clothes in general, such as what you think about different brands of jeans, and what are your thoughts about new upcoming trends in the fashion industry. If you enjoy anything to do with fashion and clothes then this could be a very exciting panel for you and gives you a unique opportunity to say what you think! They run a forum where you discuss your opinions and sometimes send you interactive surveys to take part in. As a reward for your participation in this fun panel, they run prize draws where you can win free stuff. They're only looking for new male panel members at the moment.

Opinion Outpost UK

Opinion Outpost has been an established American online survey panel for some time and it is now recruiting more members to its UK opinion panel. You are rewarded with Opinion Points when you fully complete their surveys and these points are redeemable for cash payments via Paypal once you have earned the minimum number. Every 20 points are worth £1 or $2 and you can request a payout once you reach 50 Opinion Points, which is a good low level. Each survey invitation will tell you exactly how many points you could earn if you qualify and complete the whole questionnaire. You must attempt to take at least one survey every three months. On some occasions you may be offered other rewards such as sweepstakes entries or different prizes, but the survey invite should tell you this before you commence the survey. We have joined the panel and will prepare a further review once we have fully assessed it. You must be 18 years of age or over to become a member of this site.

Surveyhead Panel

The Surveyhead Panel is a relatively new online paid survey panel which keeps things fairly simple. Upon registering, and also completing a number of personal profiles, you can receive an introductory bonus into your Surveyhead acount. The more profiles you complete, the greater chance you have of being given access to paid surveys to complete. On your account dashboard you are shown if you have any surveys to take, with expected length of survey and payment amount also displayed, should you qualify to complete the online study. You can then choose to take as many or as few paid surveys as you wish. There are a nnumber of reward options with different payout thresholds. The most attractive seems to be payment by Paypal, which has a payout threshold of $25, but there are also other reward options such as Skype credit (with a lower payout threshold) or donations to charity.

GfK BBC Media Panel

The GfK BBC Media Panel is a fun panel which is looking for people to give their thoughts and opinions on British television, radio and media in general, to help shape the future of what is shown on UK TV and heard on the radio. It involves filling out a simple survey where you can give your views and opinions on the TV you have watched and any radio you have listened to. You can complete this survey as many times a month as you like, as the survey is available to take daily. Each time you complete it, you are rewarded with ticket entries into the monthly prize draw for a number of rewarding cash prizes, which range from £2 to a fantastic £1000.

Connected Life Mobile Panel (for Android phones)

Connected Life is a mobile phone panel for Android phones run by trusted researcher, GfK. You receive a £5 online voucher (Amazon) for signing up and downloading apps which monitor your general phone usage and the urls you visit. If you keep both apps active for three months you qualify to receive a further £10 e-voucher. You have to be aged 18 or over to be able to take part in this research.

Harris Poll Online

Harris is an established online polling and research provider and they are currently seeking new panellists in the UK for their online panel. By completing their surveys you can earn Harris Poll Online Rewards in the form of HIpoints which accumulate and can be exchanged for gift certificates or merchandise on the Harris rewards site. Your HIpoints account is automatically created for you once you fully register with the site. Harris Online also run regular cash prize sweepstakes as a reward for participation in the panel. Not all surveys pay out HIpoints, as some just reward with entries into these cash sweepstakes, but your invitation email should normally tell you which rewards are on offer.

PopulusLive Community Panel

The PopulusLive Panel is run by the professional UK research company Populus who design surveys asking questions of their community panel members on a variety of topics such as politics, current affairs, and consumer opinions. You will have seen the results of some Populus polls in the media. PopulusLive state that survey respondents will be rewarded with £1 for every five minutes of their time according to the average length of time it takes to complete the survey. You have to accumulate a minimum 50 points (£50) in your PopulusLive account before you can receive your rewards, which are sent by cheque. When you are screened out of a survey, you receive an entry into the site's monthly prize draw where one person wins a cheque for £250.

Number 1 - Ipsos Consumer Panel

Ipsos Consumer Panel - is one of the UK's leading online consumer opinion panels. The surveys are well written, straightforward and usually relevant to you. We have been receiving regular surveys for over five years, which proves it is an active and trustworthy opinion panel. For every survey you participate in you will receive a varying number of points, depending on whether you complete the whole survey, part of it, and also depending on the length of the survey too. These points are exchangeable for gift vouchers to a number of popular high street and online retailers (including Amazon UK, John Lewis, Argos, WHSmith, Topshop, Miss Selfridges). This paid survey site not only sends surveys to you, but also to other members of your household, so the points can accumulate quickly and you can get your gift cards and vouchers in reasonable time. The site offers product testing too although we have yet to be asked to do this. We have made several successful redemptions from this excellent panel, which is certainly one of the best survey sites around at the moment.

Join our top rated panel here or find out more about it in our full Ipsos review .

Number 2 - GlobalTestMarket (GTM)

GlobalTestMarket (GTM) - is another of the best paid surveys sites which we recommend. It awards you with 'Marketpoints' for participating in paid surveys that you fully complete. Once you accumulate 1000 of these points (each point at present is worth 5 US cents) you can redeem them for a cheque in your local currency. We have been members of this site for six years and still receive frequent paid survey invitations. It can take a little while to accumulate enough points for payout, but we can confirm that this site does pay and that you get your cheque in pounds. The rewards for each paid survey are usually very fair and, if you do not qualify for and are screened out of a survey, you will normally receive an entry into their regular cash prize draws.

Join this panel here or find out more in our full GlobalTestMarket review .

Number 3 - Toluna

Toluna - (formerly known as Test and Vote) is a popular, global online panel that allows you to earn rewards in many ways. You can take online surveys, take part in new product testing, and participate in quick website polls. Each of these methods accumulates you points which are ultimately exchangeable for gift cards and vouchers to several popular online retailers, or entries into the monthly draw to win 2000 pounds. You decide what to do with your points. It's a fun site, has lots of members and you can create your own questions and answer those posed by other users, and earn more points by doing so. Survey invitations are presently quite frequent so you should be able to accumulate those points quickly. Surveys take between 5 and 30 minutes to complete. What we will say is that you must ensure you use your gained points as they do expire after a period of time as displayed in your Toluna account.

Join this panel here or learn more in our full Toluna panel review .

Number 4 - Pure Profile

Pure Profile - is an innovative survey panel which is currently one of the leading survey providers that rewards you with cash for your time and efforts. It's a site which has become much more active with regular paid survey invites and a new panel website giving it a very professional look. When you register you need to create a profile of yourself by following an easy to complete, but a little lengthy, online process. Once created you will receive paid survey invitations by email and also directly to your panel account, and we recommend you do log in occasionally to check if you have any outstanding invitations. Each survey you fully complete rewards with cash into your panel account. You are notified what a survey is worth before you start it. If you are screened out and do not qualify to complete the full questionnaire the panel often gives you a small cash incentive as a thankyou for taking the time to try. You can redeem your rewards in cash directly into your bank account once you reach the payout threshold which is currently £25. It's a very good site that is well worth trying out and it now has a global reach. We have been able to redeem our rewards from this site on several occasions.

Number 5 - YouGov

YouGov - is an independent research agency whose survey results are often used in the media. Without doubt, it is one of the better paid survey sites we are a member of and we receive on average one or two opportunities per month to express our opinion and receive reward for it. It usually pays you a reward of 50 pence for many of the surveys you are asked to complete and they are usually finished within fifteen or twenty minutes. It has regular prize draw surveys too, which again are fairly easy and interesting to complete, where you have the chance to win some fab prizes. It is a very professional site and it is nice to know that your opinions really do matter and are used in genuine research. The payout level is £50, however, and it can take time to reach this figure. Even so, participation is certainly very interesting, fun and worthwhile. Payment is by cheque.

Number 6 - ACOP UK

ACOP - stands for America Consumer Opinion Panel and is a worldwide panel that distributes online paid surveys or focus group opportunities which can generally reward you with anything between £2 and £25. Although invitations to participate in their paid surveys do seem to be rather rare, the rewards are generally much higher than other such sites...making it more than worthwhile spending five minutes just signing up to the site and filling out your profile. They also have monthly draws which all members are part of. Payment is by cheque. We have received cheques (they pay in pounds if you live in the UK) from this paid survey provider. It would be one of the top paid survey sites in the UK if more regular invitations to take surveys were received, but ACOP is still a site worth joining as you sometimes get paid after each study finishes, depending on the study and reward earned.

Join the ACOP panel here or find out more in our full ACOP review .

Free lottery tickets for the UK National Lotto draw or Euromillions
(must be over 16 and UK resident)

Search Lotto - is a genuine site with a fab idea. When you use this site as your search engine, you can receive up to 2 FREE entries each week into a UK National Lottery draw and/or a Euromillions lottery draw.

How it works: Quite simply, you receive a free lotto syndicate ticket entry for every 25 genuine searches you complete on the site. Only the first 10 unique and genuine searches you make each day qualify towards your 25. Each lottery ticket is syndicated with other members and thus so are any prizes. A UK Lotto ticket is shared between 10 people, a Euromillions ticket between 20. You are limited to two lotto ticket syndicate entries per week. You can check your syndicate lottery numbers on the site, and then you can check if you win after the draw. Any winnings you receive are paid to you by paypal or bank transfer - and we have already had a winning ticket, although it only won £10 this time, and we did receive our £1 by paypal.

Sign up now and start searching to earn free lottery tickets every week.

Number 7 - Surveys.com (you must be 18 or over)

Surveys.com - is a professional and international research panel run by GfK that rewards you with chances to win cash prizes every time you complete one of their interesting surveys. Plus, you can also earn Maximiles points (join Maximiles here) - previously known as iPoints - one of the web's better online reward schemes, as rewards for each survey that you fully complete. These points accumulate and are exchangeable for a very good variety of rewards, including Amazon gift cards, electronic gifts, music and dvds. The Surveys.com survey site usually offers regular and topical surveys, which typically take between 5 and 25 minutes to finish. We like the site for the fact you can earn both Maximiles points and entries into cash prize draws.

Number 8 - New Vista (formerly Its your View)

New Vista - pays you very fairly for your time fully completing their online paid surveys. In our experience it does actually reward you very well for each fun and easy to complete survey. This paid survey site is run by UK company ICM Research and we have found the questionnaires to be both relevant and usually interesting. We certainly recommend this paid survey site as one of the best around and one that really rewards you for your time and opinions. You receive points each time you complete one of their full surveys and each point equates to £1. It pays out by cheque at £50, but please be aware this took a longer time than we initially expected, as paid survey invitations are not as frequent as some other sites. We have been a member for over three years and have received payment twice. It is certainly worth joining New Vista, because no other paid survey site really matches it in terms of the rewards offered, and the paid surveys are certainly enjoyable to take part in.

Number 9 - Wonderbug (Global Opinion Panels/Synovate)

Wonderbug is the new name for the Global Opinion Panels/ Synovate panel. This is an established market research company that operates across the world. You receive points and entries into their prize draws for completing their questionnaires and surveys and giving your thoughts and opinions on a range of interesting topics. The points you accumulate are exchangeable for cash paid by cheque or electronic fund transfer, or you can redeem them for gift vouchers. You can redeem from 9000 points (which has an equivalent value of £5). We have used this site for over five years and receive regular invitations to take part in their research and we are happy to be members. We also like the site as you often may receive a few points even if you do not qualify for the full survey. You need to complete a paid survey at least once in any twelve month period in order to keep your account active.

Number 10 - Valued Opinions

Valued Opinions - is an international online opinion panel which offers original and interesting surveys to you at regular intervals by e-mail. We have been a part of this programme for some time and have already received lots of opportunities to give our opinion for worthwhile rewards. The rewards you earn are exchangeable for retail vouchers for a good selection of high street and online shops available through the site. This is a fairly active site at the moment and we certainly recommend it as one to join. We have made over £30 in retail vouchers since joining. You can start to redeem your rewards for vouchers once you have earned £10. Surveys normally last between 10 and 30 minutes and rewards are normally between £0.50 and £5.00 depending on the survey type and length.

Number 11 - Nielsen NetRatings

Nielsen - have been established in online market research, and been a provider of surveys, for many years. They are well known and you will often see the results of their research published online or in the news. Their NetRatings panel is all about monitoring your internet usage with some simple software and sending you surveys in order to improve the internet and what's on offer to you as an internet user. In exchange for your ongoing participation in this important research, you will receive entries into their prize draw giveaways which are held monthly, quarterly and annually, where you can win cash prizes which range from £100 to £3000. Read their privacy policy if you have any concerns about the use of their software.

Number 12 - Crowdology Research Communities

Crowdology is a fairly new online research community which usually pays you between 40 pence and £3 for each fully completed and valid survey you undertake. Payment amounts depend on the length and type of the paid survey and in some cases may reach up to £10 or more, although we have not yet received a survey that paid this. Most online surveys do not last any longer than 15 minutes, but there are also opportunities to take part in telephone research and focus groups if you wish to (again we have not had this opportunity yet). The site allows you to cash in your cash rewards once you reach £4.00, which is a small payout threshold, although you can choose to wait until you have accumulated more if you want to. Payment is by Paypal, so you must have a paypal account to use this site and be rewarded by it. There are prize draws too to win amazon vouchers held by the site for new members, for those who have been screened out of surveys, a member bonus draw survey (for those who have completed at least one survey in any month), and also for those who have successfully referred their friends to the site. We quite like the look of this site, have received some surveys and one small payment so far. If you have any comments about the site please do let us know.

Number 13 - GfK What I Buy Panel

The GfK What I Buy Panel is an online survey panel run by research company GfK which rewards panellists with opportunities to win retail vouchers at a variety of popular shops through their regular prize draws. Each month you have to complete a survey about what you have bought the previous month and are then rewarded with entries into the site's monthly prize draw (where there are lots of vouchers up for grabs). If you submit your survey early (within the first week) you will also be entered into the 'Early Bird' prize draw where there are extra voucher prizes available to win. Any rewards you win can be saved for up to a year which is useful if you want to save up your vouchers for something special. The information received from the surveys is collated and used by the retail industry to improve their services and products.

Number 14 - Opinion World

Opinion World - is a fun survey site that rewards you with entries into regular prize draws as a thank you for giving your opinion on a wide range of subjects. There are sometimes opportunities to participate in product testing too. Participation in this online panel also supports a number of charities, where you usually choose between three options each time you complete an online survey. You also normally have the opportunity to take part in the sites instant win game where you can win instant prizes, or more often than not, extra entries into the Opinion World prize draws. Occasionally some of the longer surveys will reward you with a payment for completing them fully and successfully. The site is OK and the surveys can be interesting. We certainly receive lots of opportunities to complete surveys, however we have to say that the rewards (in terms of various prize draw entries) are really not as good as those that you can receive on other paid survey sites, like many of those listed above. Nevertheless it seems to be a fairly popular site and one to consider if you enjoy giving your opinion on a very wide range of subjects such as films, topical issues, shopping and electronics to name but a few and you never know, you might just win a big prize!

Number 15 - Home of Research

Home of Research - is a nice online survey site which offers some unique surveys and sometimes (not often though) the chance to participate in online focus groups. You are rewarded with points for fully completing the surveys you are invited to take (although you could get screened out during the first few questions and thus receive no reward). These points are basically equivalent to pennies and once you have accumulated the minimum 2000 points required you can redeem them for a cheque to their monetary equivalent (which for 2000 points would be £20). Most surveys last between 15 and 25 minutes and you are generally rewarded with 50 or 100 points, although larger rewards are sometimes available. There are lots of sub panels that you can join on this site and, as with all survey sites, you should ensure your personal profile is as fully completed as possible to maximise your chances of being asked to complete an online survey. We like the site, but in our experience it can take quite a while to accumulate points and survey invitations can be quite rare.

Number 16 - Survey Savvy

Survey Savvy - is an international provider of paid survey opportunities offering good cash rewards which are paid in US$. The stated average reward for completion of a survey is $3 but we have been offered rewards of between $2 and $20. Each month the site pays $10 to 50 members taken from a pool of those who have not qualified to participate in a survey during that time. There is no minimum nor maximum payout threshold and all payments are made by cheque in US$ (which is a clear disadvantage to those who take the surveys in the UK). The site states they are currently looking at other methods of payment which may be more appropriate to those living outside of the USA (but that has been the case for a while now). You can also refer friends and family to the site and receive extra rewards based on what they earn when completing surveys themselves. We have only received a few opportunities to complete surveys on this site, but we remain a member as the potential rewards are very good and the site is professional.

Number 17 - Permission Research

Permission Research - is an international online market research community which offers entries into its monthly sweepstakes for participation in their internet usage monitoring programme. As well as these, members can receive points for participating in interesting surveys which are then convertible into a whole array of rewards. This site monitors internet usage and trends through its software that you have to download and online surveys. It also offers members some useful free software downloads such as games and email virus protection as further rewards for participation in its research. A US-based site aimed at US and Canada research.