Australian Paid Survey Websites

Market View

Market View - is an online opinion panel where you are rewarded with points for completing their surveys with your honest opinions. The number of points you receive appears very fair with greater points paid to you the longer a survey lasts (the more questions it has). The site states it will even give you 50 points even when you are screened out from taking the whole survey or the survey quota is full, which we believe is a very good point of any online research panel. Each point you accumulate is worth approximately AUD$0.01 and you are ultimately able to exchange these for a variety of reward offered by the site through their online catalogue. If you have any opinions of the site please feel free to contact us.

What Do You Think? (Open to those 16 years and older)

What Do you Think - is an Australian website where you can express your opinion in fun, quick, online, topical polls, and by taking part in online surveys and consumer research through invitations sent to your email inbox. You will be rewarded with points whenever you complete one of the survey invitations sent to you by email (no points for the simple site polls). These points accumulate and can then be exchanged for gifts in the site reward catalogue, or use them to bid in their site auctions for some worthwhile prizes. You can earn further points by reading and responding to promotional emails too if you choose to. The site polls are interesting and you can comment on them after voting using the special forums. If you are a happy user of this site (or not!) please feel free to contact us and let us know your thoughts about it.

Pay Per Post

Pay Per Post - is a site where you can be paid to blog your opinion about various products, services and websites. You need to have a blog (or start one) and then apply to take on paid opportunities where you review certain products, services or websites that advertisers have requested be reviewed. The more traffic your blog generates, the greater the earning potential you have. Payment is via paypal in US dollars. A promising site which basically appears to be a paid to review stuff type of site.

Qualified Opinions

Qualified Opinions - is an Australian based site offering a variety of rewards in return for your participation in their online surveys. Firstly this year they are offering all members of their panel an entry into their monthly AU$50000 prize draw. Then for every survey you participate in you will receive a further entry into this draw and receive a syndicated entry into the Saturday Night Lotto draw. Furthermore every time you complete a survey you have the chance to instantly win AU$50 or a star cash fuel card. There may also be further rewards offered for compelting some surveys which are specified at the time of the survey. This is a new site to us so if you have any experience of it please let us know as we continue to evaluate it.

Number 1 - Valued Opinions

Valued Opinions - is a very good international survey site offering surveys to respondents at regular intervals by e-mail. We have been a part of this programme for nearly two years and have already received lots of opportunities to give our opinion in exchange for rewards. The rewards you earn are exchangeable for retail vouchers taken from a selection available on the site. You can normally earn the equivalent of between AU$2 and AU$5 for each survey you fully complete and once you have accumulated $20 in your account you can exchange them. We certainly recommend Valued Opinions as an interesting and easy to use survey site for you to consider becoming a part of.

Number 2 - Spider Metrix

Spider Metrix - is an Australian based survey site which rewards you with spiderpoints for participating in quick online site polls and longer website evaluations and surveys. These are often geographically targetted, and given that it is an Australian panel there are a good number of opportunities for Australians! There is, of course, no guarantee you will be chosen to partcipate, but opportunities do seem to be more frequent this year. The points are exchangeable for cash payable via paypal or in the form of a cheque, or gift certificates, or you can choose to donate to charity. There is also a forum too where you can talk to other site members if you wish to!

Number 3 - ACOP

ACOP - stands for America Consumer Opinion Panel and is a worldwide panel that distributes online surveys or focus group opportunities which can pay anything between the equivalent of US$4 and US$50. Although invitations to particiapate in surveys can be 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. You also got paid per survey that you complete and you do not have to build up a certain amount of money before getting paid like other sites sometimes stipulate. They also have monthly draws to win a prize which all members are part of. Payment is by cheque.

Number 4 - Test and Vote

Test and Vote - is a well-established and international survey site. It is a great website where you earn points when you are selected to test fab and interesting new products (and getting to keep them), completing short online polls on the website and by taking part in interesting online surveys. These points are exchangeable for entries into the monthly prize draw or for online vouchers at selected retailers. Their surveys and online studies are often easy to complete and sometimes really innovative.

Number 5 - Global Test Market

Global Test Market - is a global business which awards you 'MarketPoints' for participating fully in surveys you are invited to complete. Upon receiving 1000 of these points (each point at present is worth 5 US cents) you can redeem them and request a cheque (in your local currency). We have received a large number of valuable invitations in a relatively small space of time, but have learned that sometimes you need to be quick in responding as, within hours of the invitation, the survey can be closed once the required number of respondents have replied. Certainly recommended for the very good rewards offered and interesting survey opportunities, although it can take a little time to get to the payout threshold. One extra positive is that even if you are screened out of a survey you should normally receive a few points for your time and effort.

Australia Offer

Search and Win - This is an exciting search site where you search the internet as normal and have the chance to win prizes instantly, such as music vouchers or entries into the site's grand prize draws for bigger prizes. You have to register with the site to claim any prizes you win. If you register and then invite friends to use this search site, and then they go on to win an instant prize, you win the same prize too, which is a great feature! If you become a registered member of the site you are rewarded with entries into their grand prize draw to win bigger prizes when you use it for your searches and when you successfully refer your friends who go on to register with the site. Please note Victorian residents cannot win the grand prizes but they can still participate in the instant win search.

Number 6 - Ciao!

Ciao! - is an international survey website offering easy to take paid surveys which can reward up to AUD$5 in cash or gifts or entries into their prize draws. We have found that we receive regular invitations to participate (although are often screened out which means we do not qualify for the reward). You accumulate your cash rewards for completed surveys in your account and then can request payout once you reach the stated payment threshold. You can also earn extra money by inviting your friends to particpate in the site. The site is particularly interested in receiving new male panellists (please click here).
If you are a new female panellist please use this link.

Number 7 - Pure Profile

Pure Profile - is an innovative survey website available to everyone. It is a site that mainly rewards you for completing surveys, but also for responding to rare advertiser invitations or infrequent invitations to search for and visit websites found on its search results. You need to create a profile of yourself by following an easy to complete, but rather lengthy, online process. Once created you will receive surveys to complete on the site and you may be notified of offers sent to you by interested businesses which if you view and provide feedback on, will earn you a little extra money too. You can also periodically (not very frequently these days however) earn small cash amounts by searching for products you are interested in through the site. You can redeem your rewards in cash directly into your bank account once you have earned AUD$25. You can also receive extra rewards for referring your friends to the site who go on to become active members of the site. It's a fairly good site that is well worth trying out, although recently survey invitations have been a rarity for us, which makes us a little wary of the site going forward. One further important point of note - unlike other survey sites we have found that you generally have to log in to the site in order to know of surveys you are invited to, otherwise you may receive an email notice of their availability. So we recommend that you log in every couple of days to check your account.

Number 8 - 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 $10 to 50 members taken from a pool of those who have not qualified to participate in a survey during that time. There is no minimum nor maximum payout threshold and all payments are made by cheque. You can also refer friends and family to the site and receive extra rewards based on what they earn when completing surveys themselves. We have only received a few opportunities to complete surveys on this site, but we recommend the site as the potential rewards are very good and the site is professional. Of course whilst the site only pays out in US$ this is a notable disadvantage to those living in the rest of the world.

Number 9 - Opinion Square

Opinion Square - is a survey website where you are rewarded with special incentives when you take their surveys, which in our experience thus far have been prize draw entries. The surveys we have taken have been interesting and simple to complete. The main focus of this site however is the USA and Canada at present, although anyone can join and they do offer occasional international surveys.

Number 10 - Permission Research

Permission Research - is an international online market research community (especially focusing on the US and Canada market however), which offers entries into its monthly sweepstakes for participation in their programme aimed at improving the internet. 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 also through online surveys it conducts. It also offers members even more free benefits for taking part in its research such as some free software downloads including fun games, file encryption and decryption software, and email virus protection.

Number 11 - Lightspeed Research

Lightspeed Research - is an international provider of survey opportunities offering decent rewards in the form of paypal payments, online gift certificates or you can donate your earnings to charity. You earn points for completing surveys which are then exchangeable for the rewards mentioned and you can also earn entries into the sweepstake prize draw held by the site. This site was recommended by us as the rewards were reasonable, although they can take some time to accumulate, but we have recently experienced poor customer service from the site (not responding to emails) and also become aware that a few accounts have been closed without reason or notice, which obviously is a practice we would actively discourage unless the survey provider had very good reason for doing so (such as account fraud or the survey taker was not honestly/fully completing surveys). Therefore we now advise caution with this online survey provider. In the interests of fairness we are encouraging our readers to contact us with their opinions of this panel before reviewing it further.

Number 12 - QSample

QSample - claims to be an international survey website which on the face of it appears to offer good rewards in return for members completing surveys. The site design is a little clumsy and has not been updated in all our time as members of the site. We cannot recommend it until we have received a survey, completed it and received payment for it, and we have been a member for well over two years! It is possibly aimed more at North American users, but we have never received a good report about the site.

Number 13 - Opinionate

Opinionate - states it will pay up to £3.50 for each online survey you complete. When you have earned £10 or more you can request a payout in cash by paypal, or request a voucher from a named high street retailer, or donate your earnings to charity. We have not received a survey from this site for well over a year and a half so we do not recommend joining it at present. It was active when we joined in 2006, but appears to have come to a grinding halt now. We can understand not qualifying for surveys, but it is not credible when a survey invitation is not received for such a long period of time.

Number 14 - MBS Internet

MBS Internet - is an American based site that claims to offer you more survey opportunities. It is a short sign up process and the rewards are said to be in the form of cash, prizes and entries into prize draws. Apparently survey opportunites may include the chance to participate in online focus groups as well as normal e-mail invitation online surveys. We signed up to this site over two years ago and have never received a survey invitation, so we cannot recommend it at all! It could be targetted at a US audience, but the design of the site is poor and has not been updated at all since we joined. One to avoid.