Australian Paid Surveys

Cafe Study

Cafe Study appears to be a pleasantly designed and professional market research survey panel where you earn points for each paid survey you complete. The site states you can earn anything between 5 and 50 points for a survey. Once you have earned 200 points you can claim a cash payment by electronic transfer. 200 points is the equivalent of $20 AUD. You must live in Australia and be aged 14 or more to join this panel.

Your Opinion

Your Opinion - is a very promising paid survey site for Australian residents. If you are interested in taking part in online paid research this is a panel which offers you just that, with paid surveys and forum discussions about new products, ideas, and services. You are rewarded for each survey you complete and, once you reach enough points in your account, you can choose to redeem these for either a $20 payment to your paypal account, a donation to charity, or you can select an EFTPOS Rewards Card (at $20, $50 or $100). The site also rewards you for referring friends to the panel and who go on to be active users. You must live in Australia to join this panel.

Your Voice (14 years or over)

Your Voice - is an Australian opinion panel run by a global research company. You earn panel points for completing the surveys they send you by email The emails state how long each survey should take you and how many points each survey is worth fully completed. By completing your registration survey, and each time you complete a survey, you are also entered into their prize draw to win $5000. Once you have accumulated enough points from completing surveys you can access the Your Voice webshop and exchange your points for a gift voucher (such as for Target, Myer, Harvey Normam...) or donate them to a charity.

MyView

MyView - is a promising online Australian 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). A particularly good feature of the site is that it will even give you 50 points 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. Every 100 points you accumulate are worth $1 and you are ultimately able to exchange these for a variety of rewards offered by the site through their online catalogue. If you have any opinions of the site please feel free to contact us.

LiveTribe

LiveTribe - This colourful panel rewards you for completing their online questionnaires and taking part in discussion groups and other site research activities in different ways. You get to choose whether to receive points (which can be accumulated to exchange for vouchers to brands like Amazon and Bigpond music), make a donation to charity, or make a donation to Rainforest Rescue (and save a part of equatorial rainforest). By participating on the site you can also receive entries into their $25000 giveaway prize draw. You can also earn more reward points by referring other active members to the site.

Survey Village

Survey Village - where you can voice your opinion and be rewarded with options from a choice of 12 online and high street stores. There are also monthly $200 dollar gift voucher giveaways. It claims that you will receive around 2 - 3 surveys per month. It seems to be a rather new site so if you have any experience of it, or any other opinions related to this site, please let us know.

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 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.

Number 1 - Global Test Market

GlobalTestMarket - is a global market research company which awards you 'MarketPoints' for participating 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). During out six year membership of this panel we have consistently received regular invitations to take part in their paid surveys, which shows an active opinion panel. We certainly recommended this site for the very good rewards offered and interesting surveys, although it can sometimes 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 an entry into their regular prize draws for your time and effort.

You can join the panel here or find out more in our full GlobalTestMarket review .

Number 2 - Toluna Survey Panel

Toluna - is a well-established and international survey site. It is a great website where you earn points when you are selected to test interesting new products (and getting to keep them), completing short online polls on the website and by taking part in a variety of interesting online surveys. Your accumulated points are exchangeable for entries into the monthly prize draw or for online vouchers at selected retailers, you get to choose what you do with your points. Their surveys and online studies are often easy to complete and sometimes really innovative. We like the site and have been members for over five years.

Join the Toluna panel here or find out more about it in our full Toluna review .

Number 3 - Pure Profile (must be aged over 13)

Pure Profile - is an innovative and well established paid survey website where you answer surveys and earn cash for your time and knowledge. You need to create a profile of yourself by following an easy to complete online question process. Once created you will receive paid surveys to complete which will reward you with cash into your pureprofile account. One great feature of this Australian paid survey site is that if you get screened out of a survey (do not qualify) they will sometimes credit your account with a small amount as an appreciation of your time and effort. 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 really good site that is well worth trying out. One important point of note - unlike other survey sites we have found that you sometimes have to log in to the site in order to know of surveys you are invited to, otherwise you may not always receive an email notice of their availability.

Number 4 - MySurvey Australia (Ages 18+)

MySurvey - is an attractively designed paid survey site for Australians, run professionally (by global market research firm Lightspeed Research), and one that rewards you for your time and opinion wiht MySurvey points. These points accumulate as you complete more surveys and can be reedeemed for a variety of rewards, such as a paypal cash payment and gift vouchers to popular retailers like Bigpond music, dStore and EB Games. The site has a rewards catalogue with offers for you to choose from. The site also runs a quarterly prize draw, entries for which can be received by joining the site, attempting surveys and completing site mini polls.

Number 5 - 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$1 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 6 - 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!

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 7 - 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 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.

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.

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.

MBS Internet

MBS Internet was an American based site that claimed to offer you more survey opportunities. It had a short sign up process, but we never received any surveys and the site had a poor design, so we could never recommend it. Now the site no longer even exists. One company to avoid.