More Paid Survey Sites in the UK

Number 13 - Juicy Brains Panel

Juicy Brains Panel - is a fun and innovative website that pays you to take part in surveys which are designed to make you think rather than just tick boxes. You can expect to receive perhaps one survey a month and payment is usually made quickly into your account upon completion of each survey. You receive payout once you have earned £5. Method of payout is described in your profile, although at the moment we only have the option of an Amazon gift voucher, which is OK by us. We believe this is a good site for its unique approach to surveys and giving your opinion. However, it can take a while for your rewards to accumulate and recently survey invitations have become less frequent. We have also experienced the frustration of nearing completion of a survey only for it to crash and thus we did not receive any payment for our efforts. This happens rarely but it is still infuriating. One good feature though that counters that is that it is one of the few sites which will reward you with a small payment even if you do not qualify to fully complete a survey (when you are screened out).

Number 14 - Spider Metrix

Spider Metrix - is an Australian based survey site which rewards you "spider" points for participating in quick online site polls and longer website evaluations. These valuations are often geographically targetted so there is no guarantee you will be given one to do, although they already seem to be more frequent since December 2007, but thus far have been generally aimed at Australia, Greece and New Zealand. We have completed one UK survey thus far, but you can earn regular single points by logging in every few days and completing the short site polls that appear on the hour. The points are exchangeable for cash payable via paypal, or gift certificates, or you can choose to donate to charity. There is a forum too where you can talk to other site members. It seems to be a growing site and one we are watching to see how it continues to develop.

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This site offers you a free mouse mat (sent to you free of charge) every year for registering your email address and completing a sponsor offer. These are good quality mouse mats designed to last a while. They are free because they can contain sponsor adverts with some nice designs.

Number 15 - My Voice

My Voice - is a UK based survey site that rewards you for taking part in surveys and site polls with points. These points are ultimately exchangeable for shopping vouchers (there is a wide choice of voucher available). You must accumulate 2000 points before they can be redeemed for vouchers. 2000 points gives you a £20 voucher. On top of this they also have regular prize draws as a thankyou for participation in their surveys. Surveys have until recently been a rarity but recently this has certainly improved. The surveys we have received have been interesting, unique and relatively easy to complete. They want to be the most open and honest of all the survey sites. The site has been updated recently which indicates that this site is becoming more active which is good. If it continues to improve and show promise it will be moving up our table.

Number 16 - Media Transfer

Media Transfer - invite you to complete surveys by e-mail and then reward you with MT points. Once you have accumulated 100 of these points you can exchange them for Amazon gift vouchers. 100MTs are equivalent to £16. It is a decent survey site and the rewards are well worth the time and effort spent on participating in their surveys, but it seems to take a while to accumulate points because survey invitations have been few and far between for us. We have been a member for two years and have only recently reached the payout limit of 100 MT points. You may of course have a different experience and receive a higher number of invites. One positive aspect to the site is that you normally get rewarded with a few points even if you get screened out of a survey so your time and effort is not wasted.

Number 17 - Nielsen Net Ratings

Nielsen Net Ratings - have been an established provider of surveys for many years in the USA and have recently crossed the Atlantic to the UK. You receive entries into their prize giveaways and chances to win in their instant win rewards game for completing surveys and allowing their simple software to monitor your internet browsing habits. They have a stated privacy policy in case you are worried about the use of such software.

Number 18 - Global Opinion Panels

Global Opinion Panels - enters you into monthly sweepstakes for participating in short online surveys and also rewards you with points depending on the length and topic of the survey you have completed. You may also receive a few points even if you are screened out and not needed to do the whole survey. We have received just a few opportunities so far in our membership of this site. The site states there may be other opportunities to take part in more lengthy surveys and product testing to which we have yet to be invited. Indeed since the end of 2007 we have been receiving even fewer opportunites to give our opinion which makes us reluctant to give it our full recommendation at present.

Number 19 - Opinion Square

Opinion Square - is another website where you are rewarded for participating in surveys with points which are reedeemable for a variety of products and gift certificates, and you will also receive entries into their monthly sweepstakes (cash prize draws). However this site presently seems to be particularly aimed at USA and Canadian residents, although it states that residents from other countries could receive surveys with special incentives...we have received one thus far. In spite of that it seems like a professional site and one at least worth considering.

Number 20 - 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.

Number 21 - Lightspeed Research Panel

Lightspeed research Panel - is an established online research panel with a worldwide presence. You can earn points for fully completing their surveys and these points are exchangeable for cash (via paypal) or you can redeem them for various shopping vouchers. Also, for every survey or short site poll you complete, you may receive entries into the prize draw offered by the site to win a sum of money. 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 a little 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 22 - Pick Them

Pick Them - claims to offer entries into prize draws for completing short surveys online on their website. The site also offers a shopping portal and guides to buying certain products. The survey section, however, currently appears to be a completely inactive part of the site as we have not seen a survey there for perhaps two years. Hopefully it will restart offering opportunities to win prizes effectively for free just for giving your opinion, but the focus here certainly appears to be the shopping portal.

Number 23 - 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.

Number 24 - 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 25 - 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.