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Branded Surveys is a survey-focused beermoney app that offers a few extra ways to earn on top of surveys. While it’s not the highest-paying survey app out there, it does offer fairly consistent surveys, a daily poll for guaranteed points, and a badge system that can boost your survey earnings if you’re willing to put in the effort to crank out surveys.
How to Earn on Branded Surveys
Daily Poll
Located at the very bottom of the dashboard, the Daily Poll gives you 5 points every day for answering a quick multiple-choice question. It resets at midnight and is one of the easiest, lowest-effort ways to earn a small amount consistently.
Location Rewards
This feature allows you to earn points when visiting certain store locations by viewing an ad they give you. I personally haven’t enabled this yet since I run the app on a spare phone without a SIM card, but I’ll update this section once I’ve tested it myself.
Surveys
Branded Surveys has two main survey-related sections.
My Top Surveys
This is the primary survey section. You’re usually shown up to three surveys at a time, and once you complete one, it gets replaced with another. There doesn’t appear to be a “view all surveys” option, which can be frustrating, especially the only available surveys are long or low-paying.
Most survey apps or apps that offer surveys in general have a dedicated survey page. It’s a bit annoying to not know if the pool of available surveys has any decent surveys, instead of being left to guess and hope that there’ll be a good survey coming up.
Survey pay is generally above average. I’ve personally seen the same surveys on Branded Surveys pay slightly more than on other survey apps, which is a good sign. That said, it’s still not the highest-paying survey platform overall.
There is a disqualification bonus on some surveys, typically 1–2 points, though it’s not guaranteed for every disqualification.
Extra Earning Opportunities
This section mostly contains additional surveys, including demographic surveys (profile surveys). These help improve the relevance of future surveys and can reduce disqualifications over time. Some are guaranteed-point surveys, meaning you’ll receive the full reward even if you don’t qualify. These surveys do not count toward your badge progress, but they’re usually quick and worth doing.
I tend to only do the profile surveys, since they’re usually short.
Leaderboard
The weekly leaderboard rewards the top 10 users based on completed surveys. While the prizes can be appealing, I personally wouldn’t focus too much on this. There are usually power users who grind low-value surveys just to rank, and your time is often better spent on higher-paying survey apps instead.
Offers
Games
Branded Surveys offers multi-level reward games, but I don’t recommend doing them here. While not the worst-paying games available, most have short task lists, low overall payouts, slow tracking, and tight deadlines. Tracking delays are an issue, I’ve personally experienced tasks taking over a day to register as completed, which can put you at risk of missing deadlines.
Apps & Services
There are also non-game offers such as app installs and service sign-ups. These tend to pay on the lower end compared to other platforms and often come with delayed payouts, which is fairly common for this type of offer.
My Biggest Gripes
While Branded Surveys offers multiple earning methods, surveys are clearly the main focus. The badge system can boost your survey earnings, but the requirements are steep. To maintain the Gold badge (19% earnings boost), you need to complete a minimum of 35 surveys per month, and disqualified surveys do not count, even if you finish them.
This becomes especially frustrating due to the three-survey limit. If all three available surveys are low-paying or long, you’re forced to either wait for them to rotate or complete one just to refresh the list. Without a dedicated survey page to see all your surveys, you’ll never know if your pool of surveys are only filled with long low paying surveys, or if there’s a handful of quick decent paying surveys. Given that disqualifications are already the biggest downside of surveys in general, this limitation adds unnecessary friction.
Cashout Options
Minimum cashout: $5.00 (500 points)
Cashout time: 1–3 days (instant with Gold badge)
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Availability
Android & iOS
Primarily available in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Some users report access outside the platform heavily emphasizes availability in these three countries.
Pros & Cons
Pros Multiple ways to earn Large variety of cashout options Fair-paying surveys Survey earnings boost through badges Daily poll for guaranteed points
Cons Low-paying game offers Slow offer tracking Limited to choosing from three surveys High requirements to maintain survey bonuses Instant cashout locked behind Gold badge Short deadlines on game offers
Final Thoughts
Branded Surveys isn’t a bad app, but it’s hard to strongly recommend. The surveys are fairly priced, and if you’re willing to grind surveys, the badge system can meaningfully increase your earnings. However, the three-survey limit and high monthly requirements for maintaining the Gold badge make the experience more frustrating than it needs to be.
At most, I’d probably recommend Branded Surveys as a secondary survey app, something you check once or twice a day to see if a decent survey is available, or simply to grab the easy $0.05 daily poll. It’s usable, but not a must-have compared to higher-paying survey platforms.