This section is aimed mainly at providing information on being paid to take survyes in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Most of the paid online survey companies listed here are only looking for the opinions of Irish or UK survey panel members as their market research, opinion polls or other studies are predominently for British companies and organisations, or those who seek the opinion of the British public.
Nielsen NetRatings Panel
Do You Enjoy Taking Surveys? Join the Nielsen//NetRatings Panel. Give your opinion and you could win £5,000! (UK only) Click Here
Lightspeed Panel
The Lightspeed Consumer Panel incentive program will compensate you each time you take part in surveys and taking part in public opinion polls. By taking part in their paid surveys you earn rewards in the form of Lightspeed Points which can be redeemed for gift certificates once you reach as little as 500 points in your account, or saved up to redeem for bigger prizes. In addition, by taking online surveys at Lightspeed you earn prize draw entries into their quarterly cash prize drawing with a top prize of £1000 cash, 2 prizes of £500 and smaller prizes up for grabs.
Survey Savvy
Take Surveys - Get Rewards! Join SurveySavvy.com and they'll pay you real cash for fun and easy surveys while you shape the products and services of the future. Plus, they pay you when your friends take surveys and pay you even more when their friends take surveys! (Worldwide members needed!) Click Here
You Gov
Get paid to vote! Answer public opinion polls and surveys at You Gov and you can earn yourself cash or be rewarded with big prize draw competition entries. YouGov is a research company using online panels to provide research for public policy, market research, and stakeholder consultation. YouGov has a track record as the UK's most accurate pollster. In all five of the YouGov polls where data could be compared to actual outcomes (including the UK general election, the Australian election, the Pop Idol contest), they were within 1% of the actual result. As such an accurate gauge of public opinion, You Gov polls are often seen cited in broadsheet newspapers and are used by government itself when formulating policy changes. For once, your voice can really make a diffence...and you get paid too!
Emailinform
- You could win £10,000 just for joining!
Join Emailinform and gain automatic entry into a £10,000 prize draw! Emailinform offers consumers incentives for completing short lifestyle-related surveys and keeps users up-to-date with the latest offers and discounts from top brands and retailers. At the end of the sign-up survey, they get immediate access to a rewards page full of the latest discounts, offers and prizes. Incentives to date have included free holidays, 3G video phones, book and music discounts, shopping vouchers and a host of other lifestyle-related offers all for completing one survey.
Ipoints is a UK rewards program which will award you reward points for performing a variety of online activities including shopping and taking surveys. You do not have to do anything special, just join the survey site or shop as you were going to do anyway, but if they are partnered with Ipoints you click through from the ipoints site you will be credited with reward points! It's like having a store card you can use to gain rewards from hundreds of online companies! Reward points can be redeemed for purchase at top online retailers including Amazon.co.uk, Dixons, Firebox.com and more.
PickThem
Take the prize draw surveys at PickThem.co.uk and win prizes! Previous prize offers for taking surveys here have including fitness and sports equipment.
GoZing
Earn up to £25 per survey when you join the GoZing survey panel! This is another very active panel and one which is especially looking for the opinions of the UK general public on a variety of issues. When the panel first came into existence, GoZing was predominently looking for the opinions of cinema goers with lots of movie trailer surveys, DVD trailer preview test screenings and other questions of that ilk. These days however they have branched out into sending out product surveys too with up to £25 up for grabs for every survey completed. GoZing only pays through PayPal which, for those who do not know, is an easy way to transmit and receive money over the internet and now associated with the auction giant eBay.
NFO Interactive Consumer Club
Receive Shopping vouchers for completing surveys! The NFO survey group is ranked among the top 3 consumer research organisations in the world and claims to be the largest online market research company with offices in over 30 countries around the world. The NFO Interactive Consumer Club is their UK survey panel and a good one it is too. NFO Interactive panel members will earn shopping vouchers to use in a variety of top UK chain stores for every survey they complete. Members may receive both email surveys and postal surveys and may be asked to test new products before their market launch in order to provide valuable feedback research. The value of each survey varies from a few pounds sterling upwards.
Global Test Market
Be a part of Global Test Market and make a real difference! Your participation in paid survyes will directly influence how companies develop products and services to meet consumer needs. Get paid to influence the next generation of consumer services and products. Join Global Test Market now! (Available worldwide)
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Survey Spot
How would you like to have a voice in the marketplace and be rewarded for it? We are currently looking for people to voice their opinions on a variety of topics from entertainment to beverages - and here's the best part: You'll be entered in a drawing for one of over 100 prizes worth a total of $10,000, you'll take fun, interesting surveys and let your voice be heard!
When you join SurveySpot, we'll send you e-mail invitations to take part in short, fun surveys online. There's no commitment; you can take as many or as few surveys as you like. Just for joining SurveySpot, we'll enter your name into a drawing for over 100 prizes worth a total of $10,000 and there are more cash prize drawings every time you take a survey!
Your opinions will help companies to develop better products and services and help shape the future. Join SurveySpot today...and win! (US, Canada and UK)
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Opinion World
Earn competition entries for taking surveys and earn money for charity! Opinion World will donate money to charity for every email survey you respond to (supported charities are listed on the site). In addition, you earn entries into prize draw sweepstakes to win money for yourself and often additional cash for the charity of your choice. It's not often you get the chance to do something for charity, win yourself some cash and do it all for free so this one is well worth checking out.
Trendscan
Trendscan carry out online consumer and business research into various topics ranging from music to TV commercials. Trendscan are a German survey company who offer a two survey panels for prospective panelists, one for adults and the other for children. Both adults and children can take surveys and be rewarded here with 'trendchips' which can then be redeemed for Amazon vouchers. Surveys are available in six languages - Deutsch, English, Français, Cesky, Polski and Español...
Socratic Forum
Socratic Forum members participate in state-of-the-art Web-based surveys about the hottest new technologies and software, e-commerce innovations, business-to-business products and services, and forces driving the global economy. If you work with or are into technology products in any way then this is a great online survey panel to join. Survey rewards are good, usually paid out in Amazon gift vouchers for use at the well known Amazon online store.
Ciao
Complete paid surveys at Ciao! and earn up to £10 per completed questionnaire. Ciao are Europe's largest consumer opinion platform with several sites across Europe. They have panels in English, German, Spanish, French and Italian and are very active in sending out email surveys to their survey panel members. In fact there are two areas of the Ciao experience which will reward you for your opinion. There is the emailed survey responses as mentioned and there is another part which encourages you to cast your opinionated consumer eye over the products and services which are a part of all walks of every day life. If you then submit an online review of these then Ciao will award you with bonus cash for every time it is read by another site member and the most informative reviews on the month win extra money from a prize pot called the "bonus fund". Product and services reviews need only be 150 words at the minimal level and as there's the opportunity to write about anything from Mars bars to luxury yachts, you're sure to find this a nice way to earn an extra few pounds a month.
NOP World
NOP World conducts online consumer research and mystery shopping throughout the UK. As a survey panel member you will be awarded in "Ipoints
" which is a UK rewards program. Quick tip: join NOP through the ipoints.co.uk reward directory
(look under "free ipoints") and you will earn 20 bonus points just for becoming a member.
