YouGov.com is a website that allows anyone to become a panel member for free, in order to collect real peoples’ opinions from across the nation.
YouGov conducts polls and surveys about politics, public affairs, brands, and other topics of general interest. Once you become a member, you will begin receiving invitations for surveys. For every survey you complete, you will earn points.
The points you earn can eventually be exchanged for a variety of different rewards, including T-shirts, tote bags, gift cards, movie tickets, and sometimes even cash.
Not all surveys award points upon completion, however. Some surveys simply enter you into a monthly drawing for cash prizes.
A Different Kind of Market Research
Most market research companies are contracted by major corporations in order to discover what their target market is looking for in product development, advertising, or just general wants or needs.
YouGov.com, on the other hand, has a decidedly political aspect to their market research. They claim to be a non-partisan organization, whose surveys do not represent either a Republican or Democratic view.
However, YouGov does partner with outside organizations to gather opinions from their members. These surveys are completely confidential, and though your responses will be provided to an outside organization, none of your contact information will be.
When you sign up with YouGov, though, you must provide your accurate home address for two reasons. First, they need to know where to send your prizes once they’ve been redeemed. Second, some of their political surveys are specific to a region or voting population.
YouGov Surveys and Prizes
The average survey at YouGov.com will only take about 5-7 minutes to complete, though surveys can vary in length. YouGov says their longest survey will not run longer than 20 minutes to complete.
As for their rewards and prizes, you must become a member of YouGov before you can see how many points you must accumulate in exchange for a prize. Currently, though, they are giving new members a welcome bonus of 1000 points, so hopefully it won’t be too time consuming to earn a prize.
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After reading all the messages here I am so glad I decided to do my own research. Most online surveys are scams! Take for ever to get points, when you actually get them and even worse to get the rewards. Lets avoid them all.
Thanks for sharing. I wont waste time with this one.
if you want to get more points, do every survey you get from them, they ask qualifiers in some surveys so if you don't so one survey that has a qualifier in it, your missing out on two sets of points.
I got up to 5000 points and fifty quid in about 6 month.
Gonna try answering more left wing as some other people have said that might get me more surveys to do, but I doubt it, some people think everything's a conspiracy. YEEHAW!
Note that after you sign up with YouGov you will continue to receive occasional e-mails no matter what actions you take.
The lefties are always trying to scam people!
7 years for just $100 visa card and you have to fight to get it? come on! That is a waste of time and energy.