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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Be honest with yourself: do you spend at least 5 - 10 minutes/day messing around on the Internet? Then you should join YouGov, where you ALWAYS get paid.
BIG PLUS: they often ask YOUR OPINION ON IMPORTANT ISSUES. YouGov polls are quoted on CNN, etc. , so you get "your two cents worth." Actually, no: when you hit 100,000 points, you get $100. That is EQUAL TO PUTTING 10,000 PENNIES IN A JAR. Keep in mind you then have to roll the pennies, label each one, go to the bank, etc. THIS IS EASIER. If you're counting every penny, DO BOTH.
And yes, it was the YouGov site. Screw them. They are a scam.
I've been a member in the U.S. for several years. Any time I've redeemed points, my reward arrives promptly, usually in less time than the stated likely amount of time.
It's worth reading through all the stuff you get when you sign up. I've noted that some people are looking for a reward after 5,000 points -- there are no rewards available at that level. Others have mentioned not ever seeing cash show up in their PayPal accounts -- no such reward is offered (at least not in the U.S.). 20,000 is the minimum points required to redeem any reward. Others complain that sometimes they get a number of surveys offered in a short period, and then none for some time; that's pretty standard. Often they're looking for a particular profile type, depending on the type of survey they're doing. They have never retracted any points from me and points show up immediately in my account after I take the surveys. So I think some of the troubles people have may come from not reading and understanding how the site works.
I see customer service complaints as well. The only issue I've ever had was when I installed their web-tracker and it didn't work. They responded quickly the several times I contacted them about it, though the replies were not too helpful, and I ended up deleting it (fine since I'm not crazy about the notion anyway, but tons of extra points were on offer so I gave it a try).
Another time I dealt with their customer service was after not having internet access for a number of years. Previous to that, I'd racked up some points and figured I could just kiss them goodbye after years offline. My account had been deactivated, so not much hope. But I sent an email and within a week, they reactivated my account AND gave me back the points I had accrued some four years earlier. So I have no complaints about YouGov.
Someone said they were getting spammed with dozens of surveys per DAY. Seriously, that's not YouGov. It's some shadow-scam.
Read the FAQs, use the secure (https) web address, and have some patience. You're not going to earn a living on YouGov but they are reputable, well-regarded, and spell out up front what you can expect. Any diversion from that, you should be reporting those emails as spam and maybe even phishing.
Some of the most reputable companies in the world use YouGov for market research, and so do plenty of entities looking to do social/political polling. I'm about to cash in another bulk of points and you'll certainly hear from me (as will YouGov) if my redemption does not arrive within the prescribed time -- but I fully expect that it will, as it always has in the past.
I'm a legit and longtime YouGov user. I ended up here because I googled a question about what form my reward comes in -- electronic or an actual card? I found the answer (it's a card). But I saw some of these comments and felt like it was worthwhile to share my own experiences. I hope I've been useful.
The surveys are quick not like some other sites where they ask you 30 minutes worth of questions. I've never taken a survey and had it say I didn't qualify. I had that happen at other survey sites. I like now at the end of most surveys you can add an addition 100 points to you survey for answering a few bonus questions.
I tell everyone I know about YouGov and how they can earn $100 a year. It's not a scam it's real and it works!
I chose to have $100 transferred to my bank account.
Sent the bank info. Never saw a deposit. Contacted YouGov several times to no avail.
Surveys have dwindled off since then.
They like you unless you try to redeem points.
i did a check online, the address belongs to FastTrack pte ltd.
I regularly get surveys, every 2 to 4 days. Still not till the payout of 5000 points yet. will update again after I try to cash out
i have 120 point - 4880 to go.
and i'm member since 1 week.
I have done survey whenever there is a new one came out over 2 to 3 years and got enough point to redeem SGD$25. But after clicking the redeem button, it say will credit to my account, but never. Contacted their support, 9 days no answer and never will be.