Toluna Surveys

Toluna is effectively an online market research organization that has created an online community dedicated to giving people the chance to have their voices heard. They offer members of their website the chance to express themselves through the use of Toluna’s polls, reviews and surveys. At the same time, you are able to find out exactly what other people think if they choose to include their polls in their personal Toluna blog.

They are currently inviting people to become a part of this process, and if you are interested in doing so you can register directly through the Toluna website. As part of the registration procedure, you will be asked to provide some basic information on your personal situation and background, which is necessary in order for you to win the prizes and earn the rewards that are on offer.

As a member, you will be eligible to take part in various surveys and product tests, and a fun aspect to the site allows you to create your own polls and opinion topics. Furthermore, every time you participate in any of the Toluna surveys and studies, you will accumulate points and could win up to $5,000 or £2,000 in their monthly draw. The points you earn can also be converted into cash rewards.

General Information

• Accepts Members From: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Singapore, Russia, India, New Zealand and International
  
   
• Age Requirements: Not Specified
  
   
• Type of Rewards: Points redeemable for rewards, cash, sweepstakes. (Varies depending on your country of residence).
  
   
• Sweepstakes, Prize Draws or Competitions: Monthly sweepstakes – prizes of up to $5,000 or £2,000 cash.
  
   
• What is The Minimum Payment. This is the Amount Needed to Request a Redemption or Payout: $20.00 or 60, 000 points (May vary depending on your country of residence).
   

Company Information

• Physical Location of this Survey Company’s Office:

  14 Place Marie-Jeanne Bassot
  92300 Levallois-Perret

  
  
• Type of Market Research They Conduct: Online Surveys and Polls.

Member Ratings & Reviews

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Comments Overall Rating: Survey Frequency: Survey Incentives: Panel Legitimacy: Recommended: Comments By: Aspen From: US Comment: Their surveys are generally very long, usually much longer than they predict, for quite low rewards. You need 60,000 points to cash out for $20. I have cashed out once, and am halfway to cashing out again. However, I don't qualify for many surveys they send me. There are several other ways to receive points, but no matter what, it takes a while to get to 60,000. It seems most surveys offer between 1,200 and 3,000 points. Date: Aug 01, 2011 Overall Rating: Survey Frequency: Survey Incentives: Panel Legitimacy: Recommended: Comments By: Janet Daniels From: US Comment: I just started Toluna exactly 1 month ago and have already taken a ton of surveys. I've cashed out once and am waiting for points to cash out again. I like that there are no games to play and that there is a blog with the other members. It's kind of like facebook without physically knowing the other people. You can be yourself and express you true opinions. It is truly alot of fun Date: May 16, 2011 Overall Rating: Survey Frequency: Survey Incentives: Panel Legitimacy: Recommended: Comments By: Patricia From: US Comment: I have been a member of Toluna for only a short few months, and am on the verge of receiving my first payout. At first I thought that it would be hard to earn enough points to reach a payout in a reasonable time, but I guess this goes to prove me wrong. All the surveys I have taken part in have been paying well, plus I love taking part in the Sponsored Surveys to earn some quick extra points. I really like how you can earn points by creating your own opinion topics and polls too, as doing these regularly helps the points balance to add up even faster. Best of all, their refer-a-friend points bonus of 500 for each person is great; and thanks to 9 friends of mine I am now 4500 points closer to payout! I know some members aren’t always happy with the points earned vs. time spent doing them or the qualification system, but I think so long as you keep your profile up to date and complete some personal interest surveys, you’ll be in with a good chance of being invited to more surveys and therefore earning your points faster. That being said, I guess I might just be one of the lucky ones who does qualify often. At least there’s always Sweepstakes entry as incentive, even if you don’t complete a survey. Overall, I think Toluna is a pretty good survey company that aims to provide its members with fun and interesting surveys to take part in. I hope to be a long time member and continue to enjoy providing my opinions and taking part in their surveys. Date: May 02, 2011 Overall Rating: Survey Frequency: Survey Incentives: Panel Legitimacy: Recommended: Comments By: Allan From: United Kingdom Comment: TOLUNA – www.toluna.co.uk I joined Toluna in December 2008. Toluna have been a prolific provider of surveys in the 2+ years I have been a member. I use the word "member" because Toluna is not just a survey site but also a feature-rich, true community website combining surveys, product testing, member polls, sponsored polls, message boards and much more. This review should focus on the survey aspects of Toluna; however, I would be undervaluing Toluna by omitting a brief mention of some of the sites other excellent facilities. Because of this, this review is necessarily longer than usual but by no means comprehensive. Members are able to communicate with each other through a Username created upon registering. A member can also create a "Public Profile" which of course can be viewed by the Toluna community and used by them to find other members with interests, hobbies and backgrounds similar to their own. Two useful facilities for members are "Opinion Topics" and "Opinion Polls" and members can create these at any time. One example use for these is if a member has a problem that he/she would like opinions for, the member can either:- 1) Create an "Opinion Poll" and allow other members the opportunity to offer their opinion through multiple-choice answers provided by the creator. This facility does appeal to many members since it requires minimal input through just a few mouse clicks, OR 2) Create an "Opinion Topic" where a member can ask a question and allow other members to provide answers or opinions as free-format text comments. These are very popular facilities within Toluna; videos can also be included as part of the entry and many members make excellent use of them and are ready and willing to participate. Now onto the survey side of Toluna. Again Toluna is not just a simple survey site but offers several different facilities for members to earn Toluna reward points (more about these later). 1) Completing the 17 Toluna "Interest Surveys" will allow Toluna to filter surveys they send to your email Inbox so that the survey has a much better chance of being suitable for you and completing these will earn you 2000 Toluna points. 2) Email survey invitations are sent to you based on the criteria in your "Interest Surveys", these are usually quite accurate and I tend to receive more suitable surveys than unsuitable. The email contains a unique "Survey Id.", the estimated time taken to complete the survey and the number of reward points you will receive upon successful completion - Great! Everything you need to know to maintain records of the surveys you complete. There is usually no reward if you are screened out. The points you earn from invited surveys are usually credited to your account when the survey is "Closed", this can be a few days or it can be months, however, your survey history found under "You/Your points" on the website will list any as yet unpaid surveys as well as paid. Some surveys may lead to an invitation to test a product, I have been lucky in 2 such surveys to test savoury snacks. The value of surveys in terms of reward points varies considerably, more about this later. 3) "Sponsored Polls" are available on the Toluna website under the "Explore/Polls" selection. These are mini surveys comprising just a few questions and can give your points balance a big boost. Each "Sponsored Poll" can be worth between 15 and about 150 points and the points are guaranteed since they are credited to you account immediately. After you have answered some qualifying questions, some "Sponsored Polls" will automatically redirect you to a normal style survey – perhaps even on a partner web site. From experience, this can be a waste of time and rather annoying since these surveys have a high level of screen-outs or the survey has reached its quota or simply expired. The User is then left to make their way back to the website to continue with the "Sponsored Polls". These automatic redirections can be cancelled by quickly hitting the "F5" key when the redirection message appears. If you do decide and manage to complete one of these surveys, the reward points are usually credited to your account within a couple of days. 4) Product tests are also occasionally available under the "Test & Rewards/Test Area" selection. New products to test can be anything from snacks and toothbrushes to mobile 'phones and plasma televisions and usually appear each Monday. It's simple to register, but alas, I have had no success in this section although I have registered for all suitable products. Of course, once you have tested the product and provided the required feedback, you get to keep the product. Now to the subject of the reward points. These can be earned for all surveys; I have never been invited to complete a survey for which no reward was offered. Reward points can be exchanged for entries into a Prize Draw to win various cash prizes - 1 ticket costs 500 points. Points can be redeemed for shopping vouchers. My favourite is the "Love2Shop" voucher which is exchangeable at many high street stores, but unfortunately, NOT the big supermarkets. - Yet! You need to collect 80,000 points to redeem for a £15 voucher - that's equivalent to 18.75p per 1000 points. As I mentioned earlier the value of surveys varies tremendously, the absolute minimum I am prepared to accept to complete a survey is 1000 points per 5 minutes - but even this becomes unattractive the longer the survey is. This brings the earning capacity about par with many other survey sites. However, occasionally some very lucrative surveys are offered for example 10,000 points (£1.875) for a ten minute survey. So far everything I have said about Toluna has been positive, but there are some negatives. 1) If you join Toluna, I highly recommend that you maintain a record of all surveys completed - as occasionally the completion of a survey does tend to go unrecorded by Toluna. I have mentioned how to keep records in another review on this site. 2) In November 2009 the value of Toluna Reward Points was effectively devalued - let me explain. For a Love2Shop voucher, the redemption threshold was increased from 60,000 to 80,000 points (an increase of 33%) whereas the redemption value was increased from £12 to only £15 (an increase of only 25%). Expressed another way, before the change you would earn 20p per 1000 points, after the change you would earn only 18.75p per 1000 points. Expressed yet another way, before the change, you had to earn 5000 points per £1, after the change you have to earn 5333 points per £1. Some may comment it is a small, trivial change per £1, but multiply 333 points by 15 before you can redeem and it becomes quite a big change. Trivial, maybe, but it seemed important to Toluna to make the change in the first place. 3) Since November 2009, I also noticed that the actual value of surveys (points per minute) also seemed to have been reduced, this stabilised during 2010 but now, once again, in the past month I have noticed a marked reduction in the average value of surveys. To quote some examples, many surveys I have been invited to have offered considerably LESS than my minimum 1000 points (18.75p) per five minutes. One survey received recently offered only 4000 points (75p) for 50 minutes. Another offered 1700 points (<32p) for 45 minutes. It’s not surprising that I often receive reminder invitation emails for these low value surveys, which indicates to me that other members feel that they are not good value either. I'm sorry Toluna but there are other survey sites out there offering much fairer rewards. 4) Also recently, several times now, I have had the following situation arise which one may call the “bait survey” situation – this is what happens. I receive an email inviting me to take a very high value survey. I obviously accept the invitation and click through to begin the survey. I am immediately or after a couple of “screening” questions told that the survey has reached its quota and I am asked if I would like to take another Survey. Upon clicking “Yes”, I am redirected to another screen to take the follow-on survey which is of much lower value. One may comment that, okay, the survey had indeed reached its quota, but on one occasion I responded to such an email invitation only FIVE minutes after receiving it only to be told it had reached its quota. This could be coincidence or deliberate, but it appears to me that perhaps fake, high value “bait” surveys are being used to “persuade” members to complete the low value follow-on surveys. Overall, Toluna offers its members a good deal of excellent facilities and some lucrative ways of making extra cash, if you choose your methods wisely. Choose unwisely and you may be spending a lot of your valuable time for little reward - time that could be better spent with other survey sites. The community spirit is strong and looking at some of members comments on the site, you will see that we are not afraid to express our opinions. I hope this review has helped you to decide whether or not to join Toluna. Date: Jan 30, 2011 Overall Rating: Survey Frequency: Survey Incentives: Panel Legitimacy: Recommended: Comments By: trd From: US Comment: I joined Toluna on 12/15/10...since then I have been paid (once $20) and also have two (2) payments pending.... so easy to get $$ that I can get $60-$80 per month just by spending a few minutes each day on the site....! qualified for my first payment after only 5 days and got my check within 3 weeks...no B.S. best site I've joined.... Date: Jan 16, 2011 Overall Rating: Survey Frequency: Survey Incentives: Panel Legitimacy: Recommended: Comments By: Abraham Benadict From: India Comment: Toluna.com is the best site for any one interested in earing a few extra dollars by completing surveys. The website is also user friendly and the fact that use can also earn points by simply answering poll questions, to which there are hundreds to choose from. You usually earn 15 points per poll question however they can range as high as 75 points, which is a lot for simple one click of the mouse. Users always have surveys available to complete which is nice as you get to pick and choose which ones you would like to complete. To cash out you just need 60,000 points which equals $20. (paypal) It is so easy to accumulate this many points as there are quite a few surveys that offer reward points worth 10,000-15,000. the average is 5,000. Toluna is probably one of the most effective survey site and transparent as more the efforts the more the rewards. Its an amazing platform to be and to rely for all the surveyers Date: Dec 29, 2010 Overall Rating: Survey Frequency: Survey Incentives: Panel Legitimacy: Recommended: Comments By: Jason From: Canada Comment: I would definitely recommend Toluna.com for any one interested in earing a few extra dollars by completing surveys. This website is very unique in the fact that use can also earn points by simply answering poll questions, to which there are hundreds to choose from. You usually earn 15 points per poll question however they can range as high as 75 points, which is a lot for simple one click of the mouse. They always have surveys available to complete which is nice as you get to pick and choose which ones you would like to complete. To cash out you need 60,000 points which equals $20. (paypal) It is not difficult to accumulate this many points as there are quite a few surveys that offer reward points worth 10,000-15,000. I would say the average is 5,000. Toluna is probably one of the most user friendly survey site and really caters to the wants and needs of the surveyees. Date: Sep 28, 2010 Overall Rating: Survey Frequency: Survey Incentives: Panel Legitimacy: Recommended: Comments By: Dominic From: US Comment: I recommend this site. The incentives are great and the surveys do come but my only problem is I have a hard time logging in sometimes. Not much to say about this because I don't use them that much but I recommend it. Date: Aug 10, 2010