All Starts With One

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Get Paid To Watch YouTube Videos via UpVoice

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Now there is a click bait title if I ever saw one but the statement holds true. Read it as ‘Get Paid To Watch YouTube Videos’ then imagine me muttering ‘but not a lot’ under my breath straight after. That’s the disclaimer that’s required here. I will say though, you might not get paid a lot for using UpVoice but you also have to do next to nothing. So the effort to reward ratio is really quite nice. Let’s break down what exactly it is and what you need to do to claim the rewards.

What exactly is UpVoice?

UpVoice is a market research project conducted by BrandTotal. This company is committed to analyzing the so-called “dark” marketing – that is, advertising efforts that are usually invisible to anyone but their creator, as well as the consumer. To do this, BrandTotal came up with a browser extension that monitors the personalized ads those consumers are being served.

Now the natural concern here is if you are using this browser extension what other data are you handing over? You aren’t it turns out as it fully complies with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and the data is anonymous and non-identifiable. This was enough to give me the piece of mind to sign up

The applicable websites for UpVoice
The applicable websites for UpVoice

How does it work?

Getting set up for UpVoice is a simple 3 step process.

  1. Have a Facebook account – This is the only way to sign up, you require an active Facebook account
  2. Go to UpVoice and sign up by filling in a short form – Nothing major, name, DOB, gender, country, and city.
  3. Download their Google Chrome extension – has to be Google Chrome currently.

And that is it, you are now ready to get paid to watch YouTube videos! The extension runs in the background automatically and anonymously collecting information on the ads that you see on Facebook, YouTube, Amazon, LinkedIn, Instagram, or Twitter.

What is the payout structure?

You get paid out for collecting tokens. When you sign up you get given 300 tokens, then every day that you visit one of the sites (ad block must be off) you get given an extra 10 tokens. Get to 600 and you can cash them in for a $5 amazon gift card. You can also do the occasional survey or recommend a friend to get extra tokens but the daily visit is the bread and butter.

Is UpVoice worth it?

For me its very simple. Do you either already use Chrome or are willing to use that as your main browser? Do you visit one of Facebook, YouTube, Amazon, LinkedIn, Instagram, or Twitter most days? If the answer to both is yes then its worth it. If the answer is no then probably not.

The appeal of UpVoice is that it should just run in the background. You forget its there and every month or so you collect your gift card. If it gets to the point where you actually have to put effort in daily for it then the payment level just simply is not worth your time.

Best Ways To Earn Some Extra Beer Money

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I’m currently researching into some new areas that I haven’t explored previously. I threw myself down a Reddit rabbit hole to see what I could find. After a few side hustle related podcasts and some what I could only assume were pyramid schemes (apparently not even Covid can get rid of them) I stumbled across r/beermoney. A subreddit dedicated to the best ways to earn some extra beer money (Other beverages do exist). There’s no get rich quick schemes here and it makes that clear from the outset with this description:

r/beermoney is a community for discussing the best ways to earn some extra money online
You shouldn’t expect to make a living, but it is possible to make extra cash on the side

This is exactly what I’m looking for, just a few extra things to keep it turning over. I hit a snag very early in that the subreddit is mainly aimed at the US. Fortunately there is r/BeermoneyUK, a UK version that although is smaller it still works off the same concept. A few hours of research digging through historical posts and threads on there and I came across one user who had posted the main sites he had used over the last month. He also put what each site earned him and it came to a very handy £163.08! He mainly used the following as they were his best ways to earn some extra beer money:

  • Prolific – His top earner. A site where you are paid for your participation in research studies. Companies, PHD students, universities etc need participants from certain demographics to fill in surveys and you can get paid to do it.
  • Amazon Mechanical Turk – A crowdsourcing marketplace for individuals and businesses to outsource their processes and jobs virtually. This could include anything from conducting simple data validation and research to more subjective tasks like survey participation, content moderation, and more.
  • Neevo – Much the same as the above two describing itself as ‘Simply sign up, do tasks, and get paid to help shape the future.’
  • Serpclix – A simple get paid to visit websites milarky. Sites want their click through rates increased to help with SEO and you get paid to be that click.
  • Upvoice – Reffered to as the easiest browser extension to earn from. You just install the extension and visit any of the participating sites and you get 10 tokens per day. 600 tokens = $10 gift card for amazon
  • ySense – Another Survey site
  • UserTesting – This one comes highly recommended and apparently can be a decent earner. Its based around testing websites and apps and getting paid to do so
  • Qmee – A survey site with the rare advantage of there being no minimum cashout.

So quite a few for me to start investigating! I’m going to start working through them and will put up a full post on each one when I know the ins and outs of them better.

In terms of more immediate earnings I’ve got another casino offer on the go so imagine that will be the next update.