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
How does it work?
Getting set up for UpVoice is a simple 3 step process.
- Have a Facebook account – This is the only way to sign up, you require an active Facebook account
- Go to UpVoice and sign up by filling in a short form – Nothing major, name, DOB, gender, country, and city.
- 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.
