Open to all Australian residents over 14, Ciao is one of the biggest international survey sites with its own Australian office. Ciao’s online surveys are targeted to your individual interests and you'll get a cash reward or gift worth $1-5 AUD, or entry into a prize drawing, for each paid survey you complete. For every friend that you invite, and who takes an online survey, they’ll credit your account with an extra 50 cents!

Open to all residents of Australia and New Zealand aged 16+

Launched in 1986, Nielsen Homescan Australia Consumer Panel offers you the ability to influence the products you see on store shelves when you go shopping, and now has a panel of over 10,000 Australians (270,000 households worldwide). They send you a hand-held scanner designed to read barcodes on items that you buy. Just scan them before putting your purchases away, then once a week, the scanner transmits your purchase data to Nielsen Homescan Australia Consumer Panel - free of charge. In exchange for this information you earn gift points, redeemable toward gifts offered in their catalogue.

Open to all Australian residents over the age of 18 with a landline telephone.

New Zealand Panel also available

With Fat Cat Rewards, Australian members earn Cash Rewards completing offers, entering Competitions, taking Surveys, and Product Sampling. You earn $10 just for registering and can earn up to $50 per survey.

New Zealand panel also available.

Surveyhead was founded in 2008 by the founders of goZing.com, one of the first and biggest online paid survey opportunities. In 2005, goZing was acquired by GreenfieldOnline and is now part of Ciao. Today, Surveyhead’s parent company, United Sample, works with corporations and market research firms around the world to help them gain competitive intelligence through online surveying. By joining this new panel, and in exchange for providing your opinion, Surveyhead will pay you a cash reward via PayPal for each survey you complete plus $5 just for registering. Open to Australian residents over 14 plus residents of UK, USA and Canada.

Opinion Matters is an online community of Australians who want to voice their opinions. Members participate in surveys on such topics as Product Development, New Advertising Campaigns, Political Polling, Social Issues.

• Prize Points: Multiple entries into the quarterly $1,500 Draw
• Cash Points: Redeem for Cash or Donate to Charity. Cash points earned per survey average between $2 and $10.

Every time you complete a survey you earn points worth between $2 and $10 or can select more Prize Draw entries. You can also earn 20 points (equivalent to AU$2) for every referral you make.

• Registration earns you 1,500 points
• Quick votes, each time you take part earns you 15 points (there are always loads of these on the site so visit regularly. They take a matter of seconds to complete.)
• Product testing, registering for each trial earns you 75 points even if you're not selected to take part
• Surveys earn you between 3,000 and 30,000 points
• Referring a friend, for each person who joins Test&Vote because of you, you will earn 500 points
• Subject panels - complete these to get 500 points per subject.

You can either exchange your points for a range of vouchers or use them to buy tickets in the monthly lottery where you could win cash prizes.

See our international paid survey pages for Test & Vote panels from outside Australia

Valued Opinions Australia is a service which rewards YOU for taking part in market research surveys online. By becoming a member, you will be invited to complete surveys for genuine market research purposes. For every survey you correctly complete, you will typically earn between AU$2 and AU$5), and once your balance reaches AU$10 or more, you can select your reward from a choice of stores or charity donations.

• Men should join the male panel and
• Women should join the female panel

Valued Opinions New Zealand is also looking for participants and has several different panels to join. Male participants should join the Valued Opinions New Zealand Male Panel whilst women should join Valued Opinions New Zealand Female Panel.

Join The Great New Zealand Business Survey for your chance to win the major prize of $15,000 cash which is drawn every 6 months. On top of that they have weekly prizes including cash, gift vouchers, travel and more for participating in various research projects. As a member of The Great New Zealand Business Survey they'll contact you from time to time about products, services, offers and to seek your opinion and feedback on various topics. Every time they make contact you'll earn more competition entries into the major and/or weekly prize draws.

Opinions Paid offer a range of surveys to take part in including:

• Concept Evaluations - these are to provide manufacturers with direction for the development of new products
• Product Evaluations – we send product to your home for you to evaluate. You the receive a survey online to complete. These surveys provide manufacturers with an indication of how appealing a product is and how likely it is to succeed.
• Usage And Attitude Studies – these are usually quite long, and consider a specific category in detail, such as laundry. These surveys provide manufacturers with an accurate view of there market, so they understand how you use their products and what’s important to you.
• Satisfaction Surveys – these usually include lots of statements that you have to rate. They are to help business understand how happy you are with the service they provide, what’s important to you and how they can improve the service they provide.

OpinionsPaid offer a variety of rewards through a points based system called Zoints. You receive Zoints for completing surveys, referring friends to become members, and by being loyal panel members. The surveys will vary in length & you will receive a different number of Zoints, based on the length of the survey.

Most surveys should not take more than 15 minutes to complete, however there will be surveys that take longer. Before you begin the survey they include an estimation of how long it will take, so you can set aside the appropriate amount of time.

• Movie Vouchers from Village/Greater Union
• Coles Myer Gift Vouchers – that can be used Myer, Target, Coles, Bilo, Liquorland, Vintage Cellars, 1st Choice, OfficeWorks, Baby Target, Country Target
• Woolsworth/Safeway Wish Cards – that can be used at Caltex Fuel stations, Woolworths, Safeway, Big W, Dick Smiths, Dick Smith PowerHouse, Tandy, BWS, Dan Murphy, Woolworths/Safeway Liquor, Woolworths/Safeway Homeshop, First Estate.
• Bunnings Warehouses Gift Vouchers.
• Harvey Norman Gift Vouchers.

Your participation in these surveys also support charities. At the end of each survey questionnaire, you'll be asked to choose from a list of charities to which they will donate cash.

Join 'The Great Australian Survey', complete a short 5 minute survey and go into the draw to win $30,000, with regular opportunities for further draw entries.

Join 'The Great New Zealand Survey', complete a short 5 minute survey and go into the draw to win $5,000, with regular opportunities for further draw entries.

LiveTribe (formerly Qualified Opinions) want your opinions and we'll reward you for them. Join their panel by completing the registration survey and you'll be in the running for a chance to win some great prizes. One lucky member will have the chance to win prizes of their choice to the value of $1,000,000 – or you can simply take the cash if you can't decide!

LiveTribe is a leading supplier of public opinion to the international market research community. As a LiveTriber members are able to join in surveys, competitions, polls, focus groups, interact with other members and more. With connections to your favourite social network sites, it has never been easier to get rewarded for opinions. Chance to win $50,000 dollars every month, promotional cash giveaways i.e. Giveaway $1000 a week for 10 weeks as well as thousands of syndicated lotto tickets to give away for participating.

Accept an invitation to complete one of the paid online surveys and you'll be entered into the monthly cash prize draw. Increase your chances of winning, every invitation you accept to complete a survey gives you another chance to win the monthly cash prize.

Each time you complete an online survey you have the chance to instantly receive a $50 cash bonus for your opinion. There are hundreds of cash bonuses to be won.

When you reply to an invitation to take part in a survey you get a free syndicated entry into Saturday night lotto (10 lines) - guaranteed. Your opinion could be worth more than you think! They'll give you an additional 10 line syndicated entry for each survey you participate in.

Stick Around For More Chances to Get Paid for Online Surveys You get an automatic entry into each $1000 monthly cash prize draw just for staying a member of LiveTribe and get an extra entry into the monthly cash prize draw for every person you refer that signs up with the panel.

The LiveTribe research panel is also available in New Zealand, and is coming soon to south East Asia.

BrandLeaders participants earn reward points for every survey they answer and those points can be cashed in for either instant rewards or used to enter into prize draws for product or cash.

• Completion of one survey category = 4000 points
• Completion of any additional survey categories = 2000 points per additional category
• Completion of one survey category by 5pm AEST 31/5/07 = 2000 points
• Referral of a friend = 2,000 points
• Completion of all ten survey categories = 3000 points (on top of points earned from individual categories that are filled in and early entry)

W Ratings Corp. conducts interviews with active customers via the web, phone, mail, fax or in-person. You may be interviewed by any of those means. Incentives vary depending on the number of interviews to complete within your panel. Most panelists receive gift certificates ranging from $5 US to $20 US or more. The gift certificates are from a range of suppliers that operate online or offline.

To be selected as a panelist, you must first become a Consumer Member. You will be asked to complete a survey as part of the process. You must also submit a rating for any company on the M-W Value Leaders Board. (details on the site)You will need about 5 to 7 minutes to complete this online interview.

You must be an individual, 18 years of age or older, and a legal resident of the United States, Canada, the UK, or Australia.

Taylor Research Services is an independent, specialist market research company with over 30 years experience, and offer cash or other incentives for assisting them with their research with online surveys and group discussions.

They are looking for New Zealand residents of any age but particularly 30-60 Year olds in Auckland and Christchurch and people living in Wellington.

McNair Ingenuity Research conduct research on specific topics, such as cars, financial products or even your views on social issues. Sometimes these are short telephone surveys. At other times you may be asked to fill out a questionnaire, or even be invited to participate in a discussion group. If you decide to take part in a survey they will offer an incentive such as a gift voucher, payment or prize draw.

This panel is only open to Australian and New Zealand Residents aged 16 and over.