PLATFORMS

Every platform we track, and what each one will not tell you

The same ten questions asked of every platform: who may join, what you are paid in, how many ways out, what is deducted, how long the whole chain takes, and how a balance can disappear. Answers come off the company's own pages, with the date we read them.

30 PLATFORMS · 10 QUESTIONS EACH · 59 ANSWERED · 1 NOT PUBLISHED

IbottaCashback on groceries and retail through offers, receipts and linked accounts.8/10

ProlificPaid participation in academic and commercial research studies.7/10

FreecashRewards site paying for offers, games and surveys.6/10 · 1 silent

FetchPoints for scanned receipts, redeemed as gift cards.6/10

InboxDollarsRewards site paying for surveys, offers and other small tasks.6/10

PaxumPayment account used widely for affiliate and publisher payouts.4/10

ExoClickSelf-serve ad network for advertisers and publishers.3/10

AdComboCPA network built around cash-on-delivery offers.3/10

AdsterraAd network covering push, pop, banner and direct link formats.2/10

CX3 AdsPerformance marketing network.2/10

FiverrPackaged services marketplace. You list, buyers order without a proposal.2/10

UpworkHourly and fixed-price freelance marketplace, formed from oDesk and Elance.2/10

ClickaduAd network for pop, push and in-page formats.1/10

EZmobSelf-serve network for pop, push and banner traffic.1/10

MGIDNative advertising and content recommendation network.1/10

RichAdsPush, pop and domain redirect traffic.1/10

HilltopAdsAd network for pop, push and video formats.1/10

KadamSelf-serve network for push, native and teaser formats.1/10

PopAdsPop-under network with per-impression bidding.1/10

TrafficStarsSelf-serve network, heavily used for entertainment traffic.1/10

PropellerAdsSelf-serve network for push, pop and interstitial traffic.0/10

CAKEEnterprise affiliate and lead management platform.0/10

PrintfulPrint on demand with in-house fulfilment. Free to open an account.0/10

PrintifyPrint on demand through a network of third-party print shops.0/10

ThriveTrackerAd tracker sold both hosted and self-hosted.0/10

TUNEPartner marketing platform, formerly sold as HasOffers.0/10

VoluumHosted ad tracker built for paid media buying.0/10

BeMobHosted tracker with a free tier.0/10

BinomSelf-hosted tracker with a flat licence instead of per-event pricing.0/10

RedTrackHosted tracker and attribution tool.0/10

Why these ten questions

They were not picked in a meeting. Twenty articles on this site each end with a short list of things to check before you sign up, written one at a time while reading the company's own pages. Counting those forty-five items afterwards produced a ranking: country and eligibility appeared in nineteen, waiting time in fifteen, what you are actually paid in in fifteen. The payout minimum, the figure most people search for, appeared in almost none of them, because every article had already treated it as given.

So the minimum is one row of ten here. The rows that decide more often are the ones nobody puts in a comparison table: whether your country is on the second list as well as the first, whether the balance survives a quiet month, and whether there is a second way to get paid when the first one fails.

The bars are three counts, never a score. Green is published, red is asked for and not published, grey is not checked yet. They are deliberately not added up: a single number would have to decide that these ten questions weigh the same for everyone, and they do not. Someone who needs cash and someone who will take a gift card are asking different questions.