Comments on: Nielsen Computer and Mobile Panel Review

By: Joni

Joni — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 06:13:03 +0000

I put it on an iPhone and a Samsung, and I can’t log into the app on either phone.

I saw that I was supposed to get up to 300 points for signing up, but it didn’t happen. I contacted them and I received a whopping 5 points.

I can’t even do anything since it doesn’t recognize my login info. I didn’t think much about it when the Samsung wouldn’t let me login but when my iPhone wouldn’t allow it today, I’m wondering what’s going on.

Nothing against the Nielsen company or their employees but it did slow down my Samsung phone so that I can’t even watch videos. They freeze up after maybe a second. I hope others have a better experience than I did. I’m not saying give up or don’t do it but maybe think on it a bit first.

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:50:29 +0000

I’ve been signed up for about a year (I guess) and have accumulated enough points to redeem for a reward, which I did about six weeks ago. I haven’t received the reward and can’t get them to respond to many emails and voice messages. I assume all of their members will be treated in the same manner.

By: R.J. Weiss

R.J. Weiss — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 15:55:40 +0000

In reply to Jay. Wow Jay. Really appreciate the detail and insight!

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 15:49:23 +0000

Thanks for the informative article.

I tried the Nielson Mobile Panel App on a backup Android (OS9) mobile phone, one I rarely use, it just sits on my home WIFI 24/7 so no additional monthly costs are incurred (except some fractional kWh).

In the first 2 months (10 weeks) of being registered with Nielson Panel I got the following rewards and payouts:

Welcome Bonus: 200 pts
Mobile Monthly Bonus (200 p/m): 400 pts
Quarterly Bonus (300 p/qtr): 300 pts
November Free Gift (in 3x weekly instalments): 3000 pts
Survey (short and sweet): 300 pts
Total: 4200 pts
Payouts – Amazon Gift Cards (£5 = 1000 pts): -4000 pts = £20
Balance: 200 pts

(I redeemed a £5 Amazon Gift Card each time my balance exceeded the 1000 pt minimum payout) – EASY!

So assuming for the remainder of the year (10 months) I continue to get only:
Mobile Monthly Bonus (200 p/m): 2000 pts
Quarterly Bonus (300 p/qtr): 900 pts
My 1st Year Total (1x mobile device) will be: 7100 pts = £35 Amazon

Not bad for very little effort. I am now going to register a 2nd device (an unused Android Tablet and see what my yearly payout limit tops out at…

CAVEATS & MITIGATIONS:
Security – I don’t install this on my primary mobile or my desktop PCs (which I use daily for online banking/Stocks/Crypto/Passwords etc). The Nielson App does employ their own VPN, so If you already use one on your device it will be disabled. Its easy to turn off the Nielson App temporarily by disabling/enabling its VPN (or permanently by uninstalling the App).

Performance/Data Usage – I only use Nielson on device(s) that use ‘free’ home firewalled WIFI and that are not normally actively used, so I have not been impacted at all regarding performance or data usage. Nevertheless, I have monitored the additional CPU & Data Usage on my connected mobile device and the Nielson App barely registers as additional usage. This may be different for different Hardware/OS combinations. so you should monitor this yourself.

SUMMARY: I do recommend Nielson Mobile Computer Panel as an easy way to ‘earn’ some gift cards for next to no effort.

By: John Pippin

John Pippin — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 07:09:58 +0000

I had actually installed this on my PC. This last week, I had a gut feeling that something was slowing down my computer. After searching high and low I discovered that the Nielsen app was the culprit. It was in fact slowing the re-booting of my computer which made me wonder what else it might be doing. Maybe I’m just being too picky.