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11 Awesome Ways to Earn Money by Watching Videos

Earn money by watching videos

Do you love binge-watching your favorite TV shows? Getting paid to watch TV probably seems too good to be true, but guess what…

You really can earn money by watching videos! Today I’ve pulled together the BEST ways to get paid to watch TV online. There are tons of sites and apps that you can use to earn money while watching TV, but let’s be honest…not ALL sites and apps are created equal (or pay that well). So I’ve narrowed it down to the very BEST paying sites and apps to earn money by watching videos! Let’s get started!

There are 2 different ways you can earn money with watch & earn types of jobs: earn money by watching ads or get paid to watch videos (video clips of movies or TV shows).

Who pays you to watch and earn?

Media companies like Netflix will pay you to “tag” movies or curate the metadata for the movies. Other media companies will pay “TV watchers” to choose clips to be used on other television shows.

Marketing companies like Swagbucks and InboxDollars pay you to watch ads online.

Online Magazines & Websites like Bustle will pay you to write about your favorite TV shows. There are many different websites that hire freelance writers to cover TV series and give the low down of the latest episode. You can search for freelance writing jobs at Problogger and Indeed using the search words “freelance writer.”

How much can you earn by watching videos?

Many apps and websites that pay you to watch videos are easy ways to make money online as a side hustle. The work is comparative to taking surveys for money and may take longer to earn the amount you need to cash out.

Some positions can turn into full time work from home jobs if you were to work as a developer (curating metadata) or freelance writer.

Get paid to watch videos with these Apps on an iOS or Android Smartphone

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Getting paid to watch videos is a pretty easy way to earn money online. You can watch anywhere that has “wifi.”  Most of these money making apps can be found on an iOS or Android phone.

PRO TIP: You can turn the app on and work on other things while the videos play. As long as you remember to check it every once in awhile you can earn (somewhat) passive money!

#1 – Swagbucks

Swagbucks is one of my favorite ways to earn money by watching videos! You can earn “swagbucks” for watching a variety of different video clips from movie trailers to world news to late night TV shows.

It takes about 10 minutes of watching videos to earn 3 “swagbucks” and the limit is 150 “swagbucks” for watching videos each day. I often turn the Swagbucks app on to watch videos while I’m doing the dishes or folding laundry. So, it’s kinda like I’m getting paid to to do the laundry? Not really, but you get the idea!

Once you hit your limit on videos you can still earn more “swagbucks” by taking surveys for money, browsing the internet, and more!

READ MORE: See how this mom paid for a Disney trip for her family with Swagbucks!

#2 – Inbox Dollars

InboxDollars is very similar to Swagbucks. Inbox Dollars is another easy money app to use to watch videos and get paid! You can get paid to watch videos online, take surveys for money, browse the internet, and play online games. Inbox Dollars will even pay you to open their daily emails!

The best part? You can earn $5 just for signing up with Inbox Dollars!

#3 – MyPoints

MyPoints is known as a cash back site like Rakuten.

Basically MyPoints earns money when you shop through their links from the retailers they work with. Then they share some of that money with you, so you can earn cash back.

You can also make money for watching videos online with MyPoints. If you are already using MyPoints to earn cash back then adding videos will just increase your earnings!

 #4 – LifePoints

Global Test Market is a great way to take surveys for money, but you can also make money watching videos. You can get paid to watch videos online like movie trailers, advertisements, and more. Earn money by watching videos and then giving your opinion…it’s pretty easy!

#5 – Cashcrate

CashCrate is a site that pays you to watch videos, take online surveys, and more. You can expect to earn about $15 – $20 per month if you just watch videos.

The pay out is in points that can be exchanged for gift cards to popular stores!

#6 – App Nana

App Nana is another rewards site that you can earn money by watching ads, taking surveys, playing games all from your smartphone! Get rewarded with points or “nanas” which you can exchange for Amazon gift cards!

Favorite Websites to watch and earn money with video

#1 – Netflix

Netflix hires people to work from home to help them curate their massive video library. This position is called a “tagger” position. You basically add the appropriate tags/keywords to videos so that the correct titles can be found when a customer is doing a search.

Netflix is a great company to work for and these jobs go FAST! So make sure you check back often on the Netflix job board to see if there are any openings.

You can also search Indeed for “freelance TV watching jobs.” In my search, I found that Vudu (Walmart’s version of Netflix) was hiring a similar job BUT it was location dependent.

#2 – QuickRewards

QuickRewards is another great “get paid to” site. You can get paid to take surveys, watch videos online for money, and play games.

They really live up to their name and get your rewards to your account quick. It usually takes about 24 hours to get credits in your account and 72 hours to receive a Paypal payment or 1 week for gift cards.

#3 – Paid2YouTube

Paid2YouTube is a platform where you get paid to watch YouTube videos online! You definitely won’t make money fast since Paid2YouTube only pays 1/2 a cent to watch the videos, but if you are going to watch YouTube videos anyway…it might be an easy way to earn some extra cash online.

#4 – You-Cubez

You-Cubez is a marketing/advertising company that guarantees their clients they will receive a certain amount of views. In order to reach the number of views, You-Cubez hires people like you and me to watch videos, take surveys, and view websites.

Refer and Earn to Make More Money

You can always make a little bit more money with every app and site you join by referring your friends to the sites. This is one of my favorite ways to make money because it cost your friends absolutely NOTHING and in return they have another opportunity to make some cash!  That’s pretty much free money for you AND for them!

Here are some more sites and apps you can use to refer and earn!

Surveys for Money

Let me first say to make money with surveys or watching videos…you NEED a strategy! Check out my strategy for making the most money with surveys and videos here!

Sometimes you can earn money by watching videos with these survey companies, but really the idea here is that you can multi-task while you are binge watching a favorite TV show on Netflix. I love to pick a few surveys to complete while I’m watching TV at night. I can usually earn a $5 – $20 bucks per survey while I’m watching a favorite show.

You are giving your opinion on products or services, so there’s not a lot of thought process going into these surveys. Sometimes you will have to write a written response, but it’s easy to push pause and complete that part quickly.

Here are my favorite surveys to earn money from home while I’m watching videos!

Survey Junkie

Mintvine

Pinecone Research

Ipsos

Don’t forget to read more about my survey strategy so you can watch and earn money with these easy tips!

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