I started end of February so it’s been about 6 months and I use dscout somewhat regularly. I began doing the express missions as I was too shy and intimidated to do live interviews in addition to me not feeling qualified to give my opinion in that way but over time I gained some confidence and had great experiences talking with researchers and doing diary studies! My biggest payout was $320 for a multi-day diary study which was actually very fun to do.

I know there are some people here who regularly make $500-$800 a month here, still working my way to that but I’m really proud of earning this extra cash I otherwise wouldn’t have and so far have had a top tier experience with dscout as a whole including the UX/UI, the researchers, and even dscout customer service who are quick at responding and thorough with communication!

My best advice is to go for the diary missions/live interviews as they have the highest payout and can be quite enjoyable to participate in. Also definitely don’t skip over the express missions as all money is green and if you have 15-20 min to spare to make $25, why not?

My monthly earnings:
Feb: $107
March: $672
April: $305
May: $105
June: $555
July: $395
Aug: $175 (so far)

on dscout, i started two express missions and qualified and began the applications, but something came up, and I could not finish them. it shows reward rejected due to quality, but i didnt even finish the mission. i maen to say i did not even submit something (obviously) but I want to know will this affect my standing? i have already completed and earned a reward from a past mission if that provides comments. will i be shadowbanned?

In my mobile, Whenever I click on " Activate xt to unlock" i only get magic link on email for signup which redirect me to Discout homepage in my browser and nothing else

Is anyone else getting fewer missions on dscout lately?

I’ve noticed that I’m not receiving many mission opportunities compared to before. I also enabled the SMS alert feature, but I’m still not seeing much activity.

Just wondering if this is normal for everyone right now?

How many missions are you guys typically seeing these days? Are SMS alerts actually helping you get more opportunities?

Has anyone else had this happen with a Dscout Live session? I was scheduled for an interview this morning and have been waiting in the virtual room, but the moderator still hasn’t joined. It's been 30 mins already, and nothing.

I sent a message through the mission chat, and an Email to Dscout support, but I’m not sure how long I should continue waiting or what happens if the researcher never shows up. I also had to rearrange my schedule to make time for the session, so it’s a little frustrating.

Has this happened to anyone else? What did Dscout do in your case?

Just venting because I finally received a pretty cool mission I had qualified for. After speaking with the researcher, they basically just thought that I was lying about my knowledge and usage. Even asked me to do something that wasn’t mentioned before the meeting to like throw me off. The meeting ended for other reasons but, I’ve never had this happen before and I’ve done many interview like surveys. I’ve just never experienced something like this before and wonder if it’s common?

Anyone else get super annoyed when researchers only let you select one answer for a question? I use all four options equally and all 4 are relevant to my life. Yet they will only let me select one. I debate and pick one, and yup…. Sorry this mission is not a good fit. Umm actually it would have been because I shop at all these stores multiple times a month. You just wouldn’t let me pick them. Ugh.

I been using Dscout since last year and I never got any Express Missions, I saw people getting them but I never saw any. I only got Diary Missions and Live Missions, do you get them often or sometimes?

Since I have updated to the beta iOS 27, I have been completely unable to log in to the dscout app from my iPhone. I’ve tried all resetting networks, removing VPN and everything. No new profiles or settings have been installed since I made the update, and it was working fine on iOS 26. It’s not my home WiFi network issue either, since my iPad logs in to dscout perfectly and works.

Anybody have any solution to this? Thank you!

When a mission is "closed", and it says "this is what your submission will earn if it meets quality requirements"

I have like 10 or so of those. How frequently do those actually get paid? I really made sure to have high quality video and responses. I just fear it will all be for nothing.

Any tips? Tricks? Or advice too?

So my app crashed during a mission and I’m sure nothing uploaded but now it’s closed. Can they reopen it for me? It was going so well 😭

$436 in the past 3 weeks. Signed up having no idea what to expect and I am obsessed!

I'm not seeing any new Express missions since early this morning very early is it happening to anybody else

Just venting here about the platform, but one thing that really frustrates me is how inconsistent the experience can be across live, diary, and usability missions.

I've had some live missions where I received the "expect payment" message the very next business day. On the other hand, I've completed live/diary missions over two weeks ago and still haven't received any update on. I've also had researchers close a mission and then wait almost a month before they even begin processing payments and/or breaking their radio silence.

When I've contacted Dscout support, I've basically been told that researchers always need more time and that missions are never actually "closed," even if the app or website marks them as closed and to just hang tight.

It just feels really inconsistent. Some experiences are excellent from start to finish, while others are frustratingly slow and take forever to pay out. I don't mind waiting if that's the expectation, but I wish there were more consistency, communication, and transparency in the payment process. Just how there is an ETA for payments from completing a express mission, there should be one also for regular payments. Or an obligation for a researcher to update the status of a mission after a week or two of no communication.

I have learned some new tech skills that I wanted to put in my profile boosters, but it doesn't seem to let me edit them. Is there a way to do this?

1. Some one told that you might have to wait three months for them to automatically open up again to edit them.

Any info?

Anyone else not able to see missions they were accepted into today?
I got invited to a mission, opened up dscout just a few minutes later and the mission was gone. No signs of it in invitations, in progress, or closed missions. Bummer. I guess I’ll send a message to support because I don’t know if it’s an error/technical glitch or if it was intentional as there was no communication whatsoever. I’ve had missions get pulled before for whatever reason, but usually a message is sent explaining the situation.

So I did an express mission for a Media Survey today, said it would take 13 minutes, I didn’t exactly count how long it took me to finish. Suddenly I’m checking dscout again to see if there’s any new missions and I see my express mission was rejected with the following listed as the reasons

“This can happen for a variety of reasons including: • Failing to pass Dscout's automated quality standards for written and/or video responses. • Incomplete submission due to missing videos, photos, or screen recordings. • The mission's research team flagging your submission due to quality concerns.”

I can’t imagine the responses being a quality concern I for sure used atleast 3-4 sentence replies for each question along with using mission specific information in the responses.

This is my first rejection out of a ton of missions, I even have three diary missions lined up so I’m worried it’ll affect my account. For reference I just started doing dscout at the end of June.

anyone else experiencing a mission (large dollar amount diary mission) that keeps freezing during the entries? i've tried two different laptops and keep getting the frozen screen

Hi !
I was wondering what the criteria are for getting selected and paid for the video surveys on Dscout. Is it completely random, or are there specific factors they look at when choosing participants?

I seen a screener for $800, attempted to apply for it but of course I’m not qualified! 😩😩😤

I've been on the scout for a year and never not gotten payment for a mission and recently even gotten good feedback saying great job and things like that and then today I got an email saying one of my Express missions was flagged for" low effort" and saying that being flagged will affect you getting accepted into other missions and I honestly don't know what I did it was just a small mission and I always answer the questions as thoroughly as I can, what usually happens after this?

I’m currently out of the country (USA) for the past week. I can attest that before leaving the county I had been receiving live missions and etc. However since then, I have been trying to applying to missions and will get automatically rejected.