AppTrailers. Make money from ignoring videos.

AppTrailers is an app associated with Perk, a rewards site I've not mentioned before, and it's an app that pays you to watch videos.

Or, at least, it pays you to watch the ads that play between the videos.

The good news is you don't actually have to watch either the videos or the ads because it has no way of knowing whether you're watching or not.

Once you've downloaded AppTrailers to your phone, launched and registered it, you'll be given a choice of video channels to watch and then you can just start them playing. Of its various channels, I'd recommend Rapid Reviews, as its videos are short.

Around every half an hour or so, a message will appear, on-screen, asking if you're still paying attention. You click, "Yes," and the app continues playing.

One of the things you quickly notice is that, as the day progresses, you get paid less and less for each video you watch, until it stops paying at all. Therefore, it's best to check, from time to time, to make sure it's still crediting. If it's not, simply close it down for the day and then resume tomorrow.

You can also earn on AppTrailers by doing its Daily Quiz. The questions are of variable difficulty but are multiple choice. The quiz doesn't pay hugely but it adds a few more points to your daily total.

The amount of money you can make from AppTrailers can vary wildly. Some days, I make 50-70 pence from it. Other days, I'm lucky to make 10-20. It all depends on how many ads are available, and that depends on such factors as the day of the week, time of year and also where you happen to be.

Still, whatever the inconsistency, it's money for doing nothing and, so, I'd say it's well worth trying.

You can get AppTrailers for both Android and IOS by going to the AppTrailers homepage, via this this link. This isn't a referral link, which means I'll make no money from you using it.

Vivatic. It does a bit of everything.

In my nightmarish quest to investigate online money-making opportunities, I've just signed up with a site called Vivatic. It's far too early for me to pass judgement on it but I can at least described what I've experienced so far.

Vivatic seems to be in some ways comparable to the inevitable Swagbucks, in that it offers a variety of ways to make money.

Like Swagbucks, it offers the chance to earn from signing up for various offers. As I've said in the past, I never bother with such offers, as they hardly ever seem to credit and you're often giving unfamiliar companies too much information for comfort.

Vivatic also acts as a survey aggregator. Most of the surveys it offers are from the usual suspects, like Toluna, Survey Sampling International and Speak Up, with pay rates for their surveys looking to be fairly typical of aggregator sites.

Something that is unusual is that it also offers Populus surveys. I don't think I've ever seen Populus surveys offered by an aggregator, so that's certainly something new.

Having said that, as you can join Populus directly, it's hard to see why you'd got through an aggregator who'll, presumably, get a cut of your earnings and, therefore, I assume, pay you less than if you went direct to the original source.

Vivatic also offers surveys by someone called MVF who I've never heard of. Therefore, I've just attempted a two minute survey with them and duly earned 10 pence for it. I shall look further into MVF to find out what they're about and also whether this offer's repeatable.

You can also make money by doing, "Tasks." As far as I can see, these involve some sort of writing micro-task for an outfit called Figure Eight, who I've never heard of. You have to sign-up with them to complete their offers. I haven't done so yet. I'll look into them later and give my opinion when I'm more informed.

It would appear that, once you've completed a certain number of micro-tasks, you qualify for better writing jobs, with £3 being the maximum potential reward for completing such a job.

The features that Vivatic shares with other sites seem fairly standard and there aren't as many of them as with Swagbucks but its few distinctive features seem to hold at least some potential interest for the determined money-maker. Therefore, if you want to join Vivatic, you can do so by using this referral link, from which I could potentially make a modest sum.

Payment method: PayPal. Minimum payout: £20/$20. Time for payouts to be processed: 1-2 months! My earnings today: 10 pence. My rating: Too early to say. JOIN VIVATIC.

SurveyNetwork. The site that does what it says on the tin.

SurveyNetwork is another survey aggregator site, like Branded Surveys, Swagbucks and Qmee.

In my experience, it mostly offers surveys from Global Test Market, Toluna and Survey Sampling International. This means its pay rates tend to be in the mid-range, possibly slightly higher than the three aforementioned aggregators but not by very much.

When it comes to using it, I'd personally say it's a bit pointless trying to use the home page to access surveys. You can do it that way but there's not enough reliable information on there about which surveys are still available. It works better if you click on links for surveys that have been sent to you via emails.

Speaking of which, I note that other SurveyNetwork users have complained that it spams them with hundreds of emails a day. It's not a problem I've had but it's something to keep an eye out for and is a reminder that it's always wise to set up an email account which exists purely for dealing with survey site, so that it doesn't matter if it gets drowned in emails from either them or their partners.

I don't use SurveyNetwork much because it basically duplicates what other sites offer, and that lack of use means my earnings from it have been low. However, it seems clear to me that if I used it more, my earnings from it would be comparable to what I get from those other sites.

If you want to sign up to SurveyNetwork, you can do so by clicking on this referral link, for which I would receive a modest reward.

Payment method: PayPal. Minimum payout: £20. Time for payouts to be processed: They claim it's speedy but I've not yet claimed a payout from them, so I cannot vouch for that. My earnings in the last week: 60 pence. My rating: 6/10. JOIN SURVEYNETWORK.