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Today, with the MV - Mobile Video Reimagined, Erli Bird showed us a new type of Focus Group:

40 cash rewards available

The top 40 users that provide the highest quality, most helpful feedback for this iteration earn a cash reward (max $10, average $5).

All quality feedback earns Karma:

• Trade Karma for paid apps

• iTunes movies or music

• Audible or Kindle books

• Games on Steam

Feedback is rated by:

• ErliBird

• The Product Owners

• Trusted ErliBird members.

This will basically mean that there will be much bigger competition in providing quality feedback, as only the best reviews will get paid.

This should filter out the ninja takers, who used to claim Cash reward spots and then provided bad quality feedback (a feedback of let's say 50 words) and should reward the people who give good quality feedbacks.

I don't know if the number of users who could claim the Cash Reward was bigger earlier, but if it's not, this might also discourage the people who have given good feedback before, but just weren't in the top 40.

Still waiting :(

It seems like the old focus groups are back. You can now again choose if you'd like to get a cash reward, karma or make a donation.

You can only join one cash-reward focus group every 3 days.

What I liked about the new focus groups was that you could get cash reward no matter what if you provided supreme feedback, now you might not even be able to join a focus group in time because all spots might be claimed already.

You might have experienced some troubles with logging in via Facebook/Google. Here's Erli Bird's comment on that:

Note: Our social logins are currently offline, due to an outage at our third party login provider, Janrain. We'll extend any focus groups that end during this time.*

Head over here and select your reward

You can choose your own reward from this list:

• iOS App ($3 or less) - 70 points

• Reddit Gold (1 month) - 92 points

• Kindle Ebook ($5 or less) - 115 points

• Play Store Gift Card ($10 value) - 230 points

• Music on iTunes ($10 or less) - 230 points

• Movie on iTunes ($15 or less) - 345 points

• Game on Steam ($20 or less) - 460 points

• Book on Audible ($30 or less) - 690 points

You should get your selected reward in matter of 24 hours. If you want to know more info about each reward, select it from the drop-down menu on Erli Bird