FOLIO CPA Campaign Study 1

How Consumers Perceive and Evaluate Rewards Platform Experiences

February 23 – March 5, 2026

Study Topic and Objective

CPA Campaign Study 1 examined how consumers perceive and evaluate the user experience of rewards and cost-per-action (CPA) offer platforms. The study sought to identify where user beliefs about platform design (what they predict others will prefer) diverge from personal preference — revealing which design decisions are genuinely valued versus merely assumed to be popular.

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9,331

Total Votes

1,804

Unique Participants

100

Polls Fielded

24

Winner Swaps

Who Participated

Age Breakdown

Experience Level

New (never completed)Beginner (1–5 offers)Regular (monthly)Power User (weekly/daily)

Weekly Spending

Main Reason for Using CPA Offers

Extra spending moneySaving for a goalFun / gamified feelingTrying new apps

Offer Type Willingness

What Was Asked

Feature / UX24
Behavioral24
Trust Signals20
Tolerance15
Messaging A/B13
Pricing / WTP4

100 polls across 6 question format types.

Where Participants Were From

Top 7 countries + remaining participants. 40–55 unique countries represented per poll.

What is FOLIO?

FOLIO is a gamified market research platform. We run short daily polls on brand messaging + product experiences where members from our globally diverse panel first predict what they think the majority will choose (perceived consensus), then share their own answer (personal preference).

That gap between these two signals can surface insights that standard surveys often miss, such as if a brand/product/experience is personally liked but perceived as unfavorable, or seen as favorable by others but not personally preferred.