YouthSays

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YouthSays
Type of site
 Online survey/Online Community/Affiliate network
Owner Youth Asia Sdn. Bhd.
URL www.youthsays.com
CommercialYes
LaunchedMay 2008
Current statusActive

YouthSays is an online youth opinion community that is operated and privately owned by Youth Asia Sdn. Bhd., Malaysia. YouthSays works with organisations and businesses to reward youth for collective action. Youths get paid money or prizes for participating in online surveys, advertising campaigns, and campus activities. YouthSays was founded in March 2008 for Malaysian youths only, but recently it has launched local versions for 3 other countries in Southeast Asia: Vietnam, Indonesia and Philippines. YouthSays is widely known for its active participation in youth campaigns and events across the region including SEAChange (Southeast Asia Youths for Change), Youth '08 and Youth '09, Malaysia National Youth Entrepreneurs Convention (NYEC) 2008 and 2009. [1]

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History

The first version of YouthSays originated from the website of Youth Malaysia - a youth NGO started in October 2006 by Joel Neoh. [2] Youth Malaysia organised Malaysia's largest youth festival for the first time, YOUTH'08. It was attended by Khailee Ng, who then collaborated with Joel to come up with the first version of YouthSays. [3]

The YouthSays website then opened for beta testing on 15 March 2008 and officially launched on 2 May 2008 in Malaysia. By the end of 2009, it claimed to have 230,000 members in Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, and Vietnam.

Features

The current version of YouthSays includes 4 main features:

Youth Campaigns and Events

YouthSays is widely known for its participation in youths campaigns and events across the region.

SEAChange (Southeast Asia Youths for Change)

SEAChange is an ongoing movement organised by Youth Asia connecting Southeast Asian Youths to projects, organisations, businesses, and leaders who can help them with the change they want to see. SEAchange used YouthSays as the community organising vehicle to produce the SEAchange Youth Report, where over 180,000 [4] responses from youths from across the region was used to compile a report on change.

500 respondents of the survey were sent to Youth Engagement Summit 2009 (YES2009) where they met business leaders and global change icons including Bob Geldof, Biz Stone, Datuk Seri Tony Fernandes, and Garry Kasparov [5]

Youth '09

YouthSays.com was the primary community organising vehicle which brought youths to YOUTH'09. Youth Asia claimed to attract 36,720 youths during that 3 day festival. [6]

Ambiguity

Not-for-profit or for-profit Due to its participation in youths' campaigns and its origin as an NGO, YouthSays is usually mistaken as a non-profit organisation.

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References

  1. ↑ "National Youth Entrepreneur Convention 2009". Malaysia Entrepreneurs . 23 December 2008.
  2. ↑ Sarah, Chew (2 March 2008). "Online with a mission". The Star .
  3. ↑ "How the Rise of Malaysian Youth Communities & Why You Should Care". Youth Asia's Website . 2 March 2008.
  4. ↑ "180,000 youths going in for Change". The Star . 5 October 2009.
  5. ↑ "YES 2009: Winds of change". MMail . 5 October 2009.
  6. ↑ "How the Rise of Malaysian Youth Communities & Why You Should Care". Youth Asia's Website . 2 March 2008.
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