YouthSays
Malaysian online youth community
YouthSays is a Malaysian online youth opinion community that is operated and privately owned by Youth Asia Sdn. Bhd. Founded in March 2008, 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. Originally limited to Malaysia, it has since launched local versions for 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.
History
The first version of YouthSays originated from the website of Youth Malaysia – a youth NGO started in October 2006 by Joel Neoh. 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.
The YouthSays website then opened for beta testing on 15 March 2008 and officially launched on 2 May 2008 in Malaysia.
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