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Youth Research

Young people don't sit still
for a two-hour focus group.

Qualzy's mobile-optimised, activity-driven format is matched to how younger audiences actually communicate - short video, images, polls, reactions, and creative tasks. Engagement rates that traditional qual methods can't touch.

~98%
completion rates
in youth studies
Mobile
optimised - no app
to install
Creative
activity formats that
actually engage
Research use cases

Youth insight that goes beyond
what surveys can surface

Young people are sharper, more media-literate, and more suspicious of formal research formats than any previous generation. Qualzy meets them where they are.

Youth Consumer Research

Understand how Gen Z and Gen Alpha consume, choose, and relate to brands - in the categories they care about and on the platforms where their culture lives. Video responses, reaction tasks, and image-based activities surface the authentic attitudes that closed questions miss entirely.

Social Media & Trends Research

Explore how young people relate to content, creators, and platform culture. Screen recording tasks capture actual social media behaviour - not self-reported versions of it. Ask participants to film themselves scrolling, reacting, and sharing, and you get the real picture.

Brand Perception & Positioning

Understand what brands mean to young people - the associations, the cultural signals, and the values they project. Projective tasks, collage activities, and video responses surface subconscious brand perception that rating scales and surveys cannot reach.

Concept & Creative Testing

Test advertising concepts, product ideas, and creative executions with a youth audience. Young people are fast, direct, and unsparing when they respond to creative work - and they're far more honest in an async format than they would be under the social scrutiny of a focus group.

Youth Shopper Research

Track how younger consumers shop - in-store, on their phone, and via social commerce. Mobile diary tasks follow participants through actual shopping occasions, capturing the moment of product selection, the role of peer influence, and the path from discovery to purchase.

Longitudinal Youth Panels

Build long-term youth panels that track changing attitudes across months or years - ideal for brands that need to stay close to a generation whose values, media consumption, and purchase behaviour are evolving faster than any tracker can keep up with.

Format that fits how young people communicate

A two-hour focus group
is not how they talk.

Young people communicate in short-form video, image reactions, instant responses, and creative expression. A two-hour focus group with eight strangers in a room asks them to perform in a format that bears no resemblance to how they actually communicate - and the data you get back reflects that mismatch.

Qualzy's activity-driven format uses the communication styles that younger audiences are already comfortable with - short video responses, image uploads, reaction tasks, and creative canvas activities. The result is genuine engagement, not performed compliance.

  • Short-form video response activities - familiar format, authentic responses
  • Image and photo upload tasks that match how young people document their lives
  • Reaction and rating activities that feel more like using an app than filling in a form
  • Creative canvas tasks - mood boards, collages, and image placements - that engage rather than bore
Youth engagement in practice
~98%
Completion rate across youth studies - because the format asks for engagement in ways that young people find natural, not arduous.
Mobile
Every activity is designed for mobile first. No app to install - participants access via a link in their browser, on the device that's already in their hand.
Short tasks
Activities are designed in short, focused bursts - completing one task at a time, when convenient, rather than a two-hour commitment in one sitting.
No social performance

Honest responses require
removing the audience.

Young people are acutely aware of social performance - they know when they're being watched, and they adapt accordingly. In a group setting, responses are shaped by peer approval, social norms, and the desire to appear cool, sophisticated, or appropriately opinionated.

Qualzy's async, private format removes the social stage entirely. Participants respond in their own space, in their own time, without an audience. What you get is less curated and more honest - including the opinions, confusions, and genuine responses that focus groups rarely surface.

  • No social pressure from peers - responses reflect what participants actually think
  • Async timing means they can respond when inspired, not when scheduled
  • Private journal options mean sensitive topics can be explored genuinely
  • AI moderator probes follow up on specific responses without group dynamics interfering
Why async works for youth research
Private
No audience - young participants share opinions they'd never risk saying in front of a group. Authentic responses instead of curated performance.
Own time
Young people respond when they feel like it - on the bus, late at night, whenever the moment is right. Not at 6pm on a Tuesday in a viewing facility.
AI probes
Intelligent follow-up questions give each participant the feeling of a genuine one-to-one conversation - without the intimidation of a researcher in the room.
Platform capabilities

Activity types that young people
actually engage with

Creative, mobile-first, and built around short-form engagement - the Qualzy capabilities that work hardest in youth research.

Short-Form Video Responses

Participants record direct-to-camera or screen responses - the format they already use every day. Auto-transcribed and AI-analysed within minutes.

Personal Canvas & Mood Boards

Creative visual activities - mood boards, image matrices, and collage tasks - that engage the way younger audiences prefer to express themselves.

Image & Photo Uploads

Participants photograph their world - products they're using, things that inspire them, reactions to stimuli. The documentation format of their daily lives.

Screen Recording

Capture how young people actually use social platforms, apps, and websites - with verbal narration, on their own phone, without an observer.

Social Posts Activity

A familiar social-style feed where participants post updates, reactions, and images - structured like a platform they already know, not like a research exercise.

AI Moderator Probes

Smart follow-up questions that respond to each participant's specific answer - feeling like a natural conversation, not a formulaic research questionnaire.

"After I've talked to ten or more people in a day, I summarise the key themes in my head. Then I double-check with Qualzy's AI. Sometimes it picks up things I missed, which is really helpful. It's like having another brain."

Pam Goldfarb Liss, President - LitBrains

Youth research has always struggled with the participation problem - young people are hard to recruit, hard to retain, and quick to disengage from formats that feel boring or irrelevant. Qualzy's mobile-first, activity-driven design addresses this at a structural level: the format fits the audience, not the other way around.

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