Tag: myspace

Some good news for fortysomethings: all those embarrassing (and in some cases recruitment-endangering) photos you uploaded to Myspace in your youth, and couldn’t remember your login to delete, are now scrubbed from the...

Myspace has a new owner, after its parent company Viant was acquired by magazine and web publisher Time Inc for an undisclosed amount. This is not really about Time buying Myspace, though: it’s most interested in Viant’s...

Don’t fall off your seat in shock, but it seems Justin Timberlake is no longer ‘creative director’ of the revamped Myspace. Heaven forfend that was just a publicity stunt for its relaunch. Still, the social network’s...

Jason Hirschhorn (former co-president of MySpace and now CEO of REDEF) has been writing about 15 years of decline in the record industry and how the business can be rebuilt. The meat of the piece is where he gets into streaming...

Spotify's launch in 2008 came at a time when the biggest social network of the time, MySpace, was about to lose its crown to Facebook. No wonder Spotify declined an acquisition offer from the sinking News Corporation subsidiary. "Unknown...

There’s a long history of companies encouraging stars to set up their own online networks rather than just relying on platforms from MySpace to Facebook. Whalerock is the latest. It’s working with clients including rapper...

Here’s a stat to wake you up this morning: Myspace still attracted 50.6m unique visitors in the US alone last November, generating more than 300m video views. Not dead yet, then: in fact, the unique visitors figure is...

Every so often, Kobalt Label Services’ marketing director David Emery publishes a thoughtful post on his own blog about the digital industry. The latest focuses on YouTube. “It is so big, so ubiquitous that the idea that...

Don’t call it a comeback (well, sort of do call it a comeback). Secret Shows – Myspace’s, well, secret shows – have returned after a two-year sabbatical with a Mysterious Spoon gig in Manhattan. Between 2006 and...

MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe has criticised Rupert Murdoch for News Corporation's role in the downfall of the original MySpace.

Back in June 2011, Justin Timberlake was slated to "lead the business strategy" for Myspace's comeback after investing in the stricken social network.

Last night, Myspace announced some stats to show its post-relaunch growth. The company says it went from 24m users before coming out of beta in June to 36m now, and it had a separate number to show its growth with artists: "The...