Think MySpace can’t make a comeback? Think again!
“I believe [MySpace] has a shot,” Altimeter Group principal analyst Brian Solis told me. “People are worn out from Facebook, not sure what to make of Google+ … this might be the right time, right place for MySpace.”
In case you missed the memo, MySpace is no longer a place for friends — it’s a place for creatives.
After watching the video and reading the full story on Venture Beat (here) I must say, I think they’ve got a great shot at reinventing MySpace and bringing about more popularity than it ever had.
I love the concept… “for creatives.” Facebook may very well be the place for most people, but to have a social community where you can access behind-the-scenes film footage and get free “fresh” music regularly… sounds like a winning concept to me. After all, I’m a closet rocker — more than that I was in a rock band for six years when I was younger. Music is in my blood.
As you can see in the video, they are embracing aesthetics (yay! it was always so ugly before!)…
Chris Vanderhook said this in the Venture Beat article, ““We wanted to actually make something that was visually stunning, starting with the consumer’s profile, the artist’s profile, the discovery section that we have, and then really thinking through how design and devices play together as well.”
Rock on MySpace! I can’t wait!
I wasn’t all that enthralled with MySpace the first time around, but it seems to be in the right hands now!
It’s not often you hear of a social media
site going into demise and coming back again,
so it will be interesting to see how this pans
out.
I don’t recall ever going on the site, but it
may be worth checking out if even just to
follow its progress.
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Hi Yvonne,
I know, right!?! Haha.
The only reason I had an account on MySpace was because I needed one to be able to access some pics for a client that had them posted there. Otherwise, it never was my cup of tea.
Thanks for adding to the conversation!
Big hugs.
I had a MySpace profile for a while…ah, I can still remember reluctantly deleting all of my oh-so-cool “Happy Friday” gifs and lovely self portraits in order to move in to Facebook, the place where all of my friends had gone. One thing I always liked about the site was that you could manually insert code into your profile. I didn’t think the sanitary, uniform interface of FB would take off. Oops. MySpace seemed to have gone the way of the cassette tape, but I’m intrigued and excited to see what they do with this redesign. While I can safely say I’ll never use MySpace to create an elaborate personal profile as I once did, I would be very much in favor of checking out new music there!
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Hi Deb ,
I actually worked on developing the marketing strategy for myspace just before it was sold .The interesting thing is that although everyone new it had potential ,nobody knew how best to get the site to match up to the immersiveness of FB. Lets see if they have changed the original Myspace model enough to gain traction in the very crowded social media space as it stands today .Excellent piece .Carrie
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There was a time when Myspace ruled the world… however these times have gone and not sure if they still can win the race having so strong competitors on their both sides and in front of them… miles ahead. I have seen Myspace has changed a lot of UI and it’s nice to come back sometimes to your good old fellow no matter how poor he is… Good luck for them!
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It’s more likely that facebook will morph once again and devour the niche that myspace was looking to take back. After all, facebook is already dropping in on pinterest’s territory and is pretty good at monetizing itself.
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I don’t know if I could give myspace a second shot, In my mind it is more for a younger crowd.
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It will be interesting to see how such a large network “restarts”, even though they have their own more or less a captive audience, but they were not enough and I’m afraid that they will lose it too. But leaders think understand what to do) or think they understand, so it is in their hands.)
thanks.
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It’s profitable to stream. MySpace should stay with and further develop what it came out of the online revolution holding firmly in it’s hands – music. Facebook makes it’s money from advertising. MySpace can rule streaming music if it keeps it’s technology up to date and fast, because it’s library is so vast with Last FM as it’s only real competitor for covering all genres. Spotify and the rest only do commercial music.
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I heard so many things about MySpace but I never thought that sometimes they can even rule the world. Hoping that the reinvention of Myspace gives a better ideas to anyone who are interacted with it.
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I am looking forward on what’s in store for the new Myspace. I hope it will be way better than facebook or if not atleast be at par with facebook. I had myspace account before, but I wasn’t able to update it since facebook began.
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