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Jun 6, 2018 · Scalir, 48, is one of a dwindling group of people still committed to what was once the most popular social networking platform in the world, with more than 100 million users at its peak. While most...
Aug 23, 2022 · It was announced that Myspace lost 12 years worth of content in a server migration gone wrong. So that meant any songs, photos and videos uploaded to the site between 2003-2015 were straight up...
- Emily Brozyna
Aug 1, 2023 · News. By Mark Wilson. Contributions from. Becky Scarrott, Matt Evans, Marc McLaren, Amelia Schwanke. published 1 August 2023. It's time for a nostalgic look back at the first social network. (Image...
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- The Most Visited Social Network From 2005 to 2008
- Myspace’s Influence Over Music and Pop Culture
- Losing to Facebook
- The Struggle to Innovate
- How Users View Myspace
- The Current State of Myspace
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Myspace, the OG of social networking sites, definitely still exists. It's not exactly what it once was, but it is active and looking for users.
Myspace launched in 2003. Friendster gave inspiration to the founders of Myspace, and the social network officially went live on the web in January 2004. After its first month online, over one million people signed up. By November 2004, that number grew to 5 million.
By 2006, Myspace was visited more times than Google Search and Yahoo! Mail, becoming the most visited website in the United States. In June of that year, Myspace was reportedly responsible for nearly 80 percent of all social media traffic.
Myspace is now a social networking site for musicians and bands, as well as a featured content publisher. People use the site to show off talent and connect with fans. Artists can upload their complete discographies and even sell music from their profiles.
For a while, Myspace was the only name in town for fledgling musicians. In 2008, a major redesign launched for the music pages, which brought along new features. During the time that Myspace was most popular, it served as a valuable tool for musicians.
As explosive as Myspace was, it paled in comparison to how quickly Facebook grew into the internet behemoth it is today. In April 2008, both Facebook and Myspace attracted 115 million unique global visitors per month, with Myspace still winning in the U.S. alone. In December 2008, Myspace experienced peak U.S. traffic with 75.9 million unique visitors.
As Facebook grew, Myspace underwent a series of layoffs and redesigns as it tried to redefine itself as a social entertainment network. It was estimated in March 2011 that the site had dropped from attracting 95 million to 63 million unique visitors within the past year.
Although several factors triggered Myspace's decline, one argument held that the company never figured out how to innovate well enough to keep up with the competition.
Both Facebook and Twitter (now X) continued to roll out major redesigns and features that helped reshape the social web for the better, whereas Myspace remained more or less stagnant, and never really made a comeback—despite its effort to roll out several redesigns.
In the minds of many, Myspace is unofficially dead. It’s certainly not as popular as it once was, and it has lost a lot of money. Most people have moved on to other social networks. For artists, video-sharing platforms like YouTube and Vimeo have grown into massive social community sites that can be used to generate huge exposure.
Officially, however, Myspace is far from dead. If you go to myspace.com, you’ll see that it is very much still alive, though it has mostly transitioned away from social networking to become a curated music and entertainment site. As of 2019, the site boasted over 7 million monthly visits.
In 2012, Justin Timberlake tweeted a link to a video featuring a completely new Myspace platform redesign and a new focus on bringing music and social media together. Four years later in 2016, Time Inc. acquired Myspace and other platforms owned by parent company Viant to access data that could be leveraged for ad-targeting.
On Myspace's front page, you'll find a variety of entertainment news stories not just about music, but also movies, sports, food, and other cultural topics. Profiles are still a central feature of the social network, but users are encouraged to share their own music, videos, photos, and even concert events.
Myspace certainly isn't what it once was, nor does it have the active user base it did when it peaked in 2008, but it's still alive. If you love music and entertainment, it might be worth checking out.
- Elise Moreau
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Aug 24, 2022 · Whoops! As time went on, Myspace made some attempts to turn things around—like making some leadership and staffing changes—and launching Myspace Music, but that was a flop. Revenue kept spiraling, Twitter started taking over, and Myspace just wasn’t the cool new thing anymore.
- Emily Brozyna
Mar 1, 2022 · By 2005 Myspace was the top dog in the social media world, and at times it was dominating everything online, occasionally beating Google in terms of visitors. That same year it was sold to News Corp for $580 million, a massive amount of money, though as DeWilde pointed out to Forbes, it could've been a lot more.
Mar 18, 2019 · The Internet Archive’s Jason Scott criticized Myspace’s mishandling of “10 years of unique digital music,” and compared it to Google’s recent decision to wipe many of the public posts, images,...