MySpace News Archive
14-Sep-2008
Big Brands In Tune With MySpace Music (AdWeek)
LOS ANGELES Sony Pictures, McDonald's, State Farm and Toyota have signed on as platinum sponsors of MySpace Music, said Jeff Berman, president of sales and marketing at the client.
MySpace sets music free (CNN Money)
MySpace founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson have had an uneasy relationship with the music industry. Nearly every music act has a MySpace page; some of them, like British pop diva Lily Allen and American psychedelic-funk purveyor Gnarls Barkley, have used the social network to become stars. But two years ago Universal Music Group discovered unauthorized songs from U2 and Jay-Z on MySpace and ...
Updated: MySpace Music's Space-High Hopes: Commerce Sales Will Replace CD Losses (paidContent.org via Yahoo! Finance)
Updated below: Fortune gets a first crack at doing a story on MySpace Music, which is launching in its new avatar next week. And while the News Corp . subsidiary has been setting expectations on the music service sky-high with teasers, other established competitors like Imeem have been out in front on a PR offensive talking about how their services stack up in the market, their points of ...
MySpace Music Adds User Playlists, Amazon Links (Wired News)
The first aspects of MySpace Music, a major partnership between News Corp. and the three largest record labels in the world, have been revealed to be a playlist creation tool and 'buy' links to Amazon's MP3 store. Both sound more than a little familiar.
Spencerport rapist accused of looking at victim's MySpace page (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
A suburban ambulance service officer who got probation for having sex with a 16-year-old girl in the department's Explorer program has been taken into custody for allegedly logging onto the girl's MySpace page.
McDonalds, Toyota in harmony with MySpace Music (CNET via Yahoo! News)
With rumor and speculation whirling around the launch of MySpace's music service--expected to launch this week--it's nice to finally get some hard news.
MySpace + McDonald's + Toyota = iTunes? (Wired News)
Rupert Murdoch's social net giant is expected to announce on Monday that McDonald's, State Farm Insurance and Toyota have agreed to advertise on the new music venture, which already boasts the backing of News Corporation as well as three of the four monolithic major labels.
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