Can MySpace be the first great revival of the social media world ? After the multi-million dollar purchase by News Corp, the birth of Facebook, the social network's debacle compared to its new competitor and the attempts to sell it (including the final sale for a pittance), the future of MySpace seemed as bleak as oil.
The new buyers announced that they would try to revive germany business fax list the site, even though the world was skeptical. The fact that Justin Timberlake , the popular American actor and tech business angel, was among the buyers guaranteed them, at least, press coverage.
The first figures allow us to discover green shoots in MySpace's results . They are shoots that come from a very specific market and a very specific niche, but that could support a potential comeback for what was once the first great and massive social network.
MySpace is already the main browsing destination for music consumption in the United Kingdom , taking 29.25% of the market and overtaking options as famous as Grooveshark, according to figures from Experian Hitwise for TechRadar. To analyse these figures, two very important elements must be taken into account: the measurement of Soundcloud has separated the mobile and web versions of the service (together they would surpass MySpace, although not in an overwhelming way) and the figures for Spotify remain secret, as the Scandinavian company does not want to give statistics of use in the United Kingdom.
To these data we must add the latest official figures. The company had announced in February that it had experienced a jump in the number of daily registrations (“We have gone from zero new registrations a day to 40,000 ”, explained the operational head of the social network, Chris Vanderhook , to The New York Times ). At the last CES, the firm presented MySpace TV, an application for smart TVs that makes it possible to connect with MySpace contacts while watching TV and that shows that at least they know where they are going.