Myspace
 |
|
|
Screenshot
 |
|
|
Type of site
|
Social media |
|---|---|
| Available in | 14 languages |
| Founded | August 1, 2003 |
| Headquarters |
|
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Owner | Viant Technology (Time Inc.) |
| Founder(s) | |
| Key people |
|
| Revenue |
 $109 million (2011 est.) |
| Employees | 200 |
| Website | myspace |
| Alexa rank |
 2,819 (As of 13 February 2017[update]) |
| Advertising | AdSense |
| Registration | Required |
| Launched | August 1, 2003 |
| Current status | Active |
Myspace is a social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos. It is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California.
Myspace was acquired by News Corporation in July 2005 for $580 million. From 2005 to 2009, Myspace was the largest social networking site in the world, and in June 2006 surpassed Google as the most visited website in the United States. In April 2008, Myspace was overtaken by Facebook in the number of unique worldwide visitors, and was surpassed in the number of unique U.S. visitors in May 2009, though Myspace generated $800 million in revenue during the 2008 fiscal year. Since then, the number of Myspace users has declined steadily in spite of several redesigns. As of October 2016, Myspace was ranked 2,154 by total Web traffic, and 1,522 In the United States.
Myspace had a significant influence on pop culture and music and created a gaming platform that launched the successes of Zynga and RockYou, among others. The site also started the trend of creating unique URLs for companies and artists.
In June 2009, Myspace employed approximately 1,600 employees. In June 2011, Specific Media Group and Justin Timberlake jointly purchased the company for approximately $35 million. Under new ownership, the company had undergone several rounds of layoffs and by June 2011, Myspace had reduced its staff to around 200.
In August 2003, several eUniverse employees with Friendster accounts saw potential in its social networking features. The group decided to mimic the more popular features of the website. Within 10 days, the first version of Myspace was ready for launch, implemented using ColdFusion. A complete infrastructure of finance, human resources, technical expertise, bandwidth, and server capacity was available for the site. The project was overseen by Brad Greenspan (eUniverse's Founder, Chairman, CEO), who managed Chris DeWolfe (MySpace's starting CEO), Josh Berman, Tom Anderson (MySpace's starting president), and a team of programmers and resources provided by eUniverse.
...
Wikipedia