Comments on: Follow Up: MySpace is Finished

By: Kyle M. Brown

Kyle M. Brown — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 05:13:17 +0000

Great post. Lets face it. The founder cashed out (nice payday)and MySpace despite whatever Fox says is likely the responsibility of some MBA who does not know squat about a good internet experience.

One the other hand maybe they know all they need to know for a media company, which is what they are now.

Why should they care about those poor performing adSense ads or the user experience for that matter?

What they do care about are those reported billions of eyes that land on the site every month broken down by gender, age, interest, location, time spent online, etc. Get the point.

By: Antman

Antman — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:34:11 +0000

Sometimes a big ship is hard to turn. Ya observation that some folks got rich and Newscorp doesn’t know a thing about social media is rather accurate. The question still remains however; kids are the primary power users, will they stay there? Us old folks we got other options, Facebook, and new sites just emerging. The space is still pretty green. The game has yet to be decided, I wouldn’t count Myspace out, maybe just minimized. Peace!

By: jen_chan, writer SureFireWealth.com

jen_chan, writer SureFireWealth.com — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:44:20 +0000

Do people actually pay attention to the ads on MySpace? While I cannot predict what will happen to this networking site, I do think there are other opportunities for advertisers out there. Opportunities that are better than MySpace. Those other opportunities are what will probably be responsible for MySpace’s demise.

By: julie gallaher

julie gallaher — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 16:08:30 +0000

MySpace clearly has not figured out how to connect with potential advertisers. You would think that there would be lots of businesses that could do something like Bob Dylan is doing on Facebook.

By: Gavin Heaton

Gavin Heaton — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:15:38 +0000

I am sure there are plenty of brands that would see value in MySpace — they probably just aren’t the brands that I would choose to buy But, I agree that MySpace has created a monster that will be hard to capitalise upon and it seems to be an endemic problem. There probably was a time when change was possible … but that time may well have passed. This means that the opportunity exists for a new player with a better user experience.

Certainly makes for interesting times.