June 27, 2007

MySpace Videos To Become MySpace TV, YouTube Competitor

Duncan Riley

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myspace.jpgMySpace will rename and relaunch its video sharing service as MySpaceTV Thursday, according to the NY Times.

MySpace TV will operate as a standalone service and is being billed as a direct competitor to YouTube.

We’ve speculated on News Corps plans for a YouTube competitor previously; rumors first surfaced in December 06 and more recently NBC and News Corp were to launch a site in March. Nothing much has happened since aside from an upgrade to MySpace Video that included branded channels in May.

Thursday’s launch of MySpaceTV may well be the long awaited NBC/ News Corp YouTube killer. It’s probably a case of MySpace TV being better late than never in launching, even if YouTube has doubled its traffic since October and is now even harder to challenge.

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  1. Ramanathan

    wow.. thats nice. apparently, youtube will work hard from now on to compete.

  2. maurizio

    Wasn’t MySpace using google’s Ads?
    This means that Google will always win..for now.

  3. Fool

    I’ve heard also that Myspace may be making deals with producers to show made-for-web content, such as TV shows.

  4. vic

    wondering why sites like this do not get so much publicity
    http://www.freetv4ever.blogspot.com

  5. Concrete Stain

    ya know -

    - imitation is a form of flattery -

    - YouTube - 800lb gorilla
    - MyspaceTV - 1/8th lb gorilla

    -RB

  6. Chad Hurley

    I don’t care. I already hit the jackpot.

  7. Thomas

    Hmm, I wonder if Google will still show up MySpace Video results on their searches.

  8. pwb

    Anything announced as a “[blank]-killer” is doomed to failure.

  9. chrisco

    @pwb: best comment so far!

  10. Todd

    Smells of the same lack of understanding and cigar-smoking-old-boys-club exhibited by NBC’s “Clown Co.”

    YouTube = open, people powered fun

    Myspace videos = cram Fox properties down your throat, maybe some user created content boredom

  11. anonymous coward

    Looks like the cigars at fox forgot to tell myspace to turn on MySpaceTV, because there is no site at myspacetv.com as of 9:15 this morning.

  12. Janet

    Last time I checked it was Wednesday today, not Thursday :)

    @todd & pwd - fully agree with comments

  13. mj

    seems clear that the nbc/fox venture is for professional produced video, not user-gen. that one’s not intended to compete w/youtube.

  14. Larry

    Nah, it still sucks. http://www.cavenger.com is better

  15. patricia

    I don’t get how they can always be last in everything.

  16. Iphone Forum

    It’ll be interesting to see how myspace competes with youtube. i am waiting for someone to introduce live tv.

  17. Rosalyn

    RE: Iphone Forum, stay tuned for D7tv.com. Will bring you live original content this summer (news/commentary, comedy, entertainment).

  18. David Spark

    Well, all I can say is join the club. Yes, MySpace may have a lot of users to watch video. But they don’t have all the users nor all the video. The number of players in the video space is just endless. I just came from the Web Video Summit today and I saw tons of new upstarts in the video space. For a quick summary:

    http://www.sparkminute.com/?p=197