MySpace 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.
wow.. thats nice. apparently, youtube will work hard from now on to compete.
Wasn’t MySpace using google’s Ads?
This means that Google will always win..for now.
I’ve heard also that Myspace may be making deals with producers to show made-for-web content, such as TV shows.
wondering why sites like this do not get so much publicity
http://www.freetv4ever.blogspot.com
ya know -
- imitation is a form of flattery -
- YouTube - 800lb gorilla
- MyspaceTV - 1/8th lb gorilla
-RB
I don’t care. I already hit the jackpot.
Hmm, I wonder if Google will still show up MySpace Video results on their searches.
Anything announced as a “[blank]-killer” is doomed to failure.
@pwb: best comment so far!
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
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.
Last time I checked it was Wednesday today, not Thursday
@todd & pwd - fully agree with comments
seems clear that the nbc/fox venture is for professional produced video, not user-gen. that one’s not intended to compete w/youtube.
Nah, it still sucks. http://www.cavenger.com is better
I don’t get how they can always be last in everything.
It’ll be interesting to see how myspace competes with youtube. i am waiting for someone to introduce live tv.
RE: Iphone Forum, stay tuned for D7tv.com. Will bring you live original content this summer (news/commentary, comedy, entertainment).
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