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Is Myspace dead?

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DJ Excellence

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The traffic on my Myspace music page has dropped considerably over the past 12 months (perhaps even longer). I'm really wondering if I should keep using my account. It's not just the traffic drop: the site is really slow, takes a while to upload music and pictures. I have my main website and several social mediums where I promote the "DJ Excellence Brand", so losing myspace wouldn't be a big deal. It's not a secret the company is going downhill, laying off nearly 50% of its workforce recently, so my questions are : do you still use Myspace to promote your music? Do you think the site will ever rebound?
 
Shonsteez

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Dude MySpace has been dead for so long....
I deleted my account mad long ago at this point....I never liked MySpace too much in the first place though. They had crappy encoding on MP3s and waaaay too much spam.
 
lion-ucs

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Facebook has as much to do with the demise of myspace
as much as Piracy had to do with the failure of Atari after the 2600

Just as with Atari, the fault lies in their own hands. They just didn't keep up with the evolution of social networking. Having pictures an about me and the ability to lazily copy and paste poorly coded stuff that interfere with myspace and each other than don't mean anything in the first place is not what people want to do anymore.

The likes of Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, etc allows people to really show whats going on or say whats on their minds at the time, without having to click "profile>edit>about>mood>sumbit>"are you sure?">yes>loading>done."

Youtube remains successful because they stay on top it and offer new stuff and easier ways to do the old stuff and instead of trying to compete with each other all the networks, blogs, tube sites, photo sites, music sites etc are compatible with each other, allowing communication with all the profiles ppl have.
 
Formant024

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man, the thing i hated most is all those idiots posting up their crappy vids on your. You go to your homepage and it starts with crappiest beats and fuckhead rapper and you cant find it right away because you have gazillion friends and they all spam you with such...

Ive neglected it completly, i also found that mp3 encoding really really crappy.
 
UNORTHODOX

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I leave my myspace up just because there are still pretty high amount of views on the site. No clear reason to delete it, its ad space for free. I dont get spam because I dont allow comments without my approval.

I LOVED myspace because it easily aggregated EVERYTHING you need to build your brand and its representation not only that, but it was a standard, everyone knew where the music was, where to find you bio etc. The information was predictable. Easy.

Myspace isnt dead, it just isnt what it once was, nor what people expect it to be. The fact is, there are gillions less eyes but there are still hundred of thousands more than "the next big thing". Except twitter (facebook doesnt even WANT anything to do music. Its way too cumbersome and annoying to be a brand front)

Now, Myspace set the standard for "Promo" aka, spam. Its spilled over to twitter and facebook and anywhere links can be linked. Just report and ignore it. Ultimately, you got to get your own webspace and customized the listening experience now. In other words...

Set up your own home, but dont be afraid to go to the spots that are poppin and leave your mark.

PS. I actually still get good opportunities and leads from it. I just dont update it.
 
dacalion

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All Social Sites Suck! The whole concept is corney as heyell. If you want to know what I'm doing call me...My number is 777-9311.
 
Shonsteez

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UNORTHODOX said:
I leave my myspace up just because there are
still pretty high amount of views on the site. No clear reason to delete it, its ad space for free. I dont get spam because I dont allow comments without my approval.

I LOVED myspace because it easily aggregated EVERYTHING you need to build your brand and its representation not only that, but it was a standard, everyone knew where the music was, where to find you bio etc. The information was predictable. Easy.

Myspace isnt dead, it just isnt what it once was, nor what people expect it to be. The fact is, there are gillions less eyes but there are still hundred of thousands more than "the next big thing". Except twitter (facebook doesnt even WANT anything to do music. Its way too cumbersome and annoying to be a brand front)

Now, Myspace set the standard for "Promo" aka, spam. Its spilled over to twitter and facebook and anywhere links can be linked. Just report and ignore it. Ultimately, you got to get your own webspace and customized the listening experience now. In other words...

Set up your own home, but dont be afraid to go to the spots that are poppin and leave your mark.

PS. I actually still get good opportunities and leads from it. I just dont update it.
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Yeah its whatever works best for you ya know...I was just never a big fan of how that site ever functioned in the first place is all...
Even their web standards were shit. They built everything off a mess of nested tables which is super archaic nowadays....Plus everybody and their grandma had some tacky overly bedazzled site with all kinds of shitty animated gifs and stuff that made surfing their site a complete nightmare.

I like these newer sites just for music much more like SoundCloud & Bandcamp because they do exactly what their built for and they offer the highest quality audio in an easy way. Its not too complex to send folks to one of those accounts instead of your myspace or whatever so I prefer that.
 
UNORTHODOX

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Right, I like them too. Bandcamp is what I use mostly now. Sucks they're capping the # of downloads though.
 
UNORTHODOX

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Im just waiting for Reverb to aloow us to split things into albums. Its all one mess of music right now
 
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