As you can tell, I pretty much rewrote this one - I wanted it to be more digestible and less academic. One thing I'm still not crazy about is quoting of "active" profiles without disclosing what active means: I'd rather we just used random samples for everything, but I let it pass this time. Hopefully you also agree with my conclusions. ;)
And even though a few players dominate each market, it's also interesting to note that owning 1% of a market that consists of tens of millions of people is still good going. I guess that's the long tail at work.
Jawad (Shuzak)
· 3 years ago
The reason why MySpace will always lead this market is because they have a huge existing distribution channel.
If I had the world's Operating System, it wouldn't make an inch of a different if I couldn't distribute it. This is why we use Windows XP and not Linux. All great products need a distribution channel. I was talking to a few startup founders yesterday (yourep.com and vplyr.com) and they both are having difficulty taking their product to the masses due to this single reason.
lilian
· 3 years ago
interesting article, but you don't talk about other music players... Aren't there any serious alternative to MySpace ? How can alternatives be found if you don't talk about it and MySpace will ALWAYS lead ?? You just enhance the distribution channel ...
I don't believe MySpace will always lead the market,i think as people become more used to the possibilities of the web and get exposed to alternatives, they'll leave MySpace for services more specialized and more adapted to their needs.
Last.fm (the social music player) just released an online flash player. right now it's only on their site, but i believe that if the release a version people can embed in their personal website and blogs it would a killer-app
it would be very nice to have a comparison of the different music players available...
Frank Fulchiero
· 3 years ago
I'd be interested in hearing about other popular music players also. I'm looking for something that students and faculty could embed in Blogger, that is a little more "serious" than MySpace, in our effort to bring a little Web 2.0 to higher ed. There's more to the web than MySpace!
Pete Cashmore
· 3 years ago
lilian,
We actually have a list, I think. Not sure how much of this data we should give away, though. ;)
Thomas Linder
· 3 years ago
Great research.
It's worth noting that Photobucket started infiltrating MySpace in 2003, YouTube in 2005, and Slide in 2006.
I suspect that over the next couple years we'll see a greater percentage of pages that have video and slideshows.
fatty
· 3 years ago
u suck
fatty
· 3 years ago
loserrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.u.geek
Frank Fiske
· 2 years ago
MySpace is an evil evil website...Everyone needs to simply boycott MySpace completely and end Rupert Murdoch`s plan to take over the Internet and end free speech on the Internet and have everything on the Internet controlled by Fox News..MySpace deletes profiles without reason or warning and they do as they please and they are pissing off a lot of users by they non-caring attitude towards people in general!! Lots of MySpace users are now fed up with this horrible website and are looking for a decent alternative, just like I am!!
Viajero
· 2 years ago
Frank, I've been also looking for an alternative to MySpace, which is really pretty low-end and crass in general. This comes after just having spend (wasted?) hours creating my own page over the past few days (and thank you Pete and Kelvin for the useful info here on your site).
I kinda got sucked in and hyper-focused, but after perusing around, I see that the demographic is teens and early 20's largely, and while that's cute and good, I don't belong here! You throw Murdoch's involvement in (I had forgotten), and I'm on my way out.
I hope there's an easy way to migrate my "content", but to...where. Here's a list of social networking sites from Wikipedia. I'm open to suggestions. I've checked a few out, I can't say I've found a one the feels like a good home.
Mrs Floweryapron
· 1 year ago
Come over to my Myspace love, we are all of a certain age.
billy
· 2 years ago
hold your tounge and say to your self apple and then spell I CUP and then say pretty colors down your shirt! U SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
billy
· 2 years ago
how many people has had sex with this website??????????????????????????????????????????????
billy
· 2 years ago
how many people has had it with this website??????????????????????????????????????????????
daniel
· 2 years ago
y cant i put one of these music players on my myspace?
All Comments
As you can tell, I pretty much rewrote this one - I wanted it to be more digestible and less academic. One thing I'm still not crazy about is quoting of "active" profiles without disclosing what active means: I'd rather we just used random samples for everything, but I let it pass this time. Hopefully you also agree with my conclusions. ;)
And even though a few players dominate each market, it's also interesting to note that owning 1% of a market that consists of tens of millions of people is still good going. I guess that's the long tail at work.
If I had the world's Operating System, it wouldn't make an inch of a different if I couldn't distribute it. This is why we use Windows XP and not Linux. All great products need a distribution channel. I was talking to a few startup founders yesterday (yourep.com and vplyr.com) and they both are having difficulty taking their product to the masses due to this single reason.
I don't believe MySpace will always lead the market,i think as people become more used to the possibilities of the web and get exposed to alternatives, they'll leave MySpace for services more specialized and more adapted to their needs.
Last.fm (the social music player) just released an online flash player. right now it's only on their site, but i believe that if the release a version people can embed in their personal website and blogs it would a killer-app
it would be very nice to have a comparison of the different music players available...
We actually have a list, I think. Not sure how much of this data we should give away, though. ;)
It's worth noting that Photobucket started infiltrating MySpace in 2003, YouTube in 2005, and Slide in 2006.
I suspect that over the next couple years we'll see a greater percentage of pages that have video and slideshows.
I kinda got sucked in and hyper-focused, but after perusing around, I see that the demographic is teens and early 20's largely, and while that's cute and good, I don't belong here! You throw Murdoch's involvement in (I had forgotten), and I'm on my way out.
I hope there's an easy way to migrate my "content", but to...where. Here's a list of social networking sites from Wikipedia. I'm open to suggestions. I've checked a few out, I can't say I've found a one the feels like a good home.