I’m back again with another hot topic about a very famous social networking organization on the Internet.

MySpace is an online communication service that uses a mixture of weblogs, forums, emails, photos, user profiles and more. Myspace is a place where you can socialize and network according to your own style and your own plan. New features are being added to Myspace frequently because of its extreme popularity over the web. The best part is that all of these features are free to anyone who wants to join.

Alexa.com statistics

Alexa rated Myspace the world’s fifth most popular English language website, the fifth most popular website in any language and the third most popular site in the USA.

Some Interesting MySpace Stats:

The Myspace headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California where it shares an office building with its immediate owner, Fox Interactive Media. Fox is owned by News Corporation, which has its headquarters in New York City.

Myspace employs 300 staff members and does not disclose revenues or profits separately from News Corporation. The 100 millionth account was created on August 6, 2006 in the Netherlands and a news story claimed 106 million accounts on September 8, 2006. The site reportedly attracts 230,000 new registrations per day.

·    MySpace has more than 110 million monthly active users around the globe

·     85% of MySpace user are of voting age (18 and older)

·     1 in 4 Americans is on MySpace, and in the UK it is as common to have a MySpace profile as it is to own a dog.

·      MySpace is localized and translated in more than 20 international territories: US, UK, Japan, Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Canada, Netherlands, New Zealand, Latin American, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland and MySpace en Espanol.

·     MySpace is one of the fastest growing websites of all time.

·     MySpace has 100 billion rows of data

·     There are 14 billion comments on MySpace

·     50 million mails per day are sent on MySpace, which is more than Yahoo, Hotmail or Gmail.

·     There are 10 billion friend relationships

·     1.5 billion images have been uploaded; 8 million images are being uploaded per day.

·      60,000 new videos are being uploaded to MySpaceTV each day

·      There are more than 8 million artists and bands on MySpace Music.

SMM through MySpace

The best utilization of MySpace is SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING for your organization. For example, if you want to launch your own website for your company I would definitely recommend you utilize MySpace. It will help you gain traffic, get your name out there and attract new clients, which will improve your sales and positively affect your visibility.

Social Media Marketing is all about the benefits of having an online presence for your company. If you make a personal presence online on MySpace it can help you boost your company’s visibility.

Broaden your networking circles

Signing up for a MySpace profile only takes a few minutes. After you have established your profile you can contact your friends and encourage them to visit. MySpace has given its users the ability to access other members’ profiles, which can help you broaden your networking circle easily. Can’t think of any friends to add? The browse function let’s you pick specifications and look through profiles that match exactly what you are looking for. If your target demographic is males between 20 – 25 years old that live in the Midwest, you can easily search and browse through that group of people. One of the aspects that makes MySpace stand out is that there is a separate section for musicians and other artists. Another feature that makes MySpace unique is that you can upload and download music and videos, where most social networking sites stop at photos.

References:

1. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/09/04/8384727/index.htm
2. http://www.laobserved.com/biz/2006/08/my_space_is_not_thei.php
3. http://techradar1.wordpress.com/2008/01/11/facebookmyspace-statistics/

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