Thursday, October 22, 2009

MySpace Music Gets A Major Upgrade

More Video, Artist Dashboard, iTunes Purchase

MySpace Music has gotten a major upgrade with the addition of a new music video hub, an artist dashboard offering analytics and track purchase via iTunes. The new features come at a time when the parent MySpace site is losing market share to Facebook.

Music Video Hub

MySpace hopes to challenge YouTube’s go-to status for music videos by creating an extensive hub for licensed video from major and indie labels and adding a social component.

  • Video recommendations based on what your friends are watching
  • Browse via A-Z video search
  • New video player with dynamically targeted “Buy” buttons provided as part of Auditude’s video ad management platform
  • Entire artist music video catalogues available in artist music players alongside “Albums” tab
  • iLike now features MySpace’s Music Video catalogue within all partner websites

Artist Dashboard

Launched in beta, the MySpace Artist Dashboard is a free and offers a peak at  detailed analytics of an artist’s content within both MySpace and iLike. Functionality includes: [read]

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