Is myspace.com a huge marketing scheme?

Question

Call me crazy, but I think that myspace.com is simply a massive marketing scheme. At this point it is owned by News Corp. News Corp. is one of 6 huge corporations (the others are Viacom, NBC, Disney, Sony, and of course AOL Time Warner) that own nearly all media outlets in the U.S. including almost all major newspapers, record companies, radio stations, television channels, publishing companies, etc. (check out http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/new... for more info). Anyway, these "Big 6" Corporations dropped from 10 to 6 in less than a decade, and seem to be narrowing down even more. Many people using myspace.com don't realize who owns. If users display all of th music, films, tv shows, etc. that they enjoy as well as posting pictures to display how they like to be portrayed to the rest of th world, don't you think this is a fool-proof marketing tool for News Corp?

well they don't make money directly from the website. that's the natur of marketing, really.

Answer 1

Of course, the only reason for any corporation is to make money. What did you think, they were just giving millions of dollars away for the fun of it? They sell advertising and market research and anything else if they could.

I place my web site on the source space because I give all of my opinions based upon my experience and the site is a culmination of those experiences. Does that invalidate those experiences because I want people to go to my web site? Not at all. I can't do good things if I don't have money to do them. That is one of the little evil truths in this world. Do good in the system. It isn't always necessary to break the system.

Answer 2

MySpace.com actually wasn't making that much money before News Corp. bought it. News Corp. isn't making that much money from MySpace.com, but you can sure bet they are working to do that thru' advertisements, etc.

Answer 3

YES. It is. Very much so, and it is HUGE.