basexperience Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Myspace: the silent social network. An irony, given its music focus. Anyone upload their stuff on there anymore? Even the foo fighters appear to have gone silent on there! Was wondering if it was worth a rummage through, or if it's completely dead - and is it worth uploading tracks to there? All opinions gratefully accepted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiamPodmore Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Can sometimes find some really good stuff rumaging through there, but i don't think anyone uses it all anymore. I haven't seen it mentioned for ages. Liam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonybassplayer Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Just before facebook took off I was on there constantly running my own page and the two band sites I was on. Along with Friends Reunited they really missed a trick as they had so many users prior to facebook. Not been on either for years now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MoJo Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Abandoned it many moons ago. I'm sure I've still got a page on there but don't bother with it any longer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
basexperience Posted March 6, 2015 Author Share Posted March 6, 2015 I'm tempted to give it a couple of sessions just to see if there's anything good on it. Who knows, weirder things have happened... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cairobill Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/06/myspace-what-went-wrong-sean-percival-spotify Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike257 Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 You might find some music to listen to on there but in terms of its use as a tool to reach an audience, it's dead. Used it heavily for my band back in its "glory" days c.2005/6 and it enabled us to build pockets of support all over the country and tour moderately successfully under our own steam but it peaked then really died out (much like the band at the time, haha!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EliasMooseblaster Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 [quote name='mike257' timestamp='1425651216' post='2709401'] You might find some music to listen to on there but in terms of its use as a tool to reach an audience, it's dead. Used it heavily for my band back in its "glory" days c.2005/6 and it enabled us to build pockets of support all over the country and tour moderately successfully under our own steam but it peaked then really died out (much like the band at the time, haha!) [/quote] It was such a shame to see it go, in that respect - when it was at its peak there was massive potential to reach a fanbase. Has anything really stepped up to fill that role in the meantime? Reverbnation, BandInTown, and all the others just don't seem to be as ubiquitous...or maybe I'm just not using them properly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike257 Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 (edited) Nothing with the same reach and impact, no. We got lucky with timing and caught the crest of the wave - every music loving teen was on it and we had nearly 400 through the door on our debut gig in late 2005 thanks to a mix of heavy MySpace promo and good old fashioned "pounding the streets with a bunch of flyers" work. By the time that particular band died two years later it had already peaked and was becoming less useful as a promotional tool because of all the spam, oversaturation from bands and audiences migrating to other sites. Fun while it lasted! Edited March 8, 2015 by mike257 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xilddx Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Nope. Nor Friends Reunited. As soon as a major corporation buy out one of these things they f*** it up. They don't have the staff with the vibe. So be glad Fox didn't buy Basschat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urban Bassman Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 The original format was pretty good and I used it quite a lot. Then they "updated" it and it became quite difficult to use and not very user friendly IMO. Then Facebook came along and it was game over. Shame it was great in its day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Musky Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 What screwed Myspace was that the site wasn't designed with scalability in mind. The site owners knew this and had tried various bodges but it needed rebuilding from the ground up. No easy task. News International thought they were man enough for the job but hadn't allowed for the upstart Facebook. Instead of cutting their loses and capitalising on the fact they had every band on the planet using Myspace, they tried to go head to head with Facebook on Facebook's terms. We all know what happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyquipment Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Think the last time I used it was in 2006.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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