There is an article from Business Week about MySpace’s continued move producing original webisodic content. The focus is on their latest project SOAP, based (loosely as hell, one guesses) on the late-70’s classic of the same name.
Two things struck me about the article. The first is that it claims MySpace is still only paying $5000/3min [...]
SAI has a taken a look at the MySpaceTV series “Special Delivery,” a sort of hidden cam prank show. They took a look at the view counts for the show on MySpace and YouTube:
“Of the 12 episodes of “Special Delivery” added within the last month on YouTube, only one has more than 1,000 views. Meanwhile, [...]
If you are so inclined you can go and listen to Madonna’s new album, Hard Candy, streaming in its entirety on her MySpace page before the album has been officially released for sale.
This would appear to be a pretty digital-age savvy move but as Mashable points out:
“If it actually helps sales is a difficult thing [...]
Was reading this very good interview with MySpace CEO and co-founder Chris DeWolfe in Wired and this quote caught my eye:
“It’s not just a download service — it’s a service that marries the largest music community with the most comprehensive catalog of music online. Users can discover and consume virtually any piece of music for [...]
The latest news on the significant webseries front is that some folks are spinning off from the UK Bebo webseries Kate Modern to launch a new Brit-set webseries for MySpace.
“Big Balls Films and Pete Gibbons will make a pilot of the UK-set I Love Chieftown drama this month, with a full 60-”webisode” series launching in [...]
Short little post over on BoingBoing where Cory Doctorow mentions that he heard a great song on a podcast, found the band’s MySpace page and “ripped” the song for his personal collection.
As one who has also acquired music in this way, I am not mentioning this to say what Cory did was wrong but instead to look [...]
WSJ has a look at the growing trend among social networking sites like Bebo and MySpace using original video content as a way to grow and expand their user base:
“The growing popularity of YouTube poses a particular competitive threat to social-networking sites. Roughly a quarter of users who view videos on MySpace also watch shows [...]
NewTeeVee, among plenty of others, has noted that last night’s network TV premier (yes, it had already aired on MTV and MySpace) of perhaps the most over-hyped, under-loved web series so far, quarterlife.
“In a development that could kill the network dreams of other fledgling web series, quarterlife’s premiere on NBC last night bombed. TV [...]
The Hollywood Reporter is, um, reporting that MySpaceTV is launching another original series (after “Roommates”, “Prom Queen” and “quaterlife” 
called “Special Delivery.”
It’s a reality/hidden camera show that is being sponsored by Frito-Lay:
“The series initially will be sponsored by Frito-Lay/Cheetos, which will be featured in an episode around April 1 and will lend its branding to [...]
NewTeeVee has a look at the new partnership between MySpace and GOOD, a print and online media company.
“Online video is perfectly suited for investigative journalism pieces. It’s just as easy to go out into the field with camera in hand as it is with a tape recorder, and now the final product is no longer [...]
