Tag Archives: MySpace

MySpace Buys imeem and What It Means…If Anything

By John Furnari | Published: November 19, 2009
MySpace purchased imeem yesterday for $1 million in cash, about 5% of what it recently paid for another leading name in ad-supported streaming music, iLike. If you told anyone inside the industry a year or two ago if this was going to be the fate of imeem, not many would have cosigned the prediction.  There was [...]
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Facebook Tearing Down the Gated Walls

By John Furnari | Published: July 1, 2009
Today Facebook will announce a significant shift in its approach on privacy vs. public display.  This will be just as much a shift in community culture and the way users on the most popular social network communicate. For years Facebook has stood firm on maintaining a sense of structure and privacy where its users only rubbed [...]
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Viral Video Ping-Pong XII - Zee Avi Proves To Social Media Guy the Power of Social Media

By John Furnari | Published: May 20, 2009
“Viral Video Ping-Pong” - a weekly series on the bigMETHOD blog in which Greg and John attempt to outdo one another with the posting of an incredible low-budget clip. So often as an agency we are confronted with the question “but how does this translate to sales? ROI?” It’s a challenge for the social media marketing [...]
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To Ning, or not to Ning…

By tristan | Published: April 25, 2009
It seems like everyone is still hot on the idea of their own brand social networking website. Internal social networking platforms (like Ning.com) allow for the integration of social tools within a website unique to the hosts desired interest, passions, and services. There are great benefits to doing this but the question needs to be [...]
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Music Streaming Services vs. Music Ownership

By tristan | Published: April 15, 2009
Can music streaming services replace music ownership? This is one of the never ending questions I hear pertaining to the music industry. Because we are in a transitional state from physical retail album sales to digital distribution and online music streaming, answers to questions like this have the potential to reshape to how artists, record labels, [...]
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