MySpace Articles

MySpace is a popular social networking website offering an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music and videos internationally. It is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California, US, where it shares an office building with its immediate owner, Fox Interactive Media; in turn, the owner of Fox Interactive and therefore MySpace, News Corporation, is headquartered in New York City. According to Alexa Internet, MySpace is currently the world’s sixth most popular English-language website and the sixth most popular website in any language, and the third most popular website in the United States , though it has topped the chart on various weeks. The service has gradually gained more popularity than similar websites to achieve nearly 80% of visits to online social networking websites. It has become an increasingly influential part of contemporary popular culture, especially in English speaking countries.

Nielsen's Top Online Video Destinations & Web Brands Of 2011

A lot changed in 2011. Of course... a lot stayed the same too. Nielsen's year end numbers chart everything from the top web brands to the top social networks and the top online video destinations. And looking over the lists, there's an awful lot of familiar names. For us here at ReelSEO, it's once again ...

Opera Mobile Tops 100 Million Users, Still Can't Show Video

Opera is becoming a major player in the mobile browsing market it seems with over 100 million mobile users are using it monthly on their phones. That means you need to make sure your content works with it. It works with it right? Oddly, or not so considering Safari's features, the number one platform for ...

YouTube Is The Third Most Blocked Website, Facebook First

A new report released today from OpenDNS--a DNS resolution service--casts some light on how businesses are treating social networking and online video websites--at least in terms of how employees spend their time while on the clock. While brands are racing to engage customers on social networking sites like Facebook and video sharing sites like YouTube, employers ...

Facebook and YouTube Rise To The Top Most Search Keywords for 2010

Experian Hitwise has released a year-end report detailing the most-searched keyword phrases and most-visited websites of 2010.  Among the most interesting reveals is the declaration that Facebook overtook Google as the most-visited website.  Of course, they wouldn't be number one if Google wasn't feeding them tons of traffic--the most-searched keyword phrases of the year were ...

Google Releases Annual Zeitgeist Report, An In-Depth Look At The 2010 Year In Search

Last week we took a look at what some search engines were saying about the most popular queries of 2010.  All the major search engines typically release a recap of the year's most popular keywords and search phrases, and Yahoo, Bing, & AOL did so last week.  Google obviously enjoys being different, so they waited ...

The Future of "Online" Video, From Someone Who Should Know

Online video is still in its infancy, and we've barely scratched the surface of what it will be and what it can do for businesses.  There's a fantastic article over at ClickZ from guest columnist, Shishir Mehrotra, called 4 Ways Video Is Fundamentally Changing.  And if you're going to pay attention to anyone who has ...

What Is A Video View? What Is Fraudulent? TubeMogul Helps Us Decide

If you read the Reel Weekender thoroughly, like the good readers I know you all are, you'll know that I linked over to Pace Lattin's site, Industrypace.com as he's seemingly being threatened due to his reporting on video ad fraud. Well hot on the heels of that, and quite timely for me, comes new research ...

Education Is The #1 Reason Marketers Use Website Video

Today we get to find out a little bit more about how today’s marketers are employing video in their business, courtesy of a fascinating new study.  The study is from King Fish Media, Hubspot, and Junta 42, and you can see the full report here—there’s a quick registration process you need to complete before you’ll ...

Reel Weekend: Social Networks Targeted By Video Spoofs and One Real Film

So, everyone in the Social Networking realm is all a flutter (bet you thought I'd say a twitter) about a string of spoof trailers for imaginary films based on the creation and usage of the social networks, spawned from a real trailer for a real film, mind you. Since that all falls roughly into the ...

In-Depth Review of InPlay Video Analytics

It's not quite Google Analytics, yet. But it is certainly a step in the right direction. While we originally had some implementation problems over at Gamers Daily News, TubeMogul was more than helpful in getting everything working properly with us.

Science Discovers Online Video and Social Media

Everyone is finding some benefit to using online video, even the scientific community. They're not really using it as advertising and marketing but more as a way to connect with the public in general and help them understand where all that research money goes. For those that don't know, I am a scientist. It comes ...

Online Video Hits A Record - 31 Billion Views In US

That's what ComScore is saying anyway. They say it's the first time the industry has topped that number and so it's a big deal. Their November 2009 comScore Video Metrix service showed that over 170 million U.S. Internet users watched online video during the month and almost 31 Billion videos seen.

The Relationship Between Social Media and Search

Comscore, in conjunction with social media agency m80, has released the findings of a new study on the relationship between search and social media.  The results are pretty interesting. Actually, the results, as presented by Comscore, read a bit like a copy of War & Peace in original Russian--is there some mandate of which I ...

August Video Watching Online Tops Everything Previous

Another month has come and gone and comScore tells it was the best ever. Better than the previous best month which was the month before the best month ever even though it too was, at the time, the best month ever. Confused? Don't be, just keep reading.

MySpace + Hulu = YouTube Rival?

According to something I just read over at CNET, Rupert Murdoch is ready to create an online video monster, or at least to reshape MySpace into an 'entertainment hub.' How will he do that? By partnering the site up with Hulu.