MySpace Launches ‘Portfolio’ – First New Artist Promo Tool Since Redesign
A redesigned and refocused MySpace has launched it's first new update aimed at helping the musicians and other creators that drive traffic the site. 'Portfolio' anables users to feature content prominently within their profile. For musicians, that could be a new song, video, tour poster or photo shoot.
After users create a portfolio in their profile they can select one piece of content to feature along with up to 30 smaller ones. Content can included mixes, songs, albums, goraphics, videos and GIFs. These selections can be changed at any time.
Fans can also create a potfolio of things they discovered on MySpace. The company says that 15,000+ users have already activated the Portfolio feature on their profiles. More details here.
Artists To Be Featured In TV Campaign
Alongside Portfolio, MySpace has launched a TV/video ad campaing to showcase some of the artists on the site. Featured first are Portugal. The Man, Amadéus and Ace Da God.
“Myspace is committed to empowering the creative community,” April Thrun, MySpace’s VP Of Marketing told Billboard, “and within that DNA there’s the original social network, but also what’s evolved organically in the creative ecosystem. We’ve been getting a lot of feedback from artists since we launched in June, and Portfolio is a way for us to make some of that feedback actionable.”
Wow Myspace is really stepping up their game. Sound like I need to reactivate my account!
This is so revolutionary! I love you so much Myspace.
P.S. Tell JT to call me 😉
myspace is the new goto platform for all creatives and artistic minds alike. definitely worth checking out again
Wow, I’ve never seen that many blatant paid digital street team posts on this site. MySpace needs to tell the lemmings which sites to stay away from. This isn’t PerezHilton.com.
Jeri, I had the exact same feeling when I read the first three comments. 🙂
Unfortunately, MySpace completely destroyed itself in June 2013. If they don’t bring back ALL of the features of the classic MySpace, nobody will ever bother to update their accounts there. Their traffic is so little nowadays (it has been decreasing too fast since 12 June 2013), and they still don’t get it.
MySpace, if you really want to become relevant again, bring back the classic version.
I will never use myspace again after how they treated their classic users. Removing all blogs and messages without a warning and refusing to this day to allow users to export those messages. Many lost communication with loved ones who have since passed away. Disgusting, arrogant and classless move by Myspace to ignore this.