{"id":2889,"date":"2011-01-04T05:26:20","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T13:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/?p=2889"},"modified":"2011-01-04T05:26:20","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T13:26:20","slug":"myspace-ceo-is-not-interested-in-selling-music-hypebot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/myspace-ceo-is-not-interested-in-selling-music-hypebot\/","title":{"rendered":"MySpace CEO Is Not Interested In Selling Music &#8211; hypebot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451b36c69e20147e07c2a25970b\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 200px;\" title=\"image from forum.belmont.edu\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hypebot.com\/.a\/6a00d83451b36c69e20147e07c2a25970b-200wi\" alt=\"image from forum.belmont.edu\" \/>Could this be a reason why MySpace is for sale and layoffs are expected, they are afraid to make money by selling you music? Maybe it is my marketing education at the hands of Gene Simmons and KISS, but why are people afraid to make money? The MySpace CEO would rather send their traffic away to someone else to make the sale. If you already have the user and they are interested in a band&#8230; sell!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some surprising news from the CEO of a company openly for sale by parent NewsCorp for not producing profits: \u201cMy goal is you come to MySpace, you listen to some new bands and connect to those bands,\u201d MySpace CEO Mike Jones told <a href=\"http:\/\/musically.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/08\/leweb-10-myspace-ceo-i-dont-wanna-be-the-place-that-replaces-itunes\/\" target=\"_blank\">LeWeb<\/a> conference in Paris this morning.\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t wanna be the place that replaces iTunes. I wanna be the place where you learn about music and then take that to wherever your music consumption happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The company is, however, working on improving recommendation to encourage users to dig deeper into the site. \u201cWe do need to get better at surfacing the music that interests you,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/musically.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/08\/leweb-10-myspace-ceo-i-dont-wanna-be-the-place-that-replaces-itunes\/\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> Jones. \u201cIf we connect you to curators who bring you the best content, your repeat visits go dramatically up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hypebot.com\/hypebot\/2010\/12\/myspace-ceo-not-interest-in-selling-music.html?utm_source=feedblitz&amp;utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&amp;utm_campaign=0&amp;utm_content=395530\">MySpace CEO Is Not Interested In Selling Music &#8211; hypebot<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could this be a reason why MySpace is for sale and layoffs are expected, they are afraid to make money by selling you music? Maybe it is my marketing education at the hands of Gene Simmons and KISS, but why are people afraid to make money? The MySpace CEO would rather send their traffic away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-marketing-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}