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MySpace.com is the leading lifestyle portal for networking online. Integrating web profiles, blogs, instant messaging, e-mail, music downloads, photo galleries, classified listings, events, groups, chatrooms, and user forums, MySpace.com has created a connected community where users put their lives online.
Chief Executive OfficerOwen Van Natta
Number of Employees 200
Contact Information
1223 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 402
Santa Monica, California 90401
(310) 917-4949
Peer Companies
NAICS Code All Other Publishers: 511199
Recent Events
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Former MySpace Exec Lands $1M for New Venture Cocodot
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MySpace to lay off 30 percent of staff
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MySpace prepares for "massive" layoffs: report
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MySpace, SocialMedia Co-Launch Interactive Ads
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MySpace's New Music Feed
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MySpace is made over amid falling popularity
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Murdoch Tightens His Grip on MySpace
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Question for new CEOs at MySpace and Project Playlist: Now what?
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MySpace Names Owen Van Natta CEO
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DeWolfe stepping down at MySpace
News & Analysis
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Jon Miller, Owen Van Natta Explain MySpace and News Corp. to You
BNET
- 2009-06-30
The AllThingsD blog has finally posted an almost 45-minute interview with News Corp. and MySpace's new digital intelligentsia from its D7 conference last month, namely chief digital officer Jon Miller and MySpace chief Owen Van Natta; I believe it is their first big, public appearance since being named...
MySpace Ad Revenues Likely in Permanent Downward Spiral
BNET
- 2009-06-26
The sun appears to be setting on MySpace as the company lays off 1,150 staffers ahead of the end of a $300 million-a-year advertising deal with Google, Reuters reports. The site has half the traffic of Facebook. More importantly, revenues and profits at MySpace are in decline, according to News...
MySpace's "It's So Over" Problem Among the Social Media Intelligentsia
BNET
- 2009-06-24
I spent yesterday at a twice-a-year social media conference I run called OMMA Social, and once again, it hit me how deep MySpace's problems are â€" because it's rarer and rarer that it even merits a mention among online media agencies and clients, the people who will need to have...
AT&T to release new Motorola phone
Strategy Eye
- 2009-06-23
US mobile operator AT&T is launching Motorola’s new Karma phone, aimed at consumers interested in text messaging, instant messaging and social networking via Facebook and MySpace. The device also features a miniature qwerty keyboard. Motorola has struggled to regain market share...
MySpace to Cut Two-thirds of Global Workforce
Reuters
- 2009-06-23
NEW YORK (Reuters) - MySpace, the social networking website owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, said on Tuesday it plans to cut about two-thirds of its international workforce and close at least four of its offices outside the United States.The proposed restructuring plan would reduce MySpace's international staff to about...
MySpace Plans International Staff Cuts
ReutersUK
- 2009-06-23
NEW YORK (Reuters UK) - MySpace, the social networking website owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, said on Tuesday it plans to cut about two-thirds of its international workforce and close at least four of its offices outside the United States.The proposed restructuring plan would reduce MySpace's international staff to...
Twitter Pan, MySpace, Facebook, and Riding the Fad
BNET
- 2009-06-17
It's been a tough day for MySpace as the company fired nearly 30 percent of its workforce. When it's tough to tell whether the blood on the floors from the axing is flowing as fast as the printer ink as those who remain prepare resumes, the atmosphere is serious. However,...
Former MySpace Exec's Lifestyle Startup Cocodot Gets Funding
Content Next
- 2009-06-16
Former MySpace head of marketing (back from a different era, when MySpace ruled the roost) Shawn Gold has formed a new startup called Cocodot, and has raised a million dollars in funding. The seed investors in the Los Angeles-based venture include Anthem Venture Partners, The Mail Room Fund, and...
FIM Layoffs Underway; Unlike MySpace, No Specifics
Content Next
- 2009-06-16
In addition to the 420 layoffs announced today at MySpace, nearly 30 percent of the social network's U.S. staff, Fox Interactive Media quietly is cutting corporate staff. Unlike MySpace, whose CEO Owen Van Natta was open about the amount, FIM is playing it closer to the vest. Then again,...
MySpace Cuts U.S. Staff By Nearly 30 Percent; CEO: Staffing Level Was Bloated
Content Next
- 2009-06-16
The shoe has dropped at MySpace and it's a big one: the News Corp (NYSE: NWS) social network is cutting nearly 30 percent of its staff, reducing the domestic staff size to 1,000 as it tries to dial back to a start-up culture. Here's the release; more to come:...
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Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Owen Van Natta | Chief Executive Officer |
| Courtney Holt | President, MySpace Music |
| Jason Hirschhorn | Chief Product Officer |
| Michael Jones | Chief Operating Officer |
| Valeh Vakili | Senior Vice President, Sales Strategy and Operations |
| Chris DeWolfe | Strategic Advisor |
| Geoffrey Y. Yang | Investor |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Amit Kapur | Board of Directors |
| Jim Benedetto | Board of Directors |
| Steve Pearman | Board of Directors |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MySpace.com | Chief Executive Officer | Current |
| Facebook Inc. | Chief Operating Officer | Former |
| Facebook Inc. | Chief Revenue Officer & Vice President, Operations | Former |
| PlanetAll | Vice President, Business Development | Former |
| Amazon.com, Inc. | Vice President, Business Development | Former |
| Zip2 | Director, Sales | Former |
| Ziff Davis Holdings, Inc. | Sales Executive | Former |
| University of California Santa Cruz | B.A., English & American Literature | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MySpace.com | President, MySpace Music | Current |
| MTV Networks Company | Executive Vice President, Digital Music | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MySpace.com | Chief Product Officer | Current |
| Computers for Youth | Board of Directors | Current |
| Tech Corps Georgia, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Sling Media | President | Former |
| MTV Networks Company | Chief Digital Officer | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MySpace.com | Chief Operating Officer | Current |
| AOL LLC | Executive | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MySpace.com | Senior Vice President, Sales Strategy and Operations | Current |
| Yahoo! Inc. | Director, U.S. Sales Operations | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MySpace.com | Strategic Advisor | Current |
| MySpace.com | Chief Executive Officer | Former |
| Intermix Media, Inc. | Chief Executive Officer | Former |
| MySpace.com | co-founder | Former |
| University of Southern California | MBA | Former |
| University of Washington | B.A. degree in Finance | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MySpace.com | Board of Directors | Current |
| MySpace.com | Chief Operating Officer | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MySpace.com | Board of Directors | Current |
| MySpace.com | Senior Vice President, Engineering | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| MySpace.com | Board of Directors | Current |
| MySpace.com | Senior Vice President, Product Strategy | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Azul Systems Inc | Managing Director, Redpoint Ventures | Current |
| TiVo Inc. | Managing Director | Current |
| Redpoint Ventures | Managing Director | Current |
| Red Point | Founder | Current |
| Institutional Venture Partners | General Partner | Current |
| Azul Systems Inc | Board of Directors | Current |
| BigBand Networks, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| TiVo Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| MMC Networks | Investor | Current |
| MySpace.com | Investor | Current |
| Calix | Investor | Current |
| Juniper Networks, Inc. | Investor | Current |
| Western Association of Venture Capitalists | President | Former |
| Redpoint Ventures | Partner | Former |
| Red Point | Founding Partner | Former |
| Institutional Venture Partners | Venture Capitalist | Former |
| First Century Partners | Associate | Former |
| Western Association of Venture Capitalists | Director | Former |
| Stanford Graduate School of Business | M.B.A. | Former |
| Stanford University | M.B.A. Degree | Former |
| Princeton University | B.S.E. in Engineering and Management Systems | Former |
Executive News
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Redefining MySpace
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ANALYSIS-MySpace begins redefining its space
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UPDATE 2-MySpace to cut two-thirds of global workforce
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Stagnant MySpace Lays Off 400
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MySpace to lay off 30 percent of staff
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Yes, MySpace can be saved
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Stagnant MySpace Lays Off 400 To Become Nimble
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MySpace Cuts 30% of U.S. Staff
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MySpace: After the Layoffs, Heres Whats What and Whats Next
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MySpace to lay off 30 percent of staff
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MySpace Cuts Staff by 30 Percent
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MySpace to cut 30 per cent of workforce to boost efficiency
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MySpace Laying Off 30 Percent of Staff
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MySpace Cuts Workforce, Facebook Gains More Ground
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New Management at MySpace Cuts 420 Jobs
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MySpace to cut 30 pct of jobs to boost efficiency
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MySpace to lay off 30 percent of staff
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UPDATE 2-MySpace to lay off 30 percent of staff
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