myspace

MYSPACE!!
below is an example of a myspace page:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=46231301

Meet people from your area in the country and keep in touch. Includes blog, forums, email, groups, games and events.

Myspace is a network site used by many to interact and find others into the same hobbies, or to just make friends. it links people from all over the world and allows you to put out your own oppinion and log your dayly routine.The website is highly interactive and users can interact with their friends, leave comments message or photo comments.

The audiences of myspace are teenagers and young adults although there are older people on it too, there are also communities for many secondary schools available, latymer being one of the biggest!!! To have a myspace profile you need to be over 14 so this limits the audience to abve this age, however there is always a chance to cheat and i have talked to many 11 year olds who have snuck their way in!!

The website allows users a high level of personalisation. a user can create their own profile with pictures video and text. The users profile can be personalised with the users own style with backgrounds, music, formats, colour schemes and texts. my myspace use to be awfully dull until i spruced it up!!!

companys and institutes have realised how vast myspace is and the wide audiences that it reaches, therefore they advertise on peoples homepages and the home, also giveing details about deals they can recieve and ipod phones:



Myspace has also been used by unsigned bands and artists to promote themselves to fellow myspacers. the site allows them to upload their song on their profile and other users can listen to them and leave a comment if they wish, this is good to build up a bands reputation and sometimes they are recognised and signed as record deals, this happened to my friend who sings pop but she didn't make it in the pop world (i bought a copy of her cd though).

There are also many fan profiles created by users to keep fans updated with their favourite bands, singers, actors shows, movies, comics, characters and other celebrities. Bands such as 'evergrey' often have profiles with information on gigs, concerts and albums, thus allowing them free advertising directly to their audiences.

They can use this to create more fans and a higher profile of their band. There are many bands and artist profiles from a wide range of genre not only niche music or genre. Many night clubs have pages, as well as small business, this is a way to show people who are interested what they have to offer, and because you can upload videos and pictures people have visual representations of what they could be missing out on..

'evergrey's' homepage on myspace is an brilliant example because they have taken advantage of everything the site has to offer.

they have their picture in the very middle of the page showing all the band members and individual photos of them down the edge, they are all very high quality photos and the text is easy to read. the page is very cool with a greenish blue frame and a brownish cream interiou background. this is an example of personalisation and makes the page far more asthetically pleasing and interesting to look at,

therefore attracting more viewers.

the band has uploaded some of their videos which they have made. it is easy to access them with a simple click and there is good sound and visuals.

they are also able to show the bands that have influenced them over the years (which in turn promote those bands to niche audiences with similar tastes)

they can show people their CDs and their concerts and you can eaven contact any of the band members where they can buy tickets (online shopping)

you have clear links to other parts of their pages such as 'other photos', 'making of the video' and 'leave a coment' or alternatively you can just leave a message on the message board main page at the bottom of the screne and show your support. this allows for them to recieve feedback and allows them to progress in the media world.

• interactivity
• personalisation
• niche audiences
• advertisement
• diversification
• reach