Music videos have always been a part of MySpace but with the new service, MySpace-branded ones will be playable inside iLike applications embedded on competing social networking sites such as Facebook, Bebo, Orkut and hi5.Īdvertising embedded in the videos will benefit the MySpace Music venture. The videos also will have a dedicated MySpace Music Videos page and be featured more prominently on artist pages and in search results on both MySpace and on the Google music search service. MySpace Music, a joint venture between MySpace and the four recording companies, benefits most from the deal. Meanwhile, MySpace announced Wednesday it is replacing YouTube videos on its iLike music recommendation service, which it bought for $20 million earlier this month, with videos it has licensed on its own. Although Google won't get a share of song sales, it will collect revenue from advertising that will be shown with the search results, according to the people familiar with the plans. Google hopes to improve itself as a destination for music discovery. The music companies will benefit by sharing revenue from song sales with Lala and iLike, while making the discovery, experimentation and buying process simple for Google users. pitched the idea to Google a year ago and are cooperating with the project, according to one person. The major recording companies - Vivendi SA's Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group Corp. Videos will appear through iLike's player. Song previews will appear in Lala or iLike online music players, and users won't have to navigate away from the search results page. Song previews and sales on Google will be provided by online music retailer Lala and iLike, a music recommendation application bought by News Corp.'s MySpace this month. The effort also marks a new way for Google and the recording companies to promote alternatives to Apple Inc.'s iTunes, the leader in song downloads. The package is similar to how companies get individual pages for Google's financial news service. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak publicly about the deal before next Wednesday's announcement. next week will launch music search pages that will package images of musicians and bands, album artwork, links to news, lyrics, videos and song previews, along with a way to buy songs on one search results page.
The developments, all of which came with the blessing of the major recording companies, are examples of attempts to reap online revenue as compact disc sales continue to fall.Īccording to people familiar with the matter, Google Inc. In separate developments Wednesday, it emerged that Google plans to launch a music search service, MySpace said its music videos will be spread on competing social networks through recent acquisition iLike, and Facebook said it will now allow friends to send each other song-streaming gifts for as little as 10 cents each.
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