This is a repost of an article that originally appeared at MySpace Press Room
Posted By Owen Van Natta, CEO
August 19, 2009
I’m happy to announce this morning that MySpace has entered into an agreement to acquire iLike.
In just two years, iLike has become the most popular music application across all social networks. With 55 million users and 1.5 billion monthly impressions, their growth speaks directly to the usability of the product, the technology behind it, and the great team that built it.
One of the great things about MySpace is that its openness enables discovery – we’re going to take that strategy one step forward by also allowing users to experience content on the distributed Web.
On MySpace, users connect with the content they love in a centralized and social environment. On iLike, users can access the content they love in a highly distributed environment across their favorite websites. This shared vision around content distribution is a key component to the future of MySpace.
What the iLike team has done with music is applicable to all of the areas that are important to MySpace users today such as entertainment, video, and games. Because we view the opportunities of this acquisition beyond the music category, MySpace Inc. will be making this acquisition separate and apart from MySpace Music.
The company’s current management – CEO Ali Partovi, President Hadi Partovi, and CTO Nat Brown – will continue to lead iLike’s future. I’ve known Hadi and Ali for almost 10 years and the two of them, along with Nat are talented entrepreneurs with a strong track record for building world class product.
In addition to this great management team, iLike has 26 employees in various technical and business functions including a market leading development team that will join MySpace. iLike users and the artist community should expect the iLike experience to be unaffected by the acquisition. iLike will also remain headquartered in Seattle.
By joining forces with iLike you should expect that we’ll be testing more things and building product that keeps both platforms highly engaging and social. We look forward to hearing your feedback as we begin to collaborate. I’m thrilled to welcome Ali, Hadi, Nat and everyone at iLike to the MySpace team.
Check out the official press release for more information.
-Owen
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