14 DAY TRIAL // YouTube is often described as the revolutionary Internet television, but a real online TV is about to be rolled out, which seems to be able to steal this codename owned by the Google product. The famous social website MySpace, owned by the largest media conglomerate News Corporation, said that it will launch MySpace TV, an independent website that will compete with the online video sharing service YouTube. According to the New York Times, MySpace TV will work just like Google's product, allowing users to upload, share and comment clips with other members of the service.
However, it seems that the new service will not necessarily require a MySpace account, the users being enabled to use the online TV even if they're not signed up for the social website. According to the same source, MySpace recently made a deal with Sony's Minisodes, "five-minute versions of '80s sitcoms like "Diff'rent Strokes" and "Silver Spoons."
"We haven't really freshened up our video offering since we launched it. We wanted to highlight the fact that we have a video destination on the Web with all this great content that we've acquired. No one has really pointed out that MySpace has been focused on video and has quietly come within striking distance of YouTube," said Chris DeWolfe, MySpace's co-founder and chief executive, for the New York Times.
YouTube proved us that it's a powerful service even when rival companies launched similar products. Take the example of Sony's eyeVio, a concurrent service released some time ago that was meant to compete with YouTube and attract the same category of users.
"We are focused on continuing to provide a global platform for our community to express themselves, share experiences, and inspire one another," Ricardo Reyes, a YouTube representatives replied for the same source.