Is MySpace still around in 2026?
Yes. myspace.com loads, and on September 8, 2026 the front page was still publishing music news, including a piece on Stevie Wonder touring an album for its fiftieth anniversary. Those articles carry a SPIN byline rather than anything written by a MySpace newsroom.
What is gone is the social network. Reporting through August 2026 describes the site as read-only, which means old pages render but nothing new gets posted to them. Tom Anderson's profile, the automatic first friend for a whole generation of American teenagers, still sits at myspace.com/tom with its counters for photos, videos, mixes and connections intact.
The footer on the homepage still reads "© 2014 Myspace LLC." Nothing sums up the level of attention the front end has had since then more efficiently than that.
Who owns MySpace now?
Viant Technology Inc., an advertising technology company listed on Nasdaq under the ticker DSP, with offices on Michelson Drive in Irvine, California. Viant's annual report for fiscal 2025, filed with the SEC on March 11, 2026, names Myspace.com as one of the sites it owns outright through its subsidiary Myspace LLC.
Viant was founded in 1999 by Tim, Chris and Russ Vanderhook, and the same brothers still run it. The Vanderhook parties hold a majority of the voting power in the company, which makes Viant a "controlled company" under Nasdaq's listing standards and lets it skip several governance requirements that apply to most public companies.
MySpace is a rounding error inside that business. Viant sells a demand side platform for programmatic advertising, and its 2025 filing splits its issued patents into 35 covering the platform and its household identification technology, 15 covering Myspace.com, and 15 covering IRIS.TV. The site's main function on the balance sheet is as a legal risk, listed under a heading about liabilities arising from owning and operating it.
How MySpace went from $580 million to $35 million
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation bought MySpace in 2005 for $580 million. On June 29, 2011 it sold the site to the ad targeting firm Specific Media for $35 million in stock and cash, below the $100 million News Corp had been seeking, and held on to a stake of less than 5 percent. Specific Media's chief executive was Tim Vanderhook. Justin Timberlake joined as a co-owner and public face of the deal.
The chain gets stranger after that. In 2016 Time Inc. acquired a 60 percent interest in Viant, which carried MySpace along with it. Meredith Corporation inherited that interest when it bought Time Inc. in 2018. In 2019 Viant bought the 60 percent stake back and became independent again, then completed its initial public offering on February 12, 2021.
So a social network passed from a newspaper empire to an ad tech startup to a magazine publisher to another magazine publisher and back to the ad tech startup, all within fourteen years. The story of how it lost its audience before any of that happened is in the rise and fall of MySpace. This is what came after.
What the 2019 server migration destroyed
In March 2019 users noticed the music player had stopped working. MySpace then confirmed that roughly 50 million songs uploaded between 2003 and 2015 were gone, along with photos and videos, affecting around 14 million artists.
The company's statement ran to one sentence: "As a result of a server migration project, any photos, videos, and audio files you uploaded more than three years ago may no longer be available on or from Myspace." No recovery plan came with it.
Viant's own language is drier. The fiscal 2025 annual report tells investors that "as a result of a server migration project in 2019, older photo, video or audio files of some users were lost," filed under operational and performance issues.
Twelve years of uploads went with it, and most of it existed nowhere else. Garage bands, bedroom demos, first mixes by producers who later got famous, all posted by people who treated a free website as permanent storage. Anyone who put a childhood into a MySpace profile or a GeoCities page learned the same lesson twice: a free host owes you nothing.
Can you get an old MySpace profile back?
Partly. The sign in and password reset pages still respond in September 2026, and old profile URLs still resolve, so an account tied to an email address you still control is worth an attempt.
The media is a different matter. Anything uploaded before 2016 sat in the batch lost during the migration, and MySpace told users at the time there was no way to recover it.
One partial rescue exists. On April 1, 2019 the Internet Archive published a collection called The Myspace Dragon Hoard (2008-2010): 490,000 MP3 files pulled off MySpace's content delivery network by an anonymous academic study between 2008 and 2010. It runs to more than 1.3 terabytes packed into 144 ZIP files, with a search and playback tool layered on top. Set against 50 million lost songs, that is roughly 1 percent.
There is a security footnote too. Viant has disclosed that in 2016 it found a third-party attack in which about 360 million MySpace account email addresses, usernames and hashed passwords were taken from the old platform, all of it stolen before June 11, 2013. If that password is still in use anywhere else, change it before you go looking for your profile.
Will MySpace relaunch?
The owners say yes and give no date. In a 2026 documentary about the site, Tim Vanderhook said, "We still own Myspace. We are stewards of the Myspace brand at this point, and we are going to relaunch Myspace," adding that they were waiting for the right moment to do it.
They have already tried once. The brothers rebuilt the site from scratch during their ownership and have said the attempt lost a little over $150 million, because advertisers kept their budgets with Facebook and YouTube instead.
The obstacles have grown since. Music licensing has to be renegotiated from zero. Myspace LLC is bound by a 2012 Federal Trade Commission consent order that requires independent privacy assessments every two years and does not expire until August 2032. And TikTok and Instagram now hold the attention that MySpace would need to win back. Nostalgia alone has not revived a dead social network yet, as Friendster demonstrated.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can you still log in to MySpace?
The sign in and password reset pages still load as of September 2026, so an account attached to an email address you still have may open. Expect an empty shell, because reporting since 2024 describes the site as read-only and every photo, video and song uploaded before 2016 was destroyed in the 2019 migration.
How much did News Corp lose on MySpace?
News Corporation paid $580 million for MySpace in 2005 and sold it for $35 million in stock and cash in June 2011, a gap of $545 million before six years of operating costs are counted. It had been asking $100 million and kept a stake of under 5 percent in the buyer.
Where can I find MySpace songs that were deleted?
The Internet Archive's Myspace Dragon Hoard holds 490,000 MP3 files collected from the site between 2008 and 2010, with a search tool built over the top. The files are named using MySpace's content delivery network keys, so tracking down one specific band means working through the collection's metadata file rather than searching by name.