Who owns MySpace now?
MySpace belongs to Viant Technology Inc., an advertising technology company listed on Nasdaq under the ticker DSP, with its head office at 2722 Michelson Drive in Irvine, California. Viant holds the site through a subsidiary, Myspace LLC, and names it among the properties it owns in its annual reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Viant was founded by two brothers, Tim Vanderhook and Chris Vanderhook, and they still run it. The pair hold all of the company's Class B stock, which carried 85.2 percent of the combined voting power at the February 2021 initial public offering. That makes Viant a controlled company under Nasdaq's listing standards, which lets it skip several governance rules that bind most public companies.
MySpace is a small line inside that business. Viant sells a demand side platform for programmatic advertising, and it raised $250 million in gross proceeds when it sold 11.5 million shares at $25 each on February 12, 2021. The social network attached to all of that last changed hands for $35 million.
Does anything on myspace.com still work?
The domain loads and music news keeps appearing, but the social network is finished. Reporting through August 2026, including Tubefilter's account of the relaunch plans, describes myspace.com as read-only: old pages render, and nothing new gets posted to them.
That description is not unanimous. Some write-ups from 2025 and 2026 say publishing and uploads started working again at some point in 2025, so the practical answer depends on which feature gets tested on the day. Nobody has announced a restored social network, and neither the owners nor the site claims one exists.
What is not in dispute is the archive. Everything users uploaded during the site's first twelve years was destroyed in 2019, so even a working login leads to a profile with the photos, videos and songs stripped out. A MySpace page in 2026 is a shell with a name on it, which is roughly what happened to the GeoCities pages Yahoo deleted a decade earlier.
How MySpace went from $580 million to $35 million
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation bought MySpace in 2005 for $580 million, when it was the most visited social network in the United States. On June 29, 2011 it sold the site to the advertising firm Specific Media for about $35 million, a result NPR reported that day as a huge loss. Justin Timberlake joined the buyers as a co-owner and public face of the deal.
Specific Media's chief executive was Tim Vanderhook, and the company later became Viant. The ownership chain after that reads like a game of pass the parcel. Time Inc. took a 60 percent interest in Viant in 2016, which carried MySpace with it. Meredith Corporation inherited that interest when it bought Time Inc. in 2018. In 2019 the Vanderhook parties took the 60 percent back and Viant was independent again, then went public in 2021.
So the site moved from a newspaper empire to an ad tech firm to a magazine publisher to another magazine publisher and back, inside fourteen years. How it lost the audience before any of that happened is in the story of how MySpace lost to Facebook.
What the 2019 server migration destroyed
In March 2019 users noticed the music player had stopped working, and MySpace confirmed that roughly 50 million songs uploaded between 2003 and 2015 were gone, along with photos and videos. The Guardian put the number of affected artists at 14 million.
The company's explanation, quoted by The FADER in March 2019, ran to one sentence: "any photos, videos, and audio files you uploaded more than three years ago may no longer be available on or from Myspace." It blamed a server migration project, suggested users keep their own backups, and offered no recovery plan.
Twelve years of uploads went with it, and most of it existed nowhere else. Garage bands, bedroom demos and first mixes by producers who later got famous, all posted by people who treated a free website as permanent storage. That is the standing lesson of every free host from MySpace to Friendster: the company keeps the files exactly as long as it feels like keeping them.
Can you recover music MySpace deleted?
A small share of it. In April 2019 the Internet Archive published a collection called The Myspace Dragon Hoard (2008-2010): 490,000 MP3 files that an anonymous academic study had pulled off MySpace's content delivery network between 2008 and 2010 and later handed to the Archive.
The collection runs to about 1.3 terabytes in 144 ZIP files, and the tracks carry MySpace's content delivery network keys as filenames rather than artist and title, so finding one specific band means working through the collection's metadata file. The Archive built a search and playback tool called Hobbit on top of it. Set against 50 million lost songs, 490,000 files is about 1 percent.
Nothing else was recovered at that scale. MySpace told users in 2019 there was no way to restore the lost data, and no owner since has announced a restore. If a band's songs are not in the Dragon Hoard and nobody kept the original files, those recordings are gone for good.
Will MySpace relaunch?
The owners say yes and give no date. In the 2026 documentary Myspace, directed by Tommy Avallone, Tim Vanderhook said: "We still own Myspace. We are stewards of the Myspace brand at this point, and we are going to relaunch Myspace." He added that they were waiting for the right time, and that if one attempt failed they would try again.
They have tried once already. A music-focused rebuild in 2013 did not hold, and Chris Vanderhook said in the same documentary that the effort cost "a little over $150 million," because advertisers kept their budgets with Facebook and were moving to YouTube instead of returning to MySpace.
The obstacles are bigger now. Music licensing would have to be negotiated from zero, the pre-2016 archive that gave people a reason to visit no longer exists, and TikTok and Instagram hold the attention a relaunch would need to win back. No dead social network has yet been revived at scale on nostalgia alone.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does MySpace still exist in 2026?
Yes. myspace.com is still online in 2026, still publishing music news, and owned by Viant Technology Inc., the Nasdaq-listed advertising company based in Irvine, California. MySpace no longer works as a social network, and reporting through August 2026 describes the site as read-only.
How much did News Corp lose on MySpace?
News Corporation paid $580 million for MySpace in 2005 and sold it to Specific Media for about $35 million on June 29, 2011, a gap of roughly $545 million before six years of running costs are counted. Viant Technology, the company Specific Media became, has owned MySpace ever since.
Where can I find MySpace songs that were deleted?
The Internet Archive's Myspace Dragon Hoard holds 490,000 MP3 files collected from MySpace between 2008 and 2010, about 1 percent of the roughly 50 million songs lost in the site's 2019 server migration. The files are named with MySpace's content delivery network keys, so tracking down one band means searching the collection's metadata rather than a song title.