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Specific Media’s Myspace Lands Sponsorship Deal With Chevrolet

Irvine-based Specific Media’s Myspace social network has signed a sponsorship deal with General Motors Corp.’s Chevrolet brand.

The announcement of the deal was timed with this week’s South by Southwest, an annual music, film and interactive festival in Austin, Texas. The event has increasingly taken on the mantle of being a hotbed for entrepreneurs in the tech and entertainment industries.

Chevy will sponsor Myspace concerts during the festival. Multiple media reports have said Justin Timberlake was expected to perform in one last week. Timberlake, who is promoting a new album, is a partner in Myspace with Specific Media.

Privately held Specific Media bought Myspace from News Corp. for $35 million in 2011.

News Corp. paid $580 million for Myspace in 2005. The investment went sour as Facebook emerged and zoomed past Myspace amid hot growth for social media.

Specific Media grew rapidly as a media-buying agency, with a string of digital-agency buys after raising about $100 million in private equity funding in 2007. It has been working to revamp Myspace, which has headquarters in Beverly Hills, for more than a year. Specific Media recently said that initial plans call for a new design aimed at tablet users. The new look apparently will be offered in addition to the existing Myspace site, which will be called Myspace Classic.

Staff report

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