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| Type of business | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
Type of site | Social network service |
| Founded | October 2006 |
| Dissolved | 2012 |
| Headquarters | |
| Owner | MySpace |
| Key people | Ali Partovi, CEO and Founder Hadi Partovi, President and Founder |
| URL | www.ilike.com [dead link] |
| Current status | Defunct |
iLike was an online service that allowed users to download and share music. Founded by brothers Ali Partovi and Hadi Partovi, the website made use of a sidebar that is used with Apple's iTunes or Microsoft's Windows Media Player. The program and sidebar are not required to use the site but allow for ease in discovering new artists. The site attracted around half a million users in the first four months after it was launched. According to the latest statements by the company, over 60 million consumers registered to use iLike either directly on iLike.com or using the apps built by iLike for third-party social networks such as Facebook. iLike also built a "post-once publish-everywhere" dashboard for artists – major label artists as well as independent artists.[1]
In October 2007, iLike announced that it was teaming up with Billboard to create new charts that display the week's top 25 "most added" songs to personal music libraries.[2]
On August 19, 2009, it was announced that MySpace was to acquire iLike.[3][4]
As of February 7, 2012, the iLike website has been closed and instead redirects users to a special MySpace Music page which displays a banner announcing the closure.[5]
- ^ "iLike Growing Quickly, Still Trailing Last.fm". 28 February 2007.
- ^ "iLike Press Releases: Billboard and iLike Collaborate to Produce the First-Ever Social Media Based Music Charts". Archived from the original on 2011-08-12. Retrieved 2011-04-02.
- ^ "MySpace Press Room Official MySpace Profile". www.myspace.com. Archived from the original on 2009-08-28.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-08-21. Retrieved 2009-08-20.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Featured Content on Myspace".