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Digital
iLike turned off
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 9 February 2012
Yes, it’s one of those ‘service you all assumed had shut down shuts down’ stories. The briefly popular music sharing and discovery platform iLike was switched off yesterday.
Very buzzy for a while, with its Facebook integration and Google partnership, financial backing from Ticketmaster, and mobile ambitions, the future of the digital platform was thrown into doubt when it was bought by an already flagging MySpace in 2009.
The iLike service did live on though, but quickly started to lose its user base, with AppData claiming the iLike This Artist Facebook app went from having 1.7 million daily users at its peak, to just 5000, Facebook’s high profile partnerships with other music services in the last year presumably not helping,
Anyway, it was all turned off yesterday by MySpace’s newish owners, with iLike.com now pointing to a page on the MySpace website which reads: “The iLike website is no longer available, we welcome you to MySpace, home of the largest catalogue of free streaming music on the web”. So, that’s nice.
