Josh Brooks

MySpace Music, VP Marketing & Content

Josh Brooks is Vice President of Marketing and Content Development for MySpace.com, the leading social networking and lifestyle portal on the Internet. Boasting more than 155 million members and over 40 billion page views per month, MySpace is part of a global community with localized sites in the UK, Japan, Australia, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Canada and New Zealand as well as local language sites in France and Germany.

Crucial to the site's growth are the media partnerships, content acquisitions, original content development and strategic planning that Brooks executes and oversees. Entertainment vehicles, stunts and events in music, television, film, comedy, gaming and other emerging lifestyle fields are just some of MySpace’s growth areas. Most recently, Brooks spearheaded the launch of the MySpace Film channel through a partnership with the Beastie Boys as well as the launch of the MySpace Comedy with Pepsi and a strategic relationship with The Improv. Recent programming highlights include franchises such as MySpace Secret Shows (music), The List (music), Black Carpet Screenings (film) as well as the largest philanthropic effort ever undertaken by MySpace, the Rock for Darfur program (philanthropy).

ior to joining MySpace.com, Brooks was a personal manager at both The Firm and Spivak Entertainment, for gold and platinum music clients that including Queens of the Stone Age, The Distillers and A Perfect Circle. Additionally, Brooks developed innovative marketing tools to extend the artists profile in the marketplace through ticketing, licensing and merchandise concepts. Building the foundation for his strength in new media technologies, Brooks was one of the founding partners of Fanscape, an online/offline marketing company and pioneers in grassroots online marketing.

Since site inception in January 2004, MySpace has grown exponentially with an average of 250,000 new users signing up daily. By integrating web profiles, blogs, classified listings, entertainment content, photo galleries and user forums, MySpace has created a community where users can do everything from plan their weekends to connect up with friends to discover new music. According to comScore Media Metrix, MySpace is now the #1 ranked domain on the Internet* in terms of page views and includes more than 3 million bands that use MySpace’s music channel to upload tracks, list tour dates and engage with fans.