Owen Van Natta Session

News Corp. Chief Digital Officer Jon Miller and MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta: The Full D7 Session

Kara Swisher in D7 on June 29, 2009 at 3:55 am PT

Over the last weeks, News Corp. Chief Digital Officer Jon Miller and MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta have had their hands full directing massive layoffs at the flagship social-networking site, as well as throughout the Fox Interactive Media division. The pair discussed the many challenges faced by the giant media company in its digital enterprises in an onstage interview at the seventh D: All Things Digital conference last month.

D7 Video: Jon Miller and Owen Van Natta

Beth Callaghan in D7 on May 27, 2009 at 5:05 pm PT

News Corp. digital head Jon Miller and MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta join Walt and Kara onstage to discuss the challenges facing MySpace, and its need to innovate to overcome them.

MySpace CEO: Google Deal Less Than Half Our Revenue

John Paczkowski in D7 on May 27, 2009 at 5:00 pm PT

An interesting exchange during this afternoon’s interview with Owen Van Natta, CEO of MySpace, and Jon Miller, chief digital officer of News Corp. Asked about MySpace’s $900 million deal with Google, Van Natta said it is important, but not that important. “It’s not the majority of our revenue,” he explained, adding that the deal represents half of MySpace’s revenue.

D7 Interview: Jon Miller and Owen Van Natta Say MySpace Needs to Innovate

Peter Kafka in D7 on May 27, 2009 at 4:49 pm PT

A couple of years ago, MySpace was the hottest thing on the Web. But that was a couple of years ago. Now the social network has gone cold: It is losing audience to Facebook and other sites and may well lose a very lucrative search deal with Google. Fixing MySpace is the chief priority of Jon Miller, the former AOL boss who was brought on as News Corp.’s chief digital officer in March. About a month after that, Miller brought on former Facebook executive Owen Van Natta and a new management team to run MySpace, displacing the site’s founders. Time for Van Natta to tell us just how he intends to save what was once one of the most important sites on the Web. And time for Miller to explain the digital future for the rest of News Corp.–which happens to own this conference.