Repost from Pivotal IQ Blog
During routine testing today we discovered a problem with the MySpace
Email Client. It appears that emails sent to @myspace.com email
addresses are being overlayed by a right hand tower ad. The right side
of the email is vanishing under the ad and making it impossible to see
what's beneath; this poses a potential brand integrity problem for
senders.
Implications
This appears to be a problem that only affects emails that are sent
to @myspace addresses. For messages sent within the MySpace network,
the Ad on the right doesn't appear to overlay the message. As a matter
of fact the message container has a completely different width all
together: 520px. Messages that arrive from outside the network are
contained in a larger space 780px with padding on each side, but with
the current positioing of the tower ad over the right side of the
message it appears to be a maximum viewable left to right space of
620px.
If you're concerned about the display of your emails, and preserving
the viewable space then you may want to shrink the width of your
overall template until MySpace corrects the problem of the ad being
overlayed on emails in the inbox. If you are conducting any kind of
messaging from within myspace, as in from a music page/company page
then you want to keep your messages to a 520px.
We'll chalk this one up to the fact that MySpace mail is still in beta. Hopefully a fix will come soon.
Cheers!
-Len Shneyder
Director of Partner Relations
& Industry Communications
www.pivotalveracity.com
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I just noticed this after writing on my status that "I would gladly pay to use MySpace with the ads removed!" That was before I realized the out of control ads blocked out emails! It's ridiculous!
Wonderful post as usual… I think the problem with Myspace is that they want to advertise with every single space on their pages. Too much ads drive visitors away… These ads are not even positioned to look attractive… Just look at Facebook and see non intrusive or obstructive ads. Excellent post once again!