MySpace Email Client is Overlaying Ads on Emails In The Inbox

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 positioning 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