MySpace, Zazzle to Team on Profile Schwag
As I briefly mentioned yesterday MySpace has paired with on-demand T-shop Zazzle. The idea is to take MySpace’s tens-of-thousands of music profiles and allow them to sell customized shirts directly from their MySpace pages. MySpace already allows artists to sell their music to people through their deal with SnoCap. Selling T-shirts directly from the band profile pages is such a no-brainer it’s actually a surprise that its taken this long.
The issue this raises, from a non-musician standpoint, is how long will we have to wait for one of the major on-demand shirt printing places - be it Cafepress, SpreadShirt, or Zazzle itself to make an embeddable widget for custom tees. In the same way I can throw a YouTube video on my blog or social networking profile, why can’t I embed a customized T-Shirt shop? Instead of just posting pictures of geek shirts on this site why can’t I directly embed the creator’s store widgets and allow people to buy directly from here? While TShirt Takeaway does have this functionality the service has gotten poor reviews.
