Skyrock is an online social network an was launched in December 2002 by Skyrock (a French youth-oriented radio station). With over 21 million members, 5 million profiles and 14 million blogs, it can be considered the French version of MySpace, LiveJournal or Xanga. The old name Skyblog was progressively abandoned from 2007 to 2008 in favor of Skyrock after a lawsuit from British Sky Broadcasting.