News Corp’s MySpace plans to launch a global redesign next week in an attempt to widen its demographic reach and boost user engagement on the site, the social networking site said.

In what it said would be the largest scale re-launch of a website of its size, MySpace said it was changing its home page, navigation, profile editing, search, and MySpaceTV player facilities and that many more changes would be coming over the summer.

“This is more than a facelift; we’re changing the way people interact with the site and with brands,” MySpace said, adding that a major advertiser had signed on to take over the US MySpace homepage on the first day of the re-launch.