The statistics behind video according to Pittsburgh.....

Our operations staff in Pittsburgh, PA has been pushing clients more and more to using video in their stories. On the web, video is already a major player in the content arena and is predicted to increase in the coming years making up for 90% of all consumer traffic by 2013. More and more users are choosing to interact and engage with video in ways that were never done before. YouTube users now upload 48 hours of video every minute! This is an incredible amount of video content being uploaded to the web every day. With these kinds of numbers it’s no wonder more and more content creators will be using video as their mode of driving traffic to their site. Currently there are many different ways to engage people through video that can lead to greater traffic, and the data below show why video needs to be part of social media content.

FINRA's Guidance for Broker Dealers - #finra

SEC to receive guidelines in Q&A format within weeks

It appears that Social Media (we call it Digital Media) is finally getting some guidance from FINRA as far as what brokers and Broker Dealers can and cannot do:

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) plans to release to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in a matter of weeks new guidance on social media usage by broker-dealers and their advisors.

The additional guidance, which must first be approved by the SEC, won’t “change any of the fundamental principles” in FINRA’s Regulatory Notice 10-06, which was released in January 2010 and focuses mainly on recordkeeping rules for social media usage, said Joseph Price, senior VP for advertising regulation/corporate financing at FINRA, during remarks at the Insured Retirement Institute’s (IRI) regulatory conference in Washington on Tuesday.

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