Your YouTube channel is part of the record
Social media does not become exempt from your firm’s recordkeeping requirements because it’s video. FINRA Rule 2210 and the SEC’s books and records requirements under Rule 204-2 provide the regulatory backdrop. Your compliance and legal teams decide how those requirements apply to your YouTube channels. Comma keeps the record they work from.
The comments under a video, including your firm’s own replies, are part of what a viewer saw.
YouTube record preservation at each step
Titles get edited after launch. Comments are changed or removed. A video goes private for a day and comes back. Comma keeps each version as a dated entry, so your team can reconstruct what a viewer could have seen on a given day.
What the archive includes
Connect your firm’s Google account once and Comma enrolls its YouTube channels. From then on, Comma keeps the record for you.
- Video details. Title, description and publishing details for each video, with every edit kept beside the original.
- Comments and replies. Archived with each video, with edits kept and deletions marked rather than lost.
- Engagement over time. View, like and comment counts, recorded as they change.
- Your back catalog. When you connect, Comma imports what each channel still hosts.
Everything lands in the same tamper-protected, write-once archive as your other channels, under the same retention policy, legal holds and review queue.
Priced like every other channel
YouTube compliance archiving is $33 per channel per month, the same flat rate as your other Comma connections.
What this means for every team
For your compliance team
One review queue
YouTube video details and comments go through the same policy checks and review queue as your messaging channels. No separate tool for social content.
Search and export
Search YouTube content alongside everything else, and export it in the same formats you use for every other channel.
Capture health
If the connection to YouTube breaks, Comma tells you and shows how to reconnect. A capture problem is recorded, not hidden.
For your IT team
Connect once
An administrator connects the firm's Google account. Its YouTube channels are enrolled automatically.
Nothing to install
No browser extension and no device software. YouTube capture runs from Comma's side.
For exams and legal requests
Ready for a document request
Search and export what a viewer could have seen on a given date, next to every other channel.
Same legal holds
Each channel sits under the same legal holds and retention policy in your archive.
FAQ about YouTube compliance archiving
What does it cost?
Does Comma archive the video file itself?
Do you capture transcripts?
Know what was visible on your YouTube channel, and when.
Archive video details, comments and changes alongside every other channel.
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