SMVI Social Media Ventures Inc (CE)

December 1st, 2009 Social Media Ventures, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: SMVI) announced yesterday that they have seen traffic increase 30% over 3 months to their site, PetsPlaces.com

Social Media sites like Facebook and MySpace have opened the door to advertising dollars to companies like Hearst Media, Home Depot, and Verizon Wireless. Major companies are seeing the value in targeting their advertising to certain demographics via social media, which is an area expected to grow to nearly 10 billion dollars a year by 2010.

Americans are reportedly spending over $41 billion dollars a year on their pets and pet related products. Social Media Ventures has been adding advertisers geared towards the animal owner like PETCO, OfficialPetHotels.com and Petscriptions.com.

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Other active stocks are: News Corp (NASDAQ: NWSA) PetSmart (NASDAQ: PETM) Syndication (PINKSHEETS: SYNJ)

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