Fox Business website has record multiplatform views in April

FoxBusiness.com earned its highest month in history in multiplatform views in April with 185 million, according to ComScore Media Matrix data.

The website surpassing CNN Business for the first time in history in the category and posting a 91 percent increase over the prior year.

Additionally, the business network website recorded over 305 million multiplatform minutes, up 75 percent versus the prior year, and over 23 million multiplatform unique visitors, up 15 percent versus the prior year.

Fox Business’ videos on YouTube remained the most-viewed among the business news competitive set for the month, recording 73 million views in April, and up 194 percent over the prior year, according to Shareablee.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.