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CNBC becomes No. 1 in online biz video

CNBC has become the No. 1 business and financial website for videos, according to the latest data from comScore.

CNBC Digital video reached the No. 1 position in the business/finance news category by posting its best May ever with 13.2 million unique video viewers, up 82 percent year-over-year, according to the May 2016 comScore multi-platform report US.

Yahoo Finance was No. 1 in April. Bloomberg Media had been No. 1 this time in 2015.

In addition, CNBC Digital posted 26.4 million unique visitors, up 41 percent compared to the same time last year, according to the May 2016 comScore multi-platform report US.

CNBC’s mobile audience had 11.6 million unique visitors, up 52 percent compared to the same time last year, according to the May 2016 comScore multi-platform report US.

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.

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