CNBC’s digital ops set record in May for visitors

CNBC’s digital operations posted 13.8 million unique visitors in May.

That’s up 23 percent compared to last year at this time and CNBC digital best month ever in terms of unique visitors, according to the comScore Multi-platform Report US.

In addition, CNBC.com’s total unique video viewer volume reached a record 4.2 million in May.

That’s up 152 percent year-over-year and a record high for the site for the third consecutive month, according to comScore Video Metrix, US, Content Videos.

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.