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CNNMoney.com sets traffic records in January

CNNMoney.com set multiple records for traffic and viewership in January.

The financial website recorded 33 million unique visitors, up 10 million unique visitors from December and up more than 60 percent from a year ago, according to the comScore Multi-Platform Report, January 2016.

The website also recorded 21 million mobile unique visitors, in January, a 109 percent increase from the same time a year ago.

CNNMoney saw its best month in video stream history in January with 7.4 million unique video viewers – ahead of BusinessInsider.com, the Wall Street Journal Online and Forbes.com. It also posted 45.5 million video streams, ranking it ahead of the Wall Street Journal Online, BusinessInsider.com, Motley Fool and others.

Visitors are also staying longer. January visitors totaled 616 million minutes spent on the property, once again surpassing the Wall Street Journal Online, BusinessInsider.com, Forbes.com and more. Video minutes were also strong. CNNMoney users spent 373 million minutes watching video in January alone.

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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