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CNNMoney posts second-best month ever in August

CNNMoney posted its second-best month on record in August, maintaining its position as one of the Top 5 business and financial online news destinations.

CNNMoney ranked fifth among its competitors with 28 million multi-platform unique visitors in August 2016, a second-best all-time record behind only January 2016. The visitors were up 4 percent from July, according to comScore.

CNNMoney posted 16 million mobile unique visitors in August, up 6 percent from the prior month.

The website also reached its second-best month on record for multiplatform minutes. Users spent a total of 565 million minutes consuming CNNMoney content across platforms, up 30 percent over the same month last year.

It also posted 42.7 million video starts.

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.