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CNNMoney posts third consecutive record month

CNNMoney.com saw record numbers in visitors, engagement and video in August.

In August, CNNMoney hit the highest totals on record for both unique multi-platform visitors and minutes spent.

It had 25 million multiplatform unique visitors, making it the No. 5 business and financial news website, according to the comScore Multi-Platform Report,  August 2015. Its visitors spent 434 million minutes spent on the site in August.

The site recorded 14.4 million mobile unique visitors in August, ahead of Bloomberg.com, CNBC.com, and WSJ.com.

Across key video metric categories, CNNMoney also ranked in the top five with 6 million desktop unique visitors in August and 29.1 million videos streamed

It also had 244 million minutes spent watching video on the site.

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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