Huffington Post editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington emailed her entire staff Monday with an important message: HuffPost had hit 115 million unique visitors on ComScore for the month of August, marking the site’s first month over 100 million uniques and making it the number one news site in America.
It was a pretty big deal.
Nine years after launching the site as a small blog, HuffPost has 11 international editions and its own video studio. And with Monday’s major traffic accomplishment, Huffington admitted to getting a little bit emotional.
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“I have to say, this news made me a lot more emotional than a comScore stat usually does,” she wrote to her team, adding, “It’s a lump-in-the-throat combination of gratitude and amazement; of satisfaction at what we’ve accomplished and surprise at how fast it all happened; of nostalgia for the early days when we celebrated every small spike in traffic and a delight in knowing that our best days, without question, still lie ahead.”