FOX News Digital Marks 40 Consecutive Quarters as Most Engaged News Brand on Social Media
FOX News Mobile App Leads CNN’s App with Unique Visitors for the Quarter
NEW YORK – April 17, 2024 – FOX News Digital finished the first 1Q 2024 marking twelve consecutive quarters leading news brands with multiplatform minutes, while seeing double-digit year-over-year growth in the category, according to Comscore. Meanwhile, CNN saw a 10% decrease with multiplatform minutes year-over-year. FOX News Digital also led news brands with multiplatform views, marking seven consecutive quarters leading this metric and closing out the first quarter reaching 9.8 billion total multiplatform minutes, 4.9 billion multiplatform views, and an average of 111 million monthly total digital multiplatform unique visitors.* The FOX News Mobile app averaged 5.8 million unique visitors in the first quarter, leading CNN’s mobile app which saw 5.1 million unique visitors.*
- In March, FOX News Digital was the top news brand with both multiplatform views and minutes, marking 37 consecutive months as the leader in multiplatform minutes.* During the month, FOX News Digital posted 3.4 billion multiplatform minutes, 1.6 billion multiplatform views and nearly 108 million total digital multiplatform unique visitors.*** FOX News Digital also led news brands with average views per visit in March, averaging 2.8 views per visit.
- FOX News remained the most engaged brand on social media in the competitive set in the first quarter with 70.3 million total social interactions, notching the 40th consecutive quarter FOX News has placed on top, according to Emplifi. FOX News drove 17.5 million interactions on Facebook, 46.4 million Instagram interactions and 6.4 million X interactions for the quarter. On YouTube, FOX News secured 569.2 million according to Shareablee.
- FOXBusiness.com notched 526 million multiplatform views, surpassing CNN Business for the eighth consecutive quarter. Additionally, the business network delivered 764 million multiplatform minutes and averaged 28.7 million total digital multiplatform unique visitors during the first quarter, seeing 21% year-over-year growth with unique visitors.****
- FOX Business’ videos on YouTube remained the most viewed among the business news competitive set for the 20th straight quarter, driving 182 million views and seeing 20% growth versus the prior year, according to Shareablee.*****
FIRST QUARTER 2024 FOX NEWS DIGITAL VS. CNN.COM AND NYTIMES.COM
Multi-Platform Total Views
FOX News Digital – 4,872,000,000 (down 6% vs. 1Q 2023)
CNN.com – 3,673,000,000 (down 7% vs. 1Q 2023)
NYTimes.com – 4,476,000,000 (up 14% vs. 1Q 2023)
Multi-Platform Total Minutes
FOX News Digital – 9,784,000,000 (up 11% vs. 1Q 2023)
CNN.com – 5,552,000,000 (down 10% vs. 1Q 2023)
NYTimes.com – 4,815,000,000 (up 18% vs. 1Q 2023)
Avg. Monthly Total Digital Multi-Platform Unique Visitors
FOX News Digital – 110,909,000 (up 9% vs. 1Q 2023)
CNN.com – 113,043,000 (down 11% vs. 1Q 2023)
NYTimes.com – 74,595,000 (down 11% vs. 1Q 2023)
MARCH 2024 FOX NEWS DIGITAL VS. CNN.COM AND NYTIMES.COM
Multi-Platform Total Views
FOX News Digital – 1,635,000,000 (flat vs. March 2023)
CNN.com – 1,311,000,000 (up 2% vs. March 2023)
NYTimes.com – 1,533,000,000 (up 19% vs. March 2023)
Multi-Platform Total Minutes
FOX News Digital – 3,391,000,000 (up 16% vs. March 2023)
CNN.com – 1,910,000,000 (down 2% vs. March 2023)
NYTimes.com – 1,705,000,000 (up 32% vs. March 2023)
Total Digital Multi-Platform Unique Visitors
FOX News Digital – 107,576,000 (up 11% vs. March 2023)
CNN.com – 115,418,000 (down 5% vs. March 2023)
NYTimes.com – 75,281,000 (down 9% vs. March 2023)
FOX News Media operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Digital, FOX News Audio, FOX News Books, the direct-to-consumer streaming services FOX Nation and FOX News International and the free ad-supported television service FOX Weather. Currently the number one network in all of cable, FNC has also been the most watched television news channel for 22 consecutive years, while FBN is the top business channel on cable. Owned by Fox Corporation, FOX News Media reaches nearly 200 million people each month.
*Source: Comscore Media Metrix® Multi-Platform, Total Digital Population including Social Incremental data for reportable entities. Fox News Digital, CBSNews.com, NBCNews.com, WashingtonPost.com, and ABCNews.com have opted in to account for Social Incremental in Total Digital Multiplatform Unique Visitors, while brands like CNN.com and NYTimes.com have not opted in. Custom-Defined List including CNN.com, NBCNews.com, ABCNews.com, CBSNews.com, Fox News Digital, WashingtonPost.com, NYTimes.com, NYPost Network, Wall Street Journal Online, Insider Inc., and USAToday.com, March 2024, U.S.
**Source: Comscore Media Metrix® Multi-Platform, Total Digital Population including Social Incremental data for reportable entities. Fox News Digital, CBSNews.com, NBCNews.com, WashingtonPost.com, and ABCNews.com have opted in to account for Social Incremental in Total Digital Multiplatform Unique Visitors, while brands like CNN.com and NYTimes.com have not opted in. Custom-Defined List including CNN.com, NBCNews.com, ABCNews.com, CBSNews.com, Fox News Digital, WashingtonPost.com, NYTimes.com, NYPost Network, Wall Street Journal Online, Insider Inc., and USAToday.com, March 2024, U.S. & Comscore Mobile Metrix®, Mobile App Only, [FOX News Mobile App and CNN Mobile App], March 2024, U.S.
***Source: Comscore Media Metrix® Multi-Platform, Total Digital Population including Social Incremental data for reportable entities. FoxBusiness.com, Yahoo! Finance, CNBC.com, TheStreet.com, Entrepreneur.com have opted in to account for Social Incremental in Total Digital Multiplatform Unique Visitors. Custom-Defined List including FoxBusiness.com, Bloomberg.com, CNBC.com, CNN Business, Entrepreneur.com, Forbes.com, HuffPost Business, MarketWatch, Motley Fool, MSN Money, TheStreet.com, USA TODAY Money, WSJ Online, Yahoo! Finance, March 2024, U.S.
****Source: Comscore Social, PowerRankings, YouTube, March 2024, Report Date: 4/17/2024. Custom-Defined List including CNN.com, NBCNews.com, ABCNews.com, CBSNews.com, Fox News Digital, WashingtonPost.com, NYTimes.com, NYPost Network, Wall Street Journal Online, Insider Inc., and USAToday.com.
*****Source: Comscore Social, PowerRankings, YouTube, March 2024, Report Date: 4/17/2024. Custom-Defined List including FoxBusiness.com, Bloomberg.com, CNBC.com, CNN Business, Entrepreneur.com, Forbes.com, HuffPost Business, MarketWatch, Motley Fool, MSN Money, TheStreet.com, USA TODAY Money, WSJ Online, Yahoo! Finance.
