Fox News Digital hits record 187M monthly visitors in its best quarter ever

Fox News Digital averaged 187 million multiplatform unique visitors per month in the first quarter of 2026, according to Comscore.

Massive viewership marks the best quarter ever for Fox News Digital; this also topped all news brands with over 5.5 billion multiplatform views and generated more than 11.3 billion multiplatform minutes in the quarter.

Fox News Digital led news brands in views for the 20th consecutive quarter and was the top news brand among minutes for the 15th consecutive quarter as Americans rely on the growing platform for critical information and analysis.

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Fox News Digital dominated, with an average of 91.4 million desktop/mobile unique visitors, outpacing all news brands, including CBSNews.com, which averaged 87 million desktop/mobile unique visitors.

Fox News Digital saw 51% growth among multi-platform unique visitors over the first quarter of 2025, while CNN, The New York Times, NBC News and ABC News experienced declines in the category. Meanwhile, Fox News Digital’s 187 million monthly multiplatform unique visitors surpassed CNN’s 78 million and the Times’ 69 million. combined.

In terms of total multi-platform viewing, it surpassed Fox News Digital’s 5.5 billion, the Times’ 4.4 billion, CNN’s 2.2 billion, CBS News’ 1.2 billion, NBC News’ 817 million and ABC News’ 431 million.

It was about the same across multiplatform minutes, too, with Fox News Digital’s 11.3 billion crushing CNN’s 3.5 billion, the Times’ 3.4 billion, CBS’ 3.1 billion, NBC’s 2 billion and ABC’s 1.2 billion.

The Fox News Mobile app drew an average of 6.5 million unique viewers during the quarter, leading CNN’s mobile app, which saw an average of four million unique viewers.

In March, Fox News became the first competitive news brand to exceed 200 million total digital multi-platform unique visitors in a month.

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FOX News Media finished the first quarter of 2026 as YouTube’s #1 news brand. (Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

FOXBusiness.com It drove 577 million multiplatform minutes in the first quarter of 2026, ranking third in the business competition.

FOX News Media also crushed the competition with a record 1.5 billion video views, finishing the first quarter of 2026 as YouTube’s No. 1 news brand, according to Emplifi.

Fox News beat its closest rival, MS NOW, by almost 500 million, while the liberal news channel garnered a staggering amount of video views, with 974 million video views.

Fox News also doubled CNN’s 707 million video views and topped ABC News, NBC News and CBS News combined.

ABC News reached 440 million, NBC News 364 million and CBS News 194 million.

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Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters, Sean Hannity and Greg Gutfeld. (FOX News Media)

This is the sixth consecutive quarter that Fox News has outperformed all news brands on YouTube, posting a 21% increase in video views from last year and a 51% increase in video views from the previous quarter.

Fox News also ranked No. 1 in social engagement with 430 million social media interactions across Facebook, Instagram, X and TikTok, according to Emplifi. Fox News had its best quarter ever with social media video views, with 7.1 billion views.

While Fox News Digital, CBSNews.com, NBCNews.com, WashingtonPost.com, and ABCNews.com chose to account for Social Incremental in their Total Digital Multi-Platform Unique Visitors, brands like CNN.com and NYTimes.com did not.

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