FOX NEWS DIGITAL LEADS ALL NEWS BRANDS WITH MULTIPLATFORM VIEWS AND MINUTES IN FEBRUARY, DOUBLING CNN

FOX News Marks Fourth Consecutive Month as Top News Brand on YouTube

FOXBusiness.com Surpasses CNBC.com with Multiplatform Minutes for the First Time Ever

NEW YORK, March 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- FOX News Digital finished February as the number one news brand with multiplatform views and minutes, doubling CNN in each category, according to Comscore.* FOX News also further solidified itself as the top news brand on YouTube with 368.4 million video views, marking the fourth consecutive month it has been number one.**** Year-over-year, FOX News saw 103% growth on YouTube. For the month, FOX News Digital secured 4.1 billion total multiplatform minutes (up 33% over February 2024), 2 billion total multiplatform views (up 25% over February 2024) and 121 million total digital multiplatform unique visitors (up 5% over February 2024).* Comparatively, CNN saw declines across the board compared to February 2024 with multiplatform views (down 16% vs. February 2024), multiplatform minutes (down 22% vs. February 2024) and total digital unique multiplatform visitors (down 19% vs. February 2024). Additionally, FOX News Digital surpassed CNN with total digital multiplatform unique visitors. For the first time ever, FOXBusiness.com delivered 322 million multiplatform minutes surpassing CNBC.com's 262 million multiplatform minutes.*** Additional highlights include:

• The FOX News Mobile App reached 6.7 million unique visitors in February.**
• FOX News was once again the most engaged brand on social media in the competitive set in February, with 78 million total social interactions, up 229% from the year prior and 30% month-over-month, according to Emplifi. FOX News drove 45.3 million interactions on Facebook (up 692% year-over-year), 27.7 million Instagram interactions and 5.8 million X interactions, according to Emplifi. Additionally, FOX News drove 27.2 million interactions on TikTok. FOX Business drove 1.5 million social media interactions during February.
• Notably, FOX News drove 1.2 billion social video views across TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and X combined, its best month ever in this metric, according to Emplifi.
• FOXBusiness.com drove 322 million multiplatform minutes in February, finishing third in the business competitive set. Additionally, the business site delivered 163 million multiplatform views and 24 million total digital multiplatform unique visitors.*** FOX Business commanded 120 million video views on YouTube during February, according to Comscore.

FEBRUARY 2025 FOX NEWS DIGITAL VS. CNN.COM AND NYTIMES.COM 

Multi-Platform Total Views

FOX News Digital – 1,968,000,000 (up 25% vs. February 2024)

CNN.com – 998,000,000 (down 16% vs. February 2024)

NYTimes.com – 1,475,000,000 (up 2% vs. February 2024)

Multi-Platform Total Minutes

FOX News Digital – 4,137,000,000 (up 33% vs. February 2024)

CNN.com – 1,396,000,000 (down 22% vs. February 2024)

NYTimes.com – 1,292,000,000 (down 15% vs. February 2024)

Total Digital Multi-Platform Unique Visitors

FOX News Digital - 120,854,000 (up 5% vs. February 2024)

CNN.com – 89,879,000 (down 19% vs. February 2024)

NYTimes.com – 72,453,000 (down 2% vs. February 2024)

*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, February 2025, 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, February 2025, U.S. & Comscore Mobile Metrix®, Mobile App Only, [FOX News Mobile App and CNN Mobile App], February 2025, 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, February 2025, U.S. 

****Source: Comscore Social, PowerRankings, YouTube, February 2025, Report Date: 3/17/2025.  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.

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 23 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.

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