FOX News Digital continues to deliver YoY growth
August 14, 2023
FOX News Digital finished July 2023 delivering gains year-over-year with multiplatform views, minutes and unique visitors according to Comscore. July marked 10 consecutive months of FOX News Digital as the top news brand with multiplatform views and 29 straight months as number one with multiplatform minutes. Notably, CNN.com was down over 20% year-over-year with multiplatform minutes. FOX News Digital closed out the month reaching 3 billion total multiplatform minutes, 1.7 billion total multiplatform views, and 83 million multiplatform unique visitors. FOX News Digital was the top news brand with 3.2 average views per visit, marking the best month FOX News Digital has seen in this metric. Additionally, the FOX News Mobile App reached 5.9 million unique visitors in July.
FOX News was once again the most engaged brand on social media in the competitive set in July, with 30.2 million total social interactions, notching the 107th consecutive month FOX News has placed on top, according to Emplifi. FOX News drove 9.1 million interactions on Facebook, 17.7 million Instagram interactions and 3.4 million Twitter interactions. On YouTube, FOX News secured 150.3 million video views according to Shareablee.
FOXBusiness.com drove 164 million multiplatform views, surpassing CNN Business for the 16th consecutive month and Bloomberg.com for the 27th consecutive month. Additionally, the business network delivered 291 million multiplatform minutes (+19% versus the year prior) and 20.1 million multiplatform unique visitors. FOX Business’ videos on YouTube remained the most viewed among the business news competitive set for the 20th straight month, driving 54.4 million views in July according to Shareablee.
JULY 2023 FOX NEWS DIGITAL VS. CNN.COM AND NYTIMES.COM
Multi-Platform Total Views
FOX News Digital – 1,736,000,000 (up 21% vs. July 2022)
CNN.com – 1,079,000,000 (down 14% vs. July 2022)
NYTimes.com – 1,223,000,000 (down 1% vs. July 2022)
Multi-Platform Total Minutes
FOX News Digital – 3,024,000,000 (up 7% vs. July 2022)
CNN.com – 1,676,000,000 (down 24% vs. July 2022)
NYTimes.com – 1,301,000,000 (up 5% vs. July 2022)
Multi-Platform Unique Visitors
FOX News Digital – 83,393,000 (up 3% vs. July 2022)
CNN.com – 114,549,000 (up 1% vs. July 2022)
NYTimes.com – 73,676,000 (down 4% vs. July 2022)
Prior to December 2021, FOX News Digital was referred to as FOX News Digital Network.
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 more than 21 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.