FOX News Digital ends 2023 as top news brand with multiplatform views
January 17, 2024
FOX News Digital closed out calendar year 2023 as the top-performing news brand with multiplatform views and minutes, while seeing 9% growth with views and 6% growth with minutes year-over-year, according to Comscore.
For the year, FOX News Digital secured 20.2 billion multiplatform views, over 36.9 billion multiplatform minutes and averaged 93.7 million monthly multiplatform unique visitors. CNN and The New York Times both saw year-over-year decreases across these key performance indicators. The FOX News mobile app finished 2023 averaging 6.1 million monthly unique visitors.
- FOX News was also the most engaged news brand on social media throughout 2023, according to Emplifi, reaching over 315 million social media interactions. FOX News drove 81.6 million Facebook interactions, 34.2 million X interactions and 198.9 million Instagram interactions. On YouTube, FOX News drove over 2.3 billion views, finishing first in the news competitive set, according to Shareablee.****
- FOXBusiness.com also accomplished a record year with multiplatform views. The business network earned 1.9 billion multiplatform views in 2023, its highest ranking since its launch in 2007. It also saw increases over the prior year, while the majority of business news brands experienced decreases.*** Additionally, FOXBusiness.com secured 3.2 billion multiplatform minutes and averaged 23.2 million monthly multiplatform unique visitors for the year, while surpassing various other brands with views including CNN Business, MarketWatch.com and Forbes.com. FOX Business was number one on YouTube in the business news competitive set in 2023, driving 748 million views, according to Shareablee. *****
2023 (January-December) FOX NEWS DIGITAL VS. CNN.COM AND NYTIMES.COM
Multi-Platform Total Views
FOX News Digital – 20,160,000,000 (up 9 percent vs. Jan-Dec 2022)
CNN.com – 14,885,000,000 (down 13 percent vs. Jan-Dec 2022)
NYTimes.com – 15,765,000,000 (down 8 percent vs. Jan-Dec 2022)
Multi-Platform Total Minutes
FOX News Digital – 36,927,000,000 (up 6 percent vs. Jan-Dec 2022)
CNN.com – 23,164,000,000 (down 19 percent vs. Jan-Dec 2022)
NYTimes.com – 16,402,000,000 (down 2 percent vs. Jan-Dec 2022)
Average Monthly Multi-Platform Unique Visitors
FOX News Digital – 93,652,000 (up 13 percent vs. Jan-Dec 2022)
CNN.com – 121,033,000 (down 3 percent vs. Jan-Dec 2022)
NYTimes.com – 76,520,000 (down 14 percent vs. Jan-Dec 2022)