FOX News Digital surpasses CNN with total digital multiplatform unique visitors
March 19, 2024
FOX News Digital finished February leading CNN with total digital multiplatform unique visitors for the first time ever, according to Comscore.
Additionally, FOX News Digital also led news brands with multiplatform views and minutes. FOX News Digital closed out the month reaching 3.1 billion total multiplatform minutes, 1.6 billion total multiplatform views, and 115 million total digital multiplatform unique visitors. Additionally, FOX News Mobile App reached 5.8 million unique visitors in February, beating CNN’s mobile app for the third straight month. Year-over-year, CNN was down 6% with total digital multiplatform unique visitors, while FOX News Digital was up 18%.
- FOX News was once again the most engaged brand on social media in the competitive set in February, with 23.9 million total social interactions, marking the 114th consecutive month FOX News has placed on top, according to Emplifi. FOX News drove 5.7 million interactions on Facebook, 16 million Instagram interactions and 2.2 million X interactions, seeing month-over-month gains across all platforms. On YouTube, FOX News secured 189.0 million video views, according to Shareablee.
- FOXBusiness.com drove 161 million multiplatform views in February, surpassing CNN Business and Bloomberg.com once again, while seeing 25% year-over-year growth. Additionally, the business site delivered 235 million multiplatform minutes and 29.7 million multiplatform unique visitors (up 37% vs. February 2023). FOX Business’ videos on YouTube remained the most viewed among the business news competitive set for the 27th straight month, achieving 56.1 million views in February which was up 39% year-over-year, according to Shareablee.
FEBRUARY 2024 FOX NEWS DIGITAL VS. CNN.COM AND NYTIMES.COM
Multi-Platform Total Views
FOX News Digital – 1,575,000,000 (down 6% vs. February 2023)
CNN.com – 1,183,000,000 (flat vs. February 2023)
NYTimes.com – 1,450,000,000 (up 18% vs. February 2023)
Multi-Platform Total Minutes
FOX News Digital – 3,117,000,000 (up 8% vs. February 2023)
CNN.com – 1,788,000,000 (down 2% vs. February 2023)
NYTimes.com – 1,516,000,000 (up 19% vs. February 2023)
Total Digital Multi-Platform Unique Visitors
FOX News Digital – 115,432,000 (up 18% vs. February 2023)
CNN.com – 110,957,000 (down 6% vs. February 2023)
NYTimes.com – 73,946,000 (down 7% vs. February 2023)