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Fox News Digital has estimated 187 million unique visitors per month in the first quarter of 2026, according to Comscore.
The large audience marked the best quarter ever for Fox News Digital, which also topped all news media categories with more than 5.5 billion multiplatform views and drove more than 11.3 billion minutes in the quarter.
It marked the 20th quarter in a row Fox News Digital led the news companies in views and the 15th quarter in a row it was the top news brand in minutes as Americans rely on a growing platform for critical information and analysis.
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Fox News Digital grew 51% among unique multiplatform visitors while CNN, The New York Times, NBC News and ABC News all fell in the category. (Fox Stories)
Fox News Digital is dominated by average unique desktop/mobile visitors that surpass all news brands including CBSNews.com, which averaged 87 million desktop/mobile visitors.
Fox News Digital grew 51% among unique multiplatform visitors compared to the first quarter of 2025 while CNN, The New York Times, NBC News and ABC News all fell in the category. Along the way, Fox News Digital’s 187 million unique visitors per month surpassed CNN’s 78 million and the Times’ 69 million. combined.
When it comes to total multiplatform views, Fox News Digital’s 5.5 billion surpassed 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 largely the same among multiplatform minutes, as Fox News Digital’s 11.3 billion crushed 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 attracted an average of 6.5 million unique viewers during the quarter, leading the CNN mobile app which saw an average of 4 million unique viewers.
In March, Fox News became the first news brand in the competition to exceed 200 million total unique digital multiplatform visitors per month.
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FOX News Media finished the first quarter of 2026 as the No. 1 news brand on YouTube. (Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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FOX News Media also finished the first quarter of 2026 as the No. 1 news brand on YouTube, blowing away the competition with a record 1.5 billion video views, according to Emplifi.
Fox News garnered an impressive amount of video views while beating its closest competitor, MS NOW, by nearly 500 million as the liberal outlet finished with 974 million video views.
Fox News doubled CNN’s 707 million video views and topped ABC News, NBC News and CBS News combined.
ABC News had 440 million, NBC News had 364 million and CBS News had 194 million.
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Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters, Sean Hannity and Greg Gutfeld. (FOX News Media)
It was the sixth quarter in a row that Fox News topped all news channels on YouTube, growing 21% year-over-year and 51% quarter-over-quarter among video views in the process.
Fox News also finished No. 1 in social media with 430 million social media interactions across Facebook, Instagram, X and TikTok, according to Emplifi. Fox News had its best quarter ever for social media video views, pulling in 7.1 billion views.
Fox News Digital, CBSNews.com, NBCNews.com, WashingtonPost.com, and ABCNews.com opted in to answer Social Incremental to Total Digital Multiplatform Unique Visitors, while brands like CNN.com and NYTimes.com did not.
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