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FOX News Digital leads all US news brands in Q3

October 16, 2025

FOX News Digital led all news brands in the US with total desktop/mobile unique visitors (94.1 million) during the third quarter for the first time ever, according to Comscore Meanwhile, FOX News Digital continued to lead all news brands with both multiplatform views (13th consecutive quarter) and minutes (18th consecutive quarter). During the third quarter, FOX News Digital secured 11.4 billion total multiplatform minutes (up 10% over Q3 2024) and 5.6 billion total multiplatform views (up 5% over Q3 2024).

Notably, FOX News Digital also surpassed broadcast networks NBC News, CBS News and ABC News across the board during the third quarter. CNN once again saw declines across the board with multiplatform views (down 44% vs. Q3 2024), multiplatform minutes (down 54% vs. Q3 2024) and average total desktop unique multiplatform visitors (down 29% vs. Q3 2024). The FOX News Mobile app drew 6.5 million average unique viewers during the quarter.

Additional highlights include:

  • On YouTube, FOX News notched 1.1 billion video views for the quarter, according to Emplifi. FOX News led nearest competitor MSNBC by more than 200 million video views and also topped NBC, ABC and CBS combined. Year-over-year, FOX News was up 45% with YouTube video views and led competitors including MSNBC (848 million views), CNN (627 million views), NBC News (424 million views), ABC News (359 million views) and CBS News (163 million views). This marks the fourth consecutive quarter that FOX News surpassed all news brands on YouTube. FOX Business nabbed 166 million views on YouTube during the quarter.

  • In the month of September, FOX News Digital led news brands with multiplatform views and minutes.* Marking year-over-year gains across the board, FOX News Digital commanded 3.9 billion multiplatform minutes, 1.9 billion multiplatform views and 102 million total desktop/mobile multiplatform unique visitors in September.

  • FOX News was once again the most engaged brand on social media in the competitive set in Q3’25 driving 506 million interactions across Facebook, X, Instagram and TikTok, according to Emplifi. In fact, this was FOX News’ best quarter ever with social media interactions and video views.  On TikTok, FOX News drew 2.2 billion engagements, an increase of 75% compared to the prior quarter, according to Shareablee. FOX News also drove 283 million interactions on Facebook (up 616% versus Q3’24), 97.9 million Instagram interactions (up 40% versus Q3’24) and 19.4 million X interactions (up 99% versus Q3’24).

  • FOXBusiness.com delivered a strong quarter with 634 million multiplatform minutes and 26 million average multiplatform unique visitors. The business network also drove 374 million multiplatform views, surpassing CNN Business and Forbes.com for the 14th and 16th consecutive quarters respectively.

Q3 2025 FOX NEWS DIGITAL VS. CNN.COM, NYTIMES.COM, ABCNEWS.COM AND NBCNEWS.COM

Multi-Platform Total Views

FOX News Digital – 5,570,000,000 (up 5% vs. Q3’24)

CNN.com – 2,159,000,000 (down 44% vs. Q3’24)

NYTimes.com – 4,149,000,000 (down 15% vs. Q3’24)

CBSNews.com – 1,041,000,000 (down 19% vs. Q3’24)

ABCNews.com – 290,000,000 (down 11% vs. Q3’24)

NBC News.com – 800,000,000 (down 19% vs. Q3’24)

Multi-Platform Total Minutes 

FOX News Digital – 11,427,000,000 (up 10% vs. Q3’24)

CNN.com – 3,012,000,000 (down 54% vs. Q3’24)

NYTimes.com – 3,646,000,000 (down 28% vs. Q3’24)

CBSNews.com – 2,668,000,000 (down 10% vs. Q3’24)

ABCNews.com – 289,000,000 (down 16% vs. Q3’24)

NBC News.com – 1,907,000,000 (down 32% vs. Q3’24)

Average Monthly Total Desktop/Mobile Unique Visitors

FOX News Digital – 94,133,000 (down 5% vs. Q3’24)

CNN.com – 88,360,000 (down 29% vs. Q3’24)

NYTimes.com – 69,665,000 (down 9% vs. Q3’24)

CBSNews.com – 82,477,000 (down 21% vs. Q3’24)

ABCNews.com – 24,092,000 (down 12% vs. Q3’24)

NBC News.com – 78,930,000 (down 16% vs. Q3’24)

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