FOX News Digital continues to lead competition in February
March 17, 2026
During Februar 2026y, FOX News Digital delivered over 3.5 billion minutes leading all news brands and broadcast networks for the 60th consecutive month, according to Comscore.
Additionally, FOX News led the competition with over 1.7 billion multiplatform views and saw 37% year-over-year growth with 165 million total digital unique multiplatform visitors during February.
Highlights include:
- On YouTube, FOX News delivered 370 million video views in February increasing its YouTube viewership year-over-year leading MS Now (315 million views), CNN (205 million views), ABC News (139 million views), NBC News (90 million views) and CBS News (66 million views). Coverage of the US-Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28 led to FOX News’ best day with video views of 2026 with 36.8 million views, according to YouTube Analytics.
- The FOX News Mobile app drew 6.6 million unique viewers during the month of February leading the CNN mobile app which saw 3.4 million unique viewers.
- FOX News Media also led all news brands on social media with interactions according to Emplifi and Shareablee. FOX News delivered 134 million social media interactions for the month with 61 million interactions on Facebook, 25.9 million interactions on Instagram and 6.1 million interactions on X. Meanwhile on TikTok, FOX News drove 40.5 million interactions, posting a 49% increase compared to the prior year. Additionally, FOX News commanded its third-best month ever with social media video views driving 2.4 billion views.
- FOXBusiness.com drove 172.1 million multiplatform minutes in February, finishing third in the business competitive set. Additionally, the business site delivered 100.5 million multiplatform views and 27.4 million total digital multiplatform unique visitors.
FEBRUARY 2026 FOX NEWS DIGITAL VS. CNN.COM, NYTIMES.COM, CBSNEWS.COM, ABCNEWS.COM AND NBCNEWS.COM
Total Digital Multiplatform Unique Visitors
FOX News Digital – 165,416,000 (up 37% vs. February 2025)
CNN.com – 83,952,000 (down 7% vs. February 2025)
CBSNews.com – 176,518,000 (up 10% vs. February 2025)
NYTimes.com – 68,140,000 (down 6% vs. February 2025)
NBCNews.com – 107,969,000 (up 16% vs. February 2025)
ABCNews.com Sites – 37,497,000 (down 65% vs. February 2025)
Multiplatform Total Views
FOX News Digital – 1,707,000,000 (down 13% vs. February 2025)
NYTimes.com – 1,381,000,000 (down 8% vs. February 2025)
CNN.com – 682,000,000 (down 32% vs. February 2025)
CBSNews.com – 405,000,000 (up 4% vs. February 2025)
NBCNews.com – 264,000,000 (down 1% vs. February 2025)
ABCNews.com Sites – 142,000,000 (down 2% vs. February 2025)
Multiplatform Total Minutes
FOX News Digital – 3,526,000,000 (down 15% vs. February 2025)
NYTimes.com – 1,051,000,000 (down 19% vs. February 2025)
CNN.com – 1,061,000,000 (down 24% vs. February 2025)
CBSNews.com – 1,014,000,000 (down 3% vs. February 2025)
NBCNews.com – 686,000,000 (down 16% vs. February 2025)
ABCNews.com Sites – 395,000,000 (down 3% vs. February 2025)
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