Advanced Television

FOX News Digital marks best year in history

January 16, 2026

 FOX News Digital saw its best year in history in 2025 with 143 million average total digital multiplatform unique visitors in 2025, according to Comscore.

Additionally, FOX News Digital led all news brands with 23 billion multiplatform views and 47 billion multiplatform minutes for the year, seeing increases over the prior year. Notably, 2025 was FOX News Digital’s second best year ever with multiplatform views behind only 2020. Meanwhile, CNN once again saw double-digit declines across the board sinking to its worst year since 2015 with multiplatform views and minutes.

Additional highlights include:

  • FOX News Media closed out 2025 as the top news brand in the competitive set with YouTube video views for the full year, securing its best year in history, according to Emplifi. Delivering 4.5 billion video views in 2025, FOX News grew 69% compared to 2024, besting all news brands and broadcast networks for the year, including MS Now (3.7 billion views), CNN (2.3 billion views), NBC News (1.8 billion views), ABC News (1.4 billion views) and CBS News (675 million views). FOX Business also led business news brands on YouTube posting 840 million views, outpacing CNBC (144 million views), The Wall Street Journal (155 million views) and Bloomberg Business (84 million views), according to Shareablee.
  • The FOX News Mobile app averaged 6.5 million unique viewers each month leading the CNN mobile app which saw 4.6 million unique viewers. This was the FOX News app’s best year since 2021.
  • In 2025, FOX News led all news brands on social media driving 1.5 billion social media interactions across Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and X,  according to Emplifi. This marks the 11th consecutive year where FOX News has led all news brands with social interactions, seeing a 247% increases year-over-year. On Facebook, FOX News nabbed 875 million interactions, 307 million on Instagram, 62.8 million on X and 363.8 million on TikTok.
  • FOXBusiness.com drove 2.7 billion multiplatform minutes in 2025, finishing fourth in the business competitive set. Additionally, the business site delivered 1.6 billion multiplatform views and averaged 23.8 million total digital multiplatform unique visitors throughout the year.

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

Average Total Digital Multiplatform Unique Visitors

FOX News Digital – 142,647,000 (up 29% vs. 2024)

CNN.com – 88,982,000 (down 21% vs. 2024)

CBSNews.com – 174,540,000 (up 35% vs. 2024)

NYTimes.com – 71,087,000 (down 7% vs. 2024)

NBCNews.com – 99,707,000 (up 11% vs. 2024)

ABCNews.com Sites – 62,947,000 (down 18% vs. 2024)

Multiplatform Total Views

FOX News Digital – 22,590,000,000 (up 7% vs. 2024)

NYTimes.com – 17,565,000,000 (down 6% vs. 2024)

CNN.com – 10,154,000,000 (down 29% vs. 2024)

CBSNews.com – 4,542,000,000 (down 6% vs. 2024)

NBCNews.com – 3,166,000,000 (down 8% vs. 2024)

ABCNews.com Sites – 1,812,000,000 (down 5% vs. 2024)

Multiplatform Total Minutes

FOX News Digital – 46,522,000,000 (up 13% vs. 2024)

NYTimes.com – 15,096,000,000 (down 21% vs. 2024)

CNN.com – 14,822,000,000 (down 34% vs. 2024)

CBSNews.com – 11,924,000,000 (up 3% vs. 2024)

NBCNews.com – 8,226,000,000 (down 18% vs. 2024)

ABCNews.com Sites – 4,818,000,000 (down 4% vs. 2024)

Categories: Press Releases

Tags: ,