Key Points:
- Fox News Digital led all news brands in unique visitors for the first time in Q3 2025.
- The outlet posted 11.4 billion multiplatform minutes and 5.6 billion views, both up year over year.
- Fox News dominated YouTube and social media during the quarter with strong engagement metrics.
Fox News Digital ranked as the top news brand for total unique visitors across desktop and mobile devices during the third quarter (Q3) of 2025, marking the first time it has led this category, according to new data from Comscore.
During Q3, Fox News also achieved a milestone in multiplatform views, leading all news brands for 13 consecutive quarters and extending its lead in multiplatform minutes to 18 consecutive quarters.
For the three-month period ending in September, Fox News Digital reported 11.4 billion total multiplatform minutes, up 10 percent from the same quarter last year, and 5.6 billion multiplatform views, an increase of 5 percent. The digital division averaged 94.1 million unique visitors per month, slightly down 5 percent year over year.
The results placed Fox News Digital ahead of NBC News, CBS News and ABC News across all measured categories. CNN experienced sharp year-over-year declines, including a 44 percent drop in multiplatform views, a 54 percent drop in minutes and a 29 percent decline in average monthly unique visitors. CNN.com averaged 88.4 million unique visitors, while The New York Times drew 69.7 million, CBS News 82.5 million, NBC News 78.9 million and ABC News 24.1 million.
On YouTube, Fox News generated 1.1 billion video views during the quarter, according to measurement data from analytics firm Emplifi. The brand outperformed all broadcast and cable competitors for the fourth-straight quarter, surpassing MSNBC by over 200 million views. By comparison, MSNBC tallied 848 million views, CNN had 627 million views, NBC News grabbed 424 million views, ABC News drew 359 million views and CBS News counted 163 million views. Fox Business earned 166 million YouTube views.
In September, Fox News Digital led all news brands with 3.9 billion multiplatform minutes and 1.9 billion multiplatform views. The outlet also drew 102 million unique visitors across desktop and mobile platforms that month, reflecting gains in each metric compared to the prior year.
Social media performance also reached record levels. Fox News drove 506 million total interactions across Facebook, X, Instagram and TikTok in the third quarter, the highest in its history, according to Emplifi. TikTok engagement rose 75 percent quarter over quarter to 2.2 billion, while Facebook interactions surged 616 percent to 283 million. Instagram interactions climbed 40 percent to 97.9 million and X engagement nearly doubled to 19.4 million.
Fox Business reported 634 million multiplatform minutes, 374 million views and 26 million unique visitors for the quarter. The site continued to outperform CNN Business and Forbes, leading both for the 14th and 16th consecutive quarters respectively.
Fox News Digital is part of Fox News Media, a division of Fox Corporation.
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