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Fox News Digital leads news brands in July views, minutes

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Fox News Digital led news brands in multi-platform views and minutes in July, extending several long-running audience streaks across digital, mobile, YouTube and social platforms, according to data cited by the company from Comscore, Emplifi and other measurement sources

Fox News Digital generated 1.6 billion multi-platform views during the month, up 11 percent from June. It also recorded 3.5 billion multi-platform minutes, up 19 percent from the prior month.

In a statement, Fox News Media said it was the 27th consecutive month that Fox News Digital ranked as the top news brand in multi-platform views and its 65th consecutive month as the leader in multi-platform minutes.

Fox News Digital also saw 181.5 million total digital multi-platform unique visitors, up 2 percent from June and 28 percent from July 2025. By comparison, CNN.com reported 60.2 million unique visitors, down 34 percent from a year earlier, while CBSNews.com reported 186.8 million unique visitors, up 5 percent. NBCNews.com had 111 million unique visitors, NYTimes.com had 60.5 million and ABCNews.com sites had 38.2 million

Fox News Digital’s 1.6 billion multi-platform views led the competitive set cited by the company, followed by NYTimes.com with 1.25 billion, CNN.com with 449 million, CBSNews.com with 303 million, NBCNews.com with 179 million and ABCNews.com sites with 142 million.

In total minutes, Fox News Digital’s 3.5 billion also led the group. NYTimes.com followed with 1.08 billion minutes, CBSNews.com had 911 million, CNN.com had 677 million, NBCNews.com had 465 million and ABCNews.com sites had 340 million.

The Fox News mobile app drew 6.6 million unique viewers in July, more than double the 2.8 million unique viewers reported for CNN’s mobile app.

On YouTube, Fox News was the top news brand in its competitive set, with 324 million video views in July, according to Emplifi. MS Now (formerly MSNBC) recorded 246 million views, followed by CNN with 172 million, ABC News with 136 million, NBC News with 109 million and CBS News with 35 million.

Fox Business also remained the leading business news brand on YouTube for the 57th consecutive month, with 50.8 million video views, up 10 percent from June, according to Comscore Social. Fox News said its America 250 videos on YouTube generated more than 7.2 million video views and 20.1 million minutes watched around Independence Day.

FoxBusiness.com recorded 158.4 million multi-platform minutes in July, placing third in the business competitive set. The site also delivered 85 million multi-platform views and 19.3 million total digital multi-platform unique visitors.

Fox News Digital and Fox News Media are part of Fox Corporation. CNN is owned by Warner Bros Discovery. ABC is part of the Walt Disney Company. NBC is owned by Comcast’s NBC Universal, while MS Now is part of Versant. CBS is part of Paramount Skydance.

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Matthew Keys

Matthew Keys is the award-winning founder and editor of TheDesk.net, an authoritative voice on broadcast and streaming TV, media and tech. With over ten years of experience, he's a recognized expert in broadcast, streaming, and digital media, with work featured in publications such as StreamTV Insider and Digital Content Next, and past roles at Thomson Reuters and Disney-ABC Television Group.
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