CNN Sees Year-Over-Year Declines with Multiplatform Minutes, Views and Unique Visitors

FOX News Sees 20% Year-Over-Year Growth on YouTube

FOX News finished 2024 as the top news brand with multiplatform views and minutes while seeing yearly growth across all metrics, according to Comscore. For the year, FOX News Digital secured 41 billion total multiplatform minutes (up 11% vs. 2023), 21.1 billion total multiplatform views (up 5% vs. 2023) and averaged 110.7 million total digital multiplatform unique visitors per month.* Comparatively, CNN saw declines despite the historic presidential race with multiplatform views (down 4% vs. 2023), minutes (down 3% vs. 2023) and unique visitors (down 7% vs. 2023). Additional highlights include:

• The FOX News Mobile App reached an average 6.2 million unique visitors per month in 2024, while seeing year-over-year growth.**

• On YouTube, FOX News saw a 20% increase with video views compared to 2023 and a 3% increase compared to the last presidential election year in 2020 according to Shareablee. FOX News commanded over 2.8 billion YouTube views for the calendar year peaking in November when the country went to vote.

• FOX News was once again the most engaged brand on social media in the competitive set in 2024, driving 404.4 million total social interactions, up 34% from the year prior, according to Emplifi.**** FOX News drove 126 million interactions on Facebook, 247 million Instagram interactions and 33 million X interactions. From June – December, FOX News generated 1.14 billion views on TikTok. FOX Business drove 10.5 million social media interactions during 2024.*****

• In December, FOX News was also the top news brand with multiplatform minutes (3.3 billion) and views (1.7 billion).* With total digital multiplatform unique visitors, FOX News commanded 104 million surpassing CNN’s 91 million. Notably, CNN saw lows dating back to 2015 with multiplatform views and minutes in December.

• FOXBusiness.com drove 2 billion multiplatform views in 2024, surpassing brands including CNN Business, WSJ Online, MarketWatch and Forbes. Additionally, the business site delivered 2.9 billion multiplatform minutes and averaged 25.3 million multiplatform unique visitors per month.***

2024 FOX NEWS DIGITAL VS. CNN.COM AND NYTIMES.COM

Multi-Platform Total Views

FOX News Digital – 21,113,000,000 (up 5% vs. 2023)

CNN.com – 14,238,000,000 (down 4% vs. 2023)

NYTimes.com – 18,762,000,000 (up 19% vs. 2023)

Multi-Platform Total Minutes

FOX News Digital – 41,009,000,000 (up 11% vs. 2023)

CNN.com – 22,556,000,000 (down 3% vs. 2023)

NYTimes.com – 19,215,000,000 (up 17% vs. 2023)

Average Total Digital Multi-Platform Unique Visitors

FOX News Digital – 110,676,000 (up 17% vs. 2023)

CNN.com – 113,038,000 (down 7% vs. 2023)

NYTimes.com – 76,804,000 (flat vs. 2023)

*Source: Comscore Media Metrix® Multi-Platform, Total Digital Population including Social Incremental data for reportable entities. Fox News Digital, CBSNews.com, NBCNews.com, WashingtonPost.com, and ABCNews.com have opted in to account for Social Incremental in Total Digital Multiplatform Unique Visitors, while brands like CNN.com and NYTimes.com have not opted in. Custom-Defined List including CNN.com, NBCNews.com, ABCNews.com, CBSNews.com, Fox News Digital, WashingtonPost.com, NYTimes.com, NYPost Network, Wall Street Journal Online, Insider Inc., and USAToday.com, December 2024, U.S.

**Source: Comscore Media Metrix® Multi-Platform, Total Digital Population including Social Incremental data for reportable entities. Fox News Digital, CBSNews.com, NBCNews.com, WashingtonPost.com, and ABCNews.com have opted in to account for Social Incremental in Total Digital Multiplatform Unique Visitors, while brands like CNN.com and NYTimes.com have not opted in. Custom-Defined List including CNN.com, NBCNews.com, ABCNews.com, CBSNews.com, Fox News Digital, WashingtonPost.com, NYTimes.com, NYPost Network, Wall Street Journal Online, Insider Inc., and USAToday.com, December 2024, U.S. & Comscore Mobile Metrix®, Mobile App Only, [FOX News Mobile App and CNN Mobile App], December 2024, U.S.

***Source: Comscore Media Metrix® Multi-Platform, Total Digital Population including Social Incremental data for reportable entities. FoxBusiness.com, Yahoo! Finance, CNBC.com, TheStreet.com, Entrepreneur.com have opted in to account for Social Incremental in Total Digital Multiplatform Unique Visitors. Custom-Defined List including FoxBusiness.com, Bloomberg.com, CNBC.com, CNN Business, Entrepreneur.com, Forbes.com, HuffPost Business, MarketWatch, Motley Fool, MSN Money, TheStreet.com, USA TODAY Money, WSJ Online, Yahoo! Finance, December 2024, U.S.

****Source: Comscore Social, PowerRankings, YouTube, December 2024, Report Date: 1/16/2025. Custom-Defined List including CNN.com, NBCNews.com, ABCNews.com, CBSNews.com, Fox News Digital, WashingtonPost.com, NYTimes.com, NYPost Network, Wall Street Journal Online, Insider Inc., and USAToday.com.

*****Source: Comscore Social, PowerRankings, YouTube, December 2024, Report Date: 1/16/2024. Custom-Defined List including FoxBusiness.com, Bloomberg.com, CNBC.com, CNN Business, Entrepreneur.com, Forbes.com, HuffPost Business, MarketWatch, Motley Fool, MSN Money, TheStreet.com, USA TODAY Money, WSJ Online, Yahoo! Finance.

FOX News Media operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Digital, FOX News Audio, FOX News Books, the direct-to-consumer streaming services FOX Nation and FOX News International and the free ad-supported television service FOX Weather. Currently the number one network in all of cable, FNC has also been the most watched television news channel for more than 22 consecutive years, while FBN is the top business channel on cable. Owned by Fox Corporation, FOX News Media reaches nearly 200 million people each month.

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