2019 Yields New Highs in Multiplatform
Views, Average Monthly Unique Visitors, and Minutes Spent
For the First Year in History, FOX News
Digital Averaged Over 100 Million Monthly Unique Visitors
FOX News Remains the Number One Most-Engaged
News Organization on Social Channels in the World in 2019
FOX News Digital delivered a record year in 2019, setting new
highs across multiplatform views, average monthly multiplatform
unique visitors, multiplatform minutes, and average monthly mobile
app unique visitors, according to Comscore. Driving more than 19
billion multiplatform views for the year, up 12 percent from 2018,
Fox News Digital Network saw the largest year-over-year growth in
multiplatform views, with the majority of brands in the news
competitive set experiencing a decrease year-over-year. Monthly
multiplatform unique visitors across FOX News Digital averaged 101
million unique visitors this year, an 11 percent increase versus
2018, beating CNN.com in growth year over year. In multiplatform
minutes, FOX News Digital earned the number one spot in the news
competitive set, driving 46.6 billion minutes, up 35 percent versus
the prior year, and experiencing the largest year over year growth.
FOX News Digital finished at number one in the news competitive
set, outpacing CNN.com (18.6 billion/36 billion minutes),
NYTimes.com (13.3 billion/13.2 billion minutes), and
WashingtonPost.com (6.1 billion/14 billion minutes) in total views
and total minutes.*
In commenting on the year’s performance, FOX News Digital
Editor-In-Chief Porter Berry said, “Our enterprise reporting
propelled FOX News Digital to its best year ever, averaging over
100 million monthly uniques for the first time in history and a
second consecutive year as the leader in multiplatform minutes. I
am beyond proud of our dedicated team of journalists who
consistently produce compelling and informative content across all
our digital platforms, and look forward to continued success in the
year ahead.”
The month of December 2019 also saw FOX News Digital deliver 3.5
billion multiplatform minutes, beating CNN.com for the 15th
consecutive month. The strong performance also helped drive the FOX
News Mobile App ahead of the CNN Mobile App for the 13th month in a
row in unique visitors (7.4 million versus 6.8 million).**
For the 64th consecutive month, FOX News remained the number one
most engaged news brand on social media (Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram) as well as the most engaged news brand in the world for
all of 2019 (Jan-Dec) and FOX Business closed out 2019 as the
number one most engaged business news brand on Facebook in the
world, according to Shareablee.
Both FOX News and FOX Business earned the number one spot in
Facebook interactions among all news brands and all business news
brands, respectively in calendar year 2019. On both platforms’
combined (Facebook and Instagram) FOX News interactions were up 11
percent versus last year. FOX News also earned the number one spot
in YouTube views this year, driving 1.4 billion total video views,
up 141 percent and doubling last year’s views, more than any other
news brand in the main competitive set, according to Shareablee.
With Facebook Live, both FOX News and FOX Business placed number
one in video views among the main news competitive set and the
business TV news competitive set (910 million and 157 million
views, respectively), according to Crowdtangle data.
Following FOX Business’ brand refresh earlier this year,
FOXBusiness.com’s multiplatform total views increased 40 percent
compared to the same period last year and experienced 880 million
total views in calendar year 2019. FOXBusiness.com also saw a
record year of average monthly multiplatform unique visitors with
about 15.8 million per month a 27 percent increase versus the prior
year, and drove 1.5 billion total minutes in 2019 up 90% from total
minutes in calendar year 2018.***
In December, FOX Business was number one in year-over-year
growth in multiplatform unique visitors and in multiplatform
minutes among the business news competitive set, while most of the
competition saw a decrease in uniques year over year, and
experienced its highest month to date for unique visitors, with
20.8 million, up 67% versus the prior year. December also recorded
176 million multiplatform total minutes, its highest month ever,
and up 160% versus the prior year.****
NOTE: Due to a tagging issue, December 2019 United States
Media Metrix Multi-Platform, Media Metrix and Mobile Metrix Page
Views and Total Views data for [M] Fox News Digital Network and [C]
FOXNEWS.COM were under-reported. These metrics should not be used
for competitive comparisons.
2019 (Jan-Dec) FOX NEWS DIGITAL VS.
CNN.COM
Multi-Platform Total Views FOX News Digital –
19,450,000,000 (up 12 percent vs. Jan-Dec 2018) CNN.com –
18,619,000,000 (down 2 percent vs. Jan-Dec 2018)
Multi-Platform Total Minutes FOX News Digital –
46,615,000,000 (up 35 percent vs. Jan-Dec 2018) CNN.com –
35,986,000,000 (up 9 percent vs. Jan-Dec 2018)
Average Monthly Multi-Platform Unique Visitors FOX News
Digital – 101,412,000 (up 11 percent vs. Jan-Dec 2018) CNN.com –
124,814,000 (up 4 percent vs. Jan-Dec 2018)
FOX News Media operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business
Network (FBN), FOX News Digital, FOX News Radio, FOX News Headlines
24/7, FOX News podcasts and the direct-to-consumer subscription
streaming service FOX Nation. A top five-cable network, FNC has
been the most watched television news channel for more than 17
consecutive years, while FBN has ranked as the number one business
channel for the past two years. Owned by FOX Corporation, FOX News
Media reaches 200 million people each month.
*Source: Comscore Media Metrix® Multi-Platform, Total Digital
Audience, Custom-Defined List including CNN.com, NBCNews.com,
ABCNews.com, CBSNews.com, Fox News Digital Network,
WashingtonPost.com, NYTimes.com, HuffPost U.S., Wall Street Journal
Online, Reuters.com, and USAToday.com, Jan 2018-Dec 2019, U.S.
**Source: Comscore Media Metrix® Multi-Platform, Total Digital
Audience, Custom-Defined List including CNN.com, NBCNews.com,
ABCNews.com, CBSNews.com, Fox News Digital Network,
WashingtonPost.com, NYTimes.com, HuffPost U.S., Wall Street Journal
Online, Reuters.com, and USAToday.com, Dec 2019, U.S. &
Comscore Mobile Metrix®, Mobile App Only, [FOX News Mobile App and
CNN Mobile App], Dec 2019, U.S.
***Source: Comscore Media Metrix® Multi-Platform, Total Digital
Audience, FoxBusiness.com, Jan 2018-Dec 2019, U.S.
****Source: Comscore Media Metrix® Multi-Platform, Total Digital
Audience, 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, Jan
2018-Dec 2019, U.S.
View source
version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200121006129/en/
Tess Glancey 212-301-3285
Fox (NASDAQ:FOX)
Historical Stock Chart
From Mar 2024 to Apr 2024
Fox (NASDAQ:FOX)
Historical Stock Chart
From Apr 2023 to Apr 2024