Network Continues Streak with Best August
Ever, Earning Double-Digit Increases Across All Key Indicators
Versus Prior Year
August Marks Ninth Consecutive Month Earning
Over 100 Million Multiplatform Unique Visitors
FOX Business Network Notches Highest Month
of Engagement in All Metrics
FOX News Digital closed out a historic summer (Jun’20-Aug’20)
with record engagement across all key performance indicators. The
digital network also finished the month with its strongest
performance of any August on record and led the news competition in
multiplatform minutes for the month. Additionally, the network
experienced double-digit increases versus the prior year across all
key metrics, including multiplatform unique visitors (a 25 percent
increase from August 2019), multiplatform views (a 14 percent
increase from August 2019) and total multiplatform minutes (a 25
percent increase from August 2019), according to Comscore.
August 2020 marked the network’s ninth consecutive month
notching over 100 million multiplatform unique visitors.
Furthermore, the FOX News Mobile App surpassed the CNN Mobile App
for the 21st month in a row in unique visitors (8.8 million versus
CNN’s 7.6 million), and delivered its sixth month scoring over 8
million unique visitors.*
For the 72nd straight month, FOX News remained the most engaged
news brand on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) among the
news competitive set, driving over 80 million total interactions,
according to Socialbakers. August also marked the highest month of
total social interactions ever. FOX News remained number one in
Facebook and Instagram interactions among news competitors for the
month, amounting more than 56 million on Facebook and 23.5 million
Instagram interactions, also according to Socialbakers. According
to data from Crowdtangle, FOX News topped Facebook Video for the
month, driving 248 million total video views.
Additionally, FOXBusiness.com delivered its highest month across
all key performance metrics in history. In multiplatform unique
visitors, FoxBusiness.com garnered 35 million, more than doubling
metrics from the previous year. FOXBusiness.com drove 272 million
multiplatform total minutes and saw 158 million multiplatform total
views last month, securing triple digit growth across all metrics
versus the prior year and finishing number one in growth versus the
prior month among the business news competitive set.**
AUGUST 2020 FOX NEWS DIGITAL VS.
CNN.COM
Multi-Platform Total Minutes
FOX News Digital – 4,835,000,000 (up 25 percent vs. August 2019)
CNN.com – 4,490,000,000 (up 48 percent vs. August 2019)
Multi-Platform Total Views
FOX News Digital – 1,974,000,000 (up 14 percent vs. August 2019)
CNN.com – 2,329,000,000 (up 46 percent vs. August 2019)
Multi-Platform Unique Visitors
FOX News Digital – 118,983,000 (up 25 percent vs. August 2019)
CNN.com – 168,576,000 (up 28 percent vs. August 2019)
FOX News Media operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business
Network (FBN), FOX News Digital, FOX News Audio and the
direct-to-consumer digital streaming services FOX Nation and FOX
News International. Currently the number one network in all of
cable, FNC has also been the most watched television news channel
for more than 18 consecutive years, while FBN currently ranks among
the top business channels on cable. 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, August 2020, U.S. &
Comscore Mobile Metrix®, Mobile App Only, [FOX News Mobile App and
CNN Mobile App], August 2020, 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, August
2020, U.S.
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FOX News Media Contact:
Tessica Glancey – 212-301-3285
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