FOX News Digital Leads CNN in Total Views
and Minutes for June and Q2 2019
June Marks Sixth Month in a Row FOX News
Digital Surpassed 100 Million Unique Visitors, Marking Second
Highest Month of Multi-Platform Total Unique Visitors
FOX News Continues Reign as Number One
Most-Engaged News Brand on Social Channels, Including Record Month
for June on Instagram
FOX News Mobile App Beats CNN Mobile App for
Seventh Consecutive Month in Unique Visitors
FOX News Digital finished 2Q 2019 with its highest quarter of
multi-platform views, securing 4.8 billion views and finishing at
number one in the news competitive set, according to Comscore*.
Also for the quarter, FOX News Digital bested CNN.com in the
multi-platform minute category with nearly 11.8 billion minutes
spent, compared to CNN.com’s 8.5 billion. FOX News Digital was up
45 percent versus the second quarter of 2018 in multi-platform
minutes while CNN.com only increased eight percent.
In commenting on the quarterly milestone, FOX News Digital
Editor-In-Chief Porter Berry said, “Our platform has proven once
again to be the digital destination for breaking news coverage,
strong opinion, political analysis and trending entertainment
stories. FOX News is unquestionably becoming a leader in the
digital space as proven by our number one ranking in the majority
of key metrics.”
For the month of June, FOX News Digital also topped the news
landscape in multiple categories. FOX News Digital achieved 105
million in monthly unique visitors, in addition to surpassing
CNN.com for the fifth consecutive month with 1.7 billion total
views**. Additionally, June marks the sixth consecutive month that
FOX News Digital surpassed 100 million multi-platform uniques, as
well as the ninth month in a row of exceeding CNN.com in minutes
spent***. FOX News Digital also outperformed others in the
competitive space in monthly unique visitors for June, including
WashingtonPost.com (86.4 million), NYTimes.com (83.2 million) and
USAToday.com (69.9 million).
In the competitive set, FOX News was the number one most engaged
news brand on social media in Q2 2019 with 131 Million interactions
(Facebook, Twitter, Instagram), according to Socialbakers***. This
marks the 20th consecutive quarter that FOX News has been number
one in total social interactions, accounting for 31 percent of all
social interactions in the second quarter of 2019. Additionally,
FOX News drove 25 percent more interactions than the cable news
competition (CNN+MSNBC) combined in Q2 2019. FOX News Instagram
interactions were up 24 percent this quarter versus the prior year
and June marked FNC’s most engaging month ever on the social media
channel.
Finally, for the seventh month in a row, the Fox News Mobile App
surpassed the CNN Mobile App in Unique Visitors, with 7.5 million
versus 6.3 million****.
Q2 2019 FOX NEWS DIGITAL VS.
CNN.COM (April 1, 2019 – June 30, 2019) Multi-Platform Total
Minutes FOX News Digital – 11,763,000,000 (up 45 percent vs. Q2
2018) CNN.com – 8,457,000,000 (up 8 percent vs. Q2 2018)
Multi-Platform Total Views FOX News Digital –
4,806,000,000 (up 10 percent vs. Q2 2018) CNN.com – 4,360,000,000
(down 8 percent vs. Q2 2018)
Multi-Platform Average Monthly Unique Visitors FOX News
Digital – 102,788,000 (up 12 percent vs. Q2 2018) CNN.com –
126,668,000 (up 1 percent vs. Q2 2018)
June 2019 FOX NEWS DIGITAL VS.
CNN.COM (June 1 – June 30, 2019) Multi-Platform Total
Minutes FOX News Digital – 3,899,000,000 (up 41 percent vs.
June 2018)| CNN.com – 2,653,000,000 (up 5 percent vs. June
2018)
Multi-Platform Total Views FOX News Digital –
1,661,000,000 (up 11 percent vs. June 2018) CNN.com – 1,385,000,000
(down 7 percent vs. June 2018)
Multi-Platform Total Unique Visitors FOX News Digital –
105,188,000 (up 13 percent vs. June 2018) CNN.com – 128,285,000 (up
.4 percent vs. June 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. Currently the number one rated 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., WSJ Online,
Reuters.com, and USAToday.com, Average of multiplatform unique
visitor metrics for Q2 2019 (April – June), sum of multiplatform
views & minutes metrics for Q2 2019 (April-June), U.S.
**Source: Comscore Media Metrix® Multi-Platform, Total Digital
Audience, Fox News Digital Network, June 2019, U.S.
***Socialbakers
****Source: Comscore Mobile Metrix®, Mobile App Only, [FOX News
Mobile App and CNN Mobile App], June 2018 vs. June 2019, U.S.
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