Fox News Digital crushes CNN, NY Times, other major news brands in key metrics during October

Americans continued to trust connected Fox News Digital for accusation and investigation up of the captious statesmanlike election. 

The period of October featured around-the-clock buildup to the conflict betwixt President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, including Trump’s serving French fries astatine a Pennsylvania McDonald’s, on with devastating hurricanes hitting the southeast United States, ongoing conflicts successful the Middle East, the somber one-year day of the Hamas’ panic onslaught connected Israel, larboard workers going connected strike, the Vice Presidential statement betwixt Sen. JD Vance and Gov. Tim Walz, nonstop economical quality and a assortment of entertainment, sports and taste stories that helped substance the nationalist conversation. 

Along the way, Fox News Digital finished the period arsenic the No. 1 quality marque among the cardinal metrics of multiplatform views and minutes, according to Comscore. 

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Fox News Digital finished October arsenic the No. 1 quality marque among the cardinal metrics of multiplatform views and minutes, according to Comscore.  (istock)

Fox News Digital finished No. 1 successful multiplatform minutes with an astounding 3.9 billion. It was the 44th consecutive period that Fox News Digital topped each competitory quality brands successful the category. Fox News Digital was up 13% successful the cardinal class compared to past year, and up 23% compared to the erstwhile month. Meanwhile, CNN.com trailed down with 1.9 cardinal multiplatform minutes, which was down 16% compared to October 2023. 

Fox News Digital finished No.1 with 2 cardinal multiplatform views during the news-heavy month. It was the archetypal clip since January 2021 that Fox News Digital surpassed the two-billion people successful the metric, arsenic the multiplatform views grew 9% compared to past year. The New York Times came successful 2nd with 1.6 cardinal multtiplatform views followed by CNN.com with 1.2 billion. 

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Fox News Digital led the battalion with adjacent 116 cardinal monthly full integer multiplatform unsocial visitors, a 26% summation compared to past year. It was the 3rd clip successful 2024 that Fox News Digital has outperformed CNN.com successful the category, with the erstwhile instances occurring successful February and June.

Fox News Digital was besides No. 1 successful mean views per sojourn among the quality competitory set, with 3.1 mean views per visit, up 11% compared to past twelvemonth and up 18% compared to September. 

President-elect Donald Trump's sojourn to McDonald's rapidly became a viral sensation. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

The Fox News Mobile app had 6.5 cardinal unsocial visitors successful October, up 3% from past year. Meanwhile, CNN’s mobile app had lone 4.9 cardinal unsocial visitors for a 34% driblet compared to past year. 

Additionally, Fox News maintained its dominance connected societal media with 47 cardinal full interactions passim October, much than doubly the engagement than October 2023, according to Emplifi. 17.1 cardinal of those societal interactions came from Facebook, 27.1 cardinal came from Instagram and 3.7 cardinal came from X. FOX Business besides surpassed CNBC connected societal media past period with 1.3 cardinal interactions. 

On YouTube, Fox News reached 283.2 cardinal views, an 11% year-over-year increase, according to Shareablee. 

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Traffic information courtesy of Comscore.