Fox News leads all news genres with 1.4B YouTube views in the second quarter
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FOX News Media closed the second quarter of 2026 by delivering 1.4 billion YouTube video views across its portfolio, outpacing all news brands in the competition, according to Emplifi.
During the quarter, Fox News received 1.4 billion video views, leading its closest competitor MS NOW, which had 763 million views, by more than 300 million views. Fox News doubled CNN, which had 511 million views, and topped ABC News’ 337 million views, NBC News’ 310 million views, and CBS’ 136 million views, combined.
FOX News Media has generated 3.3 billion YouTube video views as of early 2026, with Fox News Channel accounting for 2.5 billion of those views. Fox News topped all news genres on YouTube for the seventh consecutive quarter.
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FOX Business’ YouTube generated 158 million video views throughout the quarter.
The flagship Fox News account has more than 15.2 million subscribers and the Fox News Clips platform, which launched last year and provides the latest reporting and analysis from the Fox News Channel, continues to grow. (stock)
Fox News also ranked first in social media in the second half of 2026, capturing 269 million social media interactions on Facebook, Instagram, X and TikTok, according to Emplifi.
The network received 122 million Facebook interactions, 51.9 million Instagram interactions, 18.2 million X interactions and, according to Comscore Social, 76.8 million TikTok interactions.
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Additionally, Fox News topped YouTube during the month of June, delivering 270 million video views.
In June, Fox News led MS NOW (245 million views) CNN (153 million), NBC News (113 million), ABC News (112 million) and CBS (36 million).
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Fox Business continued its dominance in June, driving 43 million video views, according to Comscore Social, and earning its spot as the number one contender for business news for the 56th consecutive month.
In May 2026, Fox News once again finished the month as the No. 1 news brand on YouTube, with an impressive 338.8 video views, more than triple the views of each broadcast network.
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Fox News beat No. 2 MS NOW with more than 100 million views, as the progressive cable finished with 212.8 million. Fox News was No. 1 among competing news companies on YouTube by monthly video views in 2026.
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CNN commanded 154.1 million video views, while broadcast outlets ABC News (105.7 million), NBC News (82.4 million) and CBS News (37.6 million) trailed far behind, with Fox News edging out the trio combined.
Fox News’ Brian Flood contributed to this report.
