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Fox News Digital leads in unique visitors, other key metrics against CNN, NY Times during August

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Fox News Digital closed the summer trouncing other news organizations across key metrics, including in unique visitors.

During the month of August 2026, Fox News Digital reached 76 million unique visitors on desktop and mobile devices, leading the metric for four months straight, according to Comscore. CBS News came in second 70 million unique visitors, followed by NBC News' 65 million, The New York Times' 63 million, CNN's 56 million and ABC News' 29 million.

Fox News Digital maintained its dominance in multiplatform views and multiplatform minutes last month, reaching 1.47 billion and 3.2 billion respectively. The New York Times trailed in second with 1.27 billion multiplatform views and 1 billion multiplatform minutes. CNN trailed even further with 415 million multiplatform views and 647 million multiplatform minutes.

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Fox News Digital piled up a 165 million total digital multiplatform unique visitors throughout May to finish No. 1 in the category for the third consecutive month. (iStock)

August 2026 marked Fox News Digital's 28th consecutive month as the top news brand in multiplatform views and the 66th consecutive month in multiplatform minutes.

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Fox News also maintained its status as the most engaged news brand across social media for the 144th consecutive month, totaling a whopping 85 million interactions, according to Emplifi and Comscore Social. More than 26 million of those interactions came from Facebook, 14.5 million were on Instagram and 4.7 million came from X.

On TikTok, Fox News notched more than 39 million interactions, a staggering 80% increase from last year.

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Collectively, Fox News reached 1.4 billion video views across social media platforms throughout August.

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Joseph A. Wulfsohn is a media reporter for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to joseph.wulfsohn@fox.com and on Twitter: @JosephWulfsohn.

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