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FOX News Media finished the first quarter of 2026 as the No. 1 news brand on YouTube, crushing competition with a record-setting 1.5 billion video views, according to Emplifi.
Fox News piled up the staggering amount of video views while beating its closest competitor, MS NOW, by nearly 500 million as the liberal outlet finished with 974 million video views.
Fox News also doubled CNN’s 707 million video views and topped ABC News, NBC News and CBS News combined.
FOX NEWS CHANNEL WALLOPS CNN, MS NOW VIEWERSHIP DURING FIRST QUARTER OF 2026
The flagship Fox News account has over 15.2 million subscribers and the Fox News Clips platform, which launched last year and provides the latest reporting and analysis from Fox News Channel, continues to grow. (istock)
ABC News had 440 million, NBC News had 364 million and CBS News settled for 194 million.
It was the sixth consecutive quarter that Fox News surpassed all news brands on YouTube, growing 21% compared to last year and 51% quarter-over-quarter among video views in the process.
The flagship Fox News account has over 15.2 million subscribers and the Fox News Clips platform, which launched last year and provides the latest reporting and analysis from Fox News Channel, continues to grow.
FOX News Media’s combined platforms accrued nearly 2 billion video views on YouTube for the quarter as FOX Business also saw 193 million video views.
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Fox News also finished No. 1 in social engagement with 426 million social media interactions across Facebook, Instagram, X and TikTok, according to Emplifi.
Fox News had 219 million Facebook interactions, 75 million Instagram interactions, 20 million X interactions and, according to Comscore Social, 115.9 million TikTok interactions.
The YouTube and social media success coincides with Fox News Channel topping all of cable for the 20th consecutive quarter.
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Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters, Sean Hannity and Greg Gutfeld. (FOX News Media)
Fox News averaged 1.7 million total day viewers during the first quarter of 2026, compared to 691,000 for MS NOW and 577,000 for CNN. During primetime, Fox News averaged 2.6 million viewers, while MS NOW managed 1.1 million and CNN settled for only 797,000.
Fox News commanded nearly 60% of the cable news audience in both total day and primetime. Along the way, Fox News aired 14 of the top 15 shows on cable news with viewers, posting double-digit increases across every hour quarter-over-quarter.
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Brian Flood is a media editor/reporter for FOX News Digital. Story tips can be sent to brian.flood@fox.com and on Twitter: @briansflood.
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