Fox News Rakes In Over a Billion YouTube Views in Strongest Quarter Ever

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Fox News received more than one billion views on YouTube in the first quarter of 2025 – its strongest in history – beating CNN, MSNBC, and other networks by hundreds of millions of views.

The network received 1.2 billion views in the first quarter of 2025 – a 26% increase over the fourth quarter of 2024, according to Fox News, citing data from Emplifi.

For comparison, MSNBC received 945 million views, followed by CNN with 489 million views, NBC News with 391 million views, ABC News with 357 million views, and CBS News with 172 million views.

Fox Business also beat its YouTube competitors by several hundred million views, raking in 326 million views in the first quarter.

In the same quarter, CNBC received just under 90 million views, while Bloomberg received just under 30 million views.

January 2025 was Fox News’ second most-viewed month in its history on YouTube, trailing only the election month of November 2024.

In January alone, Fox News received more than 121 million unique visitors across all of its social media platforms, including 6.9 million unique visitors on the Fox News mobile app, 29.6 million interactions on TikTok, 21.4 million interactions on the Meta platform Facebook, 34 million on Meta’s Instagram, and 5 million on Elon Musk’s X.

Fox News was beaten on TikTok, however, by NBC News, with the network receiving over a billion views in January alone.