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Fox News leads all news brands in YouTube video views and social engagement for second quarter 2026
By Hanna Panreck
Published July 07, 2026
FOX News Media closed out the second quarter of 2026 by delivering 1.4 billion YouTube video views across its portfolio, topping all news brands in the competitive set, according to Emplifi.
During the quarter, Fox News garnered 1.4 billion video views, leading its closest competitor MS NOW, who had 763 million views, by more than 300 million views. Fox News more than doubled CNN, which had 511 million views, and topped ABC News' 337 million views, NBC News' 310 million views, and CBS News' 136 million views, combined.
FOX News Media has generated 3.3 billion YouTube video views since the start of 2026, with Fox News Channel accounting for 2.5 billion of those views. Fox News surpassed all news brands on YouTube for the seventh straight quarter.
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FOX Business’ YouTube generated 158 million video views throughout the quarter.
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)
Fox News also ranked number one in social engagement in the second quarter of 2026, nabbing 269 million social media interactions across Facebook, Instagram, X and TikTok, according to Emplifi.
The network garnered 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 was number one on 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).
A YouTube logo displayed on a device. (Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson)
Fox Business continued its reign during June, driving 43 million video views, according to Comscore Social, and earning its spot as the number one business news competitive set for the 56th consecutive month.
In May 2026, Fox News also finished the month as the No. 1 news brand on YouTube, with a staggering 338.8 million video views, more than tripling viewership of each of the three broadcast networks.
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Fox News beat No. 2 MS NOW by over 100 million views, as the progressive cable outlet finished with 212.8 million. Fox News has been No. 1 among competitive news brands on YouTube with video views every month in 2026.
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CNN managed 154.1 million video views, while broadcast outlets ABC News (105.7 million), NBC News (82.4 million) and CBS News (37.6 million) fell far behind, with Fox News outdrawing the three combined.
Fox News' Brian Flood contributed to this report.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/fox-news-leads-news-brands-youtube-video-views-social-engagement-second-quarter-2026