FOX NEWS DELIVERS YEARLY YOUTUBE GROWTH WITH 370 MILLION VIDEO VIEWS DOMINATING ALL NEWS BRANDS AND BROADCAST NETWORKS IN FEBRUARY
FOX News’ Coverage of February 28th U.S.-Israeli Strikes on Iran Leads to Best Day on YouTube in 2026
Network Sees 49% Growth on TikTok and Drives 2.4 Billion Social Video Views
FOX Weather Scores 198% Increase in YouTube Video Views
NEW YORK – March 3, 2026 – FOX News Media finished February continuing its run as the go to brand on YouTube leading all news brands and broadcast networks, according to Emplifi. Delivering 370 million video views in February FOX News increased its YouTube viewership year-over-year leading MS Now (315 million views), CNN (205 million views), ABC News (139 million views), NBC News (90 million views) and CBS News (66 million views). Coverage of the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28 led to FOX News’ best day with video views of 2026 with 36.8 million views, according to YouTube Analytics. Additionally, FOX Weather’s YouTube page was up 198% year-over-year with video views powered by its coverage of a historic nor’easter earlier in the month.
FOX News Media also led all news brands on social media with interactions according to Emplifi. FOX News delivered 134 million social media interactions for the month with 61 million interactions on Facebook, 25.9 million interactions on Instagram, 6.1 million interactions on X and 40.5 million interactions on TikTok. Notably, FOX News’ engagement on TikTok was up 49% compared to the prior year. Additionally, FOX News had its third highest month ever with 2.4 billion social video views across TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and X, nearly doubling its views from one year ago.
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