NEW YORK—LiveNow From Fox, Fox Television Stations’ national news streaming service, has released viewing data showing the first quarter was the best quarter in its history, delivering more than 500 million video views on YouTube, according to Comscore.
With 502 million video views on YouTube, LiveNow reported that it outpaced NBC News by 42% (353 million), ABC News by 56% (322 million) and CBS News by 217% (158 million) on the social platform. Compared to the same period last year, LiveNow grew by 373% on YouTube.
“There are many options for mainstream scripted packaged news. Fox takes a different path. It is locally powered coverage that is unscripted and intentionally raw,” Jeff Zelmer, Fox Television Stations executive vice president of digital operations, said. “It's no surprise that this unique, live, event-driven approach works best on YouTube's fast-growing platform. ”
Additionally, LiveNow is averaging more than 5 billion minutes of total viewing time across all streaming platforms each month, reaching an all-time high of 6.6 billion minutes in January.
The viewing surge was driven by live coverage of major breaking news events, including the Los Angeles wildfires; the Washington, D.C.; plane crash, and the presidential inauguration. This past Saturday, LiveNow’s coverage of the funera of Pope Francis exceeded 100 million streaming minutes.
LiveNow From Fox is a national news service with coverage and content supported by local Fox Television Stations and the resources of Fox News.
LiveNow is widely distributed across all major streaming and free, ad-supported streaming television (FAST) platforms, including YouTube, YouTubeTV, Roku Channel, Samsung TV Plus, Tubi, Fox Local, Vizio Watchfree+, LG Channels, Amazon News/FireTV Channels, Freevee, Pluto TV, Xumo, Plex, TCLtv+, FuboTV and Sling Freestream.
Fox Television Stations owned and operates 29 U.S. television stations inluding outlets in 14 of the top 15 DMAs and and duopolies in 11 DMAs, including the three largest markets, New York (WNYW-WWOR), Los Angeles (KTTV-KCOP) and Chicago (WFLD-WPWR).
