Fox Business site has record March, first quarter

The Fox Business Network website recorded its highest month in history in both multiplatform minutes and multiplatform views in March, according to data from Comscore Media Matrix.

The site had 353 million multiplatform minutes, up 61 percent from February, and 182 million multiplatform views, up 35 percent from February. It also had more than 24 million multiplatform unique visitors.

For the first quarter of 2022, the business network recorded 792 million total multiplatform minutes, up 17 percent from the previous quarter, 459 million total multiplatform views, up 5 percent, and averaged 27.5 million monthly multiplatform unique visitors, up 6 percent.

Fox Business’ videos on YouTube remained the most-viewed among the business news competitive set for the month, notching 73 million views in March, which is its highest month ever for video views and up 423 percent from a year ago.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.