Newsmax's total audience is continuing to surge — growing by an eye-popping 50% from last year — according to a Nielsen report out this week.
The ratings service said Newsmax had 33.6 million total viewers in the first quarter of 2025 — an increase of 50% from the 22.4 million who tuned in during the same period last year.
First-quarter ratings this year also saw a healthy 15% increase from the fourth quarter of 2024 when 29.3 million viewers tuned in.
"These strong surges in audiences rarely happen in cable news," Jason Villar, vice president of media and market research at Newsmax, said.
"We are clearly bucking the trend of cable news and overall cable viewership as viewers clearly like the product Newsmax is offering," Villar said.
News of the network's audience growth comes as Newsmax debuted on the New York Stock Exchange as a publicly traded company under the symbol NMAX.
Previously the company raised $300 million from its IPO and recent private preferred share raise.
The company plans to continue to increase its reach on the Newsmax channel, its digital channel N2, and its streaming service Newsmax+.
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