{"id":913744,"date":"2026-06-18T16:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/fox-closes-2026-upfront-touts-double-digit-ad-volume-growth-at-tubi-fox-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T16:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:12:11","slug":"fox-closes-2026-upfront-touts-double-digit-ad-volume-growth-at-tubi-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/18\/fox-closes-2026-upfront-touts-double-digit-ad-volume-growth-at-tubi-fox-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Closes 2026 Upfront, Touts Double-Digit Ad Volume Growth at Tubi, Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entertainment <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Fox has become the first media company of the 2026-27 upfront season to close its negotiations with advertisers, touting \u201chigh-single digit\u201d volume growth and \u201cmarket-leading\u201d pricing growth across its linear and digital portfolio. The company did not disclose specific revenue figures. <\/p>\n<p>When looking at specific properties, Tubi scored double-digit volume growth and Fox News brought in double-digit volume growth and mid-single-digit pricing growth. Fox Sports also saw record volume with pricing up mid-single to low-double digits, while entertainment pricing increased by mid-single digits and volume was in line with the prior year. <\/p>\n<p>As for ad categories, Fox saw year over year upfront growth across entertainment, financial, auto, pharma, dining, retail, technology and telecom verticals. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFOX delivered another strong Upfront performance, reflecting the value of<br \/>our portfolio across Sports, News, Entertainment and Tubi,\u201d Ad sales, marketing and brand partnerships president Jeff Collins said in a statement. <br \/>\u201cAdvertisers continue to recognize FOX\u2019s unique ability to connect brands<br \/>with highly engaged audiences. We thank them, and our agency partners,<br \/>for their continued trust and are grateful to our sales team for their<br \/>dedication and commitment. Together, we will continue to turn audience<br \/>passion into meaningful performance for brands in the year ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/media-platforms\/tv\/upfronts-2026-analysis\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/051426-Upfront-2026-Trends-v2.jpg?fit=300%2C169&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" alt   data-portal-copyright=\"TheWrap\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\">\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fox\u2019s latest upfront round comes after it exceeded $2 billion in sports revenue last year on core properties, excluding the World Cup, and saw double-digit volume growth across news, sports and entertainment last year. At the time, Tubi also saw ad dollars committed grow by 35% year-over-year.<\/p>\n<p>In the first nine months of its 2026 fiscal year, Fox has raked in $5.42 billion in total advertising, down slightly from $5.79 billion for the same period a year ago. That includes $1.23 billion in its cable networks programming unit and $4.2 billion in its television unit. <\/p>\n<p>The company has also added 200 new advertising clients at Fox News on top of the previously announced 350 new advertisers in fiscal 2025. Addtionally, executives touted a more than 45% increase in cost per thousand impressions (CPMs) and national pricing Fox News during its earnings call in May.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/media-platforms\/tv\/upfronts-ratings-debrief-2026-27-season\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thewrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Upfronts.jpg?fit=300%2C169&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Entertainment Upfronts\"   data-portal-copyright=\"TheWrap\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\">\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/industry-news\/business\/fox-closes-2026-upfront-tubi-news-sports-entertainment\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Lucas Manfredi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox has become the first media company of the 2026-27 upfront season to close its negotiations with advertisers, touting \u201chigh-single digit\u201d volume growth and \u201cmarket-leading\u201d pricing growth across its linear and digital portfolio. The company did not disclose specific revenue figures. When looking at specific properties, Tubi scored double-digit volume growth and Fox News brought<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":913745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24363,1798,53183],"tags":[6759,122878],"class_list":["post-913744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-closes","category-entertainment","category-upfront","tag-closes","tag-upfront"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}