Clay Travis Exits OutKick as Fox News Digital Swallows the Site Whole

The sports and culture outlet Travis founded is being absorbed into Fox News Digital five years after Fox Corp. acquired it, and Travis will not be making the move with it.

Clay Travis is departing OutKick, the site he founded, following its full absorption into Fox News Digital.
Fox Corp. acquired OutKick in 2021; the integration into Fox News Digital marks the end of its independent identity.
Travis has not publicly announced his next venture as of the Deadline report filed in June 2026.
OutKick built its audience on sports commentary with a politically right-leaning editorial posture.
The departure leaves Travis without the platform he used to build his media profile since the site's 2011 founding.

Clay Travis is leaving OutKick, the sports and culture site he founded in 2011, as Fox News Digital formally absorbs the property roughly five years after Fox Corp. completed its acquisition, according to a Deadline report published in June 2026.

OutKick built a sizable audience by pairing sports coverage with a right-leaning cultural commentary posture — a combination that made Travis a regular presence on Fox News programming and drew the acquisition interest in the first place.

The Deadline report does not list a severance figure, a final air date, or a competing offer. Travis had not publicly named a next destination as of the report's filing.

Fox News Digital gains the OutKick brand, the archive, and the audience. Travis, for his part, gains an exit from the property that made him sufficiently valuable to Fox Corp. to acquire — and then, apparently, sufficiently redundant to part with once the deal was fully digested.