The short answer
BFM, 1 Aug 2025 to 31 Jul 2026
17.0 push notifications on a typical active day (median; the mean is 16.7). Over the last twelve months BFM sent 3,718 notifications, pushing on 222 of 365 days. Its busiest hour is 07:00 local time, and its biggest single day was 2025-10-10, with 24 pushes.
The daily clock
All of BFM's pushes from the last twelve months, on France's clock. The red bar is the busiest hour, 07:00.
BFMpeak 07:0011.6% of BFM's notifications land between 22:00 and 07:00. For when the whole country's apps push, and the quiet windows between them, see the France timing guide.
The week
An average weekday carries 17.2 BFM pushes and a weekend day 15.6: the newsroom audibly thins out on Saturdays.
How BFM writes a push
| Habit | BFM | France median |
|---|---|---|
| Title length (median characters) | 20 | 16 |
| Body text length (median characters) | 100 | 100 |
| Pushes with no title at all | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Contains an emoji | 99.8% | 25.6% |
| Contains an exclamation mark | 0.4% | 1.5% |
| Phrased as a question | 11.9% | 11.8% |
Aggregates over every BFM notification in the window. The norms across all newsrooms, and which countries love emoji, are in how newsrooms write push notifications.
Versus other France apps
Every France news app in the dataset, ranked by twelve-month push volume. BFM is highlighted.
| # | App | Pushes / 12 mo | Per active day | Peak hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Le Figaro | 7,463 | 22.0 | 08:00 |
| 2 |  La Dépêche | 5,381 | 25 | 12:00 |
| 3 |  Le Parisien | 5,235 | 19 | 12:00 |
| 4 | BFM | 3,718 | 17.0 | 07:00 |
| 5 |  20 Minutes | 3,128 | 9 | 19:00 |
| 6 |  Libération | 2,801 | 14.0 | 22:00 |
| 7 | TF1 Info | 2,745 | 10.0 | 12:00 |
| 8 |  Ouest-France | 2,515 | 14.0 | 19:00 |
| 9 |  Les Echos | 2,317 | 12 | 07:00 |
| 10 |  Femme Actuelle | 2,097 | 22.0 | 07:00 |
| 11 |  Le Monde | 1,996 | 10.0 | 10:00 |
| 12 |  franceinfo | 1,954 | 9 | 12:00 |
| 13 | Europe 1 | 1,451 | 9 | 08:00 |
| 14 |  Actu | 1,169 | 9 | 07:00 |
| 15 |  L'Équipe | 851 | 7.0 | 22:00 |
| 16 |  Sud Ouest | 811 | 7 | 20:00 |
| 17 |  Radio France | 199 | 2.0 | 12:00 |
Method
AO.news runs a fleet of phones with hundreds of news apps installed and every notification switched on; each push is recorded the moment it lands. This page counts the 3,718 notifications BFM sent from 1 Aug 2025 to 31 Jul 2026, stamped in Europe/Paris local time. Front-page headline robots are excluded, and the window always ends at the last complete month, so these figures update monthly rather than live. Two honest caveats: an app added to our phones mid-window shows artificially quiet early months, and a push sent only to a personalised or regional segment may not reach our devices. This page shows aggregates only, never the notifications themselves; the live stream is in the deck.