The short answer
46.0 push notifications on a typical active day (median; the mean is 50.7). Over the last twelve months Breaking News sent 18,570 notifications, pushing on 366 of 365 days. Its busiest hour is 14:00 local time, and its biggest single day was 2026-07-29, with 114 pushes.
The daily clock
All of Breaking News's pushes from the last twelve months, on United States's clock. The red bar is the busiest hour, 14:00.
Breaking Newspeak 14:0016.4% of Breaking News'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 United States timing guide.
The week
An average weekday carries 52.5 Breaking News pushes and a weekend day 46.3: the newsroom audibly thins out on Saturdays.
How Breaking News writes a push
| Habit | Breaking News | United States median |
|---|---|---|
| Title length (median characters) | 10 | 13 |
| Body text length (median characters) | 81 | 85 |
| Pushes with no title at all | 5.2% | 0.0% |
| Contains an emoji | 0.1% | 0.0% |
| Contains an exclamation mark | 1.4% | 0.2% |
| Phrased as a question | 2.8% | 4.2% |
Aggregates over every Breaking News notification in the window. The norms across all newsrooms, and which countries love emoji, are in how newsrooms write push notifications.
Versus other United States apps
Every United States news app in the dataset, ranked by twelve-month push volume. Breaking News is highlighted.
| # | App | Pushes / 12 mo | Per active day | Peak hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Breaking News | 18,570 | 46.0 | 14:00 |
| 2 |  NYPost | 5,028 | 13.5 | 11:00 |
| 3 |  SCMP | 4,351 | 28 | 07:00 |
| 4 |  The Athletic | 3,413 | 15 | 05:00 |
| 5 |  AP News | 2,912 | 9.0 | 12:00 |
| 6 |  Mercury News | 2,870 | 8 | 11:00 |
| 7 |  AOL | 2,167 | 6.0 | 08:00 |
| 8 |  ABC13 | 1,855 | 5.0 | 08:00 |
| 9 |  Bloomberg | 1,689 | 5.0 | 11:00 |
| 10 |  NBC NEWS | 1,547 | 7.0 | 07:00 |
| 11 |  HuffPost | 1,462 | 11.0 | 11:00 |
| 12 |  Washington Post | 1,409 | 5.0 | 18:00 |
| 13 |  Epoch Times | 1,392 | 7 | 08:00 |
| 14 |  NYTimes | 1,311 | 5 | 01:00 |
| 15 |  TribLive | 1,209 | 9.0 | 09:00 |
| 16 |  NPR | 1,209 | 6.0 | 14:00 |
| 17 |  CBS News | 1,199 | 8.0 | 15:00 |
| 18 |  BBC | 1,092 | 3 | 09:00 |
| 19 |  POLITICO | 1,057 | 5 | 12:00 |
| 20 |  CNBC | 909 | 3.0 | 16:00 |
| 21 |  Seattle Times Mobile | 897 | 5 | 13:00 |
| 22 |  St. Louis Post-Dispatch | 843 | 9 | 09:00 |
| 23 |  ABC News | 812 | 4.0 | 15:00 |
| 24 |  Philly Inquirer | 697 | 5 | 18:00 |
| 25 |  WSJ | 650 | 4 | 21:00 |
| 26 |  OREGONLIVE | 601 | 5.0 | 11:00 |
| 27 |  ABC7LA | 465 | 4 | 01:00 |
| 28 |  Sacramento Bee | 465 | 4 | 11:00 |
| 29 |  The Charlotte Observer | 418 | 4.0 | 10:00 |
| 30 |  Syracuse.com | 404 | 3.0 | 07:00 |
| 31 |  Reuters | 402 | 3 | 08:00 |
| 32 |  The Kansas City Star | 375 | 3.0 | 11:00 |
| 33 |  The Atlantic | 367 | 3 | 12:00 |
| 34 |  Newsmax | 338 | 3.0 | 10:00 |
| 35 |  Honolulu Star-Advertiser | 338 | 2 | 14:00 |
| 36 |  Arkansas Online-The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | 270 | 2.0 | 10:00 |
| 37 |  inkl news | 194 | 1.0 | 01:00 |
| 38 |  Lexington Herald-Leader | 177 | 2 | 15:00 |
| 39 |  HBR | 164 | 2 | 15:00 |
| 40 |  The State | 145 | 2 | 09:00 |
| 41 |  The Fresno Bee | 126 | 4 | 14:00 |
Method
AO.news collects the push notifications of hundreds of news apps as they are delivered, and records each one the moment it lands. This page counts the 18,570 notifications Breaking News sent from 1 Sep 2025 to 31 Aug 2026, stamped in America/New_York 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 mid-window shows artificially quiet early months, and a push sent only to a personalised or regional segment may not reach us. This page shows aggregates only, never the notifications themselves; the live stream is in the deck.