The short answer
Expresso, 1 Nov 2025 to 31 Oct 2026
16.0 push notifications on a typical active day (median; the mean is 15.1). Over the last twelve months Expresso sent 121 notifications, pushing on 8 of 365 days. Its busiest hour is 22:00 local time, and its biggest single day was 2026-10-25, with 23 pushes.
The daily clock
All of Expresso's pushes from the last twelve months, on Portugal's clock. The red bar is the busiest hour, 22:00.
Expressopeak 22:0023.1% of Expresso'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 timing guides.
The week
An average weekday carries 17.6 Expresso pushes and a weekend day 11.0: the newsroom audibly thins out on Saturdays.
How Expresso writes a push
| Habit | Expresso | Portugal median |
|---|---|---|
| Title length (median characters) | 16 | 13 |
| Body text length (median characters) | 90 | 84 |
| Pushes with no title at all | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Contains an emoji | 0.8% | 0.3% |
| Contains an exclamation mark | 0.8% | 0.4% |
| Phrased as a question | 7.4% | 6.2% |
Aggregates over every Expresso notification in the window. The norms across all newsrooms, and which countries love emoji, are in how newsrooms write push notifications.
Versus other Portugal apps
Every Portugal news app in the dataset, ranked by twelve-month push volume. Expresso is highlighted.
| # | App | Pushes / 12 mo | Per active day | Peak hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Observador | 481 | 62.0 | 20:00 |
| 2 |  CNN Portugal | 446 | 51.5 | 18:00 |
| 3 |  SIC Notícias | 328 | 45.0 | 12:00 |
| 4 |  RTP Notícias | 269 | 41 | 11:00 |
| 5 |  Público | 134 | 18.5 | 09:00 |
| 6 | Expresso | 121 | 16.0 | 22:00 |
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 121 notifications Expresso sent from 1 Nov 2025 to 31 Oct 2026, stamped in Europe/Lisbon 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.