The short answer
News24, 1 Aug 2025 to 31 Jul 2026
12 push notifications on a typical active day (median; the mean is 12.7). Over the last twelve months News24 sent 1,591 notifications, pushing on 125 of 365 days. Its busiest hour is 18:00 local time, and its biggest single day was 2026-02-12, with 31 pushes.
The daily clock
All of News24's pushes from the last twelve months, on South Africa's clock. The red bar is the busiest hour, 18:00.
News24peak 18:006.0% of News24'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 13.8 News24 pushes and a weekend day 10.2: the newsroom audibly thins out on Saturdays.
How News24 writes a push
| Habit | News24 | South Africa median |
|---|---|---|
| Title length (median characters) | 6 | 6 |
| Body text length (median characters) | 80 | 80 |
| Pushes with no title at all | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Contains an emoji | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Contains an exclamation mark | 1.0% | 1.0% |
| Phrased as a question | 5.6% | 5.6% |
Aggregates over every News24 notification in the window. The norms across all newsrooms, and which countries love emoji, are in how newsrooms write push notifications.
Versus other South Africa apps
Every South Africa news app in the dataset, ranked by twelve-month push volume. News24 is highlighted.
| # | App | Pushes / 12 mo | Per active day | Peak hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | News24 | 1,591 | 12 | 18:00 |
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 1,591 notifications News24 sent from 1 Aug 2025 to 31 Jul 2026, stamped in Africa/Johannesburg 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.