The short answer
NZ Herald, 1 Aug 2025 to 31 Jul 2026
30.0 push notifications on a typical active day (median; the mean is 29.7). Over the last twelve months NZ Herald sent 7,011 notifications, pushing on 236 of 365 days. Its busiest hour is 15:00 local time, and its biggest single day was 2026-07-30, with 48 pushes.
The daily clock
All of NZ Herald's pushes from the last twelve months, on New Zealand's clock. The red bar is the busiest hour, 15:00.
NZ Heraldpeak 15:003.6% of NZ Herald'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 New Zealand timing guide.
The week
An average weekday carries 30.9 NZ Herald pushes and a weekend day 26.8: the newsroom audibly thins out on Saturdays.
How NZ Herald writes a push
| Habit | NZ Herald | New Zealand median |
|---|---|---|
| Title length (median characters) | 9 | 9 |
| Body text length (median characters) | 79 | 79 |
| Pushes with no title at all | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Contains an emoji | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Contains an exclamation mark | 0.3% | 0.3% |
| Phrased as a question | 4.6% | 4.6% |
Aggregates over every NZ Herald notification in the window. The norms across all newsrooms, and which countries love emoji, are in how newsrooms write push notifications.
Versus other New Zealand apps
Every New Zealand news app in the dataset, ranked by twelve-month push volume. NZ Herald is highlighted.
| # | App | Pushes / 12 mo | Per active day | Peak hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NZ Herald | 7,011 | 30.0 | 15:00 |
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 7,011 notifications NZ Herald sent from 1 Aug 2025 to 31 Jul 2026, stamped in Pacific/Auckland 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.