The short answer
Sud Ouest, 1 Aug 2025 to 31 Jul 2026
7 push notifications on a typical active day (median; the mean is 7.2). Over the last twelve months Sud Ouest sent 811 notifications, pushing on 113 of 365 days. Its busiest hour is 20:00 local time, and its biggest single day was 2026-02-05, with 17 pushes.
The daily clock
All of Sud Ouest's pushes from the last twelve months, on France's clock. The red bar is the busiest hour, 20:00.
Sud Ouestpeak 20:007.2% of Sud Ouest'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 7.4 Sud Ouest pushes and a weekend day 6.5: the newsroom audibly thins out on Saturdays.
How Sud Ouest writes a push
| Habit | Sud Ouest | France median |
|---|---|---|
| Title length (median characters) | 17 | 16 |
| Body text length (median characters) | 91 | 100 |
| Pushes with no title at all | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Contains an emoji | 26.8% | 25.6% |
| Contains an exclamation mark | 1.7% | 1.5% |
| Phrased as a question | 11.5% | 11.8% |
Aggregates over every Sud Ouest 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. Sud Ouest 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 811 notifications Sud Ouest 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.