The short answer
VRT NWS, 1 Aug 2025 to 31 Jul 2026
20 push notifications on a typical active day (median; the mean is 18.5). Over the last twelve months VRT NWS sent 1,757 notifications, pushing on 95 of 365 days. Its busiest hour is 07:00 local time, and its biggest single day was 2026-03-23, with 26 pushes.
The daily clock
All of VRT NWS's pushes from the last twelve months, on Belgium's clock. The red bar is the busiest hour, 07:00.
VRT NWSpeak 07:002.6% of VRT NWS'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 Belgium timing guide.
The week
An average weekday carries 20.2 VRT NWS pushes and a weekend day 14.4: the newsroom audibly thins out on Saturdays.
How VRT NWS writes a push
| Habit | VRT NWS | Belgium median |
|---|---|---|
| Title length (median characters) | 7 | 10 |
| Body text length (median characters) | 100 | 102 |
| Pushes with no title at all | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Contains an emoji | 6.8% | 13.8% |
| Contains an exclamation mark | 0.3% | 1.9% |
| Phrased as a question | 16.1% | 12.9% |
Aggregates over every VRT NWS notification in the window. The norms across all newsrooms, and which countries love emoji, are in how newsrooms write push notifications.
Versus other Belgium apps
Every Belgium news app in the dataset, ranked by twelve-month push volume. VRT NWS is highlighted.
| # | App | Pushes / 12 mo | Per active day | Peak hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  L'Avenir | 7,030 | 30 | 21:00 |
| 2 |  Gazet van Antwerpen - Nieuws | 4,046 | 41.0 | 21:00 |
| 3 |  Het Belang van Limburg - Nieuws | 2,255 | 22 | 20:00 |
| 4 |  Nieuwsblad | 2,221 | 42.0 | 21:00 |
| 5 | VRT NWS | 1,757 | 20 | 07:00 |
| 6 |  RTBF Actus | 1,261 | 18.5 | 11:00 |
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 1,757 notifications VRT NWS sent from 1 Aug 2025 to 31 Jul 2026, stamped in Europe/Brussels 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.