The short answer
WDR aktuell, 1 Aug 2025 to 31 Jul 2026
5 push notifications on a typical active day (median; the mean is 5.5). Over the last twelve months WDR aktuell sent 1,628 notifications, pushing on 295 of 365 days. Its busiest hour is 07:00 local time, and its biggest single day was 2026-02-16, with 10 pushes.
The daily clock
All of WDR aktuell's pushes from the last twelve months, on Germany's clock. The red bar is the busiest hour, 07:00.
WDR aktuellpeak 07:006.5% of WDR aktuell'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 Germany timing guide.
The week
An average weekday carries 5.7 WDR aktuell pushes and a weekend day 5.0: the newsroom audibly thins out on Saturdays.
How WDR aktuell writes a push
| Habit | WDR aktuell | Germany median |
|---|---|---|
| Title length (median characters) | 11 | 22 |
| Body text length (median characters) | 104 | 76 |
| Pushes with no title at all | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Contains an emoji | 17.9% | 0.2% |
| Contains an exclamation mark | 18.9% | 1.8% |
| Phrased as a question | 17.7% | 14.0% |
Aggregates over every WDR aktuell notification in the window. The norms across all newsrooms, and which countries love emoji, are in how newsrooms write push notifications.
Versus other Germany apps
Every Germany news app in the dataset, ranked by twelve-month push volume. WDR aktuell is highlighted.
| # | App | Pushes / 12 mo | Per active day | Peak hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  °m News | 5,142 | 14.0 | 17:00 |
| 2 |  Aachener Zeitung | 4,932 | 19 | 16:00 |
| 3 |  AZ News | 4,420 | 12 | 06:00 |
| 4 |  StN News | 3,238 | 11.0 | 14:00 |
| 5 |  Tagesspiegel | 2,760 | 10.0 | 18:00 |
| 6 |  DER SPIEGEL | 2,070 | 8.0 | 12:00 |
| 7 | WDR aktuell | 1,628 | 5 | 07:00 |
| 8 |  Handelsblatt | 997 | 10 | 18:00 |
| 9 |  DW | 937 | 2 | 09:00 |
| 10 |  SZ | 761 | 7.0 | 10:00 |
| 11 |  AZ News | 655 | 4 | 06:00 |
| 12 |  StZ | 608 | 7 | 21:00 |
| 13 |  LZ/WA | 570 | 6.0 | 17:00 |
| 14 |  F.A.Z. | 560 | 6.0 | 09:00 |
| 15 |  GT/ET | 556 | 5 | 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 1,628 notifications WDR aktuell sent from 1 Aug 2025 to 31 Jul 2026, stamped in Europe/Berlin 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.