A year of push notifications, from 336 news apps at once.
Every alert left switched on, for a year, while news apps from 44 countries pushed in 31 languages. This is what arrived.
20× · an average day
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SVT Nyheter
Sweden
RIGHT NOW · Two people dead in workplace accident in Hallsberg
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SZ
Germany
BREAKING - Louvre Director Laurence des Cars resigns
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28 Feb 06:16 UTC 121 apps in 27 countries
Israel and the US strike Iran · Just after 06:00 UTC, Israel announced a "preemptive strike" on Iran with American participation.
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Berner Zeitung
Switzerland
Grandma's dishes and Southern US cuisine: These are the newest restaurants and bars in Bern.
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Göteborgs-Posten
Sweden
Unknown images from the riots in Gothenburg • Niklas Maupoix was in the middle of the chaos when the police shot
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Bergens Tidende
Norway
Sports · Information to BT: Lysekloster players have not received their salaries. Mohn support may end.
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20 Mar 13:59 UTC 119 apps in 24 countries
Chuck Norris dies at 86 · TMZ reported the actor's death after a medical emergency in Hawaii and his family confirmed it within minutes.
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ARY News PK
Dollar and Other Currency Rates in Pakistan Today - Nov. 12, 2025
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Lrytas LT
Former Finance Minister K. Vaitiekūnas answered what he thinks about his successor T. Valis
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StN News
Germany
Breaking News · 2026 FIFA World Cup: These are the opponents Germany will play against in the group stage
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12 Apr 04:38 UTC 110 apps in 22 countries
Orbán loses Hungary's election · Hungarians voted in what European outlets billed as the year's most important EU election.
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Sydsvenskan
Sweden
The pharmaceutical factory in Limhamn · Chemists played a trick to fool the inspectors – hid chemicals • “They won't see how messy it is.”
Every card is a notification as it was delivered, translated into English. Twelve of them, arriving at the average pace of the year. Hold the cursor over a card to stop the stream. A red rail marks a story cluster, one event that 110 or more apps pushed, and that line is our summary of the cluster, not any one app’s wording.
Everything below comes from the same file. First, how it was collected.
How the notifications were collected
Every notification in this dataset was recorded at the moment it was delivered. Four steps take it from the lock screen to a row in the file.
336 news apps, every alert switched on. Notifications are collected as they are delivered, not scraped from websites or feeds afterwards.
Four fields the moment an alert lands: app, title, body, timestamp, to the second. The timestamp records delivery, not publication, so every time on this page is the moment the alert reached the phone.
Alerts arrive in 31 languages and are translated into English, with the original kept alongside. 77.6% of the year's notifications weren't in English, so most quotes on this page are machine translations, not the newsroom's own wording.
Pushes about the same event become one story. 38,794 stories drew alerts from two or more apps; 1,846 drew ten or more.
- Period
- 1 Aug 2025 to 31 Jul 2026 · 365 days
- Notifications
- 537,376 · counted at the moment of delivery
- Apps
- 336 · 207 live on 180 days or more
- Countries
- 44 · the app's country, not the reader's
- Languages
- 31 · counted by the language the push arrived in
- Archive
- 4,815,066 · from 713 apps since March 2021; this report is one year of it
The gap between apps runs from a few pushes a day to more than 70.
Who pushes most
The loudest app in the dataset, RaiNews.it, sent 73.6 pushes on every day it was working. The median app sends fewer than 10.
21,782 notifications put the Italian public broadcaster's news app at the top of the list. Breaking News, 4th, is an unbranded aggregator. The top five come from five different countries: Italy, India, Sweden, the United States and Norway.
Where would your desk sit?
Across the 207 apps that pushed on 90 days or more, counted only on the days they were live, the median sends 9.7 pushes a day. A quarter send fewer than 5.7.
Put your own number in.
A tenth of the apps send fewer than 3.6 a day; a tenth send more than 26.8, where the chart ends.
Drag the handle below, or drag straight on the shape.
Louder than 50% of the 207 apps that pushed on 90 days or more. That's exactly the median, 9.7 a day. About 104 of the 207 push more often; at your rate the phone buzzes every 148 minutes, day and night.
The full per-app distribution, with the working, is in how many pushes a news app sends per day.
The loudest country is not the United States
The typical news app in Denmark sends 17.5 alerts on a working day, 3.2 times its American counterpart. The United States sits at the bottom of the 13.
Each bar is the median app in that country, not the country's pushes divided by its apps, so one hyperactive app can't skew a country's figure. Countries need five apps in the dataset to appear.
Countries that push similar amounts send at different times of day.
When each country pushes
In local time, the midpoint of the pushing day is nearly the same everywhere: 14 of the 16 countries pass their halfway mark (the hour by which half of a country's year has arrived) inside a window of 69 minutes, between 13:43 and 14:52.
Every notification is timestamped in UTC. Here each country's traffic is moved onto one representative time zone, Rome time for Italy, New York time for the United States, and counted as a share of that country's own year, so Sweden's 71,780 alerts and New Zealand's 7,011 sit on the same scale.
The same day, sixteen ways
One distribution per country, each scaled to its own busiest hour, so the shapes are comparable and the heights aren't. The hairline across every card is a flat day at 4.2%; the tick under the axis marks local night, midnight to 06:00.
Italypeak07:00Switzerlandpeak07:00
Finlandpeak07:00
NZpeak15:00
Brazilpeak11:00Swedenpeak19:00Germanypeak16:00
USpeak12:00
Denmarkpeak07:00
Spainpeak09:00
Francepeak08:00Norwaypeak10:00
Belgiumpeak12:00
Indiapeak15:00
UKpeak11:00
Israelpeak16:00Where the markets differ
Mornings differ more, though only by about two hours: every one of the 16 working days is above a flat day by 08:00, and six of them already are at 06:00. Italian desks put 7.2% of their year into the 06:00 hour; Spanish ones put 0.2% into it and don't cross a flat day until 08:00.
Evenings spread across the same two hours: six desks are back under a flat day after 20:00, and three are still above it at 22:00, Norway, Denmark and the United Kingdom.
Most peak hours are near-ties. Italy, Switzerland, Finland and Denmark all push hardest at 07:00, while France peaks at 08:00, Spain at 09:00, the United Kingdom at 11:00, the United States and Belgium at 12:00. But eight of the 16 have a second hour within a quarter of a point of their busiest (at these volumes, a rounding difference); only Italy, India and Spain win their own day by more than half a point.
One country's busiest hour falls after 16:00: Sweden's, at 19:00. In practice Sweden has two equal peaks, 12 hours apart: 19:00 beats 07:00 by 0.02 points, about 14 alerts out of 71,780. Switzerland is similar but quieter: its 17:00 is 98% of its 07:00.
Night is where the countries differ most. 22.5% of Israeli alerts arrived between midnight and 06:00, in a year of war, and Israel is by far the flattest distribution of the sixteen: its busiest hour is 1.3× a flat day, its quietest 0.5×, a ratio of 2.6 where Italy's is 55. At 03:00 it's still running at 3.7% of its year, while nine of the 16 are under 0.1%. The United States is second at 9.6%, but read that with care: four American time zones are stacked on one clock here, so a 21:00 push in Los Angeles counts as midnight in New York. Part of the night share (and of the long American afternoon) is geography, not scheduling. The same caveat applies to Brazil, on three zones. Belgium, on one, genuinely sends almost nothing at night: 0.1% of its year arrives before dawn.
Weekends are quieter but not by much: 1,566 pushes on an average weekday against 1,237 at the weekend, and everything above averages the two together. Each country also has its own deep dive, which splits weekdays from weekends and marks the hours with the fewest competing pushes.
Markets differ just as much in how they write a push.
59 characters in Denmark, 120 in Italy
A push has three parts: an app row the newsroom doesn't control, a title slot it often skips, and a body the screen cuts off after about two lines. How much of that room a newsroom uses varies by country.
What's in the title slot? Often nothing: 12.6% of pushes carry no title at all, and the sentence arrives with nothing above it. When it's filled, it's usually a label, not a headline: "Leader", "Sports", "RIGHT NOW", or the outlet's own name. The story sits in the body sentence, so body length is what varies.
How much room a sentence gets
Half of everything a newsroom sends falls between 64 and 109 characters: one clause of what happened, one clause of where. The mean, 89, is 4 characters above the median, dragged up by a tail of long pushes. The overall figure hides big differences between markets.
Italy averages 120 characters, past the 75th percentile of all pushes (109). Behind that average: 6 apps and 28,849 pushes. That's 61 more than Denmark, the shortest market here with more than one app.
The long end of the chart uses twice the characters of the short end. Danish apps average 59 characters and Norwegian 64: a subject, a verb, a place, and the tap carries the rest. A push in Italy arrives at 120 characters, already a summary.
The habits
Only 5.2% of pushes use a word that means breaking in their own language; an alert that has already buzzed the phone may not need to say it's urgent. The other habits editors argue about are rare too.
- No title at all 12.6%
- A question mark 6.4%
- A word meaning “breaking” 5.2%
- An emoji 4.7%
- An exclamation mark 2.5%
Words meaning breaking are matched in the original language, before translation. The emoji rate looks negligible overall, but it varies sharply by country, below.
Bars are the share of each country's own pushes that carry at least one emoji, against the overall rate in blue.
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France
26.9%
≈12,300
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Belgium
20.5%
≈3,900
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Austria
14.4%
≈750
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Spain
13.2%
≈2,600
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Germany
5.2%
≈1,600
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Brazil
3.9%
≈530
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Israel
3.4%
≈260
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United States
3.3%
≈2,100
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Norway
2.2%
≈680
8 more markets sit under one push in a hundred and are left off the bars: Turkey, the Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, India, Sweden, the UK and Finland, 0.9% down to 0.0%.
Nearly half of the pushes that carry an emoji are French. France accounts for about 12,300 of the roughly 25,000, and Belgium is the only market anywhere near its rate. A shared language doesn't explain the rates: Austria at 14.4% and Germany at 5.2% write in the same one and differ by a factor of 2.8, and Spain at 13.2% sits 3.4 times above Brazil at 3.9%. Switch the bars to counts and the United States climbs: at 3.3% it still puts more emoji-carrying alerts on lock screens than Germany at 5.2%, about 2,100 against about 1,600, because it sends so much more of everything.
3.9 minutes in Stockholm, 28 in New York
A story breaks, one app pushes it, and the clock starts on everybody else. Swedish and Norwegian apps answer in under four minutes. American apps take 28 minutes. In India the first push is alone for 71.7 minutes.
3.9
min
Sweden median
In Sweden the second alert lands after a median of 3.9 min. In the United States it takes 28.0, 24.1 min longer, 7.2× the wait. Timed on 2,608 and 2,016 stories.
Sweden · median 3.9 minUS · median 28.0 min
Tap any market to move it into the red lane. Your last pick slides to blue.
In Stockholm a rival follows within minutes. In New York the first push has about half an hour to itself, enough time to be second with something better rather than first with something thin.
The spread around each median is wide. Pooled across the dataset, a quarter of second alerts arrive within 3.1 minutes and a quarter take more than 64.4; that spread is the whisker on the pooled row. Each bar on the chart is the midpoint of a distribution that wide.
Later apps take much longer still. The median wait for the third app is 51.5 minutes, roughly 3× the wait for the second, the dashed rule. By the time most apps have pushed, the story has been on lock screens for the better part of an hour.
Who gets there first
In most markets the app with the most firsts is a tabloid or a free daily; in Italy it's the public broadcaster.
For every story that at least three apps in one market pushed, the app whose alert arrived earliest takes the first. That leaves each outlet with two numbers. Firsts counts races won. First-rate, firsts as a share of the stories the outlet pushed at all, says how often it wins when it turns up. The blue tick in the panel below marks what an outlet's rate would be if firsts simply followed how often it took part.
Sweden
6 of 18 apps · baseline 25.1%
Aftonbladet took 523 firsts where its share of the pushing predicts 367, the widest margin here, and the most firsts in the market. Furthest the other way: Göteborgs-Posten, 1,092 stories pushed, first on 16.8%, 91 races below what its participation predicts.
- 1 Aftonbladet 523 of 1,460 35.8% +156
- 2 Expressen 440 of 1,283 34.3% +118
- 3 Omni 300 of 1,432 20.9% −60
- 4 SVT Nyheter 258 of 1,302 19.8% −69
- 5 TV4 Nyheterna 210 of 1,055 19.9% −55
- 6 Göteborgs-Posten 183 of 1,092 16.8% −91
France
6 of 17 apps · baseline 24.3%
BFMTV took 394 firsts where its share of the pushing predicts 307, the widest margin here, and the most firsts in the market. Furthest the other way: franceinfo, 1,029 stories pushed, first on 14.2%, 104 races below what its participation predicts.
- 1 BFMTV 394 of 1,262 31.2% +87
- 2 Le Figaro 373 of 1,429 26.1% +26
- 3 Le Parisien 312 of 1,237 25.2% +12
- 4 TF1 Info 212 of 908 23.3% −9
- 5 Ouest-France 156 of 693 22.5% −12
- 6 franceinfo 146 of 1,029 14.2% −104
United States
6 of 35 apps · baseline 23.0%
NYPost took 254 firsts where its share of the pushing predicts 215, the widest margin here, and the most firsts in the market. Furthest the other way: Breaking News, 1,186 stories pushed, first on 19.6%, 41 races below what its participation predicts.
- 1 NYPost 254 of 933 27.2% +39
- 2 Breaking News 232 of 1,186 19.6% −41
- 3 AP News 228 of 930 24.5% +14
- 4 NBC NEWS 148 of 643 23.0% ±0
- 5 CBS News 103 of 462 22.3% −3
- 6 BBC World 87 of 410 21.2% −8
Switzerland
6 of 21 apps · baseline 31.1%
20 Minuten took 401 firsts where its share of the pushing predicts 306, the widest margin here, and the most firsts in the market. Furthest the other way: Nau, 562 stories pushed, first on 19.6%, 65 races below what its participation predicts.
- 1 20 Minuten 401 of 986 40.7% +95
- 2 Blick 330 of 842 39.2% +68
- 3 Aargauer Zeitung 153 of 526 29.1% −10
- 4 St. Galler Tagblatt 110 of 473 23.3% −37
- 5 Nau 110 of 562 19.6% −65
- 6 24 heures 88 of 448 19.6% −51
Finland
6 of 16 apps · baseline 27.7%
Iltalehti took 225 firsts where its share of the pushing predicts 166, the widest margin here, and the most firsts in the market. Furthest the other way: Keskisuomalainen, 337 stories pushed, first on 17.2%, 35 races below what its participation predicts.
- 1 Iltalehti 225 of 600 37.5% +59
- 2 Ilta-Sanomat 169 of 548 30.8% +17
- 3 Helsingin Sanomat 153 of 504 30.4% +13
- 4 Keskisuomalainen 58 of 337 17.2% −35
- 5 Aamulehti 38 of 238 16.0% −28
- 6 Hufvudstadsbladet 37 of 227 16.3% −26
Norway
6 of 10 apps · baseline 30.9%
Dagbladet took 185 firsts where its share of the pushing predicts 145, the widest margin here, and the most firsts in the market. Furthest the other way: NRK, 343 stories pushed, first on 23.9%, 24 races below what its participation predicts.
- 1 Dagbladet 185 of 470 39.4% +40
- 2 Aftenposten 99 of 378 26.2% −18
- 3 NRK 82 of 343 23.9% −24
- 4 VG 74 of 215 34.4% +8
- 5 DN 33 of 130 25.4% −7
- 6 E24 27 of 82 32.9% +2
Spain
5 of 7 apps · baseline 30.6%
EL PAÍS took 234 firsts where its share of the pushing predicts 147, the widest margin here, and the most firsts in the market. Furthest the other way: El Mundo, 432 stories pushed, first on 22.5%, 35 races below what its participation predicts.
- 1 EL PAÍS 234 of 481 48.6% +87
- 2 Diario ABC 135 of 470 28.7% −9
- 3 El Mundo 97 of 432 22.5% −35
- 4 SUR 15 of 142 10.6% −29
- 5 La Voz de Galicia 11 of 81 13.6% −14
One of the six entered fewer than 30 races and is left out: ElDiario.es (5 of 17).
Italy
5 of 6 apps · baseline 30.0%
RaiNews.it took 150 firsts where its share of the pushing predicts 117, the widest margin here, and the most firsts in the market. Furthest the other way: Leggo, 282 stories pushed, first on 20.9%, 26 races below what its participation predicts.
- 1 RaiNews.it 150 of 390 38.5% +33
- 2 Corriere.it 111 of 360 30.8% +3
- 3 Il Mattino 61 of 218 28.0% −4
- 4 Leggo 59 of 282 20.9% −26
- 5 Il Sole 24 Ore 26 of 107 24.3% −6
One of the six entered fewer than 30 races and is left out: Corriere Edicola (11 of 26).
United Kingdom
6 of 10 apps · baseline 27.4%
Sky News took 113 firsts where its share of the pushing predicts 85, the widest margin here, and the most firsts in the market. Furthest the other way: GB News, 233 stories pushed, first on 17.2%, 24 races below what its participation predicts.
- 1 Sky News 113 of 311 36.3% +28
- 2 The Sun 70 of 220 31.8% +10
- 3 Mirror 61 of 250 24.4% −7
- 4 The Telegraph 48 of 223 21.5% −13
- 5 GB News 40 of 233 17.2% −24
- 6 DailyMail 35 of 103 34.0% +7
Belgium
6 of 4 apps · baseline 29.7%
Nieuwsblad took 100 firsts where its share of the pushing predicts 60, the widest margin here, and the most firsts in the market. Furthest the other way: Gazet van Antwerpen, 263 stories pushed, first on 16.3%, 35 races below what its participation predicts.
- 1 Nieuwsblad 100 of 203 49.3% +40
- 2 VRT NWS 89 of 195 45.6% +31
- 3 Gazet van Antwerpen 43 of 263 16.3% −35
- 4 RTBF Actus 33 of 109 30.3% +1
- 5 Het Belang van Limburg 29 of 183 15.8% −25
- 6 L'Avenir 20 of 104 19.2% −11
Denmark
5 of 5 apps · baseline 29.9%
Ekstra Bladet took 31 firsts where its share of the pushing predicts 21, the widest margin here, though B.T. wins more races outright, 65 to 31, from more stories. Furthest the other way: Jyllands-Posten, 103 stories pushed, first on 14.6%, 16 races below what its participation predicts.
- 1 B.T. 65 of 186 34.9% +9
- 2 TV 2 Nyheder 54 of 166 32.5% +4
- 3 DR Nyheder 45 of 178 25.3% −8
- 4 Ekstra Bladet 31 of 69 44.9% +10
- 5 Jyllands-Posten 15 of 103 14.6% −16
Politiken and Børsen are missing because their apps only push to paying subscribers, so our phones never receive an alert. Berlingske collected almost none of its pushes this year due to an error.
Germany
6 of 14 apps · baseline 30.8%
Tagesspiegel took 69 firsts where its share of the pushing predicts 55, the widest margin here, and the most firsts in the market. Furthest the other way: DW, 87 stories pushed, first on 24.1%, 6 races below what its participation predicts.
- 1 Tagesspiegel 69 of 177 39.0% +14
- 2 DER SPIEGEL 40 of 141 28.4% −3
- 3 SZ 26 of 99 26.3% −4
- 4 WDR aktuell 26 of 88 29.5% −1
- 5 DW 21 of 87 24.1% −6
- 6 Handelsblatt 20 of 64 31.3% ±0
The names in front are tabloids, free dailies and rolling-news television: Aftonbladet and Expressen in Sweden, 20 Minuten and Blick in Switzerland, BFMTV in France, Sky News in Britain, B.T. in Denmark, Dagbladet in Norway, NYPost in the United States.
A high count of firsts takes participation and a high rate takes speed; the outlets in front have both. The app that pushed the most French stories in this set is Le Figaro, 1,429 of them, and it still won fewer firsts than a rival that pushed fewer stories: BFMTV took 394 firsts to Le Figaro's 373.
Public broadcasters show the opposite pattern. franceinfo pushed 1,029 of the French stories, more than most of its rivals, and was first on 14.2% of them. In Sweden, where the second alert arrives 3.9 minutes after the first, being the reliable second source is a viable role, not a failure.
Not every broadcaster takes that role. RaiNews.it is first on 38.5% of the Italian stories it pushes, and it's also the most prolific app in the whole dataset at 73.6 alerts on each day it pushed. VRT NWS is 31 firsts above what its participation predicts in Belgium, behind only Nieuwsblad. Denmark is the only market where the most firsts and the highest rate belong to different apps, and the two rates differ by 10.0 points across the 255 races they entered between them: B.T. 34.9%, Ekstra Bladet 44.9%, a gap smaller than either whisker.
The biggest story reached 121 of 250 apps
At 06:16 UTC on 28 Feb 2026 the first alert we caught about the Israeli and American strike on Iran left a newsroom. 121 apps in 27 countries ended up pushing it, 48.4% of every app that pushed anything that month, and more than any other event of the year. The median event that three or more apps thought worth an alert reached 4 apps; the twelfth-biggest reached 73.
Clustering counts how many separate newsrooms decided the same story was worth a push notification. Rank the year's events by that answer and the top twelve are below, each one measured against the number of apps that were pushing that month.
Showing story 01 of 12, Israel and the US strike Iran, 28 Feb, 121 apps in 27 countries.
Pick a story to open it. Prev and Next, or the arrow keys, step through the twelve.
Israel and the US strike Iran
Just after 06:00 UTC, Israel announced a "preemptive strike" on Iran with American participation. Explosions in Tehran, a state of emergency in Israel, then Iranian missile and drone barrages that reached US bases in Bahrain and Qatar and closed Gulf airspace. Six of the year's 25 biggest clusters are pieces of this one morning; the count here is the largest single piece.
War in the Middle East. "Death to America!", "Death to Israel!" - thousands mourn the death of Ali Khamenei | LIVE TEXT/VIDEO
US-Israel: Preemptive strike on Iran hits US bases in Qatar, Bahrain, the Emirates, and Kuwait. Defense Minister Israel Katz announced, declaring "an immediate state of emergency across the country." Media reports: Khamenei is in a safe place. NYT reports: US attack on Iran more extensive than the one in June. Explosions in several cities across the country.
Chuck Norris dies at 86
TMZ reported the actor's death after a medical emergency in Hawaii and his family confirmed it within minutes. Four apps pushed in the same minute, at 13:59 UTC, and inside five minutes the story was on lock screens across Europe.
Chuck Norris has died. The famous actor was 86 years old and was hospitalized with health problems
Norris died at the age of 86 yesterday morning, after being hospitalized for the last 24 hours on the island of Kauai. Norris's family confirmed the death in a post on his personal Instagram account, calling it a "sudden passing." They said he was "reconciled" and with his family at the time.
Orbán loses Hungary's election
Hungarians voted in what European outlets billed as the year's most important EU election. Péter Magyar's Tisza party ended Viktor Orbán's 16 years in power on record turnout, and congratulations from European leaders followed the next morning.
Nicușor Dan and European leaders, congratulatory messages for Peter Magyar. Viktor Orban lost power in Hungary after 16 years
Viktor Orban lost power in Hungary after 16 years, and the opposition led by Peter Magyar won the parliamentary elections. The vote ended with a record turnout and a major change on the political scene. The counting of over 98% of the votes showed that the center-right, pro-EU Tisza party, led by Péter Magyar, won 138 seats. That is, a crucial two-thirds majority in the 199-member parliament, ahead of Orbán's Fidesz party, which won 55 seats.
Hormuz ultimatums and a rejected ceasefire
With the Strait of Hormuz blockaded, mediators put a 45-day ceasefire on the table. Iran rejected it, Trump rejected it too, then set deadlines on Truth Social and told Iran to "open Hormuz, you crazy bastards", warning on 7 April that "an entire civilization will die tonight". Iran broke off the talks.
Media: Tehran threatens to leave the entire Gulf in the dark. All communication channels with the US closed.
VIDEO - From threats to a proposed agreement, Trump sets yet another ultimatum. On Truth, the US president: "Open Hormuz, you crazy bastards," otherwise power plants and bridges will be hit. The deadline is 8:00 PM Washington time.
The war reaches the Gulf
Israeli strikes on Tehran and Beirut were answered by Iranian missiles and drones over the Gulf: at least eight dead in the UAE, explosions in Doha and Dubai, airspace closures, and Macron convening back-to-back defence councils in Paris.
We can't match any sampled wording to this cluster with confidence, so the card shows none.
The Islamabad peace talks collapse
Iran's delegation left Pakistan without meeting the US envoys, and Trump cancelled Witkoff and Kushner's trip with the words "too much work", later claiming Iran offered better terms "within 10 minutes" of the cancellation.
We can't match any sampled wording to this cluster with confidence, so the card shows none.
Secret Service kills intruder at Mar-a-Lago
A man who appeared to be armed was shot dead after entering the secure perimeter at Trump's Florida estate. Reuters moved it first; ninety apps pushed within the hour.
He tried to enter Trump's Florida resort. The sheriff: "He placed the can on the ground and then raised the rifle to firing position."
A man who "appeared" to be armed was shot and killed by Secret Service after "unauthorized entry into the secure perimeter at Mar-a-Lago," agency says
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested
Police arrived at Sandringham on the former prince's birthday and arrested him on suspicion of misconduct in public office, the BBC reported first. He was released the same evening.
We can't match any sampled wording to this cluster with confidence, so the card shows none.
Shots at the correspondents' dinner
Gunfire in a hallway at the White House Correspondents' Dinner sent journalists under tables and Trump and the first lady out of the room. A suspect was arrested on the spot, the dinner was postponed, and Trump gave a late-night statement praising the Secret Service.
We can't match any sampled wording to this cluster with confidence, so the card shows none.
UEFA threatens to boycott the World Cup
After The Times revealed Gianni Infantino's plan to sell part of the World Cup to private investors, every European federation lined up behind a boycott threat, throwing the tournament into open crisis within an afternoon.
We can't match any sampled wording to this cluster with confidence, so the card shows none.
Hantavirus on the MV Hondius
Three passengers died in an outbreak on a cruise ship off Cape Verde. The WHO confirmed cases aboard and warned human-to-human transmission was possible, ports refused the ship for days, and it finally docked in Tenerife under quarantine on 10 May.
We can't match any sampled wording to this cluster with confidence, so the card shows none.
Supreme Court voids Trump's tariffs
The US Supreme Court ruled the administration's global tariffs illegal. Trump called the ruling a "shame" and promised new 10-percent tariffs by other means before the day was out.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump's far-reaching global tariffs on Friday, handing him a significant loss on an issue crucial to his economic agenda. The 6-3 decision centers on tariffs imposed under an emergency powers law,...
The 50% line is half the apps that were pushing that month. None of the twelve reaches it.
Two subjects dominate the list. The Iran war supplies four of the twelve: the 28 Feb strikes, the Gulf barrages, the Hormuz ultimatums, the collapse of the Islamabad talks. Trump supplies three more: the intruder shot at Mar-a-Lago, the gunfire at the correspondents' dinner, the Supreme Court voiding his tariffs. The rest is a mix: a dead action hero, an election in Hungary, an arrest at Sandringham, a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship, and a football federation threatening to walk out of a World Cup. Ten of the twelve fall between February and April, the war's most intense months. An earlier round of the same conflict, the twelve days of June 2025, falls just before this dataset begins; we covered it alert by alert.
Reach can be counted two ways, and they disagree. 81 apps carried the World Cup boycott threat into 25 countries; 110 apps carried the Hungarian election into 22. Switch the panel to countries and the two change places: one reached a few apps in each of many countries, the other many apps in fewer countries. And three days apart in February, the arrest at Sandringham and the shooting at Mar-a-Lago reached almost identical numbers: 89 apps and 90 apps, 21 countries each.
The bars don't follow the order of the list. 119 apps is fewer than 121 but a larger share of the apps active that month, 49.6% in March 2026 against 48.4% in February 2026. Measured by share, the biggest story of the year is the death of Chuck Norris.
The eight busiest days
Story-level clustering hides the days when everything arrives at once. These are the eight days we recorded most on, and measured against an average day in their own month only one of them is unusual: 29 Jul ran 3.3 times its own July. The other seven sit between 18% and 40% above their month: busy, but not exceptional. Open a day to read the pushes behind it.
| Date | Pushes | Against its own month | Most-pushed wording that day |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Jul 2026 | 3,216 | 3.3× |
28 apps
|
| 17 Mar 2026 | 3,172 | 1.3× |
93 apps
|
| 18 Mar 2026 | 3,133 | 1.3× |
41 apps
|
| 11 Feb 2026 | 3,098 | 1.4× |
57 apps
|
| 19 Mar 2026 | 3,007 | 1.2× | , No wording from this day is in the text sample. |
| 20 Feb 2026 | 2,994 | 1.4× |
68 apps
|
| 20 Mar 2026 | 2,968 | 1.2× |
119 apps
|
| 23 Mar 2026 | 2,908 | 1.2× |
60 apps
|
537,376 notifications from 336 apps, and twelve stories most of them agreed on.
Across 336 apps in 44 countries, the median app sends 9.7 pushes a day and the loudest, RaiNews.it, sends 73.6. The typical Danish app sends 3.2× what an American one does.
In local time, half of a country's year has arrived by about 14:00 nearly everywhere. Mornings and nights are where countries part: 22.5% of Israeli alerts arrive between midnight and 06:00, 0.1% of Belgian ones.
A push runs 59 characters in Denmark and 120 in Italy. 12.6% carry no title, 5.2% say breaking, and nearly half of the emoji are French.
A Swedish rival follows in 3.9 minutes, an American one in 28. The apps that get there first are tabloids and free dailies; public broadcasters are usually second.
The push is also the one channel a newsroom still controls end to end: no algorithm ranks it, no platform decides who sees it, and the reader is one tap from the story. Each alert in this file was an editor deciding what deserved a reader's attention right now.
That decision is public the moment it's made. A rival can see it and answer within minutes, and a reader can switch the channel off for good. How often to push, how early, how long, and whether to be first or a reliable second are editorial calls, and a year of them is in the file below.
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AO.news (2026). A Year of Push: 537,376 news notifications from 336 apps [Data set]. https://ao.news/data/year-of-push-notifications
- Window
- 1 Aug 2025 to 31 Jul 2026
- Notifications
- 537,376
- Apps
- 336 in 44 countries
- Format
- Aggregate tables, long format; no notification text
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