Monitoring for the newsroom. Not for the press office.
Most monitoring tools are built for communications teams: mentions, reach, sentiment. AO.news does one thing. It shows you the second a newsroom anywhere in the world decides a story is worth interrupting someone for.
Every push, one stream
The New York Post, AP News, NBC News, CBS News and the BBC’s American app, alongside Le Monde, SPIEGEL, NRK and NHK. Every alert appears in your deck seconds after it reaches readers’ phones.
Clustered by story, not by keyword
Alerts about the same event become one story. You do not read forty lines about the same thing; you read one story with forty sources and the order they filed in.
Consensus instead of instinct
Every story carries the number of independent sources that pushed it. Set a column to show nothing under three newsrooms and you have verification somebody else already paid for.
31 languages, read in English
77.6% of alerts do not arrive in English. Everything is translated with the original kept alongside, so a breaking alert from Tel Aviv or São Paulo is readable the moment it lands.
How fast American desks are
Over twelve months, from August 2025 to July 2026, AO.news recorded 64,919 push notifications from 53 American news apps. When a story is pushed by at least three American apps, the median gap between the first alert and the second is 28.0 minutes, the widest of any large market in the data: in France it is 21, and in Sweden under four. A first push in New York has close to half an hour of clear air, which is long enough to decide that being second with something better beats being first with something thin.
Who pushes first in America, Aug 2025 to Jul 2026
| # | Outlet | Firsts | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | NYPost | 254 | 27.2 % |
| 2 | Breaking News | 232 | 19.6 % |
| 3 | AP News | 228 | 24.5 % |
| 4 | NBC NEWS | 148 | 23.0 % |
| 5 | CBS News | 103 | 22.3 % |
| 6 | BBC | 87 | 21.2 % |
Share = firsts divided by the stories (at least three apps) the outlet pushed at all. Push timestamps only, not publication times: this measures the alert desk, not the newsroom.
The full report: a year of push notifications →
How newsrooms use AO.news
- Build your deckOne column for Britain at consensus 2, one for the four titles you measure yourself against, unfiltered, one for your patch with word filters, one for the world at consensus 3.
- Filter on consensusOne alert is a claim. Two independent newsrooms within minutes is a story. Across the year 15,942 events were pushed by three or more apps, and 6,566 of those crossed a border.
- Forward to SlackAny column can feed a Slack channel. The overnight desk has no screen to watch: it gets exactly the stories that match the rule. Guide to the Slack integration →
- Wire it into your own toolsThe API returns the same clusters as JSON, with sources, timestamps and original text, for your dashboard or your own analysis.
America in the data
The American market is the widest and the slowest to answer itself: 53 apps, 28.0 minutes to the second alert, and the flattest day on the board, spread across a long afternoon rather than piled into one editorial moment. It also runs the most at night of any Western market, 9.6% of the year between midnight and six, though part of that is four time zones stacked on one clock. The New York Post takes the most firsts; AP News is first on a higher share of what it enters.
Who it is for
The news desk
See your rivals’ alerts the same second their readers do. You never again find out last that somebody was quicker.
The foreign desk
44 countries, 31 languages, translated. An alert from Jerusalem or Brasília is readable the moment it arrives.
Overnight and weekends
Slack alerts with a consensus threshold. You are woken when three newsrooms agree, and not before.
Product and digital strategy
How much does your title push against the market, at what hours, how often first? The numbers are in the data.
Questions and answers
What does AO.news cost?
Newsroom licences are priced per title, depending on size and on whether Slack and the API are included. The demo is free. Write to hello@ao.news.
Where does the data come from?
From real phones with news apps installed and notifications switched on. We record what newsrooms actually pushed, not what sits on their websites.
How fast is it?
An alert appears in the deck within seconds of being delivered. Clustering runs continuously, so the number of sources on a story grows while you read it.
Which American outlets are covered?
The New York Post, AP News, NBC News and CBS News, among others, alongside national and regional apps. The full list is on the sources page, and we are glad to add a title that is missing.
Do you process personal data?
No. We record only public push notifications from news apps: no user behaviour and no reader data.