A year in Breaking News by the numbers

96% more notifications sent, 14 minutes faster than the rest of the field:

• Editors published 75,000 updates in 2015, an average of 205 a day
• Users received 500 million push notifications - up 96% from 2014
• The most followed story: fight against Islamic State militants
• The most surprising alert: missing Malaysian plane debris found
• Notifications arrived an average of 14 minutes ahead of other news apps
• 2,400 proximity alerts were sent to users near major news events
• 1,613 editor’s notes were published to add context to breaking stories

Thank you for making Breaking News a success, and Happy New Year!

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