A year in Breaking News by the numbers
1 min readDec 29, 2015
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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