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The posting benchmark

News brands in the United States on Facebook

Our count of public Facebook posts from 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026 holds 205 news brands in the United States. Here they are side by side, each beside the median in the United States, then the median news brand's day, hours and formats.

Public Facebook posts, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026. Dataset peers-2026-09-v4.

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Type its name, then choose it to open its page.

Every news brand, A to Z

At a glance

Median posts a day
at least 26.6
Median engagement a day
at least 2,505
Median engagement per post
10
Total engagement, 12 weeks to 20 September 2026
at least 199 million

Engagement is reactions, comments and shares. Each median is across the news brands in the United States; the total adds up all of their posts.

Brand by brand

Every news brand in the United States, side by side

Each dot is one news brand in the United States, placed by the measure you choose, with the median and middle half across them. 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026.

Our count

Place the dots by

Posts a day on each news brand's Facebook Page.

  • Median in the United States: at least 26.6 a day
  • Middle half in the United States: 15.6 to 39.4

Point at a dot, or tab to the dots and use the arrow keys (they move A to Z), to see which news brand it is. Press Enter to open its page. The table below lists every one, A to Z.

205 news brands in the United States, placed by posts a day, with the median and middle half across them. The scale is logarithmic, so 1 to 10 takes the same width as 10 to 100. Public Facebook posts, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026. Dataset peers-2026-09-v4.

Posts each day, news brand by news brand

Each faint line is one news brand. Point at a dot above, or pick one here, to pick out its line.

  • Median in the United States
  • Middle half in the United States
  • Each news brand

Days above 100 posts are cut off at the edge of the chart.

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Median posts each day across news brands in the United States, with the middle half of them shaded, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026.
DayMedian in the United StatesMiddle half in the United States
Monday 29 June2615 to 37
Tuesday 30 June2917 to 41
Wednesday 1 July3019 to 42
Thursday 2 July3019 to 41
Friday 3 July2716 to 40
Saturday 4 July2010 to 34
Sunday 5 July187 to 31
Monday 6 July2516 to 37
Tuesday 7 July2918 to 40
Wednesday 8 July2919 to 44
Thursday 9 July3019 to 42
Friday 10 July2818 to 42
Saturday 11 July2211 to 37
Sunday 12 July219 to 33
Monday 13 July2715 to 38
Tuesday 14 July2819 to 44
Wednesday 15 July2919 to 43
Thursday 16 July3019 to 44
Friday 17 July2819 to 43
Saturday 18 July2211 to 37
Sunday 19 July208 to 33
Monday 20 July2615 to 37
Tuesday 21 July2918 to 42
Wednesday 22 July3019 to 43
Thursday 23 July3019 to 42
Friday 24 July2818 to 42
Saturday 25 July2211 to 36
Sunday 26 July198 to 32
Monday 27 July2715 to 38
Tuesday 28 July3218 to 42
Wednesday 29 July3119 to 44
Thursday 30 July3017 to 42
Friday 31 July2818 to 42
Saturday 1 August2110 to 36
Sunday 2 August199 to 30
Monday 3 August2715 to 36
Tuesday 4 August3219 to 43
Wednesday 5 August3319 to 44
Thursday 6 August3219 to 42
Friday 7 August3119 to 41
Saturday 8 August2211 to 37
Sunday 9 August197 to 32
Monday 10 August2815 to 38
Tuesday 11 August3018 to 43
Wednesday 12 August3219 to 42
Thursday 13 August2818 to 44
Friday 14 August2918 to 44
Saturday 15 August2411 to 35
Sunday 16 August198 to 31
Monday 17 August2915 to 38
Tuesday 18 August3119 to 43
Wednesday 19 August3319 to 45
Thursday 20 August3319 to 44
Friday 21 August2819 to 45
Saturday 22 August2413 to 37
Sunday 23 August188 to 31
Monday 24 August2815 to 39
Tuesday 25 August3119 to 45
Wednesday 26 August3119 to 47
Thursday 27 August3217 to 44
Friday 28 August3218 to 43
Saturday 29 August2413 to 38
Sunday 30 August198 to 33
Monday 31 August2615 to 40
Tuesday 1 September3019 to 45
Wednesday 2 September3319 to 46
Thursday 3 September3019 to 46
Friday 4 September3218 to 45
Saturday 5 September2413 to 39
Sunday 6 September218 to 32
Monday 7 September1910 to 36
Tuesday 8 September2816 to 40
Wednesday 9 September3419 to 45
Thursday 10 September3319 to 47
Friday 11 September3220 to 44
Saturday 12 September2514 to 39
Sunday 13 September209 to 34
Monday 14 September2815 to 39
Tuesday 15 September3419 to 46
Wednesday 16 September3319 to 47
Thursday 17 September3320 to 46
Friday 18 September3219 to 46
Saturday 19 September2514 to 39
Sunday 20 September2310 to 35

The median news brand

The median news brand in the United States

Medians across the 205 news brands we compared in the United States, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026. Days are UTC days; hours and weekdays are each news brand's local time.

Share of posts by local hour

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Median share of posts in each local hour across news brands in the United States.
Local hourMedian share
00:000.1%
01:000.1%
02:000.1%
03:000.1%
04:000%
05:003.3%
06:004.8%
07:005.5%
08:005.8%
09:006%
10:006.1%
11:006.3%
12:005.8%
13:006.3%
14:006.1%
15:006%
16:005.9%
17:006%
18:005.7%
19:005%
20:004.8%
21:004.4%
22:003.6%
23:002.2%

Posts a day by weekday

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Median posts a day on each local weekday across news brands in the United States.
WeekdayMedian posts a day
Monday24.3
Tuesday26.8
Wednesday25.6
Thursday25.6
Friday25.4
Saturday18.2
Sunday13.9

What they posted

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Median share of each format among posts by news brands in the United States.
FormatMedian in the United States
Photo52%
Video or reel4%
Album0%
Link44%
Text only0%
Other0%

The news brands

Every news brand in the United States

Each news brand's own figures. Sort by any column, and choose which columns to show. Being counted says nothing about which tools a newsroom uses.

Columns
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News brands in the United States, A to Z: their figures, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026. Public Facebook posts, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026. Dataset peers-2026-09-v4.

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