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BBC News Arabic on Facebook, beside its peers

How BBC News Arabic's Facebook Page posted from 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026, and how readers responded, beside its 32 peers: broadcasters worldwide with 5m to 50m followers.

Country
United Kingdom
Sub-region
UK and Ireland
Region
Europe
Kind
Broadcaster
Followers
Over 10m

Within United Kingdom

BBC News Arabic: 28 a day

Median in United Kingdom: 40.7 a day

That is 12.7 fewer a day than the median in United Kingdom.

Place the dots by

Posts a day31st/33Photos and video26th/33Evening posts27th/28Weekend day23rd/27
Engagement per post19th/33Engagement a day32nd/33Per 1,000 followers26th/33Comments per post21st/33Comments a day32nd/33

BBC News Arabic, United Kingdom

31stof 33

Rank among its peers, highest first, posts a day

BBC News Arabic posted 28 times a day to Facebook, 84% less than the median of 32 broadcasters worldwide with 5m to 50m followers, 29 June to 20 September 2026.

Its first gap: posts a day

142 more posts a day would reach its peers' median. What it would take

See all nine measures

BBC News Arabic's 32 peers, lifted out of the 950 news brands in the comparison, placed by posts a day. 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.

At a glance

BBC News Arabic beside 32 peers

BBC News Arabic and its peers, measure by measure. Public Facebook posts, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026. Dataset peers-2026-09-v4.
MeasureFigureRank among its peers, highest firstMedian of its peers
Posts a day2831st of 33170
Photos and video62%26th of 3383%
Evening posts22%27th of 2831%
Weekend day64%23rd of 2779%
Engagement per post12619th of 33157
Engagement a day32,56932nd of 33191,795
Engagement per 1,000 followers0.006726th of 330.014
Comments per post7921st of 33102
Comments a day2,19932nd of 3316,713

What it would take

What would reaching the median of its peers take?

142more posts a day

994 a week, to reach the median of its peers: 170 a day, against 28 now

Arithmetic on the figures above. It isn't a forecast.

The other measures, in posts

  • Photos and video

    62% of its posts; the median of its peers 83%

    42 more of its 196 posts a week as photos or video: 121 now, 163 at the median

  • Evening posts

    18:00 to midnight: 22% of its posts; the median of its peers 31%

    18 more of its 196 posts a week between 18:00 and midnight: 43 now, 61 at the median

  • Weekend day

    A weekend day: 63.7% of a weekday's posts; the median of its peers 78.5%

    10 more posts a weekend: 5 on Saturday and 5 on Sunday

Posts a day and the weekend add posts; photos and video and the evening move posts it already publishes. Each rounds up. It isn't a forecast.

Posting

Posts from your own stories, in the hours you choose

Each story you tick in the RSS feed gets a poster from your template, and each channel's queue spreads the posts across its own slots, so posting more of your stories doesn't mean making more cards by hand. A story needs a photo unless the template uses a solid background.

Auto-pilot starts with Friday 15:00–21:00 and Saturday and Sunday 07:00–21:00, every 15 minutes, and an organisation admin can change the days, hours and interval.

Today's queue on The Port Arden Post's Facebook channel.

Publishing · The Port Arden Post

FICTIONAL NEWSROOM

Today · Tue 6 Oct

  1. 11:00Greyport cannery confirms 40 jobs at riskNext · in 16 min
  2. 12:30Opinion: The ferry fare rise is the wrong fix
  3. 14:00Night markets return to the Greyport waterfront this Friday
FIG. 1 · Today's queue on The Port Arden Post's Facebook channel. All mastheads, people, handles and comments shown are fictional. Illustrative figures. Labels as they appear in Sence, September 2026.

Comments

The comments that come with them

BBC News Arabic's posts drew 2,199 comments a day. The median of its peers: 16,713.

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Whether a gap comes from choice or from staffing, Sence does the card-making and the scheduling, so how many of your stories reach each platform is up to your desk, within each platform's limits.

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Sence doesn't forecast what posting more will do for your reach, engagement or revenue. If you switch on link tagging, your own analytics can see the visits each platform sends.

Head to head

Put it beside up to three news brands

Add a news brand from anywhere in the comparison, or one of its peers, and every figure lines up beside BBC News Arabic's.

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Or one of its peers

Day by day

How BBC News Arabic posted, beside its peers

Its own posts beside its 32 peers, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026. Days are UTC days; hours and weekdays are local time.

Posts each day

  • BBC News Arabic
  • Median of its peers
  • Middle half of its peers' posts a day
Show the figures as a table
Posts each day by BBC News Arabic, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026, beside the median of its peers each day and the middle half of their posts a day.
DayBBC News ArabicMedian of its peers
Monday 29 June26172
Tuesday 30 June24181
Wednesday 1 July28193
Thursday 2 July36170
Friday 3 July27164
Saturday 4 July22117
Sunday 5 July18133
Monday 6 July34169
Tuesday 7 July32182
Wednesday 8 July32188
Thursday 9 July32176
Friday 10 July29160
Saturday 11 July21141
Sunday 12 July19126
Monday 13 July36179
Tuesday 14 July33182
Wednesday 15 July23185
Thursday 16 July25171
Friday 17 July29166
Saturday 18 July15134
Sunday 19 July19123
Monday 20 July35165
Tuesday 21 July30197
Wednesday 22 July28184
Thursday 23 July25182
Friday 24 July35164
Saturday 25 July19145
Sunday 26 July16138
Monday 27 July34173
Tuesday 28 July26191
Wednesday 29 July31207
Thursday 30 July34177
Friday 31 July34155
Saturday 1 August20136
Sunday 2 August21130
Monday 3 August33185
Tuesday 4 August30185
Wednesday 5 August30174
Thursday 6 August28176
Friday 7 August37158
Saturday 8 August21141
Sunday 9 August21135
Monday 10 August26189
Tuesday 11 August33206
Wednesday 12 August35170
Thursday 13 August37188
Friday 14 August32181
Saturday 15 August20149
Sunday 16 August18124
Monday 17 August33189
Tuesday 18 August26180
Wednesday 19 August27188
Thursday 20 August30175
Friday 21 August32185
Saturday 22 August20142
Sunday 23 August17133
Monday 24 August34177
Tuesday 25 August35205
Wednesday 26 August36175
Thursday 27 August29194
Friday 28 August32167
Saturday 29 August23144
Sunday 30 August27137
Monday 31 August36161
Tuesday 1 September35186
Wednesday 2 September36176
Thursday 3 September31187
Friday 4 September26201
Saturday 5 September20137
Sunday 6 September2298.5
Monday 7 September27151
Tuesday 8 September29139
Wednesday 9 September30151
Thursday 10 September36164
Friday 11 September42175
Saturday 12 September17154
Sunday 13 September19141
Monday 14 September30157
Tuesday 15 September24193
Wednesday 16 September34185
Thursday 17 September29174
Friday 18 September35169
Saturday 19 September20134
Sunday 20 September22132

Share of posts by local hour

Show the figures as a table
Share of posts by BBC News Arabic in each local hour, beside the median of its peers.
Local hourBBC News ArabicMedian of its peers
00:000.4%1.1%
01:000.6%0.5%
02:000.4%0.3%
03:000.8%0.2%
04:001.4%0.2%
05:001.4%0.2%
06:000.8%1.6%
07:002.7%4.6%
08:003.4%4.8%
09:005.1%5.1%
10:005.8%5.8%
11:007%6%
12:007.8%6.6%
13:008.1%6.7%
14:008.3%6.5%
15:006.8%5.8%
16:007.9%6.7%
17:009.4%6.6%
18:0010.1%6%
19:006%5.9%
20:002.4%5.2%
21:001.1%5.1%
22:001.3%4.4%
23:001%4.1%

Posts a day by weekday

Show the figures as a table
Posts a day by BBC News Arabic on each local weekday, beside the median of its peers.
WeekdayBBC News ArabicMedian of its peers
Monday32207
Tuesday29.8195
Wednesday31198
Thursday31193
Friday32.3186
Saturday19.9160
Sunday19.8150

What it posted

Show the figures as a table
Share of each format among posts by BBC News Arabic, and the median across its peers.
FormatBBC News ArabicIts peers, median
Photo4%27%
Video or reel53%58%
Album4%3%
Link38%12%
Text only0%0%
Other0%0%

The detail

When it posts, and who it's compared with

When it posts, day by day and hour by hourEvery day of the 12 weeks, every hour of the day and what it posts, beside the median of its peers.
  • BBC News Arabic, 18:00 to midnight: 22%
  • Median of its peers, 18:00 to midnight: 31%
  • On a weekend day, BBC News Arabic posted 64% of a weekday's posts. The median of its peers: 79%.

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

Who is it compared with?Where each of its peers is based, and every one of them by name.

BBC News Arabic's peers are 32 broadcasters worldwide with 5m to 50m followers: the same kind of title with a similar number of followers, from the nearest place that has enough of them. Its 32 peers, A to Z.

The peers

Its 32 peers, A to Z

Each has a page of its own, beside its own peers. Each news brand's rank is among its own peers only. Being counted says nothing about which tools a newsroom uses.

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Every news brand, A to Z

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