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The posting benchmark

Manchester Evening News on Facebook, beside its peers

How Manchester Evening News's Facebook Page posted from 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026, and how readers responded, beside its 32 peers: news publishers, digital-native newsrooms and news agencies in Europe with 1m to 10m followers.

Country
United Kingdom
Sub-region
UK and Ireland
Region
Europe
Kind
Publisher, digital-native or agency
Followers
1m to 10m

Within United Kingdom

Manchester Evening News: 76 a day

Median in United Kingdom: 40.7 a day

That is 35.4 more a day than the median in United Kingdom.

Place the dots by

Posts a day11th/33Photos and video9th/33Evening posts9th/33Weekend day8th/33
Engagement per post10th/33Engagement a day6th/33Per 1,000 followers8th/33Comments per post6th/33Comments a day4th/33

Manchester Evening News, United Kingdom

11thof 33

Rank among its peers, highest first, posts a day

Manchester Evening News posted 76 times a day to Facebook. The median of its 32 peers: 61.4.

The comments its posts draw

22,778 comments a day, 2.4 times the median of its peers. What it would take

Peers: 32 news publishers, digital-native newsrooms and news agencies in Europe with 1m to 10m followers, 12 weeks to 20 September 2026.

See all nine measures

Manchester Evening News'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

Manchester Evening News beside 32 peers

Manchester Evening News 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 day7611th of 3361.4
Photos and video92%9th of 3347%
Evening posts32%9th of 3329%
Weekend day91%8th of 3383%
Engagement per post31610th of 33124
Engagement a day101,3506th of 3349,264
Engagement per 1,000 followers0.118th of 330.049
Comments per post3006th of 33137
Comments a day22,7784th of 339,309

The comments

The comments its posts draw

22,778comments a day

on its Facebook posts, 2.4 times the median of its peers (9,309)

Spread evenly over 24 hours, that is 949 an hour, about 16 a minute.

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

Comments a day: Manchester Evening News beside its 32 peers

  • Manchester Evening News: 22,778 a day
  • Median of its peers: 9,309
  • 90th percentile of its peers: 21,780
  • Middle half of its peers: 4,729 to 12,589
Each tick is one of its peers. The scale is logarithmic, so 100 to 1,000 takes the same width as 1,000 to 10,000.

How it posts

  • At or above the median of its peers on posts a day, photos and video, evening posts and a weekend day.

Comments

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Day by day

How Manchester Evening News 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

  • Manchester Evening News
  • Median of its peers
  • Middle half of its peers' posts a day
Show the figures as a table
Posts each day by Manchester Evening News, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026, beside the median of its peers each day and the middle half of their posts a day.
DayManchester Evening NewsMedian of its peers
Monday 29 June7772.5
Tuesday 30 June7268
Wednesday 1 July8069
Thursday 2 July7570.5
Friday 3 July8071
Saturday 4 July7858
Sunday 5 July7857.5
Monday 6 July8971
Tuesday 7 July8074
Wednesday 8 July7571.5
Thursday 9 July8469.5
Friday 10 July7068.5
Saturday 11 July8856.5
Sunday 12 July7157
Monday 13 July8166.5
Tuesday 14 July7970.5
Wednesday 15 July8568
Thursday 16 July8173
Friday 17 July7763.5
Saturday 18 July6955.5
Sunday 19 July6658.5
Monday 20 July9670.5
Tuesday 21 July8065.5
Wednesday 22 July7963
Thursday 23 July7567.5
Friday 24 July7163.5
Saturday 25 July6554.5
Sunday 26 July6848
Monday 27 July7061
Tuesday 28 July7460.5
Wednesday 29 July7267
Thursday 30 July7366.5
Friday 31 July8964.5
Saturday 1 August6652.5
Sunday 2 August6250
Monday 3 August6758.5
Tuesday 4 August8560.5
Wednesday 5 August6964.5
Thursday 6 August6962.5
Friday 7 August6057
Saturday 8 August6451.5
Sunday 9 August6949.5
Monday 10 August7060
Tuesday 11 August6559
Wednesday 12 August7961.5
Thursday 13 August7760
Friday 14 August6661.5
Saturday 15 August6951
Sunday 16 August6652
Monday 17 August7961
Tuesday 18 August7857.5
Wednesday 19 August8060.5
Thursday 20 August7662
Friday 21 August7060.5
Saturday 22 August6252
Sunday 23 August6450
Monday 24 August8458
Tuesday 25 August8562
Wednesday 26 August8068.5
Thursday 27 August7564.5
Friday 28 August8360
Saturday 29 August8752.5
Sunday 30 August8453
Monday 31 August7960.5
Tuesday 1 September7861
Wednesday 2 September7965
Thursday 3 September8567
Friday 4 September9266.5
Saturday 5 September8452.5
Sunday 6 September7947.5
Monday 7 September8764.5
Tuesday 8 September8066.5
Wednesday 9 September7767
Thursday 10 September8163
Friday 11 September6864.5
Saturday 12 September6452.5
Sunday 13 September6652.5
Monday 14 September8464
Tuesday 15 September9068
Wednesday 16 September7964.5
Thursday 17 September8071
Friday 18 September7966.5
Saturday 19 September6654.5
Sunday 20 September6753

Share of posts by local hour

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Share of posts by Manchester Evening News in each local hour, beside the median of its peers.
Local hourManchester Evening NewsMedian of its peers
00:000.4%1.8%
01:000.2%1.5%
02:000.2%0.9%
03:000.1%1%
04:000.1%0.5%
05:000.1%1.6%
06:005.5%2.3%
07:006.3%3.8%
08:006.5%4.8%
09:005.6%5.4%
10:005.1%5.7%
11:005.1%6%
12:006.5%6%
13:006.3%5.8%
14:004.6%5.6%
15:004.1%5.7%
16:005%5.6%
17:006.5%5.8%
18:006.7%5.6%
19:006.7%5.7%
20:006.4%5.4%
21:005.4%5.2%
22:004.8%4.4%
23:001.8%3.9%

Posts a day by weekday

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Posts a day by Manchester Evening News on each local weekday, beside the median of its peers.
WeekdayManchester Evening NewsMedian of its peers
Monday80.663.2
Tuesday78.965.6
Wednesday77.965
Thursday77.465.8
Friday75.263.8
Saturday71.352.3
Sunday70.553.1

What it posted

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Share of each format among posts by Manchester Evening News, and the median across its peers.
FormatManchester Evening NewsIts peers, median
Photo71.8%27%
Video or reel11%11%
Album9%0%
Link0%62%
Text only8%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.
  • Manchester Evening News, 18:00 to midnight: 32%
  • Median of its peers, 18:00 to midnight: 29%
  • On a weekend day, Manchester Evening News posted 91% of a weekday's posts. The median of its peers: 83%.

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.

Manchester Evening News's peers are 32 news publishers, digital-native newsrooms and news agencies in Europe with 1m to 10m 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.

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