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The posting benchmark

Punch on Facebook, beside its peers

How Punch's Facebook Page posted from 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026, and how readers responded, beside its 11 peers: news publishers and digital-native newsrooms in Africa with 2m to 20m followers.

Country
Nigeria
Region
Africa
Kind
Publisher, digital-native or agency
Followers
1m to 10m

Within Nigeria

Punch: 219 a day

Median in Nigeria: 39.9 a day

That is 179 more a day than the median in Nigeria.

Place the dots by

Posts a day2nd/12Photos and video2nd/12Evening posts7th/12Weekend day4th/12
Engagement per post4th/12Engagement a day3rd/12Per 1,000 followers4th/12Comments per post3rd/12Comments a day1st/12

Punch, Nigeria

2ndof 12

Rank among its peers, highest first, posts a day

Punch posted 219 times a day to Facebook, 2.6 times the median of 11 news publishers and digital-native newsrooms in Africa with 2m to 20m followers, 29 June to 20 September 2026.

The comments its posts draw

21,516 comments a day, 5.3 times the median of its peers. What it would take

See all nine measures

Punch's 11 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

Punch beside 11 peers

Punch 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 day2192nd of 1285.7
Photos and video97%2nd of 1245%
Evening posts17%7th of 1221.2%
Weekend day69%4th of 1256%
Engagement per post1044th of 1233
Engagement a day108,9903rd of 1225,049
Engagement per 1,000 followers0.0214th of 120.0099
Comments per post983rd of 1235
Comments a day21,5161st of 124,079

The comments

The comments its posts draw

21,516comments a day

on its Facebook posts, 5.3 times the median of its peers (4,079)

Spread evenly over 24 hours, that is 897 an hour, about 15 a minute.

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

Comments a day: Punch beside its 11 peers

  • Punch: 21,516 a day
  • Median of its peers: 4,079
  • 90th percentile of its peers: 13,159
  • Middle half of its peers: 832 to 9,095
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

  • Evening posts

    18:00 to midnight: 17.4% of its posts; the median of its peers 21.2%

    58 more of its 1,533 posts a week between 18:00 and midnight: 267 now, 325 at the median
  • At or above the median of its peers on posts a day, photos and video and a weekend day.

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.

Comments

The comments that come with them

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Posting

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Head to head

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Day by day

How Punch posted, beside its peers

Its own posts beside its 11 peers, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026. Days are UTC days; hours and weekdays are local time.

Posts each day

  • Punch
  • Median of its peers
  • Middle half of its peers' posts a day
Show the figures as a table
Posts each day by Punch, 29 June 2026 to 20 September 2026, beside the median of its peers each day and the middle half of their posts a day.
DayPunchMedian of its peers
Monday 29 June20897
Tuesday 30 June277110
Wednesday 1 July238104
Thursday 2 July24186
Friday 3 July21670
Saturday 4 July14641
Sunday 5 July17443
Monday 6 July18089
Tuesday 7 July26684
Wednesday 8 July26082
Thursday 9 July25192
Friday 10 July22276
Saturday 11 July15850
Sunday 12 July18754
Monday 13 July27074
Tuesday 14 July26182
Wednesday 15 July24594
Thursday 16 July26388
Friday 17 July22989
Saturday 18 July12028
Sunday 19 July17668
Monday 20 July19487
Tuesday 21 July29198
Wednesday 22 July28388
Thursday 23 July256117
Friday 24 July24585
Saturday 25 July15535
Sunday 26 July18256
Monday 27 July25289
Tuesday 28 July216112
Wednesday 29 July260115
Thursday 30 July23393
Friday 31 July26186
Saturday 1 August16636
Sunday 2 August16570
Monday 3 August18387
Tuesday 4 August26695
Wednesday 5 August25395
Thursday 6 August219109
Friday 7 August25982
Saturday 8 August14447
Sunday 9 August15953
Monday 10 August25757
Tuesday 11 August300101
Wednesday 12 August26895
Thursday 13 August22396
Friday 14 August22984
Saturday 15 August17730
Sunday 16 August18659
Monday 17 August215101
Tuesday 18 August243104
Wednesday 19 August331105
Thursday 20 August17299
Friday 21 August31678
Saturday 22 August11751
Sunday 23 August17363
Monday 24 August26090
Tuesday 25 August19289
Wednesday 26 August24193
Thursday 27 August23396
Friday 28 August25874
Saturday 29 August16742
Sunday 30 August16457
Monday 31 August20887
Tuesday 1 September24595
Wednesday 2 September25193
Thursday 3 September23396
Friday 4 September22758
Saturday 5 September15143
Sunday 6 September16065
Monday 7 September19690
Tuesday 8 September248100
Wednesday 9 September231111
Thursday 10 September22486
Friday 11 September23883
Saturday 12 September16050
Sunday 13 September18161
Monday 14 September183102
Tuesday 15 September25699
Wednesday 16 September21399
Thursday 17 September25798
Friday 18 September22775
Saturday 19 September17950
Sunday 20 September18461

Share of posts by local hour

Show the figures as a table
Share of posts by Punch in each local hour, beside the median of its peers.
Local hourPunchMedian of its peers
00:0013.9%0.2%
01:0011.3%0.1%
02:007.1%0.1%
03:003.8%0.1%
04:003.6%0.1%
05:002%0.4%
06:003.4%1.3%
07:002.9%4.3%
08:002.5%5.1%
09:003.7%7.5%
10:003.5%7.6%
11:003.3%7.9%
12:003.6%8.2%
13:003.5%7.9%
14:003.1%7.8%
15:003.7%8%
16:003.7%7.4%
17:004%6.7%
18:003.9%5.3%
19:004.1%4.2%
20:002.9%3.9%
21:002.6%2.9%
22:002.3%2%
23:001.6%1%

Posts a day by weekday

Show the figures as a table
Posts a day by Punch on each local weekday, beside the median of its peers.
WeekdayPunchMedian of its peers
Monday21788.7
Tuesday257103
Wednesday23698.9
Thursday24397.6
Friday24878.3
Saturday15947
Sunday17458.8

What it posted

Show the figures as a table
Share of each format among posts by Punch, and the median across its peers.
FormatPunchIts peers, median
Photo89%35%
Video or reel1%10%
Album7%2%
Link3%53%
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.
  • Punch, 18:00 to midnight: 17%
  • Median of its peers, 18:00 to midnight: 21.2%
  • On a weekend day, Punch posted 69% of a weekday's posts. The median of its peers: 56%.

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.

Punch's peers are 11 news publishers and digital-native newsrooms in Africa with 2m to 20m followers: the same kind of title with a similar number of followers, from the nearest place that has enough of them. Its 11 peers, A to Z.

The peers

Its 11 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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