How we count, and what our numbers mean.

A feed is one publisher's channel. A source has to be the organisation itself — a public body, a company's newsroom, a university, an NGO, a political party, a sports body — or a release distributor publishing on behalf of issuers. When a release arrives through a distributor, we show the issuer it names and the channel it came through. We do not add newspapers, broadcast newsrooms or news agencies: journalism is not a press release. Feeds of international organisations carry no country.

"190+ countries" counts the countries named as the place of origin of the releases we receive, from their datelines (226 measured on 31 August 2026). "130+" counts the countries and territories where we read a public body's own feed (133 measured on 24 September 2026). The first says where news originates; the second, where we take it from an official source directly.

We measure the gap between the time a publisher stamps on a release and the moment it enters our archive. Over the 72 hours to 10 October 2026: median 8 minutes; three releases in four within 16 minutes; nine in ten within 70 minutes. Releases dated without a time are left out of the measurement.

When one announcement reaches us through several channels, we keep one copy and attach the others to it. When a publisher edits a release we have already shown, we keep the earlier versions and show what changed.

Each release is given a category, a type and a country by rules first: the publisher's own metadata, the dateline, the feed's home country. A language model decides only what the rules leave open. A model also tags recent releases by theme, to spot trends. Summaries, translations and the AI assistant are produced by a language model; the assistant cites the releases behind each statement with numbered references. None of it replaces the original, which is always one click away.

The headline, the date and a short excerpt, with a link to the original. For publishers whose terms call for it, the headline and link only. We do not edit the content of releases.

Every feed is checked continuously. A daily audit flags feeds that fail, return nothing, or fall silent for far longer than their own rhythm; after review, a feed that no longer publishes releases is retired. The live state of the service is on the status page.