ABC News Has More Than 400,000 Followers to its Apple News Alerts

Posted Wednesday, January 31, 2018 12:00 pm

Sahil Patel | Digiday

ABC News is seeing audience growth on Apple News, but would like to see more personalization options for the app’s push notifications.

Since adopting push notifications on Apple News in October, ABC News says it has picked up more than 400,000 subscribers to these alerts.

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ABC News Has More Than 400,000 Followers to its Apple News Alerts

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