Islamic State's (IS) Amaq News video production rate has moved up 18% in 2020  from 2019 to one video every 3.8 days. It is on track to tie the quarterly production number of 24 that it hit in Q4 of 2019. This is the highest quarterly number reached since Q4 of 2018.

If Q4 2020 comes in at 24 or slightly below, its quarterly numbers would fit within the 17-24 release range every quarter has fallen in since the beginning of 2019. Anything above 24 would represent the first quarterly increase in more than a year.

Amaq was by far the Islamic State's highest volume producer of video material. During its peak year of 2016, Amaq released 870 videos or 2.38 videos a day. The current rate of one video every 3.8 days for 2020 represents an 89% drop in the production rate from 2016.

Amaq released 1,872 videos from 1 Oct. 2014 to 26 Feb. 2020. It amounts to more than 32 hours of material with an average runtime of 0:01:02. The shortest video was 0:00:05 and the longest was 0:11:44.