Just a Ticker

justaticker.com
Active, Web App
2023
Animated text ticker for live broadcast and streaming.

Overview

Just a Ticker is a lightweight web app for creating text tickers with crawling text – like a CNN scroll. Although there are already a bunch of ways to do this, the key thing we needed was the ability to update the data stream without visibly refreshing or restarting the data set.

Our use case tends to be thanking people for contributing or commenting during live shows, so in this system you can add and publish entries which are then appended to the end of the current set of entries, and continually modify the entries in the same manner.

This provides a secondary clean fullscreen output window to bring the ticker into a broadcast switcher, VMIX, OBS, etc. No other bells & whistles, it's... just a ticker.

Features

  • Scrolling text ticker as used on broadcast news television
  • Infinitely looping ticker that never restarts when new entries are added or edited
  • Simple user interface for data management
  • No account creation required – security through obfuscation
  • Fully customizable colors, fonts, and layout
  • System agnostic – works with any video switcher or software capable of displaying a webpage or web source
  • Totally free
Ticker example - concert
Ticker example - fashion show
Just a ticker - real world example 1
Just a ticker - real world example 2
Ticker interface
Ticker example - presentation
Email with ticker URL and admin
Email with list of currently active tickers
How to use
Ticker output