RSS Ticker App

Use the RSS Ticker app to scroll the latest headlines from any RSS feed along a strip of the screen, for example news, blog posts or company announcements. The ticker keeps itself up to date from the feed.

Note: Text tickers are only offered for the ticker layer of a built-in layout, for example the 1920 x 120 bottom layer of Layout 3. They are not offered once you resize the layer with Edit Layout.

How to Add an RSS Ticker

1. Open the playlist, then click the ticker layer. See Playlist Media Management .
2. If the layer is empty, the content apps open. If it already has media, click Add New.
3. Click Text Tickers, then RSS Ticker.

4. In RSS URL, replace the sample feed with the address of your RSS feed.
5. Set the other options:
   • Color: the text color
   • Background Color: the color of the ticker strip
   • Stories Count: how many headlines to show, from 1 to 20 (5 by default)
   • Speed: from 2 (slowest) to 10 (fastest)
   • Scroll Direction: tick Right to left to change the direction the text scrolls
6. Click Save.

7. Click Publish changes of this playlist to send the ticker to your screens.

Text Tickers also has ready-made news tickers, such as 9 News and BBC NEWS. They have the same options, but you choose the feed from a list instead of typing a URL.

To show your own messages instead of a feed, use the Custom Ticker .