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Add a news ticker to your live stream

Add a news ticker to your live stream from the browser studio: write the text, set speed, size, colours and right-to-left direction, then start and stop it on air.

Updated November 5, 2026 · 3 min read

A news ticker is a line of text that runs along the bottom of the picture: headlines, the next topic, a phone number, a donation link. In the StreamLive Pro browser studio you open Graphics, press Ticker, write the text, choose speed, size, colours and direction, and press Start. The ticker is drawn into the broadcast, so every network and the recording get the same running line. Pressing Ticker again stops it.

Before you start

• The browser studio. The ticker is part of the browser studio on every plan. The podcast studio has its own ticker in the Lower Thirds + Ticker panel. If you broadcast from OBS or vMix, make the ticker there.
• Short text. One sentence, or a few short items. A viewer joining in the middle should understand any part of it.
• Direction. Hebrew and Arabic run right to left; English runs left to right. The studio picks the direction of your interface language, and you can change it.

Steps

1. Open the studio. Choose Live stream, start a new live and pick Browser Studio.
2. Open Graphics. In the bar under the picture, open Graphics (title, ticker, comments on screen) and press Ticker. The News ticker window opens.
3. Write the text. Type it in Ticker text. The studio repeats it along the line with a dot between repetitions, so you do not need to type it twice.
4. Set the speed. Speed runs from 1 to 10. The default, 3, is readable for most text; go lower for long Hebrew sentences.
5. Set the size. Font size runs from 14 to 40, 22 by default. On a phone, small text is the first thing viewers miss, so 26 or more is safer for a mostly-mobile audience.
6. Pick the colours. Choose Background and Text. Keep strong contrast: light text on a dark bar, or the other way round.
7. Pick the direction. Direction: Left to Right for English, Right to Left for Hebrew or Arabic.
8. Start. Press Start. The bar appears across the full width at the bottom of Program, with a thin coloured line on top, and the Ticker button is highlighted while it runs.
9. Stop or change it. Press Ticker again to stop it. To change the text, stop it, press Ticker again and edit; the window remembers your last text.

Laying it out with other graphics

Phone apps place their own buttons and comments over the bottom of the picture. Turn on the safe frame guides from Layout to see what may be covered, and check the broadcast once on a phone.

What can go wrong

• The ticker runs the wrong way for Hebrew. Direction is set to Left to Right. Stop, reopen and choose Right to Left.
• Nothing happens when I press Start. The text field is empty. The studio asks you to enter text first.
• The text is too fast to read. Lower the speed, or shorten the text so each item passes before the viewer loses it.
• It covers the guest's name. The ticker takes the bottom of the frame. Move the title higher, or stop the ticker while the name is shown.
• The ticker is not in my OBS stream. The ticker belongs to the browser studio. A broadcast from an encoder carries only the picture the encoder sends.

Ticker and captions are different things

A ticker is text you write, on air, in real time. Captions for Shorts and videos are made from speech after the fact, and one of the caption designs is also called News Ticker. Captions or translation that viewers see during the live are not available. More: Captions and translation for live streams: what works today and what is coming.

Frequently asked questions

Can I add a scrolling text to a live stream without OBS?

Yes. The browser studio has a ticker under Graphics. Write the text, set speed and colours, and press Start.

Does the ticker work in Hebrew?

Yes. Choose Right to Left in Direction and the text runs the way Hebrew is read.

Do all networks see the ticker?

Yes. It is drawn into the picture we send, so YouTube, Facebook and every other destination show it, and it is in the recording.

Can I change the ticker text during the live?

Yes. Press Ticker to stop it, press again, edit the text and Start. The change takes a few seconds and the broadcast keeps running.

Can I run two tickers at once?

No. There is one ticker line. For a second line of text, use a title from Graphics.

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