# News ticker and social wall for digital signage > Canonical HTML: https://screenrig.ai/digital-signage/tickers-social-walls A news ticker is a line of headlines that crawls across a screen, and a social wall is a screen of posts. Ask your AI agent for either. It sets the headlines or reads your RSS feed, draws the ticker along any edge of any screen, and keeps a social wall current from your own accounts. Updated November 6, 2026. ## Live card previews - [Ticker](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/ticker.md): Headlines crawl right to left in silky bands with a live badge and a separator between each one. - [Social Wall](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/social-wall.md): Hashtag or account posts for glass, with one featured post shown at a time — photo, author and network — and the next posts waiting beside it. > **You:** Put a news ticker along the bottom of every lobby screen. Use the top headlines from our industry feed, label it "Industry news", and keep it going at a calm speed. > > **Agent:** Done. A ticker labelled Industry news crawls along the bottom of all six lobby screens, with the headlines from the feed and how long ago each ran. The page keeps playing above it. I checked a screenshot of two screens. ## What the ticker looks like The [ticker app](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/ticker.md) crawls headlines right to left in clear bands of large type, with a separator after each one, so they read from across a room. It sits where you ask: - **Along an edge** of the screen, as a strip. - **Full screen,** in the middle, or tucked into a corner as a small square or a single line. - **With a label and a live dot,** such as Industry news, and only while it has headlines, so an empty ticker leaves the screen. You set up to 50 headlines, each with its text, an optional source and the time it ran. Speed is slow, normal or fast, and a percentage between 10 and 200 tunes it. A [header or footer bar](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/footer.md) can carry a message too: it sits still, crawls when it is long or turns through up to eight pages, with a clock, the weather, a countdown or your logo in its two ends. ## Put a ticker along the bottom of a screen A ticker along an edge is a strip: a playlist drawn over the page along the top, the bottom or the right edge of a display, while the page keeps playing underneath. Your agent makes the strip once and says which screens carry it, by tag or folder, so one request puts a ticker on every screen in a building. A strip covers at most half of a display, and it holds images and apps, not video. The [Player guide](https://screenrig.ai/docs/players.md#strips) has the details. > **You:** Move the ticker to the top of the café screens only, and add the date on the right. > > **Agent:** Done. The café screens now carry the ticker along the top with the date at the right end, and the other screens still have it at the bottom. I checked a screenshot of one café screen. ## Headlines from an RSS feed Two ways to turn a feed into headlines on a screen: - **A reader.** The [RSS reader app](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/rss.md) takes the address of an RSS or Atom feed and shows the open story large, with its summary and how long ago it ran, and the feed's contents beside it. You choose how many of the newest stories it cycles through, how long each stays open and how old a story may be. - **A ticker or a front page.** Your agent reads the feed, or a data source reads it on a schedule, and sets the headlines on a [ticker](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/ticker.md) or a [news front page](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/news.md), which can be a front page with a lead story, a list, a hero or one story at a time. A feed is third-party text: you confirm that you may show it. A data source reads an RSS or Atom feed's items, with their titles, links, dates and summaries, and fills the app when something changed. See [data sources](https://screenrig.ai/docs/sources.md) for how often it runs. ## Market and rate tickers [Stocks](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/stocks.md), [currency exchange](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/currency.md) and [crypto](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/crypto.md) show prices with the day's change and a small chart. Your agent supplies the quotes, and exchange rates and crypto prices are among the public data screenRIG fetches and caches for you with no account. Each shows the credit its source asks for. ## Social walls A social wall is a screen of posts, shown a few at a time. Pick the kind that suits the room: | Wall | What it shows | Where the posts come from | | --- | --- | --- | | [Social wall](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/social-wall.md) | One featured post with its photo, author and network, and the next posts waiting beside it | Your own Facebook Page or Instagram business account through a data source, or posts your agent supplies | | [Message wall](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/message-wall.md) | Moderated audience messages one at a time, with a QR code for posting | Messages you have approved, or a Slack channel through a data source. Posting and moderation happen elsewhere | | [Photo wall](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/photo-wall.md) | A shared photo collection as a mosaic, a polaroid stack or captioned slides | Photos you give your agent | | [Follow us](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/follow-us.md) | Your social handles, with an optional QR code to follow in one scan | Handles you supply | | [Reviews](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/reviews.md) | Your overall rating and selected reviews | Your Google reviews through a data source | | [Workplace posts](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cards/workplace-posts.md) | A company channel: one post at a time beside the latest | A Slack channel through a data source | ![The break room board: a featured post about the new espresso machine, and beside it the latest posts about a fire drill and a team lunch](https://screenrig.ai/static-resources/images/screenshots/landing/devices-linux-break-room-0ef955b5.webp) *A posts wall on a test screen: one post featured, and the latest posts beside it.* A Facebook Page or Instagram business account is read with an access token you create for your own account, under that service's terms, and the wall shows the credit those terms ask. A post needs text or a picture, and a wall holds up to 50 posts, newest first. ## Keep the wall and the ticker current A data source reads its address on a schedule you choose and writes only what changed, so a screen is not woken for a repeat. If a source stops answering, the screen keeps the last good data for the period you set, from a minute to a week, and then clears it on every screen, offline ones included. A ticker set to show only while it has headlines leaves the screen then, and you can be told by email or in Slack when a refresh fails. ## Digital signage news and social media questions ### How do I put a news ticker on a screen? Ask your AI agent. It sets the headlines on the ticker app, picks the screens and checks a screenshot. A ticker along an edge keeps the page above it playing. ### Can I use an RSS feed in a ticker? Yes. Your agent, or a data source on a schedule, reads the feed's items and sets them as the ticker's headlines. An RSS reader app shows a feed's stories large, with their summaries. ### Can a ticker run along the bottom of a screen? Yes. Along the bottom, the top or the right edge, as a strip over the page. It covers at most half of the display. ### Can I show Instagram or Facebook posts on a screen? Yes. A data source reads your own Facebook Page or Instagram business account with a token you create, and the social wall shows the posts with their photos, authors and networks. Your agent can also supply posts directly. ### Can visitors send messages to the screen? A message wall shows messages you have approved, with a QR code that opens the page where people post. Posting and moderation happen on that page, and nothing is typed on the screen. ### Does it cost anything? screenRIG is free, with unlimited screens. Paid plans add business tools, more people, people to talk to, governance and contract terms. See [pricing](https://screenrig.ai/pricing.md). **Next:** see every app your agent can put on a screen in the [apps gallery](https://screenrig.ai/apps.md). ## Sources - [screenrig.ai/docs/players](https://screenrig.ai/docs/players) - [screenrig.ai/docs/sources](https://screenrig.ai/docs/sources) - [screenrig.ai/docs/cli](https://screenrig.ai/docs/cli) ## Related - [Digital Signage Data Sources and Live Data](https://screenrig.ai/digital-signage/data-sources.md): Calendars, sheets, Slack, reviews, scores, transit and dashboards stay live on your screens by themselves. - [Digital Bulletin Board and Message Board Ideas](https://screenrig.ai/digital-signage/message-board.md): Run a digital bulletin board on any TV: your AI agent posts announcements, tickers, recognition and social walls, and takes them down on time. - [TV Dashboard: Show Power BI, Tableau, Grafana](https://screenrig.ai/guides/dashboard-on-tv.md): Put a dashboard on a TV two ways: your AI agent draws the numbers big, or it plays your Power BI, Tableau, Grafana or sign-in dashboard on the screen. - [200+ Digital Signage Apps for TV Screens](https://screenrig.ai/apps.md): 200+ ready-made apps: menus, clocks, weather, queues and KPI dashboards your agent fills with live data. - [Data Sources for Live Cards](https://screenrig.ai/docs/sources.md): Keep a card current from a calendar or other outside address: screenRIG reads it on a schedule, writes the card's data and shows the status of every sync. ## More topics - [Digital Signage Templates and Content Ideas](https://screenrig.ai/digital-signage/templates.md): Digital signage templates are ready-made apps your AI agent fills in: menus, schedules and announcements, with ideas for lobbies, events and shops. - [Wayfinding Signs and Digital Directories](https://screenrig.ai/digital-signage/wayfinding.md): Digital wayfinding for lobbies, campuses and offices: your AI agent builds the directory, arrows, floor map and room boards. - [Outdoor Digital Signage Software and DOOH](https://screenrig.ai/digital-signage/outdoor.md): Software for outdoor digital signs and DOOH: any Player can drive an outdoor display, and you can sell its airtime to advertisers. - [Free Digital Signage Software and App](https://screenrig.ai/free-digital-signage.md): Free digital signage software with unlimited screens and no watermark, plus a Player app for TVs, sticks, Raspberry Pi and PCs. See what paid plans add. - [All digital signage](https://screenrig.ai/digital-signage.md): Digital signage software your AI agent runs: pair a TV, stick, Raspberry Pi or PC, say what to show and the agent builds and checks it. [Start free](https://screenrig.ai/docs/start.md). screenRIG is free.