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Desktop Ticker Software For Internal Communications

Use a customizable desktop ticker to display critical messages across employee screens — in real time and without interrupting their work.

  • 100% readership
  • zero complaints from busy colleagues
  • fast to create and send

News Ticker Software

What Is A Desktop Ticker Tape?

A desktop ticker tape is a scrolling text application, usually placed towards the bottom of a computer screen, similar to the news tickers on TV channels. This customizable software displays important headlines and can hyperlink to further information, ensuring your employees stay informed.

Unmissable Scrolling Ticker Messages Without Interrupting Work

DeskAlert's ticker runs quietly across desktop screens, using less than 4% of screen space. Employees stay focused while still receiving important real-time messages — from security alerts to policy changes.

  • Short, visible updates
  • Distraction-free format
  • Guaranteed visibility
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Customizable Desktop Ticker for Every Department’s Needs

Send customizable ticker messages for IT outages, HR reminders, or leadership updates from a single, centralized internal communication system. Tailor the message, color, and display rules to match urgency and audience.

  • Supports Windows and macOS
  • Available as a mobile application for sending push notifications
  • Links to intranets and knowledge bases
  • Used across various industries as well as company sizes, including enterprise
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Measure Reach and Engagement Instantly

Track performance of your custom ticker with real-time reporting. Schedule, automate, or push urgent alerts instantly using our intuitive admin dashboard.

  • See who’s viewed and acknowledged your message
  • Optimize your communications with data
  • Ensure your desktop ticker drives results
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Where DeskAlerts' Scrolling Ticker Makes the Biggest Impact in Your Business

DeskAlerts’ customizable desktop ticker helps deliver urgent messages directly to employees' screens, without relying on email or chat apps.

From IT outages to HR reminders, our scrolling ticker tool ensures the notifications are 100% visible, helping you improve communication, boost engagement, and reduce operational risk.

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Announcements and Internal News

  • Deliver breaking news headlines about your company or industry.
  • Share updates about your company’s performance or individual work teams.
  • Notify employees when there are Intranet updates.

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IT Outages and System Notifications

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HR Updates and Staff Reminders

  • Send your employees information about new or updated resources, procedures or policies your organization has developed.
  • Deliver important invitations or send “nudge” reminders about scheduled events.
  • Deliver micro or “burst” learning opportunities to your employees.

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Emergency and Crisis Alerts

  • Deliver non-urgent emergency communications and warnings.
  • Send emergency tips and reminders.

Powerful Features of DeskAlert's Customizable Scrolling Ticker Tool

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Message Statistics

Find out who saw your messages and when they saw them.

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Active Directory

Synchronize your Active Directory over limitless domains. Send tailored tickers to selected teams.

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Targeting

Send custom messages to specific teams or departments or even to individual users.

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Recurring Messages

You can automate your messages so that they send in a recurring way across all the scrolling tickers.

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History

The scrolling ticker keeps a history of all messages that you can use for reference.

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Scheduled News

Pre-schedule news and event information to appear on the ticker in advance, making it flexible according to your schedule.

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Different devices

Send ticker text to desktops, laptops, mobile phones and digital signage with only 1 click.

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Branding

Use your company logo and color scheme and strengthen your corporate brand from the inside.

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Customization

Change the screen position, appearance and add links to the tickers for better engagement.

By using the scheduling features of the desktop ticker tape, you can plan for it to appear on specific dates, ensuring timely delivery of information. Additionally, the metrics tools available within the software help you gauge the effectiveness of your messages, allowing you to continually refine your communication strategy.

Benefits of DeskAlert's Scrolling Ticker Tool for Internal Communication

  • 100% readership guarantee - everyone will see your messages.

  • Scrolling news feed minimizes work distractions.

  • Moving text on the screen is highly engaging.

  • Customizable scrolling ticker saves screen space.

  • Drive people to the intranet or company blog or any other under-utilized communication resources

What Our Customers Say About DeskAlert's Desktop Scrolling Tickers

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“The central IT department of the university uses DeskAlerts. It preempts unnecessary helpdesk calls by keeping our customers informed and is quick and easy to setup, use and deploy. DeskAlerts makes it easy to tailor notifications to our requirements and represents a great value for money.”
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Valente Panattoni, Senior Desktop Support Analyst
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“The scope of alert is easy to configure via Active Directory groups and organizational units. All working users have the right information at the right time via the Broadcast feature. In case of incidents and maintenance activities, we can inform our customers rapidly. This is an easy-to-use and cost-effective alerting tool.”
Hôpital du Valais
Leo Kalbermatten, Head of IT Operations
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“I would highly recommend DeskAlerts. Easy to use interface and friendly to install. We use DeskAlerts in-house to broadcast announcements, such as software update alerts. An example would be Quicktime software removal from desktops.”
BBG
Stephen Bender

Explore All Deskalerts Tools for Internal Communications

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Pop-up alerts

Highly visible pop-up messages right on the employees' computer screens.

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Video alerts

Engaging video messages sent directly to  computer screens.

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Corporate wallpapers

Set the corporate background of employees' employees PC's and easily change it.

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Mobile app

Inform employees even when they are not at their  desk.

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