TickerPoint — Review: Features, Pricing, and Alternatives
Summary
TickerPoint is a PowerPoint add-in that runs continuous text or image tickers inside slides and can pull real-time content from databases, RSS feeds, or fixed text. It’s aimed at presentations, digital signage, and dashboards that need live-updating marquee-style information.
Key features
- Live tickers in PowerPoint: continuous scrolling text or image bands embedded in slides.
- Data sources: fixed text, RSS, Microsoft Access, SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, CSV/flat files and other database connections.
- Real-time updates: on-screen content refreshes while slideshow runs.
- Customization: scrolling speed, direction, separators, prefixes, error/empty text handling.
- Multiple tickers: support for more than one ticker per presentation.
- Setup via Slide Master: global ticker settings for all slides.
- Misc tools: check for updates, online help and support links.
Pricing
- Per-license pricing varies by vendor/reseller:
- PresentationPoint / United Addins listings show a typical one-time license around €279 (volume discounts available: e.g., 3–4: €259; 5–9: €239; 10+: €209).
- Some marketplace listings conflate a different product named “Ticker” (an omnichannel communications platform) with subscription pricing (common starting price shown: $9.99/user/month).
- Recommendation: confirm on the vendor page or reseller (PresentationPoint / United Addins)
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