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Fake News Ticker Generator
News ticker mockups fail the moment the crawl says 'lorem ipsum dolor' — but pulling real headlines into a client demo invites legal and editorial questions no designer wants. These fabricated tickers follow one broadcast-style formula: an urgency prefix (BREAKING, JUST IN, DEVELOPING — seven in total), an institutional subject like 'Health officials' or 'Transport authority', a verb, a civic-sounding story ('major policy overhaul', 'record-breaking statistics'), and a location tag ('near city centre', 'near coastal regions'). Set the count anywhere from 1 to 25 and paste the list into Figma, After Effects, Premiere, or a front-end marquee component. Because every line is generic local-news fare with no named people, organizations, or events, the batch is safe for demo reels and client work. Know the shape you're getting: all headlines share that one sentence pattern and end with a 'near ...' location, which reads fine scrolling past in a crawl but looks templated in a static stack. For a stationary headline list, generate extra and hand-vary a few line endings.
How to use
- Choose your options above
- Click Generate
- Copy your result
Detailed instructions
- Set the Number of Tickers to match how many unique headlines your project needs — use 10 or more for looping animations.
- Click Generate to produce a fresh batch of broadcast-style placeholder headlines.
- Scan the results and click Generate again if any line doesn't suit the tone or length of your layout.
- Copy the headline list and paste it into your design tool, text file, or motion graphics template.
Use Cases
- •Populating a scrolling lower-third ticker overlay in an After Effects broadcast template
- •Filling a news app Figma prototype with realistic headline copy before a client review
- •Stress-testing a CSS marquee component's text overflow and scroll speed at small font sizes
- •Adding credible background ticker text to a fictional news studio set for a film or video production
- •Generating placeholder RSS feed entries for a live-data dashboard widget demo in Storybook
Tips
- →Generate 20+ headlines at once, then hand-pick the ones with the best rhythm for your specific scroll speed.
- →For lower-third animations, favor shorter headlines — under 60 characters — so text doesn't get clipped on 16:9 safe zones.
- →Pair the output with a real scrolling marquee component test: paste in the copy and check that punctuation and capitalization survive the CSS transform.
- →If you need themed tickers (finance, sports, politics), regenerate a few times and group results by subject flavor — the randomness tends to cluster.
- →In Figma, store a generated batch as a local text style or component variant so the same placeholder copy appears consistently across mockup frames.
- →Avoid using generated lines that accidentally read as satire — read through the batch before presenting to clients who may be sensitive to the topic framing.
FAQ
how to get fake ticker text into After Effects or Premiere
Copy the generated list and paste it into a line-separated .txt file, then link it to a Dynamic Text expression in After Effects for data-driven templates. In Premiere, paste directly into a Graphic text block inside the Essential Graphics panel.
is it safe to use fake news ticker headlines in a commercial video project
Yes — the headlines are entirely fabricated and reference no real people, organizations, or events, making them safe for demo reels, corporate videos, and film productions. Still worth a quick scan of the final batch in case a randomly assembled phrase resembles a real story.
how many ticker headlines do I need for a seamless loop
For a 60-90 second loop cycling every 5-8 seconds per headline, aim for 12-18 unique lines so the repeat isn't obvious. Generate a batch of 20, then trim to the lines that match your visual pace and tone.
why do all the headlines sound like generic local government news
Every line comes from one template — an urgency prefix, an institutional subject like 'Health officials', a verb, a civic story, and a 'near ...' location tag — drawing on deliberately unbranded municipal vocabulary. That single register keeps the output legally safe, but there is no sports, finance, or celebrity mode. For a themed channel, keep the generated lines as filler and hand-write a few on-beat headlines to lead the crawl.
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