Solutions for News, Sports, & Events

We offer solutions for news publishers, content distibutors, sports clubs, press agencies, event organizers, and every newsroom that is looking to optimize their workflows.

News Publishing

Editors, journalists, and on-the-scene reporters all benefit from our software’s usability and stability in high stress situations. 

 

Here's how Live Blog helps you cover news
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Captivating Visual Storytelling

Integrate a variety of multimedia content, including videos, images, social media embeds, GIFs, infographics, and more. 

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Detailed Audience Statistics

Easily explore your readers’ infographics and engagement patterns in a single, intuitive dashboard.

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Engagement That Feels Live

Turn passive readers into active participants with live comments, interactive polls and quizzes, and real-time reactions.

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Monetization Opportunities

Maximize revenue from reader attention using in-feed and on-site ads, monetization teasers, and affiliate links.

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On-Site Reporting

Report from the field with our mobile app and collaborate seamlessly across teams on one live blog - whether you’re in the newsroom or on the ground.

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High Performance

With 24/7 automated monitoring and a robust fallback system, Live Blog’s redundancy system ensures reliable performance at all times.

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Enhanced Discoverability

Improve search visibility and help new readers discover your coverage with SEO optimization, Schema.org, and live badges.
SZ logo "With Tickaroo, we provide our readers with SZ-quality journalism in real-time! The simple integration of media, other embeds, and highlight posts enables us to always provide an organized overview, even in highly dynamic news situations. The user-friendly editor is very popular among our journalists - with both reporters in the field and editors in the newsroom.”
 Michael Koenig, Managing Director of the Sueddeutsche Zeitung
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Managing Editor, Süddeutsche Zeitung
Fast Fact:

7/10

of the most read articles in 2023 were live blogs.*

Süddeutsche Zeitung uses the Live Blog software to experiment with new formats.

*Announced at Newsrewired on May 15th

FAZ_NET_Frankfurter_Allgemeine_Zeitung-logo-9DDF61A989-seeklogo.com “The average engagement time is significantly higher for our liveblogs than our normal articles.”
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Cai Tore Philippsen
Managing Editor FAZ.net, Frankfurter Allgemeine
Fast Fact:

>8x

longer retention rates than on FAZ.net's traditional articles

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung uses the Live Blog software to cover some of the world's biggest breaking stories.

Sports Reporting

Our real-time software enables sports organizations to inform and interact with their fans.

Here's how Live Blog helps you cover sports
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Dynamic Sports Templates

From soccer and basketball to tennis and beyond, get started quickly with ready-to-go templates and customized event buttons.

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Live Sports Data

Streamline reporting by letting key information about teams, players, and live events flow automatically into your live blog.

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Fan Interaction Opportunities

Build a stronger fan connection with live comments, polls, and real-time post reactions.

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Action-based Ads

Integrate ads triggered by specific actions - such as a goal - to generate revenue while keeping the experience seamless and engaging.

Pro Touch Africa

"The Tickaroo Live Blog provides us the ability to engage and interact with fans of African athletes globally. We recognize and highlight their achievements and use this as a way to acquire fans into our ecosystem.

We hope to build and engage a fan base of African athletes as well as monetize our content to further fund the top performing athletes from Africa."

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Rebecca Eliot
Founder, ProTouch Africa
Fast Fact:

>70 Athletes

were featured in the Moments of Glory live blog.

ProTouch Africa shares the stories of African athletes authentically to foster deeper connections with their fans, sponsors, and supporters.

Event Coverage

Our software makes it easy for event organizers to connect with participants both in and outside the venue.

Here's how Live Blog helps you cover events
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Participant Interactions

Create a two-way event experience by inviting participants to comment, vote in polls, and react live.

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Structured Coverage

Help readers navigate your coverage with chapters, highlights, pinned posts, and tags - all set up in just a few clicks.

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Social Media Sharing

Let readers amplify your live coverage with one-click social sharing across their favorite social media platforms.

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Easy Multimedia Integration

Easily integrate photos, videos, articles, and different embeds into your coverage to give readers a richer, more immersive view of events as they happen.

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On-the-Go Coverage

Our easy-to-use app lets you cover live moments effortlessly while collaborating with other reporters.

newsrewired logo “Using Tickaroo was a breeze!...My team was able to easily navigate the backend to create an informative liveblog of a conference. We found it particularly useful that there were different types of content we could add, including quotes, photos, and Tweets, making for an engaging feed on the frontend for those following along.”
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Olga Alexandru
Freelance Journalist
Fast Fact:

5 reporters

collaborated simultaneously on the event's live coverage

Journalism leaders gather twice a year to discuss the state of the industry at this innovative event.

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From medal winners to heart-wrenching athlete stories, funny happenstances, and the EC 2022 mascot’s wild antics, reporters shared close to 600 photos of what made this event so unique

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Carsten Vogel
Digital Strategy Lead, Westfälische Nachrichten
Fast Fact:

700,000 uniques

over the course of the event

Volunteers and attendees of the European Championships in Munich were kept up-to-date with our software.

Join 450+ publications using Tickaroo Live Blog to bring their live coverage to the next level.

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Workflow Optimization

By combining real-time publishing, collaboration, and automation, our live blogging tool helps teams work faster and more efficiently.

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Simple CMS Integration

SSO and widget integration make it easy for reporters to cover live news directly within your existing CMS, such as Cue, Livingdocs, and more.

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Single Sign On (SSO)

Enhance security and simplify access by allowing users to log in using their organization’s credentials.

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RSS Feed Integration

Extend the lifespan of your content - articles, audio, videos, and more - by simply dragging and dropping it from in-blog RSS and social feeds.

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Live Content Syndication

Enable seamless collaboration across your publications by sourcing content for individual live blogs from a centralized live blog.

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Easy Brand Customization

Easily customize the look and feel of your live blog for consistent use across your entire organization.

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Marketplace

Easily sell your live coverage to other publications - or buy it from trusted providers -directly within the Tickaroo ecosystem.

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Streamlined Publishing

Prepare content in advance, manage drafts, and automate publishing to stay in control of your live coverage.

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After an in-depth market scan, Tickaroo was chosen as a partner to further the growth of live news & sports experiences for our Mediahuis group news brands. More than 20 news brands, spread across 5 countries, are using Tickaroo on a daily basis.

The integration with our editorial products was seamless; custom integrations were built accurately and on time. The editors are pleased with the ease of use and the user-friendly interface of the application. The combination of flexible news templates and dedicated sports templates makes Tickaroo our ideal partner for our newsroom and end users.

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Sibran Lens
Product Manager RouteYou, Mediahuis
Fast Fact:

30 publications

in 5 countries

Mediahuis uses the Live Blog software to unify its live coverage branding for its numerous publications.

 

Content Distribution

Create revenue from live coverage by easily composing it and selling to other publications within Tickaroo ecosystem.

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Scalable Content Distribution

Distribute the same coverage across publications by syndicating content from RSS feeds or other live blogs - without duplicating work.

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Drag & Drop DAM Integration

Seamlessly connect your DAM to import media via drag and drop directly into your live blog.

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Selling Live Coverage

Easily sell your live coverage to other publications directly within the Tickaroo ecosystem.

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Premium Article Pinning

Feature premium articles prominently within your live blog to increase visibility and conversions.

 

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Social Media Sharing

Built-in sharing options enable readers to spread live updates across social platforms, increasing reach organically.

APA Logo “Tickaroo gives us many new composition opportunities for our live blogs - in terms of editorial content and design. We know the APA - Austria Presse Agentur customers appreciate this variety.”
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Christian Kneil
Head of Content Business, APA
Fast Fact:

49 Live blogs

written in 2023

APA uses the Live Blog software to provide their clients with dynamic live coverage to share with their readers.

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“Above all else, we wanted a tool that could help us achieve our ambitious traffic targets. Tickaroo’s software could help increase our search engine visibility thanks to several enhancements, including the ability to fetch and insert structured Schema.org data server side. We could not find this feature among other tools/software we evaluated.

The more we engaged with the Tickaroo support and engineering team, they demonstrated they were genuinely interested in our success.”

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Yvette Uloma Dimiri
Director, Stears Insights
Fast Fact:

>10x

more traffic on their live blog than on their articles

Stears' coverage of the Nigerian elections exploded in traffic compared to the previous year.

Content Monetization

Generate revenue from live content while maintaining a seamless and engaging reader experience.

Here's how Live Blog helps you monetize your content
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Premium Article Pinning

Pin premium content directly within your live blog to increase its visibility and conversions.

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Selling Live Coverage

By selling live coverage on the Tickaroo Marketplace, you grow revenue while reinforcing your brand as a trusted live reporting source.

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Ad Integration

Ad Integration lets you place HTML ads between live blog posts while staying in full control - configurable per live blog and editable at any time.
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Action-based ads

Monetize key moments with ads triggered by specific actions - designed to feel relevant, not disruptive.

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Affiliate Links

Boost affiliate revenue by naturally incorporating affiliate links into your live content.

die zeit logo “Live blogs are an essential part of our news coverage, allowing us to present special situations quickly and comprehensively to our users and to continuously expand the reporting as events unfold. They give readers the opportunity to get up to speed on a current topic at any time. Thanks to their high level of usage, live blogs now also play an important role in monetization, as Tickaroo enables optimal ad integration for our advertising sales.”
Fast Fact:

10x ad impressions

than on regular articles

Clients see a substantial boost in ad impressions versus standard articles, driven by subtle, well-placed ad integrations within engaging live blog coverage.

AI Solutions

Our AI-powered features help publishers automate routine tasks - so they can focus on what matters most: the story.

Streamline processes with these AI features
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Writing Support

Create new text and refine existing content with automated proofreading and corrections.
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Content Localization

Make your content accessible to diverse audiences with translation and tone changes in one click.
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Fast Coverage Summaries

Quickly create summaries of live blogs and external sources to give readers the key takeaways.
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Social Media Posts

Quickly turn your content into tweets and use them to bring readers from social platforms into your live coverage.

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Quiz Creation

Create engaging quizzes directly from your RSS feeds to add interactive elements to your coverage. Contact us if you’re interested in using this feature.

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Image Captions

Automate image captioning to save time and enhance clarity, accessibility, and search engine visibility.

logo_tickaroo-dark At Tickaroo, we believe that AI tools can only be effective if they’re shaped by the people who use them. That’s why we work directly with publishers to understand their daily workflows and real-world challenges - so we can build tools that actually make a difference in the newsroom.
Fast Fact:

8 AI features

were released by our team in 2024 alone

From writing assistance to automating repetitive tasks, these features help you save time and focus on what matters most: telling the story.

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Want to learn more about Tickaroo Live Blog or see how it fits into your newsroom workflow?

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