Live Coverage Features that Audiences Love

Learn how our live coverage features help you reach wider audiences, build real connections through interaction, and monetize readers' attention.

High-performance features for optimizing workflows, engaging audiences, and monetizing content

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Reach Audiences,
Connect with Readers,
Monetize Attention.

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1.6M

impressions/minute

on our clients' 2024 US Election coverage

8x

longer retention rates

due to Live Blog's engaging features

 

10x

more ad impressions

than on regular articles

 

REACH

Powerful Features That Attract Readers

 

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Enhance Your Search Visibility

SEO-optimized live blogs, powered by structured data and Live Badges, help your coverage stand out in search results and achieve higher visibility on Google.

Boost your SEO with our free guide

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Attract Engaged Readers with Dynamic Coverage

Constant real-time updates and our teaser widget on your homepage make your live coverage impossible to miss, drawing readers straight into the action.

See how Stears drove >1,000% traffic growth

+43%

more traffic generated with the teaser widget by one of our clients.

What publishers say

"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."

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Yvette Uloma Dimiri

Director, Stears Insights

“The reach is huge. Honestly, the topic is no longer as “popular” as it was, and it still receives incredible reach.”

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Carsten Vogel

Digital Strategy Lead, Westfälische Nachrichten

We are happy with the integration and how our live blogs are being ranked by Google.

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Garry Toal

Head of Digital Production, Mediahuis IRL

Key Features

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Improve Reader’s Experience with HTML & CSS Prefetch

Regardless of internet speed, Google and your readers can follow your coverage with these practical SEO features.

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Optimizing Live Coverage for AI Discovery

We are continuing to develop new AI features aimed at improving how your live coverage is discovered and surfaced by AI tools.

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Get Prominent in Google with Live Badge

Live Badges and additional optimizations help increase the visibility of your live news coverage in Google Search.

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CONNECT

Build a Real-Time Community

 

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Simple Actions, Meaningful Interactions

The real-time nature of live blogs lets readers follow stories as they unfold. Interactive features invite them to participate directly in the coverage - helping them feel involved and heard.

Discover strategies for connecting with readers

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Make Your Live Coverage Human

People connect with people. Reporter bylines, profile photos, and direct interactions in the feed help close the gap between journalists and readers, building familiarity, trust, and long-term loyalty.

Here's how you can build trust with live blogs

+200

comments on a single live blog.

Here's how Stuff engages readers

What publishers say

“The average engagement time is signficantly higher for our liveblogs than our normal articles.”

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Cai Tore Philippsen

Managing Editor FAZ.net, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

"Live blogs enable news to be shared with audiences while other in-depth reports, reportage, or commentaries on the event are prepared. In a sense, they show storytelling in the making."

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Michael Koenig

Managing Editor of the SZ

"Using Tickaroo makes curation effortless, and it also provides a user-friendly interface for the audience so that they can enjoy a great reading experience. “

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Ivory Chia

Product Manager, The Reporter Cultural Foundation (Taiwan)

Key Features

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Spark Conversation with Live-Commenting Blocks

Empower readers to share their thoughts and feel part of the live coverage as it unfolds.

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Polls, Quizzes, and Emojis for Instant Participation

Make it easy for readers to interact with your coverage using one-click engagement features.

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Know Your Readers with Interaction Analytics

Real-time interaction analytics give you the insights you need to understand audience behavior and optimize your engagement strategy.

MONETIZE

Turn Attention into Revenue

 

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Open New Revenue Streams

In a landscape dominated by free content, live blogs give publishers flexible ways to monetize live coverage and generate revenue without disrupting the reader experience.

Get ideas for content monetization

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Longer Media Time Means Higher Ad Revenue

With high click-through rates and up to 8× longer retention than traditional articles, live blogs keep readers engaged longer - creating more opportunities to monetize attention while preserving editorial quality.

How live blogs boost your revenue strategy

What publishers say

“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.”

DIE ZEIT

"We determined that this method had significant effects. These ads were seen, and our subscription numbers increased through liveblogging."

Aschendorff Group

“We see liveblogs especially as a good journalistic instrument in order to prepare lots of information quickly. Liveblogs for example the Corona or the Ukraine Liveblog are a central starting point that readers continue to come back to. They draw readers to the homepage, where they then see ads or eventually become subscribers."

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

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Boost Revenue with In-Blog and On-Page Ads

Seamlessly integrate ads within and around your live blog to maximize advertising revenue.

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Sell Live Blogs with Tickaroo Marketplace

Sell your live coverage to other publications looking for timely, reliable reporting - turning exclusive access into a new revenue stream.

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Pin Premium Articles

Highlight premium content by pinning subscriber-only article teasers to guide readers toward subscriptions and increase conversions.

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Optimize Live Coverage Workflows

Jump-start live coverage with limited onboarding thanks to our tool's sleek design and simple integration.

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What publishers say

"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 provide an organized overview at all times, 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."

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Michael Koenig

Managing Editor of the SZ

"More than 20 newsbrands, 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

“Tickaroo provides excellent UI/UX design in the content management system. Even though the editorial department members are not familiar with digital tools, they can instantly understand how to use Tickaroo.” 

“Using Tickaroo makes cross-functional cooperation easier. It reduces the editorial workload significantly. “

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Ivory Chia

Product Manager at The Reporter Cultural Foundation (Taiwan)

"The technology just works. The apps are easy to use and work, and the editors in the newsroom just have to focus on the storytelling."

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David Hagenbaeumer

Former Digital Lead, Freie Presse

Key Features

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Easily Integrate Tickaroo Live Blog into your CMS

SSO and widget integration make it easy for reporters to cover live news within your current CMS, like Cue, LivingDocs, etc.

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Lengthen Media Time with In-Blog RSS Feeds

Easily lengthen the relevance of your content (articles, audio, videos, etc.) by dragging and dropping it from in-blog RSS and social feeds.

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Collaborate With Live Blog Syndication

Enable various publications within your media company to source content for individual live blogs from a centralized live blog.

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

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Live Blog is Rock Solid

Our high-performance live coverage software is stable when your traffic spikes.

 

Our Liveblogging software experienced 0 disruptions.

During the 2020 US Election, our clients' live blogs amassed almost 10 Million unique views and averaged almost 70,000 views per minute. Despite this high traffic load, our liveblogging software experienced zero disruptions.

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24/7 Automated Monitoring

Live Blog's redundancy system with 24/7 automated monitoring ensures our software stays performant whenever you need it most.

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Stay Connected During Downtime with Fallback System

Even in case of downtime, your readers will still be able to enjoy your live blog running on a fallback page.

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Lighting-Speed Updates with Websocket

This newest high-performance update enables live blog - readers update distribution in less than a second!

AI Tools For Your Live Coverage

Tickaroo Live Blog's AI features make ancillary tasks a snap and enable journalists to focus their energy on the story.   

>80%

of respondents in a Thomson Reuters Foundation survey use AI in their journalistic work.

Explore the full report

Key Features

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Create Live Blog Summaries

Summarize any live blog in one click and pin at the top for readers to see.

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Adjust Tone and Language

Connect with readers by adapting texts to reach different audiences. 

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Generate Image Captions

Caption images with detailed descriptions in seconds. Perfect for SEO!

We're Here to      Support You

Our support and developer teams work around the clock to assist you, ship new features, and improve our tool based on real editorial needs. Through ongoing collaboration, we help you get the most out of your live coverage - today and as your newsroom evolves.

What publishers say

“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

"We appreciate the easy usability, something that is an especially important factor when liveblogging. We also appreciate the reliability of the product and the speedy support, should we have any questions."

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Jörn Sucher

Managing Editor, DER SPIEGEL

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Contact Us!

Questions about Tickaroo Live Blog or how it fits your newsroom?

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