The ScribbleLive live product shut down in December 2023, so every former customer needs a ScribbleLive alternative. Old embed codes point to a domain that no longer exists, and the ticker spots in those articles now show nothing.
The product is gone. Rock Content ended its Live product in December 2023.
Old embeds are empty. embed.scribblelive.com no longer resolves, so nothing loads where the ticker used to be.
The next event needs a new tool. Livetickr is one script tag in any CMS, with no cookies in the embed.
ScribbleLive was one of the early hosted live blogs. Its end was announced well in advance, and its traces are still on a lot of pages.
Rock Content, a Brazilian marketing company, acquired Toronto-based ScribbleLive in December 2019.
In January 2023, Rock Content announced that its Live product would be available until December 2023, and recommended a migration partner.
The embed host embed.scribblelive.com no longer resolves. An article that still carries the old embed code shows an empty gap, or nothing at all.
If you are replacing a whole ScribbleLive setup, larger live blog tools cover things Livetickr does not have yet.
The differences that decide it, side by side, checked against public sources on September 29, 2026. For every tool in one table, see our comparison of live blog tools.
| Topic | ScribbleLive | Livetickr |
|---|---|---|
| Status | ScribbleLiveShut down in December 2023. | LivetickrClosed beta, access through the waitlist. |
| Embed | ScribbleLiveIframe from embed.scribblelive.com, which no longer resolves. | LivetickrOne script tag. The feed renders into your page, no iframe. |
| Company | ScribbleLiveScribbleLive, Toronto. Acquired by Rock Content in 2019. | Livetickrfdmedia GmbH, Walldorf, Germany. Hosted in Frankfurt. |
| Cookies | ScribbleLiven/a | LivetickrNone. No stored IP addresses. Readers counted with a hash that changes daily. |
| Price | ScribbleLiven/a | LivetickrEvent: €69 per ticker, one-time. Publisher €199 a month, Network €499; €149 and €399 at the launch price. Excl. VAT, free during the closed beta. |
A table flattens things. Here is what each row means for a newsroom on the night it counts.
An embed code that points to a dead domain does no harm to your page, but it leaves a gap where readers expect coverage. Search your CMS for scribblelive.com to find the articles that still carry one.
The old updates themselves are not coming back through the embed. If an archived live blog matters, the text has to come from wherever your team kept a copy.
Most former ScribbleLive customers moved in 2023. If you are only now picking a replacement, you have several real options, and they suit different sizes of newsroom.
Large newsrooms with a big archive should look at Tickaroo, whose documentation includes a ScribbleLive importer, or at the migration partner Rock Content recommended when it announced the shutdown. Livetickr has no importer. It is the lean option for the next live event: one script tag, a focused editor and no cookies in the embed.
The right replacement depends on what you are replacing: an archive, or the next live night.
The old embeds cannot be revived. Start the next event fresh.
Search your CMS for scribblelive.com and remove the code, or add a note where the live blog used to be.
Livetickr is in closed beta. Join the list and you get access before the public launch. Subscribe within three months of launch to keep the launch price.
Register your domain in the workspace settings, create a ticker and paste one script tag into the article. It works in any CMS that accepts HTML.
What publishers ask before they move their live coverage.
For a large newsroom with an archive to move, Tickaroo, whose documentation includes a ScribbleLive importer. For the next live event on a smaller site, Livetickr: one script tag and no cookies in the embed. 24liveblog offers a free plan with sponsored ads.
No. Rock Content, which acquired ScribbleLive in 2019, ended its Live product in December 2023.
The embed host, embed.scribblelive.com, no longer resolves. The code in your articles points to a domain that does not exist any more.
No. Livetickr has no importer. Tickaroo documents a ScribbleLive importer, which may suit a newsroom with a large archive.
Yes. The Livetickr embed is one script tag, so it works in any CMS or page that accepts HTML. For WordPress there is also a plugin that makes it a block.
If you are still comparing, these are the four things Livetickr is built around. Each one shows up on the night your live coverage brings in the most readers.
The feed renders into your page, not into a frame. It takes the width of your column and follows your layout, so readers stay in your article.
No cookies and no stored IP addresses, so the ticker needs no consent banner of its own. Readers see your coverage without clicking accept first.
There are no ads in the feed. Your coverage carries your brand color and design, and author cards credit the editor who wrote each update.
Operated by fdmedia GmbH in Walldorf, hosted in Frankfurt. When your data protection officer asks where reader data goes, the answer is one sentence.
The essentials for live coverage, plus the extras that make it nicer to work with.
WordPress, Next.js, a static page, a landing page for a single event. If it renders HTML, your ticker works there, with the same one-line tag. Paste it yourself in a minute, no developer or rebuild needed.
<script defer
src="https://cdn.livetickr.io/embed.js"
id="livetickr-feed"
data-ticker-id="tkr_9f3ab2"></script>Publish an update and it shows up in every embedded ticker within seconds. Readers keep reading.
The embed sets no cookies and stores no IP addresses, so live coverage doesn’t drag a consent banner along.
Text, quotes, images, social and video embeds: structured, not one long text field.
Choose a timeline, markers or an editorial list, then set it all in your own brand color.
Avatar, bio and social links on every post, so the byline credit lands where it belongs.
Prepare updates in advance and they publish themselves at the exact minute you set.
Three steps from a blank editor to a live blog on your own page.
A clean block editor for text, quotes, images and embeds. Publish now, or schedule it to go live the moment it starts.
One <script> tag on any page, any CMS. No plugin, no theme surgery, no developer needed. Paste it once, the embed does the rest.
New posts appear in the embedded ticker on their own, within seconds. Readers stay on the page: no reload, no missed moment.
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The Livetickr composer, writing a live update in the block editor.
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