Components
Marquee
A marquee is a strip of logos, words or cards that scrolls sideways on its own in an endless loop, with no controls, showing more than fits in one row.
- Also called
- Ticker, Scrolling logo strip, Infinite scroll strip, Logo carousel
- Spotted on
- 30 of 422 homepages
- Browse examples
- Logo clouds →
What is a marquee?
The most common marquee on SaaS homepages is the logo strip. Instead of a static grid of twelve customer logos, a single row drifts past: Temporal's begins with OpenAI, Deel runs a two-row marquee under "TRUSTED BY 40,000+ COMPANIES", and Modal stacks two rows of drifting logos. It fits a long customer list into the height of one row.
The second use is a text ticker: a strip of short claims or announcements moving across the page. Warp's reads "CHOOSE ANY HARNESS", "SELF-HOST OR WARP-HOST", "OWN YOUR DATA"; Supademo and Chargeflow put a ticker above the navigation in place of a static announcement bar.
Motion pulls the eye, which is both the point and the problem. A slow, even scroll reads as ambient proof; a fast one competes with the headline. Pause on hover, respect reduced-motion settings, and make sure the most recognizable logos are visible in the first frame, because many visitors never wait for the loop.
When to use a marquee, and when not to
Use it for
- Long logo listsYou have more recognizable customers than fit in one row and don't want a tall grid.
- Ambient energyA mostly static page benefits from one slow-moving element below the hero.
- Short repeatable phrasesThree to six punchy claims that read in any order.
Avoid it for
- Information to readSentences, quotes or prices moving across the screen can't be read comfortably.
- Few logosFive logos looping make the list look padded; a static row is stronger.
- Several moving partsA marquee next to an autoplay video and a rotating carousel makes the page restless.
Anatomy of a marquee
- 1TrackA row duplicated end-to-end so the loop is seamless.
- 2ItemsLogos, words or cards spaced evenly, usually grayscale or one color for logos.
- 3Edge fadeA gradient mask at both ends so items appear and disappear softly.
- 4LabelOften a line such as "Trusted by..." above or beside the strip.
Common marquee variants
1. Logo marquee
Customer logos scrolling in one or two rows, sometimes in opposite directions.
2. Text ticker
Uppercase phrases separated by dots or icons, often in an accent color.
3. Card marquee
Testimonial or social-post cards scrolling past, used as a wall of love in motion.
Spotted in our design reviews
Our reviews describe a marquee on 30 of the 422 SaaS homepages in the catalog. A few of them:
"Get a Demo" and "Get Started Free" buttons follow, then a scrolling logo strip with an "8,000+ teams trust Ditto" pill.
Dittowords · Above the fold
A scrolling logo strip begins with "OpenAI".
Temporal · Above the fold
A ticker strip below repeats "100% OFFLINE".
Rig · Above the fold
Along the bottom of the screen, faded labels such as "AI Analytics Dashboard", "AI Presentation Maker" and "AI Customer Support" drift across three rows as a ticker.
Soloop · Above the fold
A marquee strip then reads "CHOOSE ANY HARNESS", "SELF-HOST OR WARP-HOST" and "OWN YOUR DATA".
Warp · Above the fold
A ticker across the top announces a new developer hub, and the navigation sits in a pill with six uppercase labels, from PRODUCT to COMPANY.
Chargeflow · Above the fold
Two CTAs, three star-count badges and a scrolling logo strip including Walmart, Intuit and NVIDIA follow.
Qodo · Above the fold
"TRUSTED BY HEALTHCARE LEADERS WORLDWIDE" introduces a scrolling logo row.
Concurrence · Above the fold
Often confused with
Marquee vs. carousel
A carousel is controlled and moves a slide at a time; a marquee moves continuously and has no controls.
Marquee vs. logo cloud
A logo cloud is the content (customer logos); a marquee is one way to display it. Static grids and rows are the other.
Marquee vs. announcement bar
An announcement bar holds one static message; a ticker scrolls one or several messages through the same strip.
Frequently asked
Is a scrolling logo marquee better than a static logo row?
Only if you have more strong logos than fit. Motion adds attention, not credibility; a static row of six famous logos beats a loop of twenty unknown ones.
How fast should a marquee scroll?
Slow enough that any one logo can be recognized while it crosses the screen, and with a pause on hover. Also stop it for visitors who have reduced motion turned on.