Feedburner will create an animated banner that cycles through the five most recent items on any RSS feed. I used it to create an IAB standard 468×60 banner promoting my tweets. There are excrutiatingly detailed instructions with screendumps over on my companion hub at hubpages (let them host the frakkin’ screendumps) but in a nutshell:

  • Get your feed from wherever
  • Burn it at feedburner
  • Choose the publicise tag
  • Choose Headline Animator option
  • Configure your banner, if you use a custom background it must be a GIF hosted on the web somewhere (your blog would be fine)
  • Activate, save and grab the code.

Here is my promotional banner for my twitter microblog:

twitter / tixrus

↑ Grab this Headline Animator

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