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Ticker Tape
Ticker Tape Ltd. is a record distribution vanity label set up in 2011 by the English alternative rock band Radiohead to distribute all of their releases from The King of Limbs onwards. Ticker Tape is a subsidiary of XL Recordings, the label Radiohead are signed to.

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Ticker tape
Ticker tape was the earliest digital electronic communications medium, transmitting stock price information over telegraph lines, in use between around 1870 through 1970. It consisted of a paper strip that ran through a machine called a stock ticker, which printed abbreviated company names as alphabetic symbols followed by numeric stock transaction price and volume information. The term "ticker" came from the sound made by the machine as it printed.

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