Prompter People

Prompter People was established in 2003. The company says it was founded to meet the need for affordable, reliable teleprompters. Its founder and president, Mark Ditmanson, holds an electrical engineering degree from the University of Illinois; before starting the company he provided technical marketing and videography services to Silicon Valley companies. The company says he designs all Prompter People products.⁠[1]

Prompter People's product lines include the Pocket Cue, ProLine Plus, Prompter Pal, Flex Plus, Presidential Stage, Robo (for PTZ cameras), QPro and Desktop series, covering studio, location, tablet, smartphone, desktop and stage-speech uses; each prompter ships with TeleScroll software for Mac and PC, and its monitors reverse the text automatically. The Campbell Chamber of Commerce member directory also lists the company's Stage Pro and AutoStepper speech prompters.⁠[1][2][3]

The StagePro presidential teleprompter is sold as a pair for conferences, stage speeches, politicians and musicians. Its product page lists collapsible carbon-fiber poles, a weight of 18 lb per prompter, monitors in 15-, 17-, 19- and 24-inch sizes with a standard 400-nit brightness or a 1,000-nit high-bright version for outdoor use, and 14-by-12-inch beamsplitter glass with a standard 60/40 split; the kit includes an HDMI distribution amplifier that feeds one signal to both prompters and TeleScroll Pro LE software. As of November 2026 the 15-inch pair was listed at $2,999.⁠[4]

In May 2021 the website Personal View published a review of Prompter People's Desktop Flex (22.5-inch) and ProLine Plus (19-inch) teleprompters, describing the company's range as running from entry-level on-camera prompters to robot-controlled systems costing more than $10,000. The reviewer used both systems, along with the supplied HD500 tripod, on several shoots during the COVID-19 pandemic.⁠[5]

At the NAB Show in April 2024, president Mark Ditmanson gave a video interview to media technology commentator Larry Jordan, presenting the company's latest teleprompters and demonstrating a portable prompter for iPhones and DSLR cameras.⁠[6]

As of November 2026 Prompter People is based in Campbell, California, and also runs a European website, PrompterPeople.eu. The company's website says it has supplied teleprompters since 2003, that its products are designed, assembled and supported in the United States with American-made beamsplitter glass, and that more than 55,000 units have been sold; the home page text separately refers to more than 45,000 customers. Its customers include broadcasters, independent producers, corporate video departments, government agencies, churches and schools.⁠[1][2]