unless you need this (starting) number to be changing dynamically, you can just put text file on their server with the number, and then use URLLoader to load it. alternatively, you can do whole counter thing as a separate animation that sits on their site, and load it into your banner using Loader. your question is broad and your options are so numerous, that nobody can be bothered to list them all I mean, if your question was more like "I have this file and I try to load it and it does not work and here is the code", one or two people here could pick it up and answer.