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Virtual Event Platforms

Compare the Top Virtual Event Platforms of 2020

Compare the best Virtual Event Platforms currently available using the table below.

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    Communique Conferencing

    Communique Conferencing

    Communique Conferencing's enterprise-grade, cloud-based, virtual conference platform functions as a traditional off-line trade show translating exhibit halls, booths, presentations & networking into a highly customizable 3D virtual environment.

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    Accelevents Virtual Events

    Accelevents

    Your affordable, All-in-one and easy to use Virtual Event Software for any type of event including performances, conferences, tradeshows, expos, and more. Accelevents is known for ease of use and live 24/7 support. The platform offers robust virtual event hosting features including ticket sales, live streaming, live chat & polling, virtual exhibitor booths, breakout sessions, A.I. powered networking, gamification, and more. Whether hosting an event for 100 people or 100,000+ Accelevents will allow you to create a virtual experience that your attendees remember. They also provide a built-in production studio or you can bring your own. The A.I. based networking tools ensure that your attendees build lasting professional relationships throw 1:1 video speed dating, discussion group, watch parties, fireside chats, and AMAs. Create a virtual expo and sell exhibitor booths that allow exhibitors to host live demos, chat with attendee, schedule meetings, and add marketing material

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    Converve

    Converve

    Converve is a digital event platform where people from all over the world can network, arrange meetings, exchange ideas or actively participate in a presentation or roundtable session. Our matchmaking algorithms ensure that everyone finds their ideal meeting partners and offers an exceptional virtual networking experience. With Converve, the entire workflow of your virtual event can be managed and organized in just one program, optimized for both desktop and mobile. Design your own event website matching your corporate branding, create a registration workflow for participants, manage all user profiles, and keep track of all key performance indicators.

    Starting Price: 3.990,00€
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    Zoom Video Webinars

    Zoom Video Communications

    Live virtual events and broadcasting. Broaden your reach with Zoom’s reliable and scalable webinar solution. Host online events with up to 100 interactive video participants. Plans range from 100 to 10,000 view-only attendees. Customize and brand your emails and registration forms. Flexible registration management and multiple integration options for your CRM systems. Simple and intuitive host controls for presenters and interactive capabilities for attendees from desktops, laptops, mobile devices, and conference rooms. Up to 100 live video panelists can share their webcam and interact with the audience. Expand your impact with on-demand or recurring webinars with recording and auto-generated transcripts. Get reports on registrants, attendees, polling, attendee engagement and Q&A for follow up. Broadcast across social channels with Facebook Live and YouTube integrations. Mute/unmute panelists, and promote attendee to panelist.

    Starting Price: $12.49 per user per month
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    Cisco Webex

    Cisco

    Work better, together. Webex is your one place to call, message, meet. Hassle-free video. Build stronger relationships with face-to-face meetings and real-time collaboration using whiteboarding, screen sharing and more. Showcase the best you with video conferencing that is simple but powerful. Increase your business reach, while reducing office and travel expenses. A powerful set of tools that keeps you connected before, during, and after the meeting. Video conferencing on any device bringing people together like they’re sitting down face-to-face. Team collaboration happens all in one place, from anywhere – driven by file and screen sharing, video meetings, whiteboarding and messaging. Secure, easy-to-manage cloud calling that’s simple to set up and goes with you on the road too. Conference equipment that brings high-quality video, whiteboarding, and AI to your collaboration rooms.

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    BigMarker

    BigMarker

    The #1 Video Platform for Webinars, Summits & Virtual Conferences. BigMarker is a powerful platform that provides hosting for modern webinars and online events. With BigMarker, organizations can easily create and host webinar content that can reach audiences around the world. BigMarker's top features include landing page templates, promotional tools, integrations, live webinars, interactive features, and on-demand access to video and presentations. It also enables users to create more than a one-off webinar, class, or workshop, which helps in building an audience.

    Starting Price: $79 per month
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    WebinarJam

    Genesis Digital

    WebinarJam is a webinar solution for live streaming high quality video. WebinarJam helpful features such as JamSession, Active Chat, and Attendee Spotlight. WebinarJam allows users to transmit Live from their virtual event to thousands of webinar attendees via different platforms. WebinarJam also features the Flexible JamCast BroadCast Engine that allows users to stream directly to their attendees on different social media platforms.

    Starting Price: $39.99/month
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    Vimeo

    Vimeo

    Put your videos to work. More engagement, more collaboration, more growth for your business. Trusted by brands worldwide. Built for you. Upload all your videos with up to 7TB of storage (no weekly limits!), organize your library, and enjoy advanced privacy settings and player customization. Add team members to your account, and easily collaborate thanks to video review tools with time-coded notes from unlimited reviewers. Embed your videos anywhere, add clickable calls to action in the player, and capture email addresses and sync them with your email marketing software. Dig into advanced stats with Google Analytics, and check engagement graphs to see where viewers are most enthralled (and where to improve). Gorgeous, high-quality video sharing on desktop, mobile, tablet, and TV. Safely send and receive videos of all sizes, and enjoy password protection and domain-level privacy.

    Starting Price: $20 per month
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    Vimeo Livestream

    Vimeo

    Live streaming you can count on. Deliver unforgettable virtual events and conferences. Securely engage your workforce remotely. Monetize your global audience. Ensure that your critical executive communications and "no-fail" events reach your audience in the highest possible quality, no matter where they watch. Build world-class live streaming experiences. Ensure that your critical executive communications and "no-fail" events reach your audience in the highest possible quality, no matter where they watch. Broadcast to any audience, no matter the scale. We make it easy to stream your town halls, executive communications, panels, trainings and everything in between. Get the help that you need when it matters most. We’ve powered more than 10 million successful internal and external events. With dedicated support you get SLA, training, exclusive account management, and award-winning production services.

    Starting Price: $75 per month
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    RegFox

    Webconnex

    RegFox is the most versatile event registration software solution specifically designed for racing sports events. Trusted by the world's leading brands, RegFox enables organizations to achieve total branding control by effectively marketing, selling, and monitoring the registration process. Simple and intuitive, RegFox is packed with powerful tools and features that include conditional logic, instant funding, branding control, data sovereignty, automated reports, badge printing, and more.

    Starting Price: $0.99/one-time
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    ClickMeeting

    ClickMeeting

    ClickMeeting brings the power of webinars and video conferencing to organizations of any size, from one-person firms to multinational enterprises. The web-based solution is easy to use and covers the entire webinar process — from preparation to presentation, and from interaction to follow-up. Because the platform is browser-based, it requires no software installation and works on all devices and operating systems. The user interface includes interactive tools and features to make webinars engaging for attendees and cost-effective for organizers. And with a few clicks, organizers can customize user-facing elements with a logo and company colors for total brand experience. ClickMeeting is perfect for gathering a target audience to convey knowledge, demonstrate expertise, and generate sales.

    Starting Price: $25.00 per month
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    Glisser

    Glisser

    Make your live events, training sessions, and even classrooms more interactive and engaging with Glisser, an award-winning audience engagement software. Glisser allows you to share presentation slides to delegates' devices in real-time, then uses audience interaction- Q&A, live polling, social feeds and private note taking- to improve the attendee experience and provide useful event analytics. It's simple for event organizers to set up, and requires no audience download.

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    Swapcard

    Swapcard

    Connect people with AI at Live and Virtual Events. Match your audience with people and relevant content using Artificial Intelligence. Learn how to select your provider and everything you need for a successful virtual or hybrid event. Your event success expert trains you on how to use the platform, set your event objectives and establish an action plan. We design promotional materials and a video of your event app to boost the usage rate and highlight your brand. We help you monetize your platform through pricing, packages and marketing materials for your sponsors and exhibitors. Our support is like an extension of your team. We offer extended support hours and onsite presence to drive higher attendee satisfaction.

    Starting Price: 0.2 - 1.9€ per attendee
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    ezTalks

    ezTalks

    ezTalks is specialized in providing reliable web conferencing and video conferencing solutions. It offers easy, reliable and productive software with powerful features such as HD video/ audio Chat, IM, screen sharing, record and whiteboard, etc. It also offers high-quality video conferencing devices which are integrated with software and deliver the simple and ultimate meeting & webinar experience. ezTalks aims to make your meetings and webinars easier and more collaborative.

    Starting Price: $13 per month per host
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    GlobalMeet

    PGi

    GlobalMeet, a new generation unified communications (UC) platform, helps our customers create connections with their employees, customers and shareholders. GlobalMeet provides a rich feature set including enterprise voice, a cloud-based business phone system, text messaging, chat and HD video and web conferencing. Built on our collaboration heritage, we simplify and unify your users’ experience and improve their productivity with a single intuitive platform.

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    Virtual Summits

    Virtual Summits Software

    Ever host or think about hosting a virtual summit, only to realize how confusing and time consuming it is? Well those days are over. Virtual Summits™ handles all the heavy lifting and gives you everything you need to host your very own virtual summit. By bringing together a group of thought leaders, you'll be considered one yourself. With good speakers in your lineup and a solid marketing strategy, expect to make around five figures. Rapidly build your targeted lists, which will help lead to even more revenue down the road.

    Starting Price: $97 per month
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    Townscript Live

    Townscript

    Townscript Live is a one-stop solution for hosting virtual events. Townscript virtual platform comes with the robust online ticketing management mechanism to manage registrations, ticketing, accept payments and give restricted access to the ticket buyers and that is how Townscript stands out in comparison to other conferencing tools which was primarily designed only for internal meetings and small conferences without any paid ticketing system. One-Stop Solution For Your Virtual Events Smart Event Attendee Management Software - Townscript Live offers a full-function tech-driven event registration system to streamline your event planning and attendee management and hence simplifies the entire event management process on the organizer's end. With Townscript Live you can manage event registrations, sales, payments, and live streams all in one place. User Experience Is Important To Us Townscript Offers A More Intuitive & Modern User Interface.

    Starting Price: $5 Per Event
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    Bizzabo

    Bizzabo

    Bizzabo is a top-rated event management software that enables event professionals to create meaningful and successful event experiences. Ideal for medium to large businesses that organize multiple events a year, Bizzabo is a holistic platform that offers event marketing, management, registration, and integration tools all in one place. Bizzabo’s Events Cloud also integrates with other leading solutions, helping event professionals to work smarter and more efficiently.

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    Attendease

    Attendease

    Attendease is an award-winning event management and automation platform that enables a repeatable, scalable event planning and execution process. Used by names such as Adobe, Hilton, and Autodesk, Attendease enables the management of an entire range of events of all types and sizes. With our all-in-one software, you can easily manage event registration, build white-labeled event websites, create mobile apps, email and manage attendees, create surveys, reports, and more! Build an outstanding virtual event. Broadcast live events to your audience, from webinars to multi-session virtual summits. Attendease allows integration with any URL-based web or video conferencing provider. Attendees can choose to watch your entire event or specific sessions they register for.

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    All In The Loop

    All In The Loop

    Event App by All In The Loop. Launch your own branded Event App. Replace all printed materials, make live edits any time. Help audiences plan before your event. Engage audiences whilst generating feedback. Facilitate networking and connect the right people. Track all movements and see how content is received. Virtual Participation by All In The Loop. Live Session Streaming. Q&A and Live Polling from anywhere. Onsite and Offsite Networking & Matchmaking. Virtual Face to Face Meetings. Increase your audience with offsite participants. Drastically reduce your carbon footprint. Create a virtual experience Branded native app and desktop version available.

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    SpotMe

    SpotMe

    SpotMe is the complete engagement platform. From live to on-demand, planners can easily deliver virtual events, digital experiences, and event apps that their audience loves. From breakout sessions to personalized agendas to two-way communication and gamification, planners have the tools to build a thriving community on and offline. SpotMe provides branded enterprise solutions to 250+ global brands across web, iOS, and Android, as well as a no-code building platform, and support & professional services.

    Starting Price: $4,800 per year
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    High Attendance

    High Attendance

    Manage thousands of events including landing pages, attendee tracking, custom registration forms and the full lifecycle of attendee experience. Capture contact information from hundreds of lead retrieval systems, scan business cards and push opportunities directly to other systems. Deliver interactive games, surveys, giveaways and collateral while tracking the behavior and digital footprint of every attendee. Manage, register and track attendees through the entire event lifecycle. Display, engage and track the contact information and behavior of every visitor to your exhibits. Leverage online or face-to-face events and push event data in realtime to where you need it. No matter where you are, we are just seconds away. Support is available to you no matter the question (complex or simple). High Attendance allows customers unlimited use of the entire system, including users and administrators, multiple divisions, unlimited events and displays.

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    Adobe Connect

    Adobe

    Create exceptional digital training, webinar and collaboration experiences. Learn How Adobe Connect can help Enterprises with Business Continuity, Governments with Rapid Response and Schools with Virtual Classrooms in current Public Heath Emergency situation. Customizable - Design your own immersive experiences with custom pods, images & layouts to personalize and brand your virtual room. Engaging - Drive and measure audience engagement unlike any other tool. Add interactivity to your sessions with multiple chat pods, polls, quizzes, simulations, breakout rooms, games and more. Powerful - Leverage Backstage & Prepare Mode to allow presenters and hosts to collaborate behind the scene during live session. Leverage limitless functionality and extensibility with custom apps. Persistent - Create your virtual room once with the right layouts, pods and content and use it forever.

    Starting Price: $50.00/month
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    MegaMeeting

    Internet MegaMeeting

    HD video and peer-to-peer WebRTC for the highest quality and lowest latency possible. Streaming video and audio to large audiences, powered by Ant Media Server. Crystal clear HD audio for web users, plus a conference call bridge for phone users. Upload your presentation and share your slides with a live audience. Share the screen of your desktop or any application window on your computer. Require webinar attendees to register in advance on a customizable registration page. Easily invite participants to a meeting via email using our built-in invitation system. Text chat with the entire meeting or privately with other participants. Record your meetings and download an .mp4 to playback or share. Create unique access keys for each participant for maximum security of your video conference. Opt for a co-branded sub domain for your account, or go all-in with a privately branded domain. Exchange documents securely with other participants and save files for future meetings.

    Starting Price: $19 per month
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    Engagez

    Engagez

    The internet has made the world a lot smaller and has simplified access to entertainment, information, products, and each other. Now, the digital revolution is providing event planners and marketers a new solution for informing and engaging their audiences: virtual conferences. Think bigger than a common webinar. Our virtual conference software gives you the power to produce engaging live broadcasts, product launches, high-tech webinars, and more. Engagez virtual event platform provides a live experience akin to a physical conference with fewer logistical nightmares and overhead expenses. Not only will you be able to engage with your attendees in exciting new ways using our virtual event platform, but we also offer analytics tools that allow you to measure the success of your events in real time.

    Starting Price: $399 per month
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Virtual events are great ways to host large-scale events digitally. Virtual events can be hosted simply through streaming services using a smartphone, or with more complex setups. Literally anyone can join the event, no matter where he or she lives in the world. Whether you are organizing a virtual event for social distancing purposes or for convenience purposes, virtual events have great potential when done right.

Virtual events can be just as exciting as an in-person event when the same organization and planning is put into the event. Organizations and companies that are planning a virtual event should try to follow all necessary planning steps to make the event as engaging as possible. Below are some tips on organizing a great virtual event.

Gauge the Target Audience

A business must first have a target audience dedicated as who it wants attending the virtual event. When it has this audience defined, it is important for the business to consider what all this audience enjoys and everything about their backgrounds. This information will assist in holding a captivating and intriguing event.

Businesses should find out the technological proficiency these individuals have, and what the audience members' interests are. Businesses can look for ways to reel the audience members in by utilizing promotional material that they enjoy. They can use demographic information including physical and psychological characteristics to make the event highly personable. This information can be gathered by sending out surveys to the audience members prior to the event.

Determine What the Experience Should Be Like

Events have the ability to take many forms. Some of these forms include seminars, question and answer forums and workshops to name a few. Virtual events are no different and can offer many of the same features and experiences that an in-person event can offer.

Businesses can make the virtual event even more of a personalized experience through the technological features available. They can offer themes that are shown through the invitation, the event itself and even the design of the hosting software. Finally, businesses can ensure that the entire experience is user-friendly in order to best accommodate their audiences.

Choosing the Right Virtual Event Software Platform

There are many platforms available for use for a business to host a virtual event through. There are both mobile applications and online options. Some of the mobile applications available include Facebook's live-stream offerings and Periscope. Online offerings include YouTube's live streaming and even Facebook's live streaming which is compatible as both formats. If you're looking for more comprehensive and customizable virtual event platforms, check out the comparisons above.

Some popular virtual event platforms that specialize specifically in virtual events are:

These platforms offer more advanced features than regular online video streaming platforms in that they provide features like:

  • Attendee Management
  • Audience Analytics
  • Customizable Branding
  • Surveys and Polls
  • Moderation
  • Event Management
  • Lead Capture
  • Engagement Tools
  • Pre-made Templates
  • Monetization
  • Q&A; Functionality
  • Virtual Lobby and Booths
  • File Sharing

If you're just looking to speak and broadcast to a large group of people from your sofa or desk, you might consider a more simple webinar, web conferencing, or live streaming platform.

There are many other service providers available that can assist businesses in hosting virtual events. It is important for the business to consider the pros and cons of each in order to best determine the course of action it wants to take. Businesses should never neglect the goals of creating a personable, user-friendly experience no matter the service provider that is utilized, however.

Picking a Speaker (or Multiple Speakers)

There will be some form of speaker or performance at any virtual event, whether that speaker is a host, artist, MC, or the sole speaker of the event. It is important for a business to choose speakers that can engage and attendees and keep the attention of the audience throughout the entire event. Businesses should choose speakers that are extremely flexible as well, in case re-scheduling needs to occur or unforeseen events arise.

It is possible to have more than one speaker at a virtual event. There are many ways in which this can be done including a host and a speaker or two separate hosts. Various virtual event platforms even offer virtual lobbies and virtual booths, in effect digitally emulating a trade show or conference. No matter the method that is utilized with multiple speakers, a business should ensure that all speakers are compatible with one another and will not cause embarrassment.

Marketing the Virtual Event

Any type of event needs to be marketed in order to reach the audience that has been determined. Marketing can be done through traditional advertising methods. It can also be completed through more modern methods such as social media marketing.

When using social media marketing, a business should make the virtual event seem exciting. Exclusive information can be promoted, behind-the-scenes looks can be promoted and hashtags and descriptions can be used to grab excitement. Businesses should make sure sign-up and ticket information is clearly accessible when promoting the event in any form.

Choosing the Location

Virtual events have to have some form of venue for the speaker to be hosted in. The live feed will be broadcasted from the location that is chosen as well. Businesses can try to find a simple venue that offers everything they need. With today's advanced virtual event software, one person with a smartphone can host an engaging virtual event from their living room or office.

It is true that virtual events do not need flashy venues. They might, however, need venues that allow for a stage and technological equipment. The audience will consistently see the background of any venue, so businesses should ensure that this is at least somewhat attractive. If you're broadcasting from your home or office, you can use green screen technology to simulate a backdrop.

Choosing the Timing

The final step for a business to take in organizing a virtual event is to select a specific date and time. It is best for businesses to pick a time that is suitable for as many people as possible despite time differences across the world. When audiences sign up or do the survey aforementioned, they can provide preferences as well to help a business in making a timing decision.

It is important to note that there will never be a time that is so perfect that it fits everyone's needs. For this reason, a business should ensure that there is a recorded version of the event, especially if it wants to reach as many people as possible. People who were unable to attend can later go back and watch the recorded event.

Final Thoughts

Planning a virtual event can be difficult. Businesses should try to keep the virtual events as engaging as possible in order to maintain audience's attention throughout. Individuals or businesses who are hosting a virtual event should make sure there is a theme, especially if there are multiple sessions to be broadcasted. This will make audience members want to come back for more, and it will make the virtual events seem more personalized to them.

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