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Virtual Event Platforms Guide
Virtual event platforms provide event organizers with the tools to plan, create, promote, run and manage online events through an interactive digital platform. Compare the best Virtual Event Platforms currently available using the table below.
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Restream
Restream
Grow your business with the power of live streaming. Restream is all-in-one live streaming solution right in your browser. Live stream to Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other platforms at the same time. Host live interviews, AMAs (ask me anything), and Q&A sessions in a matter of minutes. Have up to 10 participants on your stream. Brand your live streams with your own logo and overlays. Add a call-to-action or other important messages to make your viewers take action. Engage with your audience in real time with cross-platform chat. Try Restream Studio today.
Starting Price: $19 per user per month -
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Hopin
Hopin
The virtual venue for all your events. Hopin is an online events platform where you can create engaging virtual events that connect people around the globe. Host your most interactive online event yet. Hopin is a virtual venue with multiple interactive areas that are optimized for connecting and engaging. Attendees can move in and out of rooms just like an in-person event and enjoy the content and connections you've created for them. The results? High show-up rates, low drop-off rates, and happy attendees. Organizers can achieve the same goals of their offline events by customizing their Hopin events to fit the requirements, whether it's a 50-person recruiting event, a 500-person all-hands meeting, or a 50,000-person annual conference. Hopin is built knowing every event is unique. Host full-scale conferences with multiple stages, sessions, networking, and expo booths. Gather people at your customized Hopin event and let them interact and learn together.
Starting Price: $99 per month -
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GoToWebinar
LogMeIn
GoToWebinar erases the headache and hassle from webinars. No matter your goal or skill level, you’ll quickly see why so many love the GoToWebinar platform. Go from preparing a webinar to presenting in fewer steps – and have a lot of fun along the way.
Starting Price: $89 per month -
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Boomset
Boomset
Boomset provides an end-to-end solution for in-person, virtual and hybrid events. The award-winning live event functionality - like digital entry management and on-demand printing - fully supports the virtual solution. The virtual web and mobile platform includes features like live streaming and prerecorded concurrent sessions, virtual exhibitor management with lead capture, and attendee engagement via 1-to-1 video calls, live chat, polling, gamification, and Q&A. Coupled with our best-in-class customer support, Boomset makes event management simple for organizers for all types of events, anywhere in the world.
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Hubilo
Hubilo
Hubilo is a market leader in the Virtual and Hybrid event platform space. Hubilo is helping organisations across the world reimagine the future of events and navigate an emerging event landscape. Hubilo makes it possible for organisations to provide an engaging & interactive event experience to their global audience and transform the way people connect, interact and host events. Hubilo will become the central system of records for the event industry and unlock massive insights and value from their event by tracking interactions and engagement metrics across attendees, sponsors, organisers, and speakers.Founded in early 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, Hubilo is a fast-growing SaaS company and is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Balderton Capital, and several renowned angel investors.Hubilo is trusted by a growing list of global brands like United Nations, Roche, Informa Markets, Tech in Asia, Fortune, AWS, Siemens, Cognizant, Veritas Technologies, GITEX, & several others.
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RegFox
Webconnex
The best registration for your event! VIRTUAL or IN-PERSON, RegFox is the most flexible & affordable system on the market today. If other clunky overpriced solutions have you feeling frustrated and ripped off, RegFox is for you. We believe registration should be the easiest part of your event. We’ve already helped over 50,000 customers just like you process over $3B. Thousands of the world's leading brands use RegFox for online registration. Regfox is simple, intuitive yet incredibly powerful. You get total branding control so the registration forms look like your organization. RegFox is packed with awesome features for virtual events and live events. Best of all you only pay 99 cents per attendee. Create your account * Customize your page *Celebrate your success. Stop wasting time and money. Instead have a registration experience you are proud of.
Starting Price: 99 cents per attendee -
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Brazen
Brazen
Build powerful virtual hiring events and online career fairs. KPMG, CVS Health and Starbucks rely on Brazen to attract 3x more qualified candidates. Universities use the platform to host multi-company career fairs, student & alumni networking events, virtual orientations, and more. Brazen is much more than a video interviewing or web conference tool, with features including multiple event booths, live video broadcasting, one-on-one chat (through video, audio or text), automated chatbots and more.
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Canapii
Canapii
Canapii is the coolest, and most highly featured, event platform designed for virtual events in 2020, and ready for hybrid events as they restart in 2021. Canapii supports video meetings and streams HD quality keynotes across PC browsers and mobile apps. Canapii delights the user, while event organizers can become Superheroes. Canapii sets itself apart from pure-play software providers by providing white-glove service via its experienced events executives, which is why the world's most prestigious tech companies are customers. Automation is core to Canapii. Registration, travel arrangements, personal agendas, and meeting approval systems are built in. Canapii is truly global, the customer decides which language to set the tools in, support is available 24x7, live translation services are available and time zones handled smoothly.
Starting Price: Free -
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Event Ready
Event Ready
ERs Virtual and Hybrid platform allows you to decide on whether a live with a virtual component or strictly virtual or live is what you need for 2021. What Event Ready gives you is flexibility, customization and not a one size fits all software. We make it easy for speakers or admin to upload the videos or to link to zoom for live presentations without needing degree in programming. Easy to use, flexibility in how it is presented and service that will be there the entire process. If you decide to do a live conference then Event Ready has your back as we have been doing live events since 1992. We can also offer you the hybrid option. We have features like accreditation, interactive floor plan, speaker management component, BEO, mobile app, housing, email tools, survey, and 24/7 reporting. Contact us for a discussion on how we can help you moving into 2021 and beyond.
Starting Price: $5000.00/year -
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Tocca
Tocca
The B2B virtual event platform to engage audiences & maximize ROI. Branded, flexible, and interactive virtual space for all your events and meetings. Why Tocca? Fully branded event within minutes. Flexible platform, adaptable to all your different event needs. Fully integrated with all your internal systems. Easily re-use past events and save time Competitive pricing. A virtual space that simulates in-person events. Sponsors & booths. Sponsors can hold virtual booths in the lobby and attendees interested in their offerings can watch videos, request documentation, and engage with a representative. Games: fun for them, data for you. Entertain attendees with interactive games and prizes! Engage them with milestones and collect data on their interests. Multiple tracks & sessions. Create multiple different sessions and tracks suited to your needs. Attendees can freely enter and leave at any time.
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Perenso Cloud Show
Perenso
Perenso Cloud Show, a virtual trade show platform, enables you to reach a larger audience and utilizing sophisticated commerce transactions, attract and retain revenue. Cloud Show represents the aspects of a physical B2B trade show as closely as possible including: -a customizable lobby -facilitating interaction between vendors and attendees with live chat -brandable vendor booths -viewing and sharing vendor content -doing deals and negotiating live at-show -placing complex orders at-show Utilize Perenso Cloud Show as an online only event, or in conjunction with a physical show (with the Perenso Trade Show platform) to provide a hybrid event solution.
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Accelevents
Accelevents
Accelevents is a powerful but affordable all-in-one virtual event platform known for their ease of use, impressive feature stack, and 24/7 live support. The platform offers robust virtual event hosting features including ticketing/registration, live chat & polling, virtual exhibitor booths, A.I. powered networking, gamification, and more. Event organizers can live stream to the main stage or break out session using either a built-in steaming studio, or integrate with an outside streaming platform. Whether hosting an event for 100 people or 100,000+ Accelevents will allow you to create a virtual, in-person or hybrid experience that your attendees remember. The virtual lobby allows attendees to access a newsfeed bulletin, a dynamic agenda, or even shop in your store. Accelevents understands the value of an event sponsorship, so they’ve developed a suite of ad placements & interactive tools that set the stage for dynamic sponsorship packages.
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SpotMe
SpotMe
SpotMe is an all-in-one virtual event and conferencing platform. Whether live or on-demand, planners can easily deliver highly engaging online or hybrid experiences. Provide attendees with breakout sessions, networking opportunities, personalized agendas, two-way communication options, and gamification. Meaningfully increase engagement, obtain useful audience data, and give guests the quality event they deserve. SpotMe provides solutions to 250+ global enterprises through a no-code building platform and professional services for each step of the event process.
Starting Price: $4,800 per year -
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Airmeet
Airmeet
The all-in-one platform to host immersive events online, connect with your community and share ideas with the world. Airmeets are designed to help you do more, engage more & grow more! Crafted with the focus to host both small meetups & large summits, with features that scale with your community. An immersive experience for each & every participant. Works on all modern browsers & devices without any software downloads for a zero-hassle experience for participants. Focus on your event, let us do the heavy lifting. Publish online events, manage registrations, onboard speakers, accept payments, partner with sponsors, engage participants, enable networking and go live like a pro. Phew! Keep your events truly private and have full control over your participants & their interactions. We’ve built security & scalability at the very core of our platform.
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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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BigMarker
BigMarker
BigMarker is a fully customizable virtual event platform that combines powerful video technology with robust marketing and interactive experience capabilities to create unique branded virtual events. Our industry-leading customization allows us to work with you to build your dream event that delivers impactful and interactive experiences to attendees, sponsors, and key stakeholders.
Starting Price: $79 per month -
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Brandlive
Brandlive
Since 2010, Brandlive has been the leader in the end-to-end hosting, production, and support of the world’s largest and most memorable virtual events. Fortune 100 companies choose Brandlive to create branded, customizable events with the help of Brandlive’s dedicated support teams. The user-friendly Brandlive product suite - Events, Showrooms, Greenroom, and Studios and Productions - enables anyone to host their most important communication moments in 30+ languages, for audiences over 1M, with features including advanced registration and best-in-class audience analytics. As the name suggests, Brandlive is a platform for your brand. Our platform can be purchased on a per-event basis or as an annual license to enable regular broadcasting. All of our customers receive dedicated support from our experienced team in the form of onboarding and email support.
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Aventri
Aventri
Rather than cancelling your events, consider going virtual? Aventri can now power virtual, hybrid and in-person events. Aventri's all-in-one event and meetings solution has powered over 300,000 events, helping our customers realize their event and business goals by driving savings and increasing returns. Our event management technology gives you the power to collect, manage, and analyze attendee and event data, so you can make more strategic decisions and improve future events. Aventri's fully integrated event management software platform provides event & meeting planners with event registration, event marketing, project & budget management many more capabilities, combined with best in class onsite solutions from badge creation and printing, to onsite check in and access control.
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Localist
Localist
Localist is the only platform that combines event management with marketing automation. With all the tools you need in one place, you will increase attendance for all event types (online & offline, paid & free) and drive your organization’s growth. Localist was built for community managers and marketers. It’s an easy-to-use, maintenance-free platform that doesn’t require coding. With extensive integrations and an API, the platform works with all of your existing tools (website CMS, CRM, video conferencing, member management and community software). Localist centralizes the event listings process with a streamlined workflow. Departments, chapters and affiliates within your organization can add events, but the power to approve and publish remains in your hands. You can also aggregate and automate email and social media marketing for all events across departments and rest easy knowing the platform is protected with standard security technology to provide privacy and data encryption.
Starting Price: $850 per month -
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Samaaro
Tacnik Technology
Samaaro is an award-winning Virtual Event Platform designed to help organizations host scalable, secure, and effective virtual events for a global audience. Samaaro's unique features & versatility allow it to host a variety of Virtual Events such as Virtual conferences, Virtual Summits, Virtual Fairs, Virtual Exhibitions & more. Samaaro was designed to be completely customizable, enabling brands to make the platform their own, and host holistic and immersive events. Samaaro enables organizations to move away from webinars & communicate with their audience in a more holistic and engaging experience. The platform consists of exciting components such as a World-class Lobby, Conference Halls, Auditoriums, Exhibition Zones with exhibitor booths, Information Desk, Networking zones & more! The platform's focus on an engaging user experience translates to happy audiences & successful events.
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Dreamcast
Dreamcast Global
Dreamcast virtual & hybrid event platform enables organizations to move their events online and allow them to connect & engage with attendees seamlessly from their remote locations by offering interactive and engaging tools such as live audio & video chats, live polls, gamification, group chats, live webinars & much more. It enables you to organize any internal or external events like virtual or hybrid meetings, conferences, summits, trade shows, expos, exhibitions, fairs, launches & a lot more.
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BlueJeans
Verizon
Empower Your Remote Workforce with Secure Video Conferencing. The secure video conferencing platform that makes you more productive. BlueJeans Meetings transforms your video conferencing experience by integrating the industry’s highest-fidelity audio and video performance with incredible productivity features and a comprehensive security toolkit to provide you with a distinct competitive advantage every time you join a meeting. Make any conference room or huddle space a one-touch meeting place that’s easy to deploy, simple to use and centrally managed. BlueJeans is on a mission to transform traditional meeting rooms into modern workplaces. We have a portfolio of room solutions to meet your needs today and in the future. Host and manage live interactive events, town halls and webcasts for large audiences around the world. BlueJeans Events brings a whole new level of interactivity to all-hands meetings, town halls and webcasts. Engage up to 50,000 attendees.
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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. Design your own immersive experiences with custom pods, images & layouts to personalize and brand your virtual room. 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. 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. 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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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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InEvent
InEvent
All-in-one virtual event platform, InEvent powers experiences that transform attendees into customers, driving sales, profits, efficiency, and cost benefits for virtual and hybrid events. Our end-to-end management software is designed to transform corporate events, trade shows, exhibitions, meetings, and training sessions all in one dashboard. InEvent has catered for over 400 companies in 138 countries, including leading corporations such as Unilever, Santander Bank, Coca Cola, and Facebook.
What Are Virtual Events?
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 broadcast 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 broadcast. This will make audience members want to come back for more, and it will make the virtual events seem more personalized to them.