Zoom Alternatives for Engaging, Interactive Automated Webinars

Zoom’s webinar solutions have traditionally been best for users who run webinars or online events occasionally, prefer live sessions, and want to reach global audiences on a familiar platform.

But for teams whose day-to-day work involves running the same webinars repeatedly — onboarding teams leading product demos, customer success teams conducting training sessions, online learning platforms delivering lectures and workshops — Zoom's solution isn't the most efficient because it lacks the automation tools these teams need to optimize webinar delivery while still maintaining engagement with audiences.

Zoom doesn't handle automated webinars well because it simply wasn't built for that purpose. They've recently added some automated features to the product (Simulive), but these tools really only let you create a webinar from pre-recorded content and schedule it to broadcast at a specific time. Its tools to engage with attendees are fairly surface-level, providing a chat and Q&A module only active during the webinar runtime.

Zoom instead has a tool to switch from an automated webinar to a live session so hosts can better engage with attendees over video, and it provides those same chat and Q&A features live.

This creates an experience where attendees feel like they're essentially watching a recording until the host jumps in for the real presentation. And it doesn’t really save hosts from the repetitive task of live hosting. (Again, showing the platform is designed more for live webinars vs. automating repetitive presentations.)

A true, high-quality automated webinar solution should let you:

• Create webinars from prerecorded content.
• Schedule webinars to play at set times, create recurring schedules, and provide on-demand viewing.
• Enable time zone adjustments so attendees can join at convenient local times.
• Respond to chat live when you are available (by sending you notifications of new messages) or later by email when you are not, so no questions fall through the cracks.
• Engage with attendees through dozens of automated interactions — not just chat but also polls, quizzes, questions, tips, special offers or discounts, call to actions, and more.
• Personalize all messages and interactions with attendees’ names or background details to maintain that live feel and authentic human experience.

It should also have tools to support the operational side of things, including integrations with CRM or marketing software, analytics to track webinar attendance and engagement rates, and custom branding tools.

We've compiled this guide to the most popular automated webinar solutions for teams switching away from Zoom's live tools. Our guide provides background information on each brand, notes from reviews, key features, and pricing, allowing you to compare options and find the right solution for your specific requirements.

Best Zoom Alternatives for Webinars

1. eWebinar (our system)
2. Demio
3. EasyWebinar
4. WebinarGeek
5. GoToWebinar
6. Livestorm
7. BigMarker
8. Webex Webinars

eWebinar was purpose-built for teams to run automated webinars that save time and outperform live hosting. Our platform offers the largest selection of interactions of any webinar system, complemented by advanced customization tools that allow you to insert your own text, emojis, images, and even GIFs — features that help our users achieve 169% higher attendee engagement rates compared to live events.

For a more in-depth walkthrough of eWebinar after reading, watch our free demo. You can not only see how our platform works behind the scenes, but also experience it firsthand as an attendee.

1. eWebinar

Create interactive, automated webinars that amplify attendance & engagement rates

eWebinar is one of the most top-rated automated webinar software available — holding a consistent 4.9-star rating on review sites like Capterra and G2 since its debut 5+ years ago.

Users love eWebinar because:

• Our platform packs a lot under the hood while still remaining user-friendly enough for anybody to jump on board and produce professional webinars.

• It’s available worldwide and supports time zone adjustments during scheduling, allowing users to reach audiences regardless of their location.

• Our solution is extremely time-saving — not just freeing up time that would be spent hosting repeat webinars, but it also lets teams "gain time" by running webinars 24/7 across all time zones. Between recurring schedules and on-demand viewing, teams can serve hundreds of webinars in a single day; something not possible when you have to host every event live yourself (unless you want to hire a small army of hosts to work ‘round the clock).

• Our automated tools create consistency for everybody engaging with your brand. Everybody gets the same high-quality content and can interact with the same questions, quizzes, or calls to action, eliminating concerns about host slip-ups or attendees feeling too intimidated to participate in a live setting — which also reduces stress for those always tasked with hosting webinars.

• It improves attendance rates and user engagement, as teams can join webinars at a time that works for them and when they can dedicate their attention to fully participating.

Users also report that automated tools enhance the quality of engagements and communications: users can join when their interest is piqued, and hosts can preprogram interactions before webinars start and are freed from managing all webinar logistics, allowing them to focus on thoughtful conversations with attendees.

We work with onboarding teams, customer success teams, sales teams, and learning & development teams across a variety of industries — supporting SaaS brands, agent-based organizations like real estate brokerages and financial advisory, educational institutions, and more — with affordable pricing for teams of all sizes.

In the following sections, we’ll briefly walk through our platform’s features, showing you how easy it is to create webinars in our solution. At the end, we provide a mini-demo and a link where you can watch the full webinar.

Our Tools to Create & Run Automated Webinars

You don’t need to be a video editing pro to create stunning webinars in our system. Here’s how it works:

#1. Upload the recording you want to use for your webinar

We offer a range of options for adding video content:

• Upload files from your device

• Import recordings from Zoom or Vimeo

• Pull video projects in from Descript’s editing tool

When uploading recordings, the system will prompt you to:

• Choose the goal of your webinar project — whether you want attendees to request a meeting, sign up for a trial, or purchase your product

• Name your webinar

• Select the event type — if it’s a one-time event, recurring, only available on specific dates, or on-demand only

• Set your theme (from branding elements, below)

• And finally, upload or import your video
  
  

Read more: What Best Practices Should I Follow to Record High-Quality Videos for an Automated Webinar?

#2. Add your company’s branding elements

You’ll only have to do this during the initial set-up; afterwards, these branding elements will appear across webinars, registration pages, landing pages, notifications, webinar rooms, and more.

Our platform allows you to upload your brand logo and specify your brand's colors, font, font size, and button style. You can even host webinars on your domain, providing attendees with a fully branded experience.

#3. Schedule your webinar

eWebinar’s scheduling system was built to make attending your webinar as convenient as possible:

• On-demand availability: On-demand webinars are accessible to attendees at their moment of peak interest or need — allowing them to join a session instantly, rather than waiting for days or weeks.

• Recurring schedules: Running automated webinars on a recurring schedule (which automatically adapts to their local time zone) lets you capture registrants who don’t have time to watch immediately.

• Webinar replays: People can register for replays directly, rather than no-showing just to obtain a replay link. Those watching a replay will still be able to message you through the live chat if they have any questions.

eWebinar lets you enable all three scheduling options at once: on-demand, recurring, and replays — so people always have an option for when/how to attend your webinars (and no excuse to miss them).

This is why the average attendance rate for automated webinars hosted on eWebinar is 65%, with many customers achieving rates above 90% — significantly higher than the 40% industry average for live webinars.

#4. Insert interactive elements throughout the webinar

Our system features a straightforward timeline editor, allowing you to select the exact second you want an interaction to appear and easily insert it into the presentation. You can also add subtitles from video transcriptions, so viewers can tune in without volume.

As mentioned, our system features the most extensive gallery of interactions (over 20!) to encourage engagement and longer watch times. These include polls, quizzes, questions, links, special offers, agenda items, contact forms, testimonials, feedback requests, private messages, and more.

Of course, our live chat feature is available by default across all webinars. We’ll discuss this further in the next section.

#5. Manage webinars as they run, without having to moderate chat in every session live

Attendees can join your webinars instantly via on-demand viewing or select a scheduled session time. Our system sends automated registration confirmations, reminders before webinars, and follow-ups after.

Once participants have joined your webinar, eWebinar’s interactive tools and chat system ensure that every attendee receives personalized attention and no message goes unanswered, whether your teams are sleeping or responding in real time.

Every attendee receives an automated welcome message with their name and details, making it feel like a one-on-one experience. Then, they can easily keep conversations going with hosts via chat. (If no one's available to reply to them, the auto response will set expectations.)

On the moderator side, eWebinar provides:

• Instant message notifications. Whenever attendees send a message in the chat, any assigned moderators are notified via email, browser notifications, or Slack alerts (if the integration is active).

• Live chat + email responses. eWebinar enables hosts to respond to attendees in real-time through live chat or via email after the webinar has concluded (sent to the email they registered with). We also integrate with Slack so chats appear right in the messaging tool and can be addressed promptly.

As of this writing, we remain the only automated webinar software with this asynchronous chat functionality. Hosts can sit in live and reply to attendees in real-time or get back to them later without interrupting the conversational flow.

eWebinar Analytics Dashboards

We provide detailed breakdowns of each webinar’s performance, allowing you to view attendance and audience engagement metrics on a session-by-session and overall basis.

You can easily see watch times, completion rates, conversions per session or webinar, and even engagement heatmaps to understand what content resonates with your audiences (and what isn’t working as well).

Our dashboard also provides a handy calculator showing how much time eWebinar saves you per webinar. For example, eWebinar has saved our team 1,159 hours and 16 minutes (equivalent to 45+ days!) of running our demo this year alone.

You can also utilize our Universal Dashboard, which aggregates performance data across all – or any combination of – your webinars to display overall trends and success patterns.

eWebinar Mini Demo

See all of this in action in our one-minute demo below:

You can also watch our full demo here.

eWebinar Packages & Pricing

Our packages are based on the number of webinars you run and the number of attendees:

• Level 1 ($99/month) supports one active webinar and 3k registrants per month
• Level 2 ($199/month) supports five active webinars and 6k registrants per month
• Level 3 ($299/month) supports 15 active webinars and 12k registrants per month

If the number of included registrants at any level is insufficient to meet your needs, you can add more in increments of 1,000 for $49 per month.

2. Demio

Demio is a modern webinar platform with tools to deliver both live and automated webinar experiences. While Demio began with a focus on live, high-engagement sessions, it has now shifted its priorities to offer robust tools for creating engaging automated webinars.

Reviews of Demio consistently praise Demio’s ease of use, straightforward event creation tools, reliable performance, and strong attendee engagement features — including polls, interactive offers, and personalized reminders.

It works nicely for recurring training, evergreen sales pitches, and onboarding, reducing staff workloads and freeing time for other value-adding activities. And with its intuitive setup and user experience, it’s even accessible for teams new to webinars.

Some of the main issues we see with Demio are:

• High pricing, as pricing climbs sharply as attendee room capacity increases.

• The scheduling tools aren’t super flexible; you can have recurring or on-demand but not both, and users can’t sign up for replays.

• Live chat is only active while webinars run, so hosts can’t check messages or respond to attendees after webinars end. They have to sit in each session and respond in real-time. Which defeats the purpose of automating webinars…

• Limited customization tools — for example, full white-labeling is only available in the top-tier premium plan.

• Lacking analytics insights — Demio displays overall metrics, such as attention scores, poll responses, and drop-off points, but doesn’t include detailed heatmaps or segment-based data.

For these reasons, Demio is best suited for smaller or mid-sized teams that want to run repeat webinars more easily, but aren’t concerned about scaling content production, complex branding needs, or accommodating large audiences.

Find more Demio reviews here.

Características

• Live, automated, and on-demand webinars
• Replays and recordings
• Customization options and branding tools
• Interactions — chat (public/private), Q&A, polls, offers, links, CTAs, and attendee participation (where they can use mics and cameras to interact with webinar moderators)
• Scheduling tools (single or recurring events, time zone adjustments)
• Marketing tools like automated email reminders
• Analytics dashboards
• Integrations with marketing and CRM software
• Mobile apps (for iOS and Android)

Precios

Demio offers a 14-day free trial and three packages (differentiated mainly by attendee room capacities):

• The Starter plan ($63/month) supports a single host and 50 attendees. This plan is recommended for small businesses and solo entrepreneurs.

• The Growth plan supports multiple hosts and up to 3k attendees. Packages range from $117 to $855 per host per month. This is the most popular package.

• The Premium plan also supports multiple hosts and up to 3k attendees, and comes with dedicated account support. Demio doesn’t reveal all pricing info here, but we can see this plan starts at $196 per host per month.

Read more: Best Demio Alternatives

3. EasyWebinar

EasyWebinar is another leader in the automated webinar space. While the platform has long catered to creators who want to host smooth, high-quality live sessions, its standout feature set is built around automation — letting you pre-record webinars and schedule them to run (at just the right time) for every attendee. It’s typically recommended for marketers, coaches, solo entrepreneurs, and sales teams that want to drive new business via webinar efforts, without having to live-host every session.

The platform offers a variety of convenient tools, including just-in-time and on-demand events to capture viewers’ attention in the moment, smart time zone scheduling to ensure your sessions are available at all potential attendees' local times, and interactions to simulate the live experience and spur engagement. Like Zoom’s webinar tool, it also offers automated/live hybrid hosting options.

Reviews of EasyWebinar often praise its usability, noting that it’s not too difficult to learn the ropes. Though it really shines in its level of customer support. Users report that questions or issues with the software are typically resolved quickly.

However, EasyWebinar shares some of the same drawbacks as Demio, including limited customization options and high pricing. Additionally, its integrations with external tools, such as CRM systems like HubSpot, can be challenging to set up or are lacking entirely. These issues tend to have the most significant impact on teams trying to scale their webinar efforts. Which is a little ironic, given that EasyWebinar positions itself for exactly that kind of user...

See more EasyWebinar reviews here.

Características

• Live, automated, and on-demand webinar hosting
• EasyCast streaming (to broadcast your webinar simultaneously on platforms like YouTube Live and Facebook Live)
• Automatic replays and session recordings
• Branding customization options
• Engagement tools — public and private chat, emoji reactions, Q&A, polls, special offers, clickable links, CTAs, monetization tools like "Buy Now" buttons, and attendee participation with mic and camera controls
• Breakout rooms for smaller group discussions within webinars
• Contact box for automated webinars, allowing attendees to leave messages
• Scheduling tools, including one-time, recurring, just-in-time or on-demand webinars, plus automatic time zone adjustment
• Marketing automation features like scheduled email reminders and customizable follow-up sequences
• Comprehensive analytics dashboards
• Integrations with CRM, marketing software, LMS, and more
• Mobile-friendly attendee experience

Precios

EasyWebinar offers four plans in total, but only three of these plans include automated webinar features. Pricing varies by feature, number of supported webinars, and attendee capacities.

• The Automated Webinars plan supports 200 to 10k attendees and costs between $59 and $399 per month.

• The Automated + Live plan supports between 50 and 2k live webinars and 200 to 10k automated webinars. It starts at $79 per month, and EasyWebinar provides custom quotes as you move into upgraded plans.

• The Enterprise plan supports up to 500k attendees and includes advanced security features (such as SSO and tools to meet GDPR compliance), full white labeling, and support for large-scale global events. EasyWebinar provides custom quotes in this plan.

The Live Webinar plan costs between $39 and $299 per month.

Read more: Best EasyWebinar Alternatives

Bonus: EasyWebinar vs Demio vs eWebinar: Detailed Comparison Guide

4. WebinarGeek

WebinarGeek is a flexible webinar platform to help businesses host engaging webinars in live, automated, or hybrid formats. It stands out amongst competitors for:

• Ease of use — it’s super easy to build and schedule automated webinars without extensive training on the platform. Even the home page emphasizes this user-friendliness.

• Customization tools — the platform offers comprehensive branding controls, including custom domains, real-time page editors, and custom CSS, enabling a more professional and on-brand experience.

• Extensive integrations — it plugs into thousands of business tools to work with your existing tech stack and tie webinars into other workflows.

• New AI-powered functionality — the tool can help optimize scheduling, pull performance insights, and automate admin tasks.

• Fast, personal, accessible customer support — you can easily get assistance via chat or phone if you encounter issues while setting up or adjusting the platform.

While users praise WebinarGeek for its intuitive usability — they can quickly build professional webinars in less than a few hours — it’s a little lacking in interactions and tools to keep audiences engaged during automated webinars. It offers standard interactions, such as polls, quizzes, and chat, but doesn’t delve much deeper than that.

Overall, WebinarGeek is usually popular for teams new to webinars that require a user-friendly option and strong support. It also stands out for:

• Teams serving smaller audiences.

• Teams focused on saving time by hosting repeat automated sessions, rather than scaling large webinar programs.

• Teams that want to run paid webinars, as WebinarGeek integrates with Stripe and Mollie to monetize webinars.

Check out more WebinarGeek reviews here.

Características

• Live, automated, on-demand, and hybrid webinar hosting
• Paid webinars
• HD video streaming (browser-based, no downloads needed)
• Automated replays and session recordings
• Custom branding tools and webinar channels (custom pages listing upcoming and on-demand webinars)
• Extensive customization options — real-time page editor, custom domains, and custom CSS
• Engagement features — chat, Q&A, polls, quizzes, CTAs
• Scheduling options and time zone adjustments
• Marketing automation tools like automated and customizable email reminders
• Analytics dashboards
• Integrations with 6k+ outside tools, including CRM, marketing, and workflow apps
• GDPR-compliant data processing and attendee privacy
• Mobile-friendly experience

Precios

WebinarGeek offers three plans based on features and attendee capacity:

• The Basic plan ($81/month) supports live and on-demand webinars, as well as 50 viewers.

• The recommended Premium plan ($116 to $469 per month) includes everything in the Basic plan, plus automated webinars, interactions, and custom branding.

• The Enterprise plan unlocks full feature access and supports up to 5k attendees. Plans start at $410/month and require custom quotes as you upgrade.
  
  

5. GoTo Webinar

Next on our list is GoTo Webinar. You might recognize the GoTo name because they offer a wide variety of business applications — communications tools, customer service software, IT management, and more — and provide an industry-leading webinar solution: GoTo Webinar.

The GoTo brand typically appeals to enterprises that are invested in the fuller software ecosystem; they can use GoTo tools in tandem to run a smooth operation. It’s also a top enterprise choice due to its standout security features, including SSO, GDPR compliance, and encrypted video streams.

Given GoTo's reputation for its comprehensive business solutions, you might expect their automated webinar tools to be equally robust. However, when compared to other top-rated platforms like eWebinar, they fall somewhat short.

GoTo Webinar enables you to easily create webinars from pre-recorded content, and users tend to appreciate its flexible scheduling options, which allow them to engage with viewers across all time zones and connect with people at their convenience.

However, interactions are relatively standard, consisting of live chat, emoji reactions, polls, Q&A, and handouts. It also caps webinar room capacities relatively low, with the top-tier plan only supporting 3k viewers.

Typically, GoTo Webinar is best for (large) organizations that want to automate new employee training, streamline sales processes with accessible demos, or simplify customer onboarding processes — not scale their webinar efforts. It’s not ideal for those who prioritize interactivity and creative engagement in webinar sessions, as it leaves much to be desired in that category.

Read more GoTo Webinar reviews here.

Características

• Live, automated, on-demand, and hybrid webinar hosting
• Unlimited cloud recordings and automatic replays
• GoToStage for post-event on-demand webinar hosting
• Custom branding and registration page customization
• Engagement tools — chat, public/private Q&A, polls, handouts, automatic surveys, and attendee participation (raise hand, emoji reactions)
• Breakout rooms
• Multi-presenter support (up to 6 presenters/video feeds)
• Scheduling — one-time events, recurring series, and on-demand webinars
• Analytics dashboards
• Source tracking links for campaign attribution
• Integrations with CRM, marketing, and workflow tools (including Salesforce, HubSpot, Marketo)
• Robust security — end-to-end encryption, GDPR compliance, SSO options
• Mobile apps for iOS & Android (hosting & participation)

Precios

GoTo Webinar offers four plans based on webinar room capacities:

• The Lite plan ($59 per organizer per month) supports up to 250 participants.

• The Standard plan ($129 per organizer per month) supports up to 500 participants.

• The Pro plan ($249 per organizer per month) supports up to 1k participants.

• The Enterprise plan ($499 per organizer per month) supports up to 3k participants.
  
  

6. Livestorm

Livestorm is a multi-purpose solution for webinars (both live and automated) and video meetings. Users appreciate the platform’s modern look and feel, describing it as very easy to use for beginners, which allows anyone to host engaging and professional webinars with Livestorm. While its user friendliness often appeals to small teams new to webinar production, it’s also loved by mid-market companies and enterprises, and trusted by major brands like Sony, Dolby, and Verizon.

Reviews of Livestorm also praise:

• Its customization and branding tools — in particular, customers like the email, registration page, and event room customization features.

• Seamless CRM integrations to sync data between Livestorm and Salesforce, HubSpot, and other major systems.

• The straightforward analytics dashboard that helps focus on key metrics and identify areas to improve webinar performance.

However, like GoToWebinar above, Livestorm just doesn’t pack the strongest punch in terms of interactive features. It offers chat, polls, and file sharing, but that’s about it.

Livestorm recommends its automated webinar tools for course delivery, sales demos, and employee/customer training — anything “repeatable” where running the same content reliably saves resources. Because interactions are simpler, it is less suited to teams seeking a Zoom alternative to boost engagement or add advanced interactivity.

Find more Livestorm reviews here.

Características

• Live, automated, on-demand, and hybrid webinar hosting

• Multi-presenter support with video and screen sharing

• Restreaming to multiple social media platforms like YouTube and Facebook

• Custom branding — registration pages, email templates, and event room customization

• Engagement tools — chat, polls, Q&A, file sharing, calls-to-action

• Breakout rooms

• Scheduling — one-time, recurring, just-in-time, and on-demand events

• Automated email sequences — registration confirmations, reminders, and follow-ups

• Analytics dashboards

• Integrations with CRM, marketing, automation tools, and Zapier

• Security features — TLS encryption, GDPR-compliance

• Multi-language support and dial-in options for global audiences

Precios

Livestorm offers a free version of its product and three paid plans, but the site doesn’t provide a lot of detail on how the plans differ.

The Pro plan (their first paid tier) starts at $99/month, while Business and Enterprise plans require a custom quote.

Read more: Best Livestorm Alternatives

7. BigMarker

BigMarker is a more advanced solution for webinars, virtual and hybrid events, and online meetings — it’s best known for its branded webinar experiences and ability to manage large virtual events, such as multi-day summits, supporting up to 50k attendees per event.

It also differentiates itself from starter platforms by offering strong marketing automation features, extensive branding controls, detailed analytics, support for paid webinars (with built-in event ticketing and payment processing), and full event lifecycle management, from registration to post-event follow-ups.

BigMarker’s webinar solution supports a variety of session types: live, automated, on-demand, evergreen, breakout sessions, series/multi-session events, and 24/7 live streaming. It also provides convenient multi-presenter tools, allowing teams running large events to have multiple hosts.

While we’ve mentioned less-than-stellar reviews of other webinar systems’ interactivity tools, BigMarker does well here, offering a comprehensive collection of interactions to spark webinar engagement, including public/private chat, polls, Q&A, offers, handouts, surveys, and more.

However, with an advanced tool like this, users report a steep learning curve and expensive pricing. The platform is most appropriate for mid-size or enterprise organizations that primarily host large virtual events or paid webinars and can justify the cost of this software. Smaller businesses are typically priced out in early sales conversations.

It’s also worth noting that BigMarker is probably better suited for teams that want all the advanced bells and whistles for live events — BigMarker’s automated tools are good, but no better than those of other dedicated systems that charge half the price.

Read more BigMarker user reviews here.

Características

• Live, automated, on-demand, and hybrid webinar hosting
• Multi-presenter support with video and screen sharing
• Restreaming to multiple social media platforms like YouTube and Facebook
• Custom branding — registration pages, email templates, event room customization, and virtual backgrounds
• Engagement tools — chat, polls, Q&A, offers, handouts, surveys, and file sharing
• Breakout rooms and roundtables
• Scheduling — one-time, recurring, just-in-time, on-demand
• Automated email sequences — registration confirmations, reminders, and follow-ups
• Analytics dashboards with detailed reporting on attendance, engagement, and conversion funnels
• Integrations with CRM, marketing, automation tools, Zapier, and API access
• Ticketing and payment processing for paid webinars
• Security features — SOC 2 Type 2 certification, TLS encryption, GDPR-compliance, role-based permissions
• Multi-language support, dial-in options, and AI-powered networking tools

Precios

BigMarker offers a variety of plans and packages under the Webcast, Event Packages, and Media Hub umbrellas. All pricing requires a custom quote.

Read more: Best BigMarker Alternatives

8. Webex Webinars (by Cisco)

The final entry in our guide, Webex Webinars (formerly Webex Events), is our top enterprise solution.

Webex Webinars is part of the larger Cisco Webex collaboration suite, a globally recognized software brand offering a broad range of business applications — video conferencing tools, team messaging apps, phone systems, and webinar software designed for hosting large-scale interactive webinars.

As we mentioned with GoTo above, Webex Webinars is usually a top choice for those already using other Cisco systems; it’s automatically integrated in all Webex solutions, so you can use them in parallel.

Webex Webinars supports several hosting options (live, automated, on-demand, and hybrid, with recording and automatic replays) and a wide variety of event sizes (from small groups to high-volume events with up to 100k attendees). Users also say it touts rich engagement tools, including chat, emoji reactions, attendee hand raising, polls, Q&A, and even event games.

Webex Webinars is primarily designed and tailored for teams running virtual events to massive audiences, whether they want to automate webinars, host live events, or do a combination of both. It offers multi-presenter tools, translations, AI-powered notes, summaries, and transcriptions after events, as well as impressive engagement tools to keep audiences interacting, whether presenters are hosting live sessions or pre-recorded ones.

Some (perhaps obvious) concerns here are the high pricing and complex usability. Small businesses or those new to webinar software may find it unaffordable or too difficult to learn.

Plus, if the primary goal is to automate webinars, Webex may not be the most cost-effective solution. While it offers solid automation tools, they’re not super unique or differentiated compared with specialized automated webinar platforms like eWebinar.

Check out more Webex Webinar reviews here.

Características

• Live, automated, on-demand, simulive, and hybrid webinar hosting

• Multi-presenter support with video and screen sharing

• Restreaming to social media platforms and RTMP destinations

• Custom branding — registration pages, email templates, event room customization, and virtual backgrounds

• Engagement tools — chat, live polling (native and Slido), Q&A, hand raising, emoji reactions, event games, and gesture recognition

• Breakout rooms

• Scheduling — one-time, recurring, just-in-time, and on-demand events

• Automated email sequences — registration confirmations, reminders, and follow-ups

• Analytics dashboards

• Integrations with CRM, marketing, and workflow tools (Salesforce, Eloqua, Webex Meetings)

• Security features — FedRAMP, SOC 2 Type II, TLS encryption, GDPR compliance, HIPAA/BAA, and role-based access controls

• Multi-language support, real-time translation, closed captioning, screen reader, high contrast modes, and dial-in options

• Webex Assistant — AI-powered transcription, notes, and highlights for post-event workflows

• Webcast mode for large-scale broadcast-style events

• (Some) advanced production controls — practice sessions, speaker pages, custom stage layouts

Precios

Webex offers two packages here — Webex Webinars and Webex Events. For automated webinar capabilities, choose Webex Webinars (Events is for in-person, virtual/live, or hybrid events).

Then, pricing is by attendee capacity. The entry-level tier supports up to 1,000 attendees, but you can upgrade as needed to support over 10k attendees.

Pricing starts at $275 per user per month, but Webex occasionally offers sales or discounts, so you can join when pricing is low.

Zoom Webinar Alternatives for Hosting Live Events

While some teams need better automation to escape the time drain of hosting the same webinars repeatedly, others are looking for Zoom alternatives for live webinars that:

• Provide advanced production capabilities and customization tools for creating premium, studio-quality digital experiences.

• Alternatively, they are more simplistic and budget-friendly for occasional video conferencing with small audiences.

The best Zoom alternatives for those looking to host virtual events with Hollywood-level production value are ON24, RingCentral Events (formerly Hopin Events), and Adobe Connect Webinars (although less robust than the former two).

Video conferencing software, as well as other online meeting software, such as Click Meeting, Microsoft Teams Virtual Town Halls (formerly Live Events), and Zoho Meeting, are better suited for teams that want more budget-friendly and familiar alternatives for infrequent webinar events and video calls. (Zoho Meeting even has a forever-free plan for teams who need the bare essentials.)

Related read: ON24 vs Zoom Showdown: Which One Should You Pick?

Primeros pasos con eWebinar

Switching from live to automated webinars offers a host of benefits.

• Save substantial time and offer (virtually limitless) recurring or on-demand webinar sessions by recording content once and setting its schedule.

• Reach a global audience, across different time zones, when it’s convenient for participants — garnering the attention of viewers you couldn’t normally interact with during standard operating hours.

• Provide a more engaging experience than hosting live; users can join when their interest is piqued, and hosts can preprogram interactions and engage with attendees in various ways — without the stress of presenting live or dealing with technical hiccups.

• Maintain a consistent, professional, polished experience across every webinar and session you run.

• Scale operations and generate more leads, sales, and revenue without the need for an army of hosts or extra costs.

And the simple truth is: if the presentation feels live to an attendee, they’ll consider it as such. They care more about getting the information and answers they need when they need it, rather than whether the presentation is pre-recorded or actually happening live.

Watch our free demo to see how eWebinar not only saves time but helps you “gain hours” to connect and engage with global audiences 24/7/365.

 

Descripción general y demostración del eWebinar 🔥

Organizado por Melissa Kwan, Todd Parmley

¿Cansado de hacer el mismo webinar una y otra vez? En esta descripción general y demostración de 25 minutos, aprenderá cómo eWebinar le permite automatizar sus demostraciones de ventas, incorporación y seminarios web de formación en cuestión de minutos.

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