VIRTUAL EVENTS GROUP

PLATFORMS

What

is a Platform?

A platform is capable of holding a full virtual event from soup to nuts including registration and metrics. The benefits of a platform solution are that the pieces are all there for you. The downside is that that they tend to look somewhat vanilla. If you want to do special things on your platform look carefully at its integration capabilities.

How We Rate

Taxonomy

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Conbop

An all-inclusive mobile event app, ConBop provides intuitive CMS, event analytics, in-app charting, gamification, personalized profiles, ...

Convene

Convene is a virtual meetings provider that supports unlimited remote audiences, as well as hybrid meetings. When hosting with this ...

Crowdcast

Best for online workshop instructors, coaches, and conference hosts, the live video conferencing software allows users to stream ...

cvent

A cloud-based solution that helps midsize organizations and enterprises with venue sourcing, online event registration, budget ...

Demio

Demio's software helps marketing and customer-education teams create, launch and manage live, automated or recorded webinars, ...

Discord

A voice, video and text communication service that provides a platform for anyone who could use a place to talk with their friends and ...

Engagez

Engagez is a one-stop solution for all your virtual events. Offering space for individual presentations, multi-day conferences, job ...

Evenium -ConnexME

ConnexMe is the Evenium virtual event platform that includes everything from registration to video streaming. It provides networking ...

Eventsforce

The online module is a complete platform loaded with functionalities such as custom websites, session selections, online payments and ...

EventMobi

Best suited for those requiring extensive branding and customization this platform easily integrates with hundreds of other tools and ...

ExVo

This incredibly immersive platform comes from the event planning service, Allseated. Hosts are able to choose from over 150 known ...

Freeman

From Freeman, one of the largest players in all aspects of the conferences, events and exhibitions arena, this all-in-one module based ...

How We Rated the Platforms

For now, the platforms are listed alphabetically and rated. Ratings are subjective and based on reviews from event organizers and attendees that we found scrapping the web for Featured Customers and Event Manager Blogs. Ratings are based on compiling numbers from these sources, with the average taken. Your comments based on your familiarity with the platforms will add to the ongoing ratings.

How We Categorize the Platforms

Platforms come with a wide range of features and functions and no single platform is the perfect solution for all events. In order to help you find a good platform for your event, we have come up with a system of five categories based on the type of event: Video Conference, Webinar, Networking Event, Conference, and Trade Show.

We compare each platform’s offering with the attributes listed in the table below. Based on this process, we identify the primary mission and best use for each platform and assign it to that category. In some cases, we may also assign a secondary category for platforms that may be suitable for another use even though it is not its primary mission.

These assignments are based on our independent judgment using the best information available to us at the time. If you have a comment about the choice for a certain platform, please contact us and let us know why you think the categorization should be different.