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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GEVME Live

The cloud-based event management and marketing platform provides an integrated event solution for greater event registration, ticketing, ...

Glisser

Aimed at presenters and Event Managers who want to make their events more interactive, this all-in-one audience engagement software ...

Goldcast

A relative newcomer, Goldcast was born of the pandemic in January 2020. It’s a low-cost event platform with tools to organize, execute ...

GoToWebinar

Used for hosting one-way interactive webinars, GoToWebinar is the sister product of GoToMeeting and is built for larger groups of ...

Hubilo

Hubilo is a fullly-integrated virtual event service, from registration to robust analytics of participant engagement. It offers multiple ...

Gatheround

Gatheround focuses on engagement, and is designed for everything from networking to team meetings to virtual social events. The platform ...

Jitsi

This secure web based video conferencing software is best suited for companies looking for a comprehensive virtual meeting solution. The ...

Kestone

Kestone's platform enables automated marketing and sales campaigns and maximizes ROI for virtual conferences, digital product launches ...

LunchPool

This Florida start-ups aim is to provide social connections through discussion around virtual tables. Attendees can watch and listen to ...

Maestro

Built primarily as an entertainment broadcasting platform -- including gaming -- Maestro can also be used for webinars. It relies on ...

meetyoo

Meetyoo is for those looking to host virtual business meetings, audio events, webcasts or larger scale shows through their 'ubivent' platform. ...

Mersive

The Mersive Solstice Software allows any number of users to simultaneously wirelessly stream device screens, share videos, post ...

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.