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25 reviewers had the following to say about GoToWebinar's features:
Pros
If you do not have it installed, it makes it so easy by installing itself and bringing you to the interface screen that you need.
Cons
Sometimes the call in feature is annoying but more because of the user than the program.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Other
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
The organization I work for has recently started selling out for certain events due to the size of our conference room so we decided streaming the presentation for people so they could still be apart of it.
Cons
If you are only needing to conference call with a few people I would stick with gotomeeting.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Monthly
Video conference and presentations
Pros
It allows to record the session and use mobile device.
Cons
It was a little bit hard to setup in the beginning. I found it hard to update materials and create similar feels as your own page.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Other
Likelihood to recommend
However, GTW does not require a phone number in order to get the recording, so those prospects cannot be called.
Pros
Recurring meeting feature in the GoToMeeting suite is why I still use GoToWebinar.
Cons
Cannot really use the recordings for marketing, since it does not require a phone number to gain access.
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Likelihood to recommend
Pros
You're able to share your screen in real time, chat with users and more.
Cons
Licenses are pricey. Other than cost everything works smoothly and I have never run into any road bumps.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Pros
The webinar scheduling is super easy as well as monitoring the registration and other marketing related tasks, like following up after webinars.
Cons
I remember recording a webinar several weeks ago and the recording turned out to be horrible, as it somehow included the control panel as well as the questions asked, I hope it wasn't also broadcasted during the webinar...
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
I like that the camera doesn't turn on automatically when I sign on.
Cons
I am the admin assistant and need to record meetings for my boss, but need to remind them every single time to record the meeting, when I should be able to do it myself.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Set up webinars that resulted in many leads for clients. It integrates nicely with other software we are using, that's helpful!
Pros
Easy to set up a webinar, automate emails, and practice before you go live. Their customer support was splendid, although the problem I had couldn't be fixed.
Cons
You can't present with a video and then have a nice recording, the size will be too small.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Other
Likelihood to recommend
Quick fast and easy online conference.
Pros
Can get participants in the meeting quickly and easy and it automatically records your session which I find to be the best thing about it.
Cons
Not many cons. Sometimes the voip is laggy and we have to dial in but its not that much of an issue for us.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
Also, I make the recordings of these sessions available to the participants to replay later.
Cons
Private pop-up notifications when questions are received by attendees, I sometimes miss new questions if I'm viewing the attendee list.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
I like being able to participate in webinars from anywhere by using this software. It's really nice to be able to take screenshots of slides.
Cons
Sometimes the call quality isn't great, but I don't know if that is something that is by fault of the software or the WiFi connection.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Monthly
Pros
Pros......the questions section inside a live webinar helped with getting complaints from our members.
Cons
Had to cancel webinar whilst live, stream did not work.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Pros
Love that it automatically records the webinars now.
Cons
I wish you could run more reports. Daily reports and track specific information.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Has an open API which can be used to integrate with other systems as needed.
Pros
Great post meeting features i.e the report generation using Ms Excel and recording converting that allows for proper meeting minute generation.
Cons
The way the software forcibly keeps changing my time zone really irritates me as on some occasion I've missed attending meetings I've scheduled because of this.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
No longer need to hand up and dial in again for static to go away.
Contacts stay are linked between GoToWebinar and Hubspot. Less work to create list of attendees and send follow-up emails.
Pros
All of the people that sign up through a Hubspot landing page automatically get emails from GoToWebinar and added to a list.
Cons
It makes you recreate design of emails every time you create a new webinar.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Monthly
Likelihood to recommend
Tons of leads every month!
Pros
We switched from another tool to GoToWebinar, and we are very pleased. The recording options are great, also the quality of the video and audio.
Cons
Auto-emails should be re-designed. they are very basic and "old".
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Monthly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
I would recommend ensuring that you should buy a good quality microphone and recording set up so that the recordings that are produced are the best quality they can be.
Cons
Also, the polling questions design is functional, but no flexibility to change the design.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
It deserved 5 stars until lately, perhaps GoToWebinar is trying to make some changes, but they never communicate the changes with us.
The recent (late 2014) roll-out of an entire new feature set really brought GoToWebinar to the top of web conferencing usability.
Pros
Ease of event setup, source tracking and excellent in-conference capabilities.
Cons
Registration landing pages are not flexible and are very confining.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
To dictate or receive conferences worldwide
Pros
Excellent to give lectures to a large number of people in different countries is very interactive and useful
Cons
Sometimes the platform has problems and loses the audio for some users but the video continues without problems
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Monthly
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
GoToWebinar has a lot of great and easy to use functions, such as reports, recordings.
Cons
I cannot think of a negative thing to say, but perhaps more flexibility on the branding of the webinar registration page would be nice.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
This software allows me to set up meetings quickly and easily and participants generally report that it is easy to connect to meetings.
Pros
GoToWebinar makes it easy to hold webinars with members from multiple organizations.
Cons
I have also had issues with the sound when attending webinars via mobile.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Monthly
Likelihood to recommend
We are able to use GoToWebinar for both customers and prospects for training and marketing purposes. We can easily host webinars with a relatively small team.
Pros
I also like the reporting that the provide with every webinar.
Cons
The actually GoToWebinar panel (when you're in the webinar) is touchy and some things are hard to see and use which can be especially frustrating when you are in the middle of a live webinar.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Monthly
Likelihood to recommend
