ON24 Reviews

When comparing webinar platforms, One24 was above and beyond in terms of analytics. You can easily see registrants, attendees, and see their engagement (who downloaded a resource, who responded to a poll, etc). This has helped immensely for measuring and helping us drive continued engagement in our presentations. The webinar console was a big selling point too, as it can be completely customized to your brand's identity. Finally, the automated follow up emails and Marketo integration are key.

On24 is by far the most expensive webinar platform that my team encountered. However, it's reliable and worth it for my company. There are a few small things that I don't like - for example, getting signed out of the platform constantly - but overall, it works for us.

When I've invited national speakers onto webinars, they are always impressed to hear we use on24. It has name recognition and speakers are familiar with how it works. Some integrations are available (for an extra cost). The platform is fairly customizable. We are able to add certain kinds of content into the webinar that provide us with extra value.

It's a bit cumbersome. The UX is fairly dated. It's almost since this has been around so long, it's harder to updated and modernize. While it's customizable, branding options are a bit limited. You can add a logo and some customer colors, but that's about the extent of it. Building our the registration page requires entering data in multiple places. Integration with CRMs are available, but at a steeper cost.

Easy to setup on the backend and easy to explain to clients who are presenting. There are no unnecessary steps (i.e. having to create user accounts for each speaker) which saves our team time.

Wish there was an editing tool within the platform, for editing/modifying webinars for on-demand (and also for simu-live presentations). Having to use an outside editor to edit the sound, and then readjust the slide timings, is very time consuming---and leaves room for error. Also, the chat support function is very handy but wish the conversations were a) quicker and b) the support reps were able to answer questions succinctly and with confidence.

There are many features of the software and this makes it easy to customize each webinar. Functionality is great and ease of use by the users and attendees of the webinars. Love being able to customize the look and feel of your webinars and all the elements you can add.

We have had many issues with Screen Share and with attendees being about the hear or view the Live Presentations. Many times we can correct the issues that the attendees are having and most of the time it is a browser issue but there have been times that we have gotten complaints.

We do over 250+ webinars a year and ON24 allows us to scale our webinar program while still making every webinar fun and interactive. They have multiple webinar types (On-Demand, SimuLive, Live) which makes planning for a large number of webinars much easier. We can use the SimuLive feature to still host webinars when we don't have any presenters available. They also have lots of "widgets" that you can add to the audiences view of the webinar that allows them to customize and click on different items during the webinars.

There is not to much that we don't like about the software. Reporting could be better and have an aggregate reporting pulling feature.

Once you have your template set up On24 is very easy to clone and use for all your webinars. The best part about this software is that it lives online and not a software on your computer so you never need to worry about showing the wrong screen. Additionally, we work with a lot of external presenters and the platform is so easy to use my briefs only take about 10 minutes to walk them through.

A few little kinks: If you clone the same presentation too much, it will stop you from creating any new webinar pages. I needed to reach out to support to find this out. While I know you can use their templates, we just got in the habit of cloning and it didnt work. Also, there is not an option to have a video play within the slide you are showing. You need to upload videos separately which can make it a little clunky for viewers.

Reporting capability Self-service Multiple options to deliver and create content Customer analytics Easy to design and support Content Gateway

Flash enabled content is still around The delay in voice between presenters and audience There is no mobile app to control the content or check reports on the go

I love the set-up and the interface. The log in experience for the attendees is simple and streamlined.

There is a constant need to refresh and that can be very frustrating and confusing. The archive features with certain formats are archaic and low quality.

I love the simulive feature. I use this every time because I have had bad luck with all other platforms when I do the webinar live.

It is so robust, it takes me more time than desired to train the presenters on how to pre-record. My speakers struggle with the video clip option.

The platform is easy to use and when doing a live webinar, most technical issues are user error and not related to the system, which is leaps and bounds above previous platforms I have used. The console builder is simple and easy to understand and there is a plethora of training videos to walk through most of the intricacies of the platform.

The back-end environment could use an update. The styling and the way that things are laid out is a bit antiquated but the console builder and the system is still very easy to use. The presenter platform could also use some sprucing up.

Ease of use! I have NEVER used a software so simple and intuitive! It's always been easy to set up, and when On24 rolls out new features, they hold webinars that instruct those on how to use it. Those webinars are helpful, but even if you can't attend - the updates are pretty simple to navigate!

Chat - those on chat ALWAYS need an Event ID# even if you're simply asking a hypothetical question. I always get an answer, just takes some unnecessary exchanges at the beginning to get there.

We started using On24 this year and the support getting started was tremendous and extremely helpful. The online tutorials come in handy as we have extended our use of the On24 webinars. The reporting is a true benefit to us and used in multiple ways before and after events.

We wish there was an option to set up and event where we could allow the agents to use a microphone. We also wish the Group Chat was more useful. Since attendees don't see the other people in the room with them, group chat has come in handy to add validity to the event, however when trying to read messages in chat, it becomes troublesome. We also wish our presentation would allow animation.

Analytics, speed of setup, ability to fully customise and brand fully, engagement hub, plenty of widgets to keep customers engaged.

Speed navigating some of the setup menus, delay to live stream 30 secs. Lack of help with initial equipment recommendations and setup. Clunky help systems force a lot of reading no real on boarding process.

How much do you love your whiteboard? I use mine for organizing information and presenting it to those who collaborate with me in my office - and that's also how I use On24. Unlike other "single-content" webinar experiences, On24 lets me design a wall of information to present the full story of a project to my collaborators or prospects all at once. I love that the Simulive replays let me set up my polls, presentation, video, and downloads, feeds, etc all on one screen, so that I can schedule pre-recorded presentations where attendees can "discover" my content and have a rich, interactive, all-hands-on-deck experience.

Previously, most of our prospects and collaborators are working in corporate offices with great internet bandwidth. Recently, as more people have transitioned to work from home due to the Coronavirus, we are finding that those with lower-bandwidth connections are experiencing choppiness or freezing.

I love that the live webcasts we do become easily accessible recordings. Automatically. Without have to remember to press the RECORD button.

I don't like the small slides at the top of the producer interface. They are so small that for me and for most of my presenters they are useless. I'd also like to have the ability to create on-demand recordings with video of the speaker.

ON24 is an intuitive platform that delivers high quality webinars to our audience. As someone who is not super tech savvy, I have been able to perform well in my role as Webinar Producer. The enhancements made to the audio options on the platform have been great over the last year.

The phone bridge is still not the best quality, but that is possibly a result of our company phones. While we refrain from using the phone bridge when possible, the improved presenter bridge, that allows for PC Mic use is great! It is also important to note that Internet Explorer is not compatible with this product. This is a struggle for some of our audience members, although we post in several places the need to use Chrome or Firefox.

The flexibility of recording a webinar with multiple speakers in different places and at different times!!!

the initial dashboard / filtering of all the webinars.

Browser-based platform, interactive features to boost audience engagement, ability to mute audience audio, email notifications, on-demand & multiple event-type options, and Analytics Dashboard! These features have been extremely beneficial in communicating to/training our Target Audience (Sales team).

Mobile view, finicky Console Builder, accessing PMXD from mobile devices. Our audience (almost 5,000 sales team members) rely on mobile-friendly viewing, which is currently limited. Additional suggestions: - Enable ability to group hide slides in PMXD Storyboard - Enable ability to enlarge storyboard thumbnails (ex. zoom bar)

-Ability to pre-record webinars -Easy-to-access and understand reporting -Can have registration pages with multiple events -Automated emails (that are HTML so they can be customized if necessary) -Webinar console is very customizable

-Various issues with pre-recorded webinars -Inability to have attendees dial in -Attendees on every single webinar we've ever held have had audio/video issues (not every single attendee, but at least one on each webinar - it works most of the time if they refresh their screen, but it's not a great user experience) -Registration page can be customized, but only slightly -The customer service department is extremely responsive, but they have never actually been able to help with any emergency issues we've had

I like how ON24 updates in real time. For example, in the console builder, I can update speaker details, slides, and add widgets and have the attendee view update immediately.

Making a webcast series isn't so easy or laid out in an obvious place. Updating our registration emails happens frequently, so having a new feature to applying changes to certain webcasts would be helpful.

They were always available to us, and when we had a webinar, they were there on the phone trying to support us, so kudos for trying.

We hosted a total of six webinars for them, and each one had a technical issue. And we get it, our firewall might have made things a little more difficult. But even with them trying to help us at every turn, our whole department was stressed out on webinar days, knowing that chances were high that something would go wrong. And something ALWAYS went wrong: sound not working, video feeds cutting out...

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The ease of use to produce a webinar is incredible. I did not know much about webinars when I got started, and this platform made it easy for me to create and access what I needed to know quickly. It provides a good customer/attendee experience and I wouldn't use anyone else.

Honestly, the one thing I get frustrated about is how long it can take to upload our slides or files.

ON24 has countless features, options for customization, branding, tracking, CRM integration, content gateway, great audience experience, etc. we could go on and on!

the more robust the software, the more can go wrong. If the webinars are not set up perfectly, the webinar will not run smoothly. You can not make changes on the fly (if you set the webinar up with no screenshare, you cannot change your mind on the live webinar) if you need to change the console, you cannot do so when the webinar starts, etc. No dial-in number as a standard offering for webinars We also wish that ON24 could be used for demos and 1-on-1 calls but the audience lag doesn't allow for that.

Easy to create and deliver online webinars

there isn't much that I don't like, our agency could upgrade to a higher tier and get more features, but currently we are not able to afford that.

complete Never stops safe scalable excellent support real time reporting

pricing should include more flexibility to allow smaller project sizes