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Best Live Webinar Service For 1,000+ People?
Posted By: Mike Volpe - HubSpot on 7/3/2008 11:10 AM (CST)	250 Points
We conduct relatively large (I am told) live webinars (with both PowerPoint and live web surfing) for 1,000 or more people. So far, the best solution for us that we have found is GoToWebinar. Their list price is under $100 per month for unlimited use and up to 1,000 people per event. So far, it has worked pretty well, better than other services I have used before. However, we are runnning into some challenges, including a limit at 1,000 people and some performance issues with the phone line for audio with that number of people. I have not found a webevent/webconference/webinar system that does everything we need. Here are my desired requirements: - Supports thousands of live concurrent users - Costs no more than a few hundred bucks per month - Delivers audio through the web - Saas / web-based, no software to install ourselves, we don't want to set up a streaming server, etc. - Supports chat, Q&A and polling - Provides reports about who attended the event, how long they attended and what questions they asked Basically, I want GoToWebinar with more scalability and web-based audio. :) Anyone have any ideas?

Posted by: Levon	Accepted Answer
7/3/2008 11:30 AM (CST)
Please login or sign up to see this answer, or ask our marketing experts your own question. Sign up today ... it's FREE! There is something in the works which will resolve your requirements by a pretty cool little company. Will comment more when they are ready to announce themselves to the world.

Posted by: joel.otfinoski	Accepted Answer
7/3/2008 11:31 AM (CST)
Please login or sign up to see this answer, or ask our marketing experts your own question. Sign up today ... it's FREE! Try WebEx...more expensive, but more bells and whistles that you are looking for and can handle the number of participants.

Posted by: thinkmor	Accepted Answer
7/3/2008 11:54 AM (CST)
Please login or sign up to see this answer, or ask our marketing experts your own question. Sign up today ... it's FREE! Hi Try: http://www.audiovideoweb.com/webcasting_large_events.html They can facilitate up to 2000 people and can charge as pay-as-you-go, bandwidth or by number of users. I've heard they are good but have not used them. Hope this helps. Zahid Adil

Posted by: Mike Volpe - HubSpot	Author Response
7/3/2008 12:17 PM (CST)
Please login or sign up to see this answer, or ask our marketing experts your own question. Sign up today ... it's FREE! Thanks for all the info! WebEx is way too expensive. AudioVideoWeb looks interesting, but I want an all you can eat price so I can budget, not a per bandwidth charge. Any other ideas?

Posted by: fazalh	Accepted Answer
7/3/2008 12:28 PM (CST)
Please login or sign up to see this answer, or ask our marketing experts your own question. Sign up today ... it's FREE! Hi Mike, I sent you an email, I work for a webcasting company "Streamlogics" and we can support your needs as described above. Please let me know what time best works for you and I will have a sales person join me in the call to discuss. We can support from 1K to 10K on a live event. website: [URL deleted by staff] Regards, Fazal Hassan Director, Client Services Streamlogics, Inc 555 Richmond Street West, Suite 400 Toronto, ON, M5V 3B1 [Phone numbers, email address and URL deleted by staff. Please use the Member Profile for this information] "Being on par in terms of price and quality only gets you into the game. Service wins the game." Before printing this e-mail think if it is necessary

Posted by: Neil	Accepted Answer
7/3/2008 5:55 PM (CST)
Please login or sign up to see this answer, or ask our marketing experts your own question. Sign up today ... it's FREE! If WebEx is too expensive, I wonder if you could call them and negotiate a better deal? It doesn't hurt to try. You would be a pretty big customer for them.

Posted by: Jay Hamilton-Roth	Accepted Answer
7/4/2008 3:24 PM (CST)
Please login or sign up to see this answer, or ask our marketing experts your own question. Sign up today ... it's FREE! You might consider HP Virtual Classroom (http://h10076.www1.hp.com/education/hpvr/) or Microsoft's Live Office (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/livemeeting/default.aspx)

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