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Topic: E-Marketing

Best Live Webinar Service For 1,000+ People?

Posted by Anonymous on 7/3/2008 at 12:10 PM ET 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?
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  • Posted by Levon on 7/3/2008 at 12:30 PM Accepted
    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 on 7/3/2008 at 12:31 PM Accepted
    Try WebEx...more expensive, but more bells and whistles that you are looking for and can handle the number of participants.
  • Posted on 7/3/2008 at 1:17 PM Author
    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 on 7/3/2008 at 1:28 PM Accepted
    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 on 7/3/2008 at 6:55 PM Accepted
    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 on 7/4/2008 at 4:24 PM Accepted
    You might consider HP Virtual Classroom (https://h10076.www1.hp.com/education/hpvr/)

    or Microsoft's Live Office (https://office.microsoft.com/en-us/livemeeting/default.aspx)
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    I don't think I am allowed to post a business opportunity so I am simply posting this as a Service for anybody who is looking for a 1000+ Seat Conference Room.

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