With the move to online courses and remote working around the world due to the global pandemic coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, it’s important to keep your business going while practicing social distancing.
While social media offers you a unique way to engage with the general public through campaigns and one-off posts, there’s a new opportunity to be had with everyone staying in: online webinars and seminars. Webinar platforms and softwares enable you to engage with potential customers, clients, and even your own employees.
Here’s our list of the best webinar platforms, so you can keep practicing good social distancing while staying virtually connected.
Webinar Ninja
Webinar Ninja is an all-in-one platform that enables you to broadcast live to an audience, automate recorded webinars, create a group of webinars, and develop a hybrid model of live and recorded webinars. Additionally, this platform has a lot of functional options for your webinar experience, including instant chats, multiple poll options, custom registration pages, and timed offers during the webinar.
Zoom Webinar
Zoom is an entirely cloud-based platform that is one of the most widely used today, and for good reason. This platform is intuitive and offers a wide variety of features within its webinars. Options include audio and video feed, screen sharing on a desktop and in app, webinar recording, and public and private chats. It also seamlessly integrates into Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook, so you can schedule Zoom meetings straight from your calendar.
Webex
A Cisco product (in case you’re brand representing), Webex is also a cloud-based platform that boasts data-security. This webinar platform can be accessed from just about any device and offers a high level of customization, meaning it can be tailored for fit your business needs. One of the best features (in our opinion) is the availability of online and offline webinars. But if you’re looking for more than that, it can also support up to 40,000 attendees.
GoToMeeting
This online meeting platform allows you to meet with members of your team, clients, or vendors. The video conferencing software also enables desktop sharing for efficient collaboration. While the meeting space isn’t necessarily for webinars, it integrates with LogMeIn’s GoToWebinar.
GoToWebinar
Owned by GoToMeeting’s LogMeIn, it picks up where that platform leaves off. It’s one of the simplest platforms on this list because all you do is select the date and the platform takes it from there. You can choose from webinar templates, or select flexible scheduling, but much of the small details are covered by the platform. For scheduling out webinars, you can create custom invites and even set an auto generated email to remind participants.
Webinar Jam
One of the easiest to use if you know nothing about webinar platforms, Webinar Jam can get you set up in minutes. While some of the other platforms have opportunities to record the webinar and save it in the cloud, Webinar Jam offers something different: stream directly to YouTube and password protect your content.
Easy Webinar
Easy Webinar integrates webinars with a marketing strategy — meaning it can integrate to your various popular marketing tools like email distribution, website platforms, and shopping carts. For the in-webinar features, it offers screen sharing options, video and audio, and interactive live chat, as well as integration to YouTube.
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