9 Powerful Webinar Tools You Can Start Using Today

Webinars give a range of options to engage with your participants either by teaching a course, training employees, conducting an online discussion, hosting events, running a workshop, and many others. A simple example is PromozSEO; we hosted our internet marketing webinars to educate digital marketing learners and that helped us reach a global audience and attain an all-time highest conversion rate.

To get you started on your quest for best and affordable webinar tools, we have collected 9 of them that you can use to host and broadcast your online webinars.

GoToWebinar

GoToWebinar is a professional online meeting software that allows you to stream live webinars and send recordings to the participants once the streaming gets over. It makes communication with employees, prospects, partners, and customers easier and more efficient.

With GoToWebinar you can create surveys or polls for the participants, include handouts, create custom email invitations, join in live Q&A session, and monitor the webinar stats in real time.

Features:

• You can host live webinars and share the recordings with participants.
• Create and schedule pre-recorded webinars.
• Record videos in HD quality and share video clips on YouTube.
• Create custom email invitations, confirmations, and reminders with its automated email templates.
• Display your company or brand logo on every webinar.
• Get a complete analytics report for your webinar performance.
• GoToWebinar mobile application is available for iOS and Android devices.

Pricing:

• 7-day free trial
• Monthly plan: Starter - 109$ per month, Plus - 499$ per month
• Annual plan: Starter - 89$ per month, Plus - 429$ per month

Zoom

Zoom is a high-quality conference and webinar software that offers basic webinar features for free. With the basic level, you can host up to 100 participants for less than 40 minutes group meeting. For longer webinars or more participants you can go for its premium plans that meet your needs.

Zoom is extremely useful for conducting webinars for teaching purposes, conducting meetings for corporate discussion, entrepreneurial activities and more. Paid features include detailed webinars reports, admin controls, cloud storage for the screen sharing and recordings.

Features:

• You can record your complete webinar including the questions asked by participants via chat.
• Telephone integration with VOIP and video conferencing.
• HD Voice with dynamic voice detection.
• High-quality desktop and application sharing.
• Works on all platforms and devices.
• AES 256-bits encryption and SSL encryption.
• Mobile apps for iOS and Android.

Pricing:

• Basic - Free
• Pro - 14.99$ per month per host
• Enterprise - 19.99$ per month per host

ClickMeeting

ClickMeeting is a browser-based web conferencing tool that is designed to make online meetings and webinars very productive. Regardless of location, time zone, operating system, ClickMeeting offers a great webinar platform for communication and collaboration for small as well as large businesses.

Features:

• Global audio and video conferencing.
• Record your webinars, download and share with others.
• Webinar attendance analytics and statistics.
• Engage your participants with dynamic presentations, interactive videos, and live chat.
• You can create polls, surveys and chat translation for up to 5000 participants.
• Provides templates for different business types.
• Comes with various rebranding features like waiting room, webinar room, email notifications, etc.

Pricing:

• Monthly plan: My webinars - 30$ per month, Enterprise - 209$ per month
• Annual plan: My webinars - 25$ per month, Enterprise - 165$ per month

Demio

Demio is a popular webinar platform built for personal conversions and marketing purposes to create, market and host webinars with its fully optimized features that ensure business growth.

With Demio, you can host live webinars, workshops, Q&A sessions with real-time HD streaming. Demio has lots of options for gathering attendees, including Demio-hosted or embeddable registration pages, custom branding, follow-up emails, and automatic attendance-reminders.

Features:

• Create and run interactive webinars in minutes.
• Upload and share presentation materials.
• Download resources for webinar attendees.
• Attendee management.
• On-demand webinars.
• Use automation rules to segment contacts.
• Live chat and screen sharing.
• Social media promotion.

Pricing:

• 14-day free trial
• Monthly plan: Starter - 49$ per month, Business - 234$ per month
• Annual plan: Starter - 34$ per month, Business - 163$ per month

Cisco WebEx

Cisco WebEx is one of the most popular online meeting and event hosting tools that can host events for as many as 3,000 people, meetings for up to 40,000 people, or training sessions for up to 1,000. It provides an option to share the screen with participants and monitor the webinar sessions by setting up a personal meeting room.

This web conferencing software is highly recommended for large scale product launch events and educational sessions.

Features:

• Broadcast-quality audio, conference calls, and teleconferencing system.
• Web and video conferencing.
• Application and file sharing.
• Multimedia content (images, audio, videos, presentations, etc.) sharing.
• It allows you to join conference sessions without video facilities.
• Free HD video calls and screen sharing.

Pricing:

• Premium 8 (Up to 8 people per meeting) - $24per month
• Premium 100 (up to 100 people per meeting) - $69 per month   

Livestream

Livestream is a webinar platform to create studio-like live streaming by using multiple cameras, professional audio, and lighting. There is no restriction regarding the maximum number of participants as you may include as many participants as needed and still experience the great audio and video quality.

Features:

• It includes graphics overlays auto fades, pictures within pictures and green-screen feature.
• Reach your audience through various platforms like Facebook Live, YouTube Live, Twitch, and Twitter.
• Engage participants with a moderated chat feed.
• Pay-Per-View feature to monetize your live events.
• Unlimited storage capacity for the recorded events.
• Get insights about your viewership and other key information from your Livestream productions.

Pricing:

• Premium plan - 75$ per month
• Enterprise plan - Contact sales team

WebinarJam

WebinarJam is a quite popular webinar hosting software used by various industries and businesses for online marketing. WebinarJam is like a traditional webinar platform designed for live events so there is no automation or scheduling with this tool.

With WebinarJam you can create live casting, event streaming, and webinar broadcasting. It supports multiple languages and compatible with all operating systems, browsers, and mobile devices. WebinarJam lets you stream live broadcasts to thousands of participants from anywhere in the world.

Features:

• Stream your videos directly to Facebook Live, YouTube Live or WebinarJam’s private JamCast broadcaster.
• Customize your pages for your personal branding.
• Engage participants with polls, live chat, and virtual whiteboard.
• Insert your pre-recorded videos into webinars for presentation purposes.
• Complete analytical reports on your live webinar performance.

Pricing:

• $39.99 per month when paid annually

EverWebinar

EverWebinar is a powerful webinar automation tool that helps you build email marketing lists with a purpose. With EverWebinar, you can schedule and automate your webinars to play at set timings and the software aims to recreate the live experience for the participants.

Features:

• Automate your webinars by scheduling set times to replay throughout the day.
• Its Just-In-Time Webinars feature encourages your audience to sign up for your webinars.
• Stops playing your webinar at night to keep live webinars realistic.
• Stop your webinar from playing on any preferred date or holiday.
• Automatically plays webinars for different time zones. Therefore, you have to schedule your webinar once only.
• In-depth free training and resources for creating webinars using EverWebinar.
• EverWebinar integrates with ActiveCampaign, GetResponse, MailChimp and other email marketing platforms.
• Reports on the performance of your webinar strategy.

Pricing:

• One-time payment - 497$

GetResponse

GetResponse is an email marketing platform that comes with decent webinar features on most of its plans. So if you are looking for a single platform that provides email marketing, webinar marketing, and basic automation, then this tool might be a good choice for you.

Features:

• Select your dates, times and create custom URLs for your webinars in minutes.
• Boost your audience with YouTube integration.
• Record your webinars, download and share with others.
• Engage participants with presentations, videos, interactive whiteboard, and live chat.
• SSL-encrypted URLs and password protected webinars.
• Reports and analytics metrics on webinar attendance and various other important key data.

Pricing:

• Monthly plan: Email plan - 15$ per month, Enterprise - 1199$ per month
• Annual plan: Email plan - 12.30$ per month, Enterprise plan - 839$ per month
• 2-year plan: Email plan - 10.50$ per month, Enterprise - 719$ per month

Conclusion:

All the webinar tools we have mentioned here are powerful in their own way. But one thing you must keep in mind that free versions of some of these tools have some limitations in terms of participants you can include in a webinar.

Let us know about your favorite live webinar tool that you are using right now or thinking of giving it a try for your upcoming online event, meeting, or workshop.