Arena Virtual and Hybrid Events vs. ON24

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Arena Virtual and Hybrid Events
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Arena is a virtual and hybrid events platform presented as simple, scalable, and customisable - everything that event organisers need. Each event on Arena is built around a set of Rooms: Lobby, Stage, Video Breakout, and Audio Breakout. Each room includes an interactive live video and chat stream, and can hold from 2 to 100,000 attendees. Users can have an unlimited number of rooms in each event. Arena also gives the user a registration platform out of the box, with features like custom…
$2.12
per attendee
ON24
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
ON24 is an intelligent engagement platform, that enables customers to continuously engage audiences with AI-powered, hyper-personalized webinar, virtual event and content experiences.N/A
Pricing
Arena Virtual and Hybrid EventsON24
Editions & Modules
Subscription
$2.12
per attendee
Pre Pay
$2.83
per attendee
Pay As You Go
$4.24
per attendee
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Arena Virtual and Hybrid EventsON24
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Arena Virtual and Hybrid EventsON24
Top Pros
Top Cons

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Features
Arena Virtual and Hybrid EventsON24
Online Meetings / Events
Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Product A and Product B
Arena Virtual and Hybrid Events
-
Ratings
ON24
7.3
376 Ratings
11% below category average
Calendar integration00 Ratings8.0322 Ratings
Meeting initiation00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
Integrates with social media00 Ratings2.02 Ratings
Record meetings / events00 Ratings8.5359 Ratings
Slideshows00 Ratings9.0356 Ratings
Event registration00 Ratings9.4354 Ratings
Online Events Collaboration
Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
Arena Virtual and Hybrid Events
-
Ratings
ON24
8.6
378 Ratings
7% above category average
Live chat00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
Audience polling00 Ratings9.3341 Ratings
Q&A00 Ratings9.4375 Ratings
Online Events Security
Comparison of Online Events Security features of Product A and Product B
Arena Virtual and Hybrid Events
-
Ratings
ON24
8.3
350 Ratings
3% below category average
User authentication00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Participant roles & permissions00 Ratings8.2340 Ratings
Confidential attendee list00 Ratings8.7325 Ratings
Online Events Marketing
Comparison of Online Events Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Arena Virtual and Hybrid Events
-
Ratings
ON24
8.2
352 Ratings
1% below category average
Branding options00 Ratings8.6345 Ratings
Integration to Marketing Automation00 Ratings7.7299 Ratings
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Arena Virtual and Hybrid EventsON24
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User Ratings
Arena Virtual and Hybrid EventsON24
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(1 ratings)
8.6
(420 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.4
(39 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.3
(21 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(207 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
6.5
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(28 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.4
(2 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.4
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(9 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
7.9
(4 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(3 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(189 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(5 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.8
(5 ratings)
User Testimonials
Arena Virtual and Hybrid EventsON24
Likelihood to Recommend
Hire Space
From my experience, Arena works well for client events like entertainment, panel discussions, motivational talks, etc. with a drink and chat afterward. However, I can also imagine it working well for larger events like conferences as it was really easy to add additional rooms and stages. Attendees can easily navigate to the sessions they want to attend from the event's central lobby.
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ON24
We have been using On24 for consumer-facing webinars as we are a B-2-C business and I find that it works very well. I know that many other companies also use this for B-2-B marketing, and I could imagine that it would work well in those scenarios as well. We use On24 for everything from the first contact with a lead to converting an existing lead to a client.
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Pros
Hire Space
  • Only pay for the attendees that show up.
  • Moderated and unmoderated video breakouts.
  • Easy to use.
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ON24
  • Engagement tools to help audience members focus on the important pieces of the material.
  • Back end analytics allowed for us to understand customer sentiment.
  • Produce live panel discussions in addition to showing slideware and polls.
  • Use surveys to gather feedback and understand audience interest and intent with flexible question configurations.
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Cons
Hire Space
  • They haven't yet released all their features, like audience polls.
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ON24
  • We always have issues with the leaderboard in virtual conference manager not showing results in real-time (complaint from attendees)
  • Doesn't always work with CRMs to transfer reg into virtual conference manager - has been an ongoing issue the IT team at ON24 can't figure out with our account
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Likelihood to Renew
Hire Space
No answers on this topic
ON24
ON24 is everything we expected and everything we needed. It's simple to use, extremely customizable, and scales very easily. The integration to our CRM makes ON24 major lead generator for our sales team from our established webinars series. We can automate lead delivery to our sales team as well. If anything, we will look to expand our partnership in the future.
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Usability
Hire Space
No answers on this topic
ON24
97% of our attendees say it is the best trainings they have every attended. But they other 3% have a horrible experience (while watching the event live) interesting fact. On24 uses two different encoders for live vs OnDemand. I have never had issues with the On-Demand experience. My only complaints come during live events
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Reliability and Availability
Hire Space
No answers on this topic
ON24
ON24 is always available when I have a question about a new feature, if I'm having issues during a live webinar, or if I'm having issues with a webinar on the backend. Our client support specialist, Heather Haines, has always been incredibly consistent with getting me the answers I need when I need them.
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Performance
Hire Space
No answers on this topic
ON24
Loading depends on how large the files in the webinar for us - sometimes it takes up to an hour to upload and that impacts the loading when the webcast is playing. Overall I'm happy with the performance, however if integrated with other systems it does tend to slow down the process
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Support Rating
Hire Space
No answers on this topic
ON24
ON24 support is really good with the 24/5 support chat line, where someone actually responds within 30 seconds. The customers success team is also really good and our rep is very helpful with all our questions. Whenever we have more technical questions, she will bring on a IT designer or a tech specialist on our calls for additional comments and help.
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In-Person Training
Hire Space
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ON24
Most points of relevance were covered as far as I can remember.
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Online Training
Hire Space
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ON24
On24 has amazing ON-Demand trainings that you can use at anytime and they walk you through step by step on different topics/ they are always updating and innovating and putting out new trainings. I would highly reccomend the trainings and reading the documents they have created. They also do live webinars on a rolling basis that are filled with so much knowledge and Information
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Implementation Rating
Hire Space
No answers on this topic
ON24
We had a few training's, which were broken up, and focused on specific areas of how to use the platform. Mostly though, a lot of it is just dedicating your time to learning and exploring what the possibilities are for enhancing your webinars
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Alternatives Considered
Hire Space
No answers on this topic
ON24
We moved from GoTo Webinar around 3 years ago and at the time it was a tool that served the purpose of webinars but it didn't have a deep level of functionality or customisation which we were looking to grow into. ON24 has widgets and screens you can interact with as well as allowing all presenters to enter the presenter view and share the same set of controls without being clunky and having to change presenters and screenshare separate slide decks etc. ON24 also has the Simulive feature which allows us to record events and play them back as if they are live which we really like.
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Scalability
Hire Space
No answers on this topic
ON24
Overall, it meets our needs and we are able to do everything we need to do. However, I would not describe the tool as extremely flexible from a branding, design, capability standpoint when thinking about the level of customization allowed for the audience dashboard, although the engagement tools are nice the set up of each is quite rigid
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Return on Investment
Hire Space
  • Reduced costs
  • Less risk
  • Better client engagement
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ON24
  • ON24 has allowed us to deliver meaningful pitches, promotions, and seminars to clients/audience members all year round, remotely.
  • The reporting available to us through the ON24 platform allows us to assess and review what is working and what needs adjusting with our events. This is valuable to us.
  • Using the tools available, we've doubled our audience engagement in the last 12 months, and this has allowed us to generate leads at a later stage of the "funnel."
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ScreenShots

Arena Virtual and Hybrid Events Screenshots

Screenshot of Arena LobbyScreenshot of Arena RegistrationScreenshot of Arena StageScreenshot of Video BreakoutScreenshot of Arena Schedule

ON24 Screenshots

Screenshot of Red Whale creates webinar series, Deep Dives, to engage General Practitioners.Screenshot of SAP Concur takes its customer activation workshops virtual with ON24.Screenshot of Atheanhealth broadcasts an authentic conversation with industry thought leaders to its audience.Screenshot of SAS creates webinar series, Analytics in 20, to education product best practices in short amount of time.Screenshot of NVIDIA creates always-on content library filled with webinars with ON24 Engagement Hub, segmented by different languages and geo-locations.Screenshot of ADP, using ON24 Target, creates personalized landing pages to encourage and accelerate ADP benefit enrollment.  This resource page has on-demand webinars, help articles and ways to immediately enroll.