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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Bizzabo

    Score3.8 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Bizzabo’s event management platform powers immersive in-person, virtual, and hybrid experiences for brands. The Bizzabo Event Experience OS is an open platform for Event Experience Leaders to manage events, engage audiences, and activate communities. Bizzabo was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York and Tel-Aviv.

    $5,988

    per year per user

    Webex Webinars

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AWebex Webinars is a scalable webinar platform that helps users to create engaging and impactful experiences for everyone, from small sessions to massive global audiences.N/A
    Pricing
    BizzaboWebex Webinars
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Webex Events
    Contact Sales
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BizzaboWebex Webinars
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsBizzabo's seat-based pricing model includes out-of-the-box functionality and a range of premium add-ons.—
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    BizzaboWebex Webinars
    Considered Both Products
    Bizzabo
    No answer on this topic
    Cisco
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    84%
    Would buy again
    66 Answers
    98%
    Would buy again
    58 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
    55 Answers
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    52 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    85%
    Happy with the feature set
    67 Answers
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    58 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    45 Answers
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    40 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    87%
    Implementation went as expected
    59 Answers
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    41 Answers
    Features
    BizzaboWebex Webinars
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Bizzabo and Webex Webinars
    Feature
    Bizzabo
    8.2
    35 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Webex Webinars
    -
    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access8.330 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application7.830 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.428 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Meetings / Events
    Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Bizzabo and Webex Webinars
    Feature
    Bizzabo
    7.3
    32 Ratings
    14% below category average
    Webex Webinars
    9.0
    66 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Calendar integration7.424 Ratings9.059 Ratings
    Meeting initiation7.419 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with social media7.414 Ratings00 Ratings
    Record meetings / events7.819 Ratings8.965 Ratings
    Slideshows8.215 Ratings9.362 Ratings
    Event registration5.630 Ratings8.862 Ratings
    Online Events Collaboration
    Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Bizzabo and Webex Webinars
    Feature
    Bizzabo
    8.2
    22 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Webex Webinars
    8.9
    65 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Live chat7.920 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience polling8.417 Ratings9.064 Ratings
    Q&A8.321 Ratings8.862 Ratings
    Online Events Security
    Comparison of Online Events Security features of Bizzabo and Webex Webinars
    Feature
    Bizzabo
    8.4
    32 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Webex Webinars
    8.9
    63 Ratings
    6% above category average
    User authentication8.429 Ratings00 Ratings
    Participant roles & permissions8.529 Ratings9.263 Ratings
    Confidential attendee list8.323 Ratings8.757 Ratings
    Online Events Marketing
    Comparison of Online Events Marketing features of Bizzabo and Webex Webinars
    Feature
    Bizzabo
    8.1
    37 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Webex Webinars
    8.9
    53 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Branding options6.433 Ratings8.951 Ratings
    Integration to Marketing Automation8.824 Ratings8.847 Ratings
    Attendee list export9.136 Ratings00 Ratings
    Virtual Event
    Comparison of Virtual Event features of Bizzabo and Webex Webinars
    Feature
    Bizzabo
    7.4
    41 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Webex Webinars
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    Ratings
    Registration, RSVP, and ticketing5.940 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email marketing5.036 Ratings00 Ratings
    Livestreaming7.626 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience engagement8.531 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event recording8.425 Ratings00 Ratings
    Virtual booths7.913 Ratings00 Ratings
    Networking7.829 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event analytics8.138 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Bizzabo and Webex Webinars
    Feature
    Bizzabo
    -
    Ratings
    Webex Webinars
    8.9
    61 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Dashboards00 Ratings8.857 Ratings
    Data exportability00 Ratings8.957 Ratings
    Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
    Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of Bizzabo and Webex Webinars
    Feature
    Bizzabo
    -
    Ratings
    Webex Webinars
    8.9
    67 Ratings
    9% above category average
    High quality audio00 Ratings9.367 Ratings
    Mobile support00 Ratings8.562 Ratings
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    Whova
    Score9.6 out of 10
    GoTo Webinar
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Splash
    Score7.7 out of 10
    GoTo Webinar
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Webex Events (formerly Socio)
    Score8.9 out of 10
    BlueJeans Events (discontinued)
    Score2.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BizzaboWebex Webinars
    Likelihood to Recommend
    4.2
    (82 ratings)
    8.7
    (69 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    9.8
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    4.6
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (26 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.9
    (3 ratings)
    5.9
    (26 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BizzaboWebex Webinars
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Bizzabo
    Bizzabo is really well suited for large-scale hybrid events. In this day and age, it's imperative to have a software that can successfully accommodate virtual and in-person attendees. Bizzabo blends these experiences extremely well. It is also great when event agendas are complex and need customizations - Bizzabo offers flexibility and has options for tracking session attendance. Bizzabo does not work well for smaller events with in-person only registrations. The risk of the equipment not working is high and, for smaller events, not worth the stress!
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    Cisco
    I'd say mainly well suited for larger audiences. I think there's probably some products that are a little more economical for smaller audiences, but if you need a solid, reliable platform for larger audiences, say more than a hundred people. So this is the best product for that or at least top two.
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    Pros
    Bizzabo
    • Bizzabo makes setting up registration for an event very simple. You can make it more complex if you require that, but if you only need to capture basics and payment, it is easy to set up.
    • Making a custom event website is also very easy. There are a lot of widgets build in with content you might need, such as Speakers. While it takes a little bit of use to figure out how it works, once you know the basics, creating a multi page website with all your event info is super easy.
    • Creating custom ticket types and promo codes is full of options and it’s easy to allow many different options for purchasing tickets. From expiring ticket types to tracking promo codes, you can allow people to buy tickets with unlimited options (early bird, sponsor discounts, etc.)
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    Cisco
    • Cisco Webex Events is very straightforward and easy to use. Setting up an event within the platform is quite simple - anyone can do it.
    • Webex Events is a great add-on feature to the Webex conferencing platform to allow a one-way broadcast of information, rather than worrying about attendees being able to interrupt the presentation.
    • Recording a session is fairly simple and accessing the recordings post-event is quite reliable. I believe you can also upload .mp4 files into the Webex Events platform to serve as a host.
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    Cons
    Bizzabo
    • Our attendees complained about having to login every time to view content
    • You cannot be in the system working on the backend while a colleague is. We have found that the work doesn't save.
    • The email system is hard to format within Bizzabo
    • Staff would sometimes get kicked out of interact rooms. It would be nice to add virtual backgrounds in this space.
    • Reports were missing data and it took two weeks to get corrected
    • When recording a session, you have to go back and download it, and then upload it. This process should be easier.
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    Cisco
    • There always seems to be room for video quality improvement (not a necessity, but would be nice)
    • Mobile screensharing from iOS/Android (and other mobile) devices would be a great feature
    • The mobile app should be able to track meetings a user has been invited to, but does not do so (yet)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Bizzabo
    Bizzabo has become integral to our ability to support and run events, so we will continue to renew as long as Bizzabo continues to run a great product.
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    Cisco
    Webex Webinars continues to provide exceptional value as a community engagement and professional education platform. As long as there are a multitude of event offerings and the product continues to be supported with periodic software and security updates, I can anticipate using Webex Webinars for the foreseeable future. Overall a great product!
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    Usability
    Bizzabo
    Bizzabo is extremely user friendly. The website builder is very simple to use and can creative some astounding looking websites, with no technical know how. The setup of the account, adding users, managing events and user access to events, as well as creating events from scratch or from existing "templates" (actually just standard events that we set a far off date from and copy as a template) is very simple, but powerful as you can pick and choose exactly what to copy over. It is also a very user friendly platform for the attendees and speakers (both for virtual events and physical events for speakers as the speaker, and partner, portal is very simple to use and can be custom created for the exact specifications you need).
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    Cisco
    My experience with this software is fantastic; it's so satisfying that it only took me a week to go through an internal training program to use this software, actually, I don't think this training program was necessary. Usability is one of the most fantastic features to guarantee the increase of members in remote events.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Bizzabo
    We have always gotten prompt responses from the Bizzabo team when reaching out. Additionally, in the 2 years we've been working with them, we've never had any kind of platform outage that impacted us.
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    Cisco
    Webex Webinars are available 24/7 and is based on your license purchase and usage. Webex Webinars needs maximum bandwidth consumption for sending and receiving videos and listed below are some examples. High-Definition Video: 2.5 Mbps (Receive) and 3.0 Mbps (Send)· High Quality Video: 1.0 Mbps (Receive) and 1.5 Mbps (Send)· Standard Quality Video: 0.5 Mbps (Receive) and 0.5 Mbps (Send) Webex Webinars makes it easy to analyze attendance statistics, send participants to a post-webinar landing page, and integrate data into CRMs and marketing automation.
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    Performance
    Bizzabo
    We've never had any complaints from users about access to the platform or load times. From and admin portal perspective, no issues there either.
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    Cisco
    You can turn around WebEx Attendance reports within 24 hours. Sign in to Webex Site Administration and go to Reports - Access Anywhere. Select the beginning and ending dates for the report. Report data is available only for sessions conducted up to three months before the current date depending on your administration set-up. From the Sort results by drop-down list, select the sort order criteria for the report. After hosting a WebEx Webinar, you have the ability to create a report of all of the participants and the times that they entered and left the meeting. Reports cannot track emoji's or reactions. Best practice for Q&A and tracking you can integrate SLIDO. You cannot save individual polling results. Also the polling report does not include who asked and answered the questions. This limitation does not apply to SLIDO. Closed captions and transcriptions are only saved if the Webinar is recorded. If you face problems during a webinar, you can hit then button which creates and send a report to Cisco who will then look into the problems to avoid future occurrences
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    Support Rating
    Bizzabo
    Support is always quick to respond. However, some issues are out of their hand, and in these cases, it is a laborious process to then submit a suggestion for how to improve the product. However, where they can rectify an issue, support has gone above and beyond to deliver and do so efficiently and in a friendly manner.
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    Cisco
    I love the control that this product gives to those running the meetings. It allows you to assign presenter roles to people and everyone else that is an attendee can be totally controlled, like whether they can unmute, use video or just sit there and watch. It really gives control of the meeting to those who are running it. And we love that ability for those meetings that we are trying to make sure people are listening in on instead of trying to participate.
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    Online Training
    Bizzabo
    No answers on this topic
    Cisco
    It was a good training to understand not only webinars but the entire platform.
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    Implementation Rating
    Bizzabo
    I say this to everyone I talk about Bizzabo with - it was the best platform onboarding experience I've had with a vendor in 25 years in the industry. They were extremely thorough in the onboarding, ensuring that we were successful throughout the process. They had a frequent meeting cadence and the customer success manager was extremely prompt in answering any questions we had, jumping on calls when necessary.
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    Cisco
    The implementation process was fairly simple and straightforward
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    Alternatives Considered
    Bizzabo
    Bizzabo is definitely a great choice for your event tool. I don't find it as robust as Cvent, but I do find it more useful than an Eventbrite. We selected Bizzabo because of our initial support team, but they eventually moved on, which started our problems with Bizzabo. It gives us more data than Eventbrite, which we appreciate.
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    Cisco
    ON24 has a lot more bells and whistles, which is great when you need them but when you're looking for a straight up platform to host a stand alone webinar, Webex Webinars is a good alternative. We've selected Webex Webinars when we don't need such a customized webinar console.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Bizzabo
    The terms and pricing were very clear and understandable upfront. The ability to understand the drivers and levers that can be changed and the impact on the pricing really drove a high level of trust in the process.
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    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Bizzabo
    It's spreadsheet heavy and has to be exact. The devil is in the details and if you miss a detail you have to fix it and redo it with all the changes that need to be made manually.
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    Cisco
    Webex Webinars is a scalable platform designed for interactive experiences. It can accommodate attendees from 100 up to 100,000 attendees depending on the purchase of your license. The scalability is based on each company's requirements and usage. Webex Webinars can offer key features like real-time translations, moderated Q&A, live polling, and chat, making it suitable for both small and large audiences and can be deployed across multiple departments and sites as needed.
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    Return on Investment
    Bizzabo
    • Since we have only used Bizzabo for a year we are still learning and figuring out the nuances of it but I would say that one thing it has done is impressed our current clients which makes them want to continue to work with us.
    • We hope to use Bizzabo as a tool to recruit more clients i the future
    • It has cut a third party out of the system as we have our own dedicated platform to use and do not have to rely on a separate agency to use a different platform.
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    Cisco
    • Allowed us to keep our product development moving forward during the pandemic.
    • Reduced our travel costs by hosting virtual events.
    • Allows us to host more events because of reduced cost over in-person events.
    • Helps us with faster time to market on features as we can quickly set up and host a focus group.
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    ScreenShots

    Bizzabo Screenshots

    Product screenshotScreenshot of event data from engagement metrics like check-ins, session attendance and ratings, to adoption insights like mobile app usage.Screenshot of the customized VIP portal that has information about the event.Screenshot of embedded audience reactions  where attendees can share their own reaction and sense everyone else’s. Attendees can share their excitement with the rest of the audience with clapping sounds, whistles, and audience buzzScreenshot of built-in networking tools to foster meaningful interactions