BlueJeans Events (discontinued) vs. BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BlueJeans Events (discontinued)
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
BlueJeans Events was a cloud-based platform that enables presenters to interact over video and stream their event to thousands of viewers, supporting all-hands meetings, webinars and large-scale events. The product was acquired by Verizon in 2020, and discontinued in 2023.
$41.67
per month
BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
The BlueJeans Meetings platform supported video, audio and web conferencing with the collaboration tools, as a cloud service that connects desktops, mobile devices and room systems in one video meeting. It was acquired in 2020 by Verizon and discontinued in the sunsetting of the BlueJeans product line by Verizon, in 2023.
$0
per month
Pricing
BlueJeans Events (discontinued)BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
Editions & Modules
Events - Video Webinars 100 Attendees
$41.67
per month
Events - Video Webinars 200 Attendees
$50.00
per month
Events - Video Webinars 500 Attendees
$57.50
per month
Events - Large Scale Events (Up to 150k Attendees)
Custom Quote
BlueJeans Basic
$0
per user
Bluejeans Standard
$9.99
per host/per month
Bluejeans Pro
$13.99
perhost/per month
Bluejeans Enterprise
$16.66
per host/per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BlueJeans Events (discontinued)BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional DetailsVIDEO WEBINAR / EVENT FEATURES Host an unlimited number of non-concurrent webinars 100, 200, 500 attendee plans available Maximum webinar duration is two hours Attendee registration workflow & reporting Moderator Dashboard delivers production controls in a single pane Attendee engagement - Chat, Raise Hand, Q&A with Up-Voting, & Live Polling No download, browser-based attendee experience Dolby Voice included for crystal-clear audio Widescale live streaming via Facebook Live Automated closed captioning for improved accessibility Intermission & Pause Broadcast feature Presenter prep room and attendee waiting area Online support only Live and Self Paced Training (free)
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Community Pulse
BlueJeans Events (discontinued)BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
Considered Both Products
BlueJeans Events (discontinued)
Chose BlueJeans Events (discontinued)
This was a corporate decision but one that I appreciate.
BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)

No answer on this topic

Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
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Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
BlueJeans Events (discontinued)
7.4
30 Ratings
3% below category average
BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
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Ratings
Dashboards6.926 Ratings00 Ratings
Data exportability7.928 Ratings00 Ratings
Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software
Comparison of Performance & Compatibility of Online Events Software features of Product A and Product B
BlueJeans Events (discontinued)
6.6
74 Ratings
21% below category average
BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
8.4
561 Ratings
5% above category average
High quality audio8.474 Ratings8.9559 Ratings
Mobile support7.166 Ratings8.3456 Ratings
High quality video00 Ratings8.5537 Ratings
Low bandwidth requirements00 Ratings8.1483 Ratings
Online Meetings / Events
Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Product A and Product B
BlueJeans Events (discontinued)
8.1
73 Ratings
2% below category average
BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
8.2
558 Ratings
0% above category average
Calendar integration7.464 Ratings8.2503 Ratings
Record meetings / events9.371 Ratings8.2472 Ratings
Slideshows7.962 Ratings8.5347 Ratings
Event registration9.132 Ratings00 Ratings
Meeting initiation00 Ratings8.2509 Ratings
Integrates with social media00 Ratings8.0176 Ratings
Online Events Collaboration
Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Product A and Product B
BlueJeans Events (discontinued)
7.6
68 Ratings
10% below category average
BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
8.4
414 Ratings
0% above category average
Audience polling8.956 Ratings8.3177 Ratings
Q&A8.764 Ratings8.2226 Ratings
Live chat00 Ratings8.7396 Ratings
Online Events Security
Comparison of Online Events Security features of Product A and Product B
BlueJeans Events (discontinued)
6.6
68 Ratings
25% below category average
BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
8.3
413 Ratings
0% below category average
Participant roles & permissions8.466 Ratings8.4386 Ratings
Confidential attendee list7.356 Ratings8.5253 Ratings
User authentication00 Ratings8.0283 Ratings
Online Events Marketing
Comparison of Online Events Marketing features of Product A and Product B
BlueJeans Events (discontinued)
6.5
24 Ratings
21% below category average
BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
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Ratings
Branding options6.723 Ratings00 Ratings
Integration to Marketing Automation6.319 Ratings00 Ratings
Screen Sharing
Comparison of Screen Sharing features of Product A and Product B
BlueJeans Events (discontinued)
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Ratings
BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
8.3
530 Ratings
4% above category average
Desktop sharing00 Ratings8.5530 Ratings
Whiteboards00 Ratings8.1253 Ratings
Best Alternatives
BlueJeans Events (discontinued)BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
Small Businesses
ClickMeeting
ClickMeeting
Score 9.5 out of 10
ClickMeeting
ClickMeeting
Score 9.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
ClickMeeting
ClickMeeting
Score 9.5 out of 10
ClickMeeting
ClickMeeting
Score 9.5 out of 10
Enterprises
ON24
ON24
Score 8.6 out of 10
Google Meet
Google Meet
Score 8.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
BlueJeans Events (discontinued)BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(74 ratings)
8.4
(568 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
4.7
(11 ratings)
4.7
(23 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(15 ratings)
8.8
(203 ratings)
Availability
8.3
(3 ratings)
9.6
(8 ratings)
Performance
7.7
(44 ratings)
5.5
(8 ratings)
Support Rating
8.2
(5 ratings)
5.3
(17 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
8.8
(5 ratings)
6.0
(16 ratings)
Configurability
7.2
(2 ratings)
6.1
(6 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
5.5
(6 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.3
(3 ratings)
4.3
(7 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
8.2
(1 ratings)
5.1
(5 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
7.3
(1 ratings)
5.1
(5 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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BlueJeans Events is really well-suited for large attendance virtual events and meetings. It was perfect for many of the classes I've taken, as well as hosted, especially during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, where oftentimes in-person classes and interactions have been limited. I love how BlueJeans Events fosters meetings and interactions for large numbers of individuals, despite the fact that in-person meetings of this size have not entirely been feasible during the past year and a half.
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  • Collaboration with team members, clients and partners who spread out across the globe is made simple by Bluejeans meeting. As an Application developer it is easier for me to collaborate with people from various cultures and time zones so this is very important.
  • For code review , it plays an excellent role, it enables real time screen sharing and code discussion among my team, this facilitate quicker and more effective bug detection and correction.
  • Pair programming is a great use for it. It make possible for two programmers to collaborate on same code even when they are not physically near to each other.
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Pros
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  • Automatically generated reminder emails to registered attendees before the event.
  • Easy to host a panel and have them meet before the event goes live.
  • Moderator chat allows for those running the program to chat without all of the attendees seeing. This allows for you to address technical issues, program flow, etc.
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  • Bluejeans' ability to record meetings would be beneficial for future references like If I ever needed to revisit a discussion or training sessions, I could access the recorded content, eliminating the need to take extensive notes during meeting.
  • Calendar program and messaging services are just a couple of the productivity and collaboration tools that Bluejeans frequently integrates with, scheduling of meeting and team members communication would become more efficient as a result.
  • Typically, bluejeans provides mobile app, making it usable on tables and smartphone, this enables me to take part in a meeting even if I am not near a computer system.
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Cons
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  • Reliability is the biggest challenge I see with BlueJeans. There are times when BlueJeans seems to handle the demands of a big company seamlessly, but then there are other times when BlueJeans runs into issues that I've seen affect entire offices for extended periods of time which creates a challenge for the teams who depend on BlueJeans to effectively run their remote meetings. While in the grand scheme of things, these outages have been few and far between, when they happen people aren't able to start their BlueJeans meetings and have to scramble for an alternate way to meet (while attendees are simultaneously having issues trying to dial into the BlueJeans meeting).
  • Aside from the occasional outage, the quality of the video and audio is pretty solid. With variables that are likely outside of the BlueJeans product (office connectivity, bandwidth issues, internal routing) there are times where BlueJeans would either lag or echo which would either impact the output for the host of the meeting (who likely has a room full of participants) or multiple attendees. It would be great to see BlueJeans enhance their packet handling in these cases to prioritize audio over video (and perhaps auto-adjust video quality when there are bandwidth issues).
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  • Video quality is different between their desktop app version and web browser version
  • I prefer using Bluejeans web browser version but it lack many features which are there in their Desktop App version, which is really disappointing.
  • Not a big issue but if they decrease their pricing, it will be great
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Likelihood to Renew
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We use it frequently and it has its advantages so I don't see better options for some kind of meetings. The quality of video and audio are great and that's what is very important to us. We like thing being professional. BlueJeans is simple and rich in possibilities. What's more, BlueJeans support is great and professional, they don't forget about their customers.
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I have used many other competing platforms platforms; however, despite the fact that BlueJeans lacks certain features others offer, familiarity, ease of use, and several things BlueJeans does better than others mean that I will stick to BlueJeans. Further, whenever I have faced a problem, I have found BlueJeans support excellent overall; no lengthy wait to understand and resolve an issue. Good product, great support, BOTH TESTED OVER TIME; I do not have an incentive to move to another platform.
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Usability
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This rating comes from end user experience. When they step into a meeting, they get asked to put in SSO credentials if the meeting is restricted. In many cases, the meeting is open to anyone and staff needs to enter a name to continue. Some staff will forget to add a name and come in as a Guest. Call in options will only provide the phone number for the person calling in on the participant roster. This overall can be a little confusing for some, but to others this is a great service.
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I don't have much experience of joining a meeting from an attendee of someone else's. As for joining a meeting I've created, it's very easy. For recurring meetings, I find the meeting in my list, and if it's near the time to start, there will be a "Join" button, and I just push that. After that, it gives me the options for joining -- video, audio, phone, screen share only. It remembers my previous choices, so mostly I just can click by that. As for attendees joining, there do seem to be connection problems from time to time and people have to log off and come back on, but we had that trouble with GoToMeeting also. Being able to mute attendees is much better in BlueJeans. When we had GoToMeeting, I constantly had problems with people joining by phone incorrectly, such that they didn't even show up in the meeting list and thus I couldn't mute them when needed.
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Reliability and Availability
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BJ Events is Available always when we need it. There was no situation that we encountered an error or an outage. How are you doing this? :)
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I have to give this a 10 rating as we have never had issues with availability. Now "quality" is a different subject
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Performance
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I think that BlueJeans Events is 7/10 because it's pretty efficient. The audio and video quality is pretty great. I've only had a few connectivity issues but otherwise, it's performed fine. The features are also impressive; I am a huge fan of being able to record my calls so that I can refer back to them whenever necessary.
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This has been a continual issue with our organization. We are a IP/H323 infrastructure so we integrate BlueJeans via the IP/H323 connections to the cloud. We still have inconsistent results with calls. Some work without issue and some calls are horribly choppy and at times freeze. If I have one complaint or reason to seek out a different competitor its this
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Support Rating
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I really like site bluejeans.com and how simple it is.You can find there instructions, tips and how to create event or secure it! Of course FAQ is always useful and that's what you can find there too! Of course there is contact to support team which I remember was great and professional. Support Team really cares about their customers and don't forget about them. It feels like you can always count on them and reach out with any kind of question(s) which I think is very important.
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In all these years, there has been ONE instance when a problem I pointed out (with screenshots, no less) was DENIED. That apart, though there have been a few instances where there has been a delay in resolution (more to do with offering new features), I have NEVER felt frustrated about help not being on hand when I needed it most.
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Online Training
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It is straight forward and easy to understand
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Implementation Rating
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Important to gather all infroamtion from client and ensure all basis are acknowledged before actually doing the installation of equipment
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For me its a simple video conferencing call tool, and implementation is simply setup user account give quick tutorial during the newhire orientation faze and then the user is good to go. There is not much you need to do to get this operational. sure if you want more security there are a couple extra steps but overall simply
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Alternatives Considered
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BlueJeans Events is an all-in-one platform that works well when used as a moderator and as part of the audience. The feature that was useful was the practice session it allowed us to do for our tech check. Made the day of our event less stressful.
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Select Blujeans Meetings because it allows me to better convey my ideas and at the same time build trust through real-time videoconferences. As well as sharing documents and presentations via screen sharing, I love the option to record play and then share the recording to colleagues who couldn't attend is what's needed.
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Scalability
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We've been using BJ Events with big event and it worked as good as smaller one. All meetings were international and it didn't seem like it at all, I mean the quality was great. Maybe time delay was noticeable sometimes (sound to video) but it might also be caused by poor quality of internet connection.
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I believe BlueJeans is easy to scale, but we have a different business model that requires a more central scheduling need. Most vendors operate on an enterprise wide environment with a one to one licensing. We have a centralized group of video administrators and schedulers that do the majority of the scheduling for multiple departments. Because we are a centralized scheduling group we need shared access to on schedule not multiple users delegating access to one another. I.E. if I have 5 schedulers, under the current licensing they would each have individual accounts and delegating those accounts to one another. So when receiving a support call they have to search 5 individual schedules to make changes to meetings. This I think is a valid need even for smaller businesses that just have a few schedulers for the rest of the groups. It would be easier if it scaled within the individual accounts
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Return on Investment
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  • There has certainly been significant cost savings on travel, particularly for internal communications. We have also found that BlueJeans has been better than other client systems like Webex. For example, we regularly switch to using BlueJeans over customer systems (Webex, Skype for Business).
  • Certainly meetings are shorter and more productive, specifically our daily standup meetings with remote users.
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  • All-Hands meetings were improved to feel less like a prerecorded video show and more like an actual conversation using BlueJeans.
  • Client meetings remained smooth in the transition to working-from-home with easy video calling and scheduling.
  • These were the main points that helped my department, as I am unfamiliar with how BlueJeans was implemented in external sales uses, but I imagine it was equally helpful for meetings when in-person was not available.
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ScreenShots

BlueJeans Events (discontinued) Screenshots

Screenshot of This is the event interface as it appears to event moderators.Screenshot of The presenter interface allows up to 150 on-camera speakers to host events.Screenshot of Join from any video-enabled room, computer, or mobile device. Access events on browsers without downloading an app.

BlueJeans Meetings (discontinued) Screenshots

Screenshot of BlueJeans MeetingsScreenshot of BlueJeans Smart MeetingsScreenshot of BlueJeans Collab Board