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    Crowdcast

    Score9.3 out of 10
    N/ACrowdcast is a multistreaming platform for private, interactive, supports webinars, and has the capabilities to reach any size audience and connect with your community. Crowdcast is designed to help you reach, grow, and engage your audience.

    $29

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    Webinato

    Score5 out of 10
    N/AWebinato is a webinar tool from omNovia Technologies, a provider of web conferencing software.

    $699

    Per Room Per Month

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    Webinato
    $699.00
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    5.5
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    User Testimonials
    CrowdcastWebinato
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Crowdcast
    Crowdcast does a great job with live webinars and is one of the top ones available. They have continually improved the product and are coming out with a version two now with a cleaner, easier to use interface with some really cool features. The platform works well and most importantly the live webinars come in clearly and almost never fail. In the past year, things have worked very smoothly which is really a relief. As anyone who does lots of live videos knows, it's crucial to have a smooth, easy-to-use piece of tech that doesn't fail like Crowdcast. Chat comes in a lot better and the features are cooler than Zoom Webinars.
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    omNovia Technologies
    Low-bandwidth environments seemed to prefer Google Hangout.
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    Pros
    Crowdcast
    • Create live webinars
    • Record webinars
    • Respond to customers in chat and present offers and polls
    Incentivized
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    omNovia Technologies
    • Registration page
    • On-site technical help
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    Cons
    Crowdcast
    • Chat replay does not repeat in realtime like Facebooks live video replays
    • New registrants aren't automatically added to email platform, have to download list.
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    omNovia Technologies
    • Aesthetics - in short, there are many competiting softwares and web platforms that have sharper visual qualities and more intuitive design. As the digital divide shrinks, users desire simple, easy-to-learn interfaces. More tech-savvy and higher production quality users will dig deeper for the more granular elements that omNovia supports so well. Also even more customizable webinar environments; perhaps more detailed themes.
    • Hand in hand with the UI renovaton, I'd suggest a company rebranding. Instead of appealing to the corporate environments, I think the technology and applications omNovia represent can have a much wider use case.
    • Mobile - going more mobile than omNovia already is. Products like Bambuser and Adobe Connect have a more integrated and intuitive mobile apps that simply out perform OmNovia.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Crowdcast
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    omNovia Technologies
    Even though OmNovia offers great products, our recent account rep has been difficult to deal with. We are being charged for services we've never been charged for before. She is responsive and helpful but we were not aware of these additional charges when making our deal with our previous rep.
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    Crowdcast
    WebinarJam got really bad the last couple of years we used it (2 years ago). Crowdcast support has been better and doesn't fail like WebinarJam. Facebook had a bunch of issues as well and isn't the ideal solution in my opinion. Zoom Webinars provide a great video feed, but the chat options and overall functionality are limited.
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    omNovia Technologies
    Having an assortment of licenses at my disposal with different web platform products was key given the clients included embassies, consulates, universities, etc. all over the world in different bandwidth environments, with different media equipment available, etc. omNovia performed well for the users with moderate to high bandwidth and higher quality equipment. Low-bandwith users did use the audio chat function but preferred less intense platforms that allowed for video. Other products: Watchitoo, Adobe Connect, Google Hangout, WebEx, GoTo Meeting.
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    Return on Investment
    Crowdcast
    • Made our company more personal
    • Allows for better interaction with customers
    • Increased retention
    Incentivized
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    omNovia Technologies
    • in person networking since OmNovia allows for live events to be streamed. Without this ability we would only have regular webinars and would miss out on the networking opportunity.
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