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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Olark

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AOlark is a website live chat tool for engaging website visitors while they browse. It can be used to to track leads, drive sales, provide support.

    $15

    per month

    ON24

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AON24 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
    OlarkON24
    Editions & Modules
    Self Service
    $19.00
    Per Agent Per Month
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    OlarkON24
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    OlarkON24
    Considered Both Products
    Olark
    No answer on this topic
    Cvent
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    94%
    Would buy again
    137 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    102 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    143 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    88 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    94 Answers
    Features
    OlarkON24
    Chat Analytics and Reports
    Comparison of Chat Analytics and Reports features of Olark and ON24
    Feature
    Olark
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    14% above category average
    ON24
    -
    Ratings
    Chat history and transcripts10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Chat reporting10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Chat and web analytics10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Olark and ON24
    Feature
    Olark
    -
    Ratings
    ON24
    9.7
    1 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Mobile Application00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Online Meetings / Events
    Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Olark and ON24
    Feature
    Olark
    -
    Ratings
    ON24
    8.3
    413 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Calendar integration00 Ratings8.1356 Ratings
    Meeting initiation00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Integrates with social media00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Record meetings / events00 Ratings7.1395 Ratings
    Slideshows00 Ratings7.2392 Ratings
    Event registration00 Ratings7.4389 Ratings
    Online Events Collaboration
    Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Olark and ON24
    Feature
    Olark
    -
    Ratings
    ON24
    8.3
    416 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Live chat00 Ratings10.04 Ratings
    Audience polling00 Ratings6.8377 Ratings
    Q&A00 Ratings8.1413 Ratings
    Online Events Security
    Comparison of Online Events Security features of Olark and ON24
    Feature
    Olark
    -
    Ratings
    ON24
    9.0
    384 Ratings
    5% above category average
    User authentication00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
    Participant roles & permissions00 Ratings8.9374 Ratings
    Confidential attendee list00 Ratings8.0357 Ratings
    Online Events Marketing
    Comparison of Online Events Marketing features of Olark and ON24
    Feature
    Olark
    -
    Ratings
    ON24
    8.0
    390 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Branding options00 Ratings8.5382 Ratings
    Integration to Marketing Automation00 Ratings7.9335 Ratings
    Attendee list export00 Ratings7.638 Ratings
    Virtual Event
    Comparison of Virtual Event features of Olark and ON24
    Feature
    Olark
    -
    Ratings
    ON24
    8.8
    42 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Registration, RSVP, and ticketing00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Email marketing00 Ratings6.538 Ratings
    Livestreaming00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Audience engagement00 Ratings8.042 Ratings
    Event recording00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Virtual booths00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Networking00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Event analytics00 Ratings7.242 Ratings
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    OlarkON24
    Small Businesses
    Gist
    Score9.5 out of 10
    Whova
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Zoho SalesIQ
    Score9.7 out of 10
    Splash
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Genesys DX (discontinued)
    Score10 out of 10
    Webex Events (formerly Socio)
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    OlarkON24
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (18 ratings)
    6.8
    (461 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (5 ratings)
    9.9
    (44 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (28 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (210 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (8 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.8
    (2 ratings)
    9.9
    (33 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.7
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.5
    (12 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (5 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.4
    (231 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (7 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    OlarkON24
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Olark
    Olark chat is easy to set up and use. You can have more than one user logged in to monitor the chat on different computers. This makes a fast response time more likely. Although you have to be sure to keep your volume up on the computer so you hear the sound letting you know there's a chat waiting. I like that you can see the customers path through the website and you can put clickable links while you are in a chat to guide the customer to a product or a help page. Plus you can see if they actually went there. This makes it easier to upsell
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    Cvent
    I find that ON24 caters for all types of organisations, having it allows for more choice/options. The experience around virtual events if fantastic and the ON24 team is constantly improving the platform. If you want to run a virtual events programme where you want to generate leads and track engagement, then ON24 is the platform for you
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    Pros
    Olark
    • Olark is user friendly for both sides of the CHAT conversation. If you are initiating the chat, or the one receiving the chat, it is extremely easy to follow and use. There are many different levels of computer use comprehension and Olark is for every level.
    • Olark has reporting features to allow you to check the quality of your employees chat abilities as well as their productivity. It provides feedback for the employee themselves to also see how they are doing and take any suggestions the customer may leave for them regarding their chat experience.
    • Olark is very affordable and offers you the option, at a low cost, to look bigger and more professional that you even are. We were a smaller company and has the chat option with Olark and now have grown tremendously and STILL have the Olark chat option. Olark allowed us to grow and provide professionalism to our customers .
    • The Olark program allows you to set up quick responses to keep your customer from waiting, and to allow your employees to not have to retype the same response over and over. It is a great program that the employees really enjoy as well. It reminds you if you forgot to log out when you left your desk and provides your customer a quick note giving them the option to send the chat as an email inquiry instead, so you don't miss a thing.
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    Cvent
    • Registration pages are easy to build and look clean
    • Console (audience view) offers many tools to use for presentations and to engage the audience
    • Reporting and analytics are robust and provide detailed reports that help us process attendees in our marketing database
    • Support team and responsive and helpful
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    Cons
    Olark
    • Not really an area of improvement for Olark specifically, but I will offer that it is incredibly important to keep in mind your company's "shopping hours" or peak traffic times (there is a Reports feature on the software that allows you to analyze peak traffic times).
    • Transcript history can be a little tricky - if you're searching for a specific past conversation, sometimes you may get multiple search results and have to sift through them until you find exactly what you're looking for.
    • I'd also offer that you will occasionally come across folks that are on your site to cyberbully or say nonsensical things. While there isn't an absolute fullproof way to deal with this, Olark does offer a nice "block" feature to disregard any unwanted conversations.
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    Cvent
    • There was a recent update within the past year where the UX designer or developer thought it would be best to wide all titles from the audience view until they placed their mouse on top of the window. That was the worst mistake, as we have a moderator script where we tell the audience what each of the tool bars are and they can’t grasp what the tool is without putting their mouse there. From an accessibility standpoint point, it’s back to 1999 when there was no laws about accessibility.
    • Number one above is a major pain point.
    • ON24 needs to do a better job of introducing features and soliciting feedback from their customers vs making a high impactful change like #1 described above.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Olark
    To be honest, renewal decisions are not currently within my power. Hypothetically speaking, I'm very comfortable with the platform, have used it daily for nearly a year, and would see no reason to switch to anything else. The small criticisms I had are not significant enough to deter me from using Olark. It's a user friendly, effective tool for our department.
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    Cvent
    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
    Olark
    It is simply easy and customizable to be exactly what you need it to be
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    Cvent
    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
    Olark
    No answers on this topic
    Cvent
    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
    Olark
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    Cvent
    Sometimes (it may be my computer) i cant login to ON24. I create a new PW and then i still cant get in. I clear cache/try new browser etc. and nothing works. I come back in a few hours and its like the problem never existed, its the strangest thing. Outside of that everything works pretty seamless. We've ran into a few bumps with Marketo talking to ON24 and passing reg through but have that figured out now. Not being able to be on a VPN when connecting to webcam on the presenter side does cause issues for our government speakers.
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    Support Rating
    Olark
    Our organization does not have any complaints about Olark's Support. Anytime we reached out to them for assistance, we received a prompt, helpful reply! As mentioned previously, we used Olark fairly basically so we didn't have too much need to work with their support team other than a few general questions here and there. They were always pleasant to work with.
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    Cvent
    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
    Olark
    No answers on this topic
    Cvent
    Great communication and clarity
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    Online Training
    Olark
    No answers on this topic
    Cvent
    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
    Olark
    No answers on this topic
    Cvent
    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
    Olark
    Olark has an easier implementation process and has better functionality such as the ability to send commands through the platform to either create a ticket in your CRM or push an opportunity to salesforce; you're even able to 'push' the end user to a web page. Implementing their SDK is a snap as well.
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    Cvent
    From what I've seen, ON24 is built specifically to meet the needs of event marketing (or marketing generally), versus the other platforms which are more about simply providing a mechanism to hold virtual meetings. The integration with sales and marketing systems is really valuable. I don't know about pricing differences, but if the competitors were comparable, I would still select ON24.
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    Scalability
    Olark
    No answers on this topic
    Cvent
    The ON24 platform is straightforward to use and train clients on, which is a huge plus. Clients appreciate its features and simplicity. Internally, we receive valuable analytical data from webinar events, enabling the organization to make data-driven decisions. This helps us optimize strategies and drive success for B2B businesses effectively.
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    Return on Investment
    Olark
    • Olark allows my customer support team to respond to inquiries much faster than before.
    • We have seen an uptick in sales as we are able to address more questions from website visitors.
    • We have changed the design of our website based on chat feedback and questions obtained through Olark.
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    Cvent
    • We get a lot of MQLs from our webinars. The integration with SFDC is a game changer over platforms that don't offer that integration.
    • The addition of emojis and chat to our event consoles has greatly increased our engagement.
    • We love marketing the fact that on-demand viewers can still submit questions and we'll answer them by email. Who else can say that?
    • We would like to be able to make changes to all console elements after events have taken place. Sometimes stuff just needs to be updated.
    • As we improve our audience segmentation, we are looking forward to the segment customization options that are now available on the console.
    • The webinars ON24 sponsors provide us with some great ideas for improving our overall strategic marketing.
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    ScreenShots

    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.