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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Podium

    Score7 out of 10
    N/APodium, formerly Repdrive, is a ratings and review management platform from the company of the same name in Provo, Utah.N/A
    Pricing
    ON24Podium
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ON24Podium
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    ON24Podium
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of ON24 and Podium
    Feature
    ON24
    9.7
    1 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Podium
    -
    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Meetings / Events
    Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of ON24 and Podium
    Feature
    ON24
    8.3
    413 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Podium
    -
    Ratings
    Calendar integration8.1356 Ratings00 Ratings
    Meeting initiation10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with social media10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Record meetings / events7.1395 Ratings00 Ratings
    Slideshows7.2392 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event registration7.4389 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Events Collaboration
    Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of ON24 and Podium
    Feature
    ON24
    8.3
    416 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Podium
    -
    Ratings
    Live chat10.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience polling6.8377 Ratings00 Ratings
    Q&A8.1413 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Events Security
    Comparison of Online Events Security features of ON24 and Podium
    Feature
    ON24
    9.0
    384 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Podium
    -
    Ratings
    User authentication10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Participant roles & permissions8.9374 Ratings00 Ratings
    Confidential attendee list8.0357 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Events Marketing
    Comparison of Online Events Marketing features of ON24 and Podium
    Feature
    ON24
    8.0
    390 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Podium
    -
    Ratings
    Branding options8.5382 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration to Marketing Automation7.9335 Ratings00 Ratings
    Attendee list export7.638 Ratings00 Ratings
    Virtual Event
    Comparison of Virtual Event features of ON24 and Podium
    Feature
    ON24
    8.8
    42 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Podium
    -
    Ratings
    Registration, RSVP, and ticketing10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email marketing6.538 Ratings00 Ratings
    Livestreaming10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audience engagement8.042 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event recording10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Virtual booths10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Networking9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Event analytics7.242 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    ON24Podium
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    Whova
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Affinity CRM
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Splash
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Hunter
    Score7.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Webex Events (formerly Socio)
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ON24Podium
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.8
    (461 ratings)
    6.9
    (43 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (44 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (28 ratings)
    7.0
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (210 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    7.7
    (8 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.9
    (33 ratings)
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    3.7
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.5
    (12 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.7
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    6.4
    (231 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.7
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ON24Podium
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Podium
    Podium is well suited for several types of businesses. If you are an entrepreneur or small business owner, Podium would be a great way for you to ask that customers leave you a review online sharing their awesome experience. For medium to large businesses, Podium review invites can be automated through the company's customer management system, allowing the use of Podium to be simple and not timely, even with a large customer base. It may not be appropriate for a large company to manually send out individual review invites
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    Pros
    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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    Podium
    • Maintains conversations indefinitely, so we are able to go back to confirm details from conversations.
    • Provides the ability for our company to have a 'team' messaging platform where we can communicate with one another via single person to a single person, groups where we can add/subtract members of the group... this is invaluable to our organization.
    • Until today(!), we could 'share' or forward a message to one another; oddly, that feature disappeared just today, so I'm hoping it's a glitch!
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    Cons
    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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    Podium
    • Account manager communications: I had been asking my Podium account manager for integration with our CRM tool for over 8 months before my account manager fell silent. After another 6 months, I proactively reached out only to find out that the integration had been in Beta for months and 8 other companies had already integrated. It was frustrating that my account manager did not remember a key request and make the Beta available to me the minute that it was open.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Podium
    Again, Podium has been so wonderful in the year and a half we have been using it, we are able to integrate it with our CRM and use alot of the available features. The most helpful has been getting TONS of reviews on MULTIPLE sites through Podium!
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    Usability
    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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    Podium
    While giving our clients the ability to leave a review was there, we had much worse results and got fewer reviews through the Podium portal than we did by sending our clients simple email requests, or simply having our service staff ask for a review while still on the clients' job sites.
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    Reliability and Availability
    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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    Podium
    We haven't had any outages or issues whenever we need it over the last few years of use
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    Performance
    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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    Podium
    It moves quickly and has no issues with delays. Performance is good as it is a web-based tool
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    Support Rating
    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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    Podium
    I have to send an email to get information. They have a chat system but I end up having to go through my rep for account questions. It was a little frustrating to not have a direct phone number to call with questions. I would like to see a helpline added.
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    In-Person Training
    Cvent
    Great communication and clarity
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    Podium
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    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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    Podium
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    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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    Podium
    We only had a hard time getting our technicians to remember to send the review invites.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    Podium
    We use Digital Air Strike at our two GM dealerships because it is one of a small list of reputation management companies authorized by GM as part of their SFE program. Digital Air Strike surveys our customers and invites them to write a review about our dealership. It is not as effective or flexible as Podium so we have been using Podium at those dealerships alongside Digital Air Strike. We also recently started a trial use of ReplyPro which is a service that monitors review sites and writes customized responses to positive reviews and suggested responses to negative reviews. I'd like to see Podium add this as part of their service so we can consolidate 3rd party vendors and manage every aspect of online reputation management from one place.
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    Scalability
    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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    Podium
    Its easy to scale to different departments as needed. We initially began using it to solve one problem and as new features became available it was easy to scale this and include other departments who could benefit from its tools
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    Return on Investment
    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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    Podium
    • I am glad there are card readers now, sales team members too often try to just send a request instead of taking payment onsite.
    • It's made capturing messaging leads much easier.
    • It's worth the cost but if it did a few more things it would be worth a lot more to us. Document signatures, surveying after jobs, even geotagging of photos/reviews for SEO
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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.