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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

    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ARadian6 was acquired by Salesforce.com in 2011 and - along with Buddy Media - became Salesforce Social Studio. The product was retired in November of 2024.

    $1,000

    Per Org Per Month

    Pricing
    ON24Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Basic
    $1,000.00
    Per Org Per Month
    Pro
    $4,000.00
    Per Org Per Month
    Corporate
    $12,000.00
    Per Org Per Month
    Enterprise
    $40,000.00
    Per Org Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ON24Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    ON24Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Cvent
    Chose ON24
    We selected ON24 because it is user-friendly and reliable.
    Incentivized
    Chose ON24
    ON24 offers a much deeper dive into webinar presentation with an "infinite" amount of features, widgets, applications, integrations, etc. It truly has impressed us - it goes far beyond a screenshare, which is what most of the other companies are doing. The analytics as well …
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    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    137 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    102 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    95%
    Happy with the feature set
    143 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    88 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    94%
    Implementation went as expected
    94 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    ON24Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of ON24 and Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Feature
    ON24
    9.7
    1 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    -
    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 Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Feature
    ON24
    8.3
    413 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    -
    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 Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Feature
    ON24
    8.3
    416 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    -
    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 Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Feature
    ON24
    9.0
    384 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    -
    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 Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Feature
    ON24
    8.0
    390 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    -
    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 Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Feature
    ON24
    8.8
    42 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
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    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
    Listening/monitoring
    Comparison of Listening/monitoring features of ON24 and Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Feature
    ON24
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    8.8
    11 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Boolean keyword searches00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Filtering out noise/spam00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Sentiment analysis00 Ratings9.09 Ratings
    Broad channel coverage00 Ratings10.011 Ratings
    Publishing
    Comparison of Publishing features of ON24 and Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Feature
    ON24
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    8.0
    11 Ratings
    2% below category average
    Content planning and scheduling00 Ratings8.011 Ratings
    Audience targeting00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Content optimization00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Workflow management00 Ratings8.011 Ratings
    Engagement
    Comparison of Engagement features of ON24 and Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Feature
    ON24
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    9.0
    10 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Automated routing and prioritization00 Ratings9.99 Ratings
    Customer interaction histories00 Ratings7.010 Ratings
    Bulk actions00 Ratings10.010 Ratings
    Marketing
    Comparison of Marketing features of ON24 and Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Feature
    ON24
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    8.5
    10 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Lead generation00 Ratings9.09 Ratings
    Content marketing00 Ratings9.010 Ratings
    Paid media management00 Ratings8.08 Ratings
    Campaigns and promotions00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Channel coverage/integration
    Comparison of Channel coverage/integration features of ON24 and Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Feature
    ON24
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    8.3
    11 Ratings
    0% below category average
    Twitter00 Ratings8.011 Ratings
    Facebook00 Ratings8.011 Ratings
    LinkedIn00 Ratings10.08 Ratings
    Google+00 Ratings6.86 Ratings
    Instagram00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Pinterest00 Ratings6.54 Ratings
    YouTube00 Ratings10.07 Ratings
    Reporting/analytics
    Comparison of Reporting/analytics features of ON24 and Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Feature
    ON24
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    8.3
    10 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Campaign success analytics00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Real-time tracking00 Ratings9.010 Ratings
    Competitor analysis00 Ratings8.08 Ratings
    Account management
    Comparison of Account management features of ON24 and Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Feature
    ON24
    -
    Ratings
    Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    8.5
    10 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Role-based user permissions & privileges00 Ratings8.09 Ratings
    Mobile access00 Ratings9.010 Ratings
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    Score7.7 out of 10
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    Score8.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Score8.9 out of 10
    Sprinklr Social
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ON24Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.8
    (461 ratings)
    10.0
    (52 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (44 ratings)
    8.8
    (38 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (28 ratings)
    8.0
    (10 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (210 ratings)
    9.6
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    7.7
    (8 ratings)
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.9
    (33 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    3.6
    (5 ratings)
    7.6
    (6 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.5
    (12 ratings)
    9.8
    (6 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.7
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    6.4
    (231 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.7
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ON24Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Studio (discontinued)
    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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    If you're tasked with publishing content to social on behalf of your organization then this tool is certainly worth considering. You have quick and easy capability to schedule across multiple platforms with drag-and-drop simplicity. It ties into Salesforce's real strength of its CRM platform so you can quickly tie social activity and leads to those already in your database. And it does a good job at monitoring and analyzing brand and competitor content across multiple media types. Having said that, if you're into deep-dive and full functionality SaaS tools then this might not be for you as it covers three areas adequately, but not in enough detail or strength to make it a star performer
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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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    • The amount of the information that radian6 can pull from multiple social platforms is absolutely phenomenal. Its just not only the pull but the way the information can be presented in dashboards was way good. It helped us understand in various aspects of our social presence.
    • Multiple profiles helped us to break down the Big/Huge social buzz cloud to smaller and more manageable pieces. This helped us concentrate on the lows and helped us to plan better on turning them to highs.
    • Radian6 allowed us to follow thru the crowd trends with the latest information presented in a single view. This also helped us to collect the social opinion on the product releases.
    • The ease of use, one need not be an expert to start using this platform. The interface is easily understandable by anyone.
    • A keyword can be edited quickly to tailor the needs and the results were quick.
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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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    Discontinued Products
    • Instagram Social Listening - it currently does not offer much social listening in terms of Instagram.
    • Instagram Owned - It currently stops pulling once an update is "old" by their standards, even if it receives recent comments. They can force pull, but you have to work with their tech team to do so.
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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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    I spent a lot of time researching the right platform for me and our organisation (thanks to the other reviews on TrustRadius also). Having used other platforms when I found frustrations getting my everyday work done, I knew exactly what I wanted and this is why I chose Social Studio. While there have been a few hiccups, the quarterly update releases and the outstanding tech support have kept me more than happy.
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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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    • Would rate this a 6. The User Interface is pretty intuitive, but the platform was still considered pretty intimidating by our non-technical staff when they first saw it. It took a while to get used to it and feel comfortable. There was quite a lot of setup work in the beginning (for example, we had to build our own reports using a canned report as a template, and this was not simple). Although it took a while to get it setup correctly, it’s quite intuitive once that work has been done.
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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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    The platform is rarely down
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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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    No issues with performance.
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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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    As mentioned previously, it can be hard to get through to people who can help you. On occasion when I have spoken to customer service/tech support, they all seem nice and try to be helpful, however instead of admitting the system cannot do certain things, they will persist it saying that it can, which results in many wasted hours overall.
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    In-Person Training
    Cvent
    Great communication and clarity
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    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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    • We initially received dedicated online training for our team which was delivered by our account rep. This was pretty effective since it happened after our data had been loaded into the system and it had been configured for specific needs our organization. The training was perhaps a bit shallow though, as it was only an hour long. Online videos are available to be taken individually, and these have been useful.
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    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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    Implementation was pretty simple. Just a matter of giving the account rep a list of our search terms and having him set the system up to pull the data we wanted to see. Once this had been done, we tweaked it with his help. Process was pretty smooth, although there was some back and forth until it worked the way we wanted.
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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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    Compared to Radian6, I found Meltwater Buzz, Simply Measured, and Sprout Social to be much more user friendly. Meltwater Buzz and Radian6 are very similar products with many of the same functionalities but Buzz presents your analytics in a way that is much easier to understand. I did a two week trial with Sprout Social and absolutely loved the product but our company needed the capability to connect to Salesforce, which is available on R6 and Buzz. Simply Measured is my all time favorite but I have only used the free version so I am not completely sure how it stacks up to Radian6
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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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    No answers on this topic
    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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    • Monitoring social brand awareness is not something you can consider to have a meaninful impact in your business ROI short term, however it's a must for taking care of long term relationships and customer intimacy.
    • Radian6 connects with other analytical tools like webtrends, Google Analytics, etc..however it's not directly linked to a revenue driven platform, you can´t see the immediate ROI generated in the tool.
    • If you bet for social relationships you should consider this tool, no question on that. Social Commerce might be of course impacted postively by the proper use of this tool.
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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.