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    Overview
    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

    Zendesk Talk

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AZendesk Talk is call center software built on the Twilio cloud communication platform that integrates with the Zendesk Support ticketing system. This allows customer service teams to provide phone support from the same platform they use to manage all other channels.N/A
    Pricing
    ON24Zendesk Talk
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ON24Zendesk Talk
    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
    ON24Zendesk Talk
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of ON24 and Zendesk Talk
    Feature
    ON24
    9.7
    1 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Zendesk Talk
    -
    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 Zendesk Talk
    Feature
    ON24
    8.3
    413 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Zendesk Talk
    -
    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 Zendesk Talk
    Feature
    ON24
    8.3
    416 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Zendesk Talk
    -
    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 Zendesk Talk
    Feature
    ON24
    9.0
    384 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Zendesk Talk
    -
    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 Zendesk Talk
    Feature
    ON24
    8.0
    390 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Zendesk Talk
    -
    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 Zendesk Talk
    Feature
    ON24
    8.8
    42 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Zendesk Talk
    -
    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
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of ON24 and Zendesk Talk
    Feature
    ON24
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Talk
    7.8
    16 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Agent dashboard00 Ratings9.916 Ratings
    Validate callers00 Ratings6.012 Ratings
    Outbound response00 Ratings10.014 Ratings
    Call forwarding00 Ratings8.915 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings10.013 Ratings
    Warm transfer00 Ratings9.912 Ratings
    Predictive dialing00 Ratings5.08 Ratings
    Interactive voice response00 Ratings10.010 Ratings
    REST APIs00 Ratings5.07 Ratings
    Call scripts00 Ratings7.06 Ratings
    Call tracking00 Ratings9.914 Ratings
    Multichannel integration00 Ratings5.110 Ratings
    CRM software integration00 Ratings5.09 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of ON24 and Zendesk Talk
    Feature
    ON24
    -
    Ratings
    Zendesk Talk
    7.8
    16 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Inbound call routing00 Ratings9.912 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings5.110 Ratings
    Recording00 Ratings9.915 Ratings
    Quality management00 Ratings9.913 Ratings
    Call analytics00 Ratings8.913 Ratings
    Historical reporting00 Ratings8.913 Ratings
    Live reporting00 Ratings4.914 Ratings
    Customer surveys00 Ratings5.08 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings8.19 Ratings
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    ON24Zendesk Talk
    Small Businesses
    Whova
    Score9.6 out of 10
    CloudTalk
    Score7.6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Splash
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Webex Events (formerly Socio)
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Bright Pattern Contact Center
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ON24Zendesk Talk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.8
    (461 ratings)
    9.9
    (16 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (44 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (28 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (210 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.7
    (8 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.9
    (33 ratings)
    5.0
    (3 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    3.6
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.5
    (12 ratings)
    -
    (0 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
    ON24Zendesk Talk
    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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    Zendesk
    Zendesk Talk is a great partner that helps us in the customer care area by managing every type of contact with customers (both phone calls and emails). I know there is also the possibility to have integration with instant messaging apps (like messenger and WhatsApp but I have never used them in my experience). In my opinion, the best scenario for Zendesk Talk is represented by a context with a high amount of contacts/requests where a unique platform could be a help both on the external side (customers) and on the internal side (a lot of colleagues who are working in the same area and have to work in a coordinate way). For customers, they could benefit from tailor-made answers, also based on past contacts for the same topic, and avoid waiting times during phone calls, with an immediate follow-up. For internal work management, operators don't overlap in a single request, and even if the same operator is not available the one who manages the request later has complete visibility of the entire topic from the historical point of view. Last but not least, I think that Zendesk Talk helps a lot in the context in which the request's speed is a KPI to manage constantly.
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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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    Zendesk
    • Call recording is a nice feature! It is great for training purposes and for quality assurance.
    • The metrics you get from Explore are a great insight into how the team is handling the call volumes.
    • Zendesk Talk has met most of our needs. It can be a bit unreliable at times.
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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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    Zendesk
    • The lag on the phone is by far the most annoying thing with Zendesk talk due to the voice over IP.
    • Using the Reporting feature in Zendesk has never been a walk in the park. We have to customize a lot of fields and when something doesn't seem to add up, it at times feels like pulling teeth to get to the final answer of what went wrong.
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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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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Zendesk
    Everything about it works, as I have previously detailed. Coming from different companies and using other tools like Twilio or Aircall, those are VOIP tools that are built to be plugged into other tools, Zendesk Talk is natively built into Zendesk and feels correct in the user experience of Zendesk
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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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    Zendesk
    No answers on this topic
    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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    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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    Zendesk
    In our experience, we have had to go through many support people then ultimately getting frustrated enough to go directly to our point of contact who then doesn't always seem to be able to assist. We tend to get the support we need when it is escalated up to me and I reach out to our point of a contact person to express our frustration.
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    In-Person Training
    Cvent
    Great communication and clarity
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    Zendesk
    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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    Zendesk
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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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    Zendesk
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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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    Zendesk
    Slack and Zoom phones cannot compare because they have no ticketing systems. Zendesk Talk was the only option we considered because we were already using Zendesk for our email ticketing with customer concerns. We then expanded to using Zendesk's chatbot and then the Zendesk Talk system to keep it all integrated and streamlined.
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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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    Zendesk
    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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    Zendesk
    • We were able to reduce global headcount by 20% in our call centers.
    • Allowing customers to leave voicemails creates the personal touch needed and really increases our customer connectivity score. We saw increases in our CSAT scores after the implementation of this solution.
    • Call handling time and case reopen rates both decreased. Y/y it decreased 18% and 60%.
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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.