WorkCast Present+ vs. Riverside.fm

Present+ is FANTASTIC if you're looking for a full marketing tool. Integrated with the likes of HubSpot or Marketo, you can genuinely deliver a fully integrated experience to your audience, minimising drop out at any stage and ensuring a positive level of engagement at all times.

While Riverside.fm is good for creating videos, it's less well-positioned to create audio-only shows.

Incentivized

• Embedded webinars - embed your webinars directly into your landing pages!
• Useful features - it's packed full of useful features, focusing on the ones that are going to genuinely be of use (i.e., there's no bloat).
• Well supported - there's a full team at the end of a phone or email if you have any questions at all.

• very easy to use
• great to have all video files in one location automatically
• the backup audio files are perfect to download and make sure all files are synced up for editing
• it's easy to get on as a producer and be there to help everyone else who is recording without being recorded myself.

Incentivized

• The Presenter 'Pods' could do with tips to explain that these can be repositioned.
• The questions/polls have room for improvement.

• Unable to upload multiple files at once
• For the beginner, while the layout looks good it is somewhat opaque as to how to get started
• Free account features an immovable tile asking for $15/month.

Incentivized

There are a couple of small technical issues that can effect the quality of the videos produced that is keeping me from giving it a 10. It is far superior to any other tool to get a high quality video recording with multiple people over the internet, so it is hands down the best tool I have found for this use case, but I know it can be better.

Incentivized

I have not needed to use the Riverside.fm support that much, which in itself is a good sign of how good their product is, but when I have had to use their support it was prompt, and helpful, and the people were very kind. I am glad to know there is someone there to help quickly if I am having a problem.

Incentivized

Really straight forward, there is no software, apps or plugins to download. Simply access the webinar and it streams live, on any device.

Riverside is far better than trying to record on Zoom or Skype because on both of those platforms you are recording others' videos from over the internet, so you get any glitches that come from inconsistent connections that either you or your guest has. Riverside records locally and then uploads separately, so everyone's video quality is much greater.

Incentivized

• It's difficult to quantify the ROI financial return but we feel it's had a positive impact on our brand perception.

• Since I need their platform, which again is actually pretty good, I had to waste money to sign up again, so that I had a workable password.
• from experience, wasted weeks of going back and forth with their support team - throwing off my podcast schedule.