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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Slido

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/ASlido is an audience interaction platform that helps users to get the most out of meetings and events by crowdsourcing top questions and engaging participants with live polls and quizzes. From internal communications professionals to team leaders, conference organizers, and individual presenters, Slido can be used by those looking to enable open conversation at a live or virtual meeting. Slido works with popular video conferencing and presentation platforms and integrates with Microsoft…

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    Splash

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/ASplash is an event marketing solution that helps to get event programs in front of the right people by helping users create engaging, branded experiences and optimize conversions at each stage of the event lifecycle. The solution empowers teams to execute events that bring in more leads, shorten the sales cycle, drive new business, and strengthen customer relationships. Splash is an event marketing platform that helps teams do all of this by building and hosting…

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    Pricing
    SlidoSplash
    Editions & Modules
    Engage (one-time)
    $49.00
    Engage (EDU annual)
    $72.00
    Professional (EDU annual)
    $120.00
    Engage (annual)
    $144.00
    Professional (one-time)
    $199.00
    Professional (annual)
    $720.00
    Institution (EDU annual)
    $720.00
    Premium (one-time)
    $999.00
    Enterprise (annual)
    $2400.00
    Free: For Personal Use and Occasional Small Business Events
    $0.00
    Pro: For More Design and Access Control
    Contact Sales
    per year
    Enterprise: For Solutions and Workflows at Scale
    Contact Sales
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SlidoSplash
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup Fee$144 per yearNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsAdditional users are extra $100.00 - $600.00—
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    Features
    SlidoSplash
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Slido and Splash Event Marketing Platform
    Feature
    Slido
    9.1
    8 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Splash Event Marketing Platform
    4.9
    5 Ratings
    55% below category average
    Responsive Design for Web Access9.18 Ratings5.35 Ratings
    Mobile Application9.17 Ratings4.55 Ratings
    Online Meetings / Events
    Comparison of Online Meetings / Events features of Slido and Splash Event Marketing Platform
    Feature
    Slido
    9.1
    7 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Splash Event Marketing Platform
    7.0
    5 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Integrates with social media9.27 Ratings7.13 Ratings
    Record meetings / events9.45 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Event registration8.74 Ratings6.55 Ratings
    Calendar integration00 Ratings7.64 Ratings
    Slideshows00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Online Events Collaboration
    Comparison of Online Events Collaboration features of Slido and Splash Event Marketing Platform
    Feature
    Slido
    9.1
    9 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Splash Event Marketing Platform
    6.7
    4 Ratings
    22% below category average
    Live chat9.28 Ratings6.34 Ratings
    Audience polling9.29 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Q&A9.29 Ratings6.92 Ratings
    Presentation Streaming8.76 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Events Security
    Comparison of Online Events Security features of Slido and Splash Event Marketing Platform
    Feature
    Slido
    8.7
    7 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Splash Event Marketing Platform
    5.2
    5 Ratings
    49% below category average
    User authentication8.35 Ratings4.34 Ratings
    Participant roles & permissions9.26 Ratings5.35 Ratings
    Confidential attendee list00 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Audience Engagement
    Comparison of Audience Engagement features of Slido and Splash Event Marketing Platform
    Feature
    Slido
    9.1
    35 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Splash Event Marketing Platform
    -
    Ratings
    Quizzes9.635 Ratings00 Ratings
    Survey Features9.28 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gamification Features8.75 Ratings00 Ratings
    Engagement Tracking Tools8.77 Ratings00 Ratings
    Online Events Marketing
    Comparison of Online Events Marketing features of Slido and Splash Event Marketing Platform
    Feature
    Slido
    -
    Ratings
    Splash Event Marketing Platform
    6.6
    6 Ratings
    25% below category average
    Branding options00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Integration to Marketing Automation00 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Attendee list export00 Ratings6.86 Ratings
    Virtual Event
    Comparison of Virtual Event features of Slido and Splash Event Marketing Platform
    Feature
    Slido
    -
    Ratings
    Splash Event Marketing Platform
    6.1
    6 Ratings
    27% below category average
    Registration, RSVP, and ticketing00 Ratings7.36 Ratings
    Email marketing00 Ratings7.36 Ratings
    Livestreaming00 Ratings5.32 Ratings
    Audience engagement00 Ratings7.23 Ratings
    Event recording00 Ratings6.73 Ratings
    Networking00 Ratings3.93 Ratings
    Event analytics00 Ratings4.96 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    SlidoSplash
    Small Businesses
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    Whova
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Mentimeter
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Cvent Event Management
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Mentimeter
    Score8.6 out of 10
    Webex Events (formerly Socio)
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    SlidoSplash
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (67 ratings)
    6.1
    (54 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.4
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    6.5
    (6 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Professional Services
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SlidoSplash
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    How was it well suited to me? - The leaderboard and freedom to edit the quiz. The fastest finger quiz to announce the winner based on fairness. The ease of login through QR Scanner. Also, it did not pinch my pocket at all. The best part is this $25 earning opportunity via feedback :-). And the list goes on... The less appropriate part was mentioned earlier in ways that I see improvements with Slido, coming to utilize Slido everywhere and in various ways. Overall, I love the AI suggestions.
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    Cvent
    When we first started using Splash Event Marketing Platform, the platform showed great promise and worked well for our team’s needs. However, over the past year, we’ve encountered issue after issue—many of which are described by support as problems “no one else has ever experienced.” Unfortunately, this has happened frequently, making it difficult to trust the platform for consistent execution.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Slido integrates well with Microsoft PowerPoint which is very much useful for us.
    • The post poll dashboard reports are very much insightful.
    • Shareable links are created easily with Slido. Also, this saves a lot of time and manual effort for us.
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    Cvent
    • Templates - Splash allowed Hubspot to create page templates for all of our Hubspot User Group Meet Up registration pages. So while we're just one city that hosts meet-ups, utilizing these templates helps ensure that every city's pages look the same and are able to be navigated in the same way.
    • Check In - Their app is really nice for check-in on the day of the event. I can have any co-worker log into the app on their phone and they're ready to help me manage the event. The app definitely makes our check-in process more simplified.
    • Managing RSVPs - The ability to cut off registration and start a wait list is critical for our events. We get a handful of cancellations in the week before the event (as I'm sure every other event marketer does) and we can start moving our way down the waitlist to fill our events up!
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • I miss the Slack integration; they used to have this and they deprecated it in the last year or so.
    • I believe they have a nice integration for PowerPoint, would be nice if they had something similar with google slides since that is what we typically use internally.
    • We use the word cloud feature often and sometimes answers seem to get lost (as in don't show up at all) on the screen. for example, an answer will be there, then as more answers come in it disappears, and when we get to a certain threshold of answers it somehow pops back up again. It's not the worst but sometimes someone will ping me that their submission didn't make the word cloud and they're bummed.
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    Cvent
    • When designing a landing page for an event, the functionality of the layout page is quite finicky. I would love to see the ability to add features to certain text boxes become more fluid.
    • The formatting across the layout page is not always consistent, specifically text sizing.
    • I had an issue with an account, and the support team took an extremely long time (2+ months) to produce a remedy for the issue I was experiencing.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    It gives High engagement of audience or trainees during live workshops and easily connect with other software. Ease of use for both participants and host for live interaction and workshops. Since it doesn't require any app to download and can be used via browser. It understands the issue of users and gives updates time to time.
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    Cvent
    Because easy to interface and easy to manage Splash platform and individual event platform and easy to integrate with third party software such as Adobe Marketo and others softwares. Easy to maintain status and easy to relate with Salesforce campaign through Marketo . Useful in lead capturing and generation and so on we can enable business through splash.
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    Usability
    Cisco
    Overall, it is a handy tool. We do not use it too often in meetings; we started using it creatively for quizzes and Q&A with radio/TV audiences. Producers or Sponsors often explicitly request the option to include this particular type of interaction, and we are happy to do so. It helps that the setup is easy, so is copying events, etc. I sometimes miss Switcher (for our live events), but I understand the reasons it was phased out
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    Cvent
    The platform works, and it is a good system. I think there is always room for improvement. and I would like to see them up their client resolutions when it comes to problems with using the system. and see them take a more aggressive approach to addressing the clients changing needs
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cisco
    It is available all the time as it doesn't create issues while using.
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    Cvent
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Cisco
    It's great working and doing collaboration. Require more working on page reloading
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    Cvent
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Cisco
    I had to use the support for this tool only once. The response was very rapid, very professional and fulfilled my needs immediately. Online support services are sometimes advertised only to lure people into buying the product but and non-existent or difficult to use afterwards. Not with Slido. This was not an automated chatbot and the direct contact really helped me
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    Cvent
    We love working with our account manager and priority support to answer questions efficiently and speedily. Our account manager works with us on larger and bigger picture initiatives for our instance, where the priority support is always there when you're stuck with a feature or setup, it's been great to share this resource with our global network of hosts internal and external to the company.
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    In-Person Training
    Cisco
    It was very helpful knowing the software and its features.
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    Online Training
    Cisco
    I find that training is very informative as it helps understanding the software usages and implementation. It gives the usgaes area and how to create gamification and live Q&A section so that you can use in live team meetings and workshops. It is very useful in training and webinars where a large pool of people are there.
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    Cvent
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    I find Slido a bit easier to use than Poll Everywhere and other live polling software that I've used. While other software offers similar features, I've found that Slido's setup is a bit more intuitive and makes it easier to duplicate polls you've made for reuse. You get the most bang for your buck with Slido's basic plan compared to other polling software's basic tier.
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    Cvent
    Despite not being a very old company, Splash does not feel like a buggy-startup in Beta. I've used other platforms like Eventbrite that don't have the functionality Splash does, and other comparable companies to Splash that are painful to use on the backend. I would also say that the Splash team and culture is a plus. They offer a lot of training tutorials and every call is always a fun one with their team.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Cisco
    No everything is working perfectly fine
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    Cvent
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    Scalability
    Cisco
    It very scalable to large pool audiences during live townhall or meetings.
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    Cvent
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    Professional Services
    Cisco
    It's effective
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    Cvent
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • Slido helped us increase student engagement which resulted in improved academic results for our students
    • The Q&A feature helped us answer questions we received from parents and audeince during live events which resulted in increased admissions in our educational institution
    • The gamification of polls and surveys helped us attract a lot of audience and made the meetings interactive
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    Cvent
    • It helps me manage a number of events that I would not otherwise be able to make invitations for, manage rsvps, and do check ins. We used a more expensive product previously but it had fewer features so this is definitely an upgrade.
    • Using Splash saves me time from needing to follow up with guests. I also love the "send later" feature for email.
    • The support staff make this product super valuable as I am able to accomplish more with their help.
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    ScreenShots

    Slido Screenshots

    Screenshot of Slido Live pollsScreenshot of Slido Event analyticsScreenshot of Slido Audience Q&AScreenshot of Slido Live pollsScreenshot of Slido QuizzesScreenshot of Slido for remote setup

    Splash Screenshots

    Screenshot of customized and on-brand event programs - from the first invitation to post-event follow-up.Screenshot of an example of a personalized email campaign built from on-brand templates. These can be scheduled to be sent to targeted lists.Screenshot of actionable segments created from a guest list, with advanced tag management and list building. This displays every response, status change, and answers to registration questions as they happen.Screenshot of the available integrations for event programs, with Salesforce, Slack, Marketo, Hubspot, Eloqua, Greenhouse, Zapier,  and Zoom.Screenshot of the real-time data and analytics that provide the insights to prove success and build better programs.Screenshot of Splash's Host app, which is used to run the door. Fast search and one-click check-in keeps the traffic flowing, which frees up users to capture info from walk-ins all while syncing the list across devices and to a connected CRM in real-time.