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What is Brainshark?

Brainshark is a video presentation platform for sales enablement, now from BIgTinCan (acquired August 2021).

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8 out of 10
June 15, 2018
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Brainshark is used across my whole organization to view presentations. It allows us to safely upload and store large files that anyone can …
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What is Brainshark?

Brainshark is a video presentation platform for sales enablement, now from BIgTinCan (acquired August 2021).

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Product Details

What is Brainshark?

Brainshark is a platform for data-driven sales enablement and readiness. The vendor aims to help companies prepare their client-facing teams with the knowledge, skills and insights they need to perform at the highest level.

With solutions for training and coaching, as well as insights into sales performance, customers can ensure their sales reps are always ready to make the most of any buyer interaction.The vendor boasts that thousands of customers – including more than half of the Fortune 100 – rely on Brainshark to close performance gaps and get better results from their sales enablement initiatives.

Brainshark is a BigTinCan brand, since the August, 2021 acquisition.

Brainshark Features

  • Supported: Readiness Scorecards
  • Supported: Coaching & Practice
  • Supported: Training & Onboarding
  • Supported: Content Authoring

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Brainshark Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Mobile Web

Frequently Asked Questions

Brainshark is a video presentation platform for sales enablement, now from BIgTinCan (acquired August 2021).

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Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 10.

The most common users of Brainshark are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Users of Brainshark have found the software to be invaluable for a wide range of use cases. From efficient onboarding and specialized trainings to marketing, sales, and training decks, Brainshark has proven to be a versatile tool for timely employee training and content distribution across different media and devices. The tracking service allows users to monitor presentation viewership and make necessary adjustments to maintain audience engagement. With the ability to update slide decks or videos without changing the URL, content management becomes seamless. Users also appreciate the software's copy and edit capabilities, making it easy to reuse and modify content for different target audiences. Additionally, Brainshark's customer service and onboarding process have received praise from users, contributing to a smooth transition and efficient content production. Continuous releases of new features have further solidified Brainshark's commitment to improvement and have been well-received by users. From leading retailers to packaged goods organizations, Brainshark is widely adopted by different industries for effective implementation and utilization of its features. Whether it is for project-related activities, formal learning with curricula creation, or providing links to webinars and trainings in emails or websites, Brainshark proves to be an efficient solution across various departments. Users appreciate the ability to design, deliver, and host communications while incorporating customized content that aligns with their organization's mission and vision. Brainshark is also utilized in crucial areas such as employee orientation, continuing education, internal communications, benefit changes communication, and on-demand training content delivery. The user-friendly interface ensures that just-in-time training can be easily provided regardless of the device being used. Creating a Brainshark presentation is a straightforward process that allows users to include various assets like videos, web pages, surveys, and quizzes in a single presentation. The reporting tool provides valuable analytics on content views and durations for better tracking and analysis purposes. Users have consistently received great support from Brainshark with quick response times and helpful assistance. Its metrics and integration with SSO implementation have enabled organizations to gain insights into communication effectiveness and employee attention. Brainshark has proven to be an effective solution for various training needs including sales force training, corporate training, legal training, compliance courses, and more. It also serves as a valuable tool for internal information sharing, reducing time spent in meetings, scaling educational offerings, and streamlining content creation for tutorials. The software has successfully addressed complex issues related to video distribution and training, offering a seamless online experience for customers while efficiently tracking progress. Additionally,

Intuitive and user-friendly interface: Users have consistently praised Brainshark for its intuitive and user-friendly interface, with many stating that it has allowed them to navigate the software easily and perform tasks quickly. The well-designed interface has been particularly beneficial for users with limited technical knowledge, enabling them to create engaging and professional-looking content effortlessly.

Comprehensive content creation features: The comprehensive and robust nature of Brainshark's content creation features has received high praise from users. They appreciate the wide range of options available for customizing their content according to their specific needs. This streamlines their content creation process and enables them to deliver high-quality presentations and materials to their audience.

Seamless integration capabilities: Users highly value Brainshark's seamless integration capabilities with other tools and platforms. Being able to integrate existing content into the software saves users time and ensures a smooth workflow. By leveraging their existing tools and processes, users are able to enhance their overall productivity while using Brainshark.

Steep Learning Curve: Some users have found Brainshark to have a steep learning curve, making it challenging for them to navigate and use the software effectively.

Limited Customization Options: Several users expressed their desire for more customization options in Brainshark. They felt that the ability to make simple edits to videos, eliminate dead space, and add section headers would greatly improve their ability to organize content and tailor presentations to their needs.

Issues with Video Playback: Users mentioned occasional issues with video playback in Brainshark, even with smaller file sizes. This affected the viewing experience and caused frustration among some reviewers.

Based on user reviews, there are three common recommendations for using Brainshark:

  1. Spend time upfront learning the overall user experience and ensure there is plenty of content before publishing. It is recommended to dedicate a person in the organization to run the platform, set up structure and guidelines for content creation and training administration. Training more than one person is also suggested to learn how to use Brainshark effectively.

  2. Take full advantage of the training advocates provided by Brainshark and leverage the support team as much as possible during implementation for optimal success. Being organized with all trainings and making full use of tutorials and support provided during onboarding is advised.

  3. Consider Brainshark as a comprehensive training platform with tracking capabilities and room to grow the user base. While it is seen as a great tool for storing content and monitoring completion, users suggest exploring alternate options if not completely satisfied with these features. Additionally, it is recommended to look for additional use cases within the organization, as many others can benefit from using Brainshark.

Users find Brainshark easy to use and highly customizable, especially for sales knowledge. It is considered a great solution for training needs and has been used in hundreds of product trainings. Users also appreciate its simplicity and adaptability across industries. Overall, users recommend spending time learning the user experience, utilizing support resources, and recognizing Brainshark's potential as a comprehensive training platform.

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Lori Houser | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Brainshark is very user-friendly and it’s very easy to create learning content, even a beginner could walk through it fairly easily. They also have a great support team and help site that can pretty much answer any question with video tutorials.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It would be great for onboarding new hires by breaking down the onboarding into different courses/milestones where each employee completes and tracks their progress. It might not be the best sales enablement platform as it lacks guest reporting and sharing/emailing content with external parties even though its integration with Salesforce is good to have a solution for training sales teams.
Chris Edwards | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Brainshark is a learning management system and this makes it fit for every scenario where you are aiming to impart knowledge and sharpen the skills of your staff where they increase their capacity to deliver and bring a turnaround in your organization. The Sales teams are able to execute their mandate with ease and this ensures that our revenue increases day by day.
February 15, 2020

Brainshark Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Brainshark is great for new employees and the company to utilize to help them guide the employee throughout their onboarding process. I like how there are optional training sections that you can view as well as the mandatory training that you know you need to complete. I could see it used in many organizations.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Brainshark is best suited within an organization that needs the functionality of an online training program. It's great for sales and marketing. Brainshark was a great investment for our company. The ability to train candidates without standing in front of them talking for a week gave us a tremendous amount of time back and it's effective! It's simple to use and extremely customizable. Great for sales knowledge. There are so many ways you can implement it though, so if you choose this product make sure that you spend the time to understand all of the awesome stuff it can do.
Richard Gichangi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Brainshark works well in a scenario where as a company you are aiming to help your sales reps attain sales mastery. It offers organizations the ability to execute better onboarding, training, coaching, and continuous learning opportunities to their sales reps and teams (both current and future incoming employees).
Betsy Abney | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I love what Brainshark does for me and how easy it is to train someone else to use it. Most people are familiar with PowerPoint and that makes and easy start that can be enhanced with animation, voice over and background music. You can also upload videos, SCORM compliant classes and more to make an easy to use system to present training and education. I have reviewed a number of other programs, and all seem to have the same weaknesses in reporting. Brainshark does what I need without a lot of difficult training.
Mark Rice | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
ResellerIncentivized
For a long time, Brainshark focused their use case on producing training content. I was an early adopter and started using Brainshark presentations in short "trailers" for webinar promotion at Xerox Corporation. I continue to this day to use Brainshark as a customer acquisition tool. Brainshark has found its "sweet spot" now that they are focused on sales effectiveness and integrating with customer relationship management platforms.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Brainshark is great for:
  • Assessments (created within the application)
  • Training (imported PowerPoint slides) with audio (that you record over the phone), where instructors are not available
  • Providing stand alone URLs (especially for new associates who don't have permissions on our network/intranet yet)
  • On-the fly updates (provided you are the author)
  • Certificates of completion
Brainshark is challenged at:
  • Some LMS reporting systems - we have to use Brainshark embedded within another application that does our reporting. Not hard, just a hassle.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Reseller
The biggest hurdle a company faces is understanding the various ways that they can utilize Brainshark and then making sure they implement those use cases on an ongoing basis... the best scenario is when someone comes into the organization that has experience using Brainshark and they can quickly assess where and how Brainshark can add value to the organization.
February 25, 2015

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Justin James | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Is this for internal training or external marketing? I see a lot of people use it for internal training but not customer facing material. Brainshark does both well and that is where the value lies. If you only need one or the other this might more power than you need.
Stephanie VanGilder | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
If you need a lot of interaction with the material, this isn't the best solution.

For communicating information, voice over PowerPoint even with assessment questions, this is a great solution. We also use Brandwatch for short commercial like communications and for providing timely information in an unexpected format from our leaders.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Brainshark is well suited for sharing information that is non-proprietary. If security is an issue, there are other features that should be enabled. Essentially, anyone who has the logon information can view the presentation which may not be appropriate in some cases.
January 22, 2015

Brainshark 1/21/2015

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Brainshark works really well for training and spreading new information, especially with the tracking features and completion criteria option so that we know who has actually viewed the information.
Tina Callisto | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Brainshark is an excellent choice if you're looking for a content creation tool that is geared toward business users and doesn't require content development skills. Having said that, Brainshark can accommodate many file types, including content that is developed in tools like Captivate and Camtasia. It's also a great hosting tool for an organization that doesn't have this type of capability and can integrate with LMS systems.
January 15, 2015

Simple and consistent

Brad Shafton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I think it is an applicable solution for all medium to large companies. We all have the need for training and communication delivery, and Brainshark facilitates and simplifies that. Even if you just use it as a private YouTube you will see a benefit.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

It's well-suited for any time you'd like to have a presentation with audio. It doesn't take the place of video and isn't the best for highly graphical items. Technically, you can use video on it, but that's not it's forte. It also has a significant amount of elearning capabilities, but I haven't used these items.

If you are only purchasing a certain amount of server space (not sure if they still sell it that way), you are going to run out. We kept hitting our maximum and had to bump it up.

Also, if you don't have a clear owner, but have lots of users, it will become a rats nest of folders and users.

Saadia Ali | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is best suited to deliver on-demand content anywhere anytime. It is not restricted to any department or industry. I think everyone can take advantage of this tool. I have seen Marketing create content, Sales create short introduction Brainsharks, Finance create presentations, and HR use it for talking about benefits.
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