Current Webinar Platforms and Rising Costs: Share Your Insights!

Erin S. · 2025-12-16T13:51:51.271Z

What platforms are y'all using for webinars? Just did a bit of research and prices have skyrocketed since I last looked into it! 🚀

Current Webinar Platforms and Rising Costs: Share Your Insights! | Tightknit Community

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Max P.
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Joel P. + Beth S. + Brian K. for insights!
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Beth S.
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Hey Erin S.! We use Zoom + Luma. Luma is the front-facing page we use for registrations and it's integrated with Zoom so we can add a Zoom meeting or webinar automatically when we create the Luma page with a one-click integration. Super easy! Happy to answer any additional questions, but the workflow itself has been really straightforward and easy to use
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Zach H.
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++ on Beth S.'s recommendation. We also integrate with both of them really well and are adding a deeper integration in 2026.
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George M.
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Erin S. We're using Airmeet. They're pretty good and have a whole scope of offerings from in-person event tracking, webinars, live streaming events!
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Brian K.
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I am working with a client on another platform (they chose it already) which has webinar functionality built in. But this is Tightknit, so add-ons, plugins? - haven't used any lately.
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Joel P.
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FYI—Goldcast got acquired by Cvent, tbd on how that impacts pricing, etc. for current/future customers.
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Zach H.
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Joel P. that's big news!! Wonder what that will mean
I know Andy C. works with the sequel.io team too
And Paz P. swears by https://www.butter.us/
Joel P.
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TBH, at the end of the day, there are usually minimal experience differences between virtual event platforms, so I'd focus on:
Price/total cost of ownership
Data management & integrations
Speed-to-launch for an event
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Erin S.
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So many good reccos! Thanks y’all! I'll let you know what we end up going with
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Jay M.
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I used Butter for the longest - such a great product and team. It's also so much fun (amazing UX) and really built bottom-up for great group sessions. But the challenges with new tool learning curve (for your attendees), security policies that prohibited it, and lag made me go back to Zoom.
Jay M.
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Beth S. I was using Luma but couldn't justify their $99/mo fee to allow any type of integration - which meant I had to do several rounds of list exports from Luma. Did they "fix" this?
Andy C.
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Very happy with Sequel over here, particularly for B2B content. They've done a great job with steady product updates. Huge difference vs this time last year.
Andy C.
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We still use Zoom for more intimate sessions where we want maximum accessibility and participation.
Beth S.
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Jay M. No, you still have to pay in order to use Zapier/their API, unfortunately. It starts at $69/month but if you pay annually it goes down to $50 something/month. But also depends on how many email sends you want. We use our own email platform to promote our events so I've never increased that send limit. And you can do your reminders/blast within the events themselves and they don't count towards the sends, it's only just if you're promoting the events to folks subscribed to your calendar
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Max P.
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Joel P. + Beth S. + Brian K. for insights!
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1
Beth S.
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Hey Erin S.! We use Zoom + Luma. Luma is the front-facing page we use for registrations and it's integrated with Zoom so we can add a Zoom meeting or webinar automatically when we create the Luma page with a one-click integration. Super easy! Happy to answer any additional questions, but the workflow itself has been really straightforward and easy to use
➕2
Zach H.
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++ on Beth S.'s recommendation. We also integrate with both of them really well and are adding a deeper integration in 2026.
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George M.
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Erin S. We're using Airmeet. They're pretty good and have a whole scope of offerings from in-person event tracking, webinars, live streaming events!
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Brian K.
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I am working with a client on another platform (they chose it already) which has webinar functionality built in. But this is Tightknit, so add-ons, plugins? - haven't used any lately.
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Joel P.
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FYI—Goldcast got acquired by Cvent, tbd on how that impacts pricing, etc. for current/future customers.
😲2
Zach H.
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Joel P. that's big news!! Wonder what that will mean
I know Andy C. works with the sequel.io team too
And Paz P. swears by https://www.butter.us/
Joel P.
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TBH, at the end of the day, there are usually minimal experience differences between virtual event platforms, so I'd focus on:
Price/total cost of ownership
Data management & integrations
Speed-to-launch for an event
2
Erin S.
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So many good reccos! Thanks y’all! I'll let you know what we end up going with
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Jay M.
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I used Butter for the longest - such a great product and team. It's also so much fun (amazing UX) and really built bottom-up for great group sessions. But the challenges with new tool learning curve (for your attendees), security policies that prohibited it, and lag made me go back to Zoom.
Jay M.
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Beth S. I was using Luma but couldn't justify their $99/mo fee to allow any type of integration - which meant I had to do several rounds of list exports from Luma. Did they "fix" this?
Andy C.
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Very happy with Sequel over here, particularly for B2B content. They've done a great job with steady product updates. Huge difference vs this time last year.
Andy C.
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We still use Zoom for more intimate sessions where we want maximum accessibility and participation.
Beth S.
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Jay M. No, you still have to pay in order to use Zapier/their API, unfortunately. It starts at $69/month but if you pay annually it goes down to $50 something/month. But also depends on how many email sends you want. We use our own email platform to promote our events so I've never increased that send limit. And you can do your reminders/blast within the events themselves and they don't count towards the sends, it's only just if you're promoting the events to folks subscribed to your calendar
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