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June 29, 2009 Inner-office travel: How online conferencing can help save the planet Appearing on the sites of ABC affiliates across the U.S., this article describes the environmental and cost savings benefits of virtual conferencing and events. ON24 CMO Denise Persson explains the growing popularity of virtual events, stating that businesses are concerned about saving money and keeping employees happier by minimizing travel but are also "doing the planet a great favor by using platforms like ON24's." |
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June 24, 2009 Leading Edge virtual show attracts thousands Featuring Twitter integration, BtoB Magazine’s first virtual show attracted almost 5,000 registrants. ON24 provided the platform technology for the event and was one of the exhibitors on the virtual show floor. |
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June 10, 2009 Nielsen Business Media's Photo District News Has Another Virtual Hit on Their Hands Michael Doyle writes that this "highly successful" launch of a new virtual trade show featured over 15,000 registrants and was run on the ON24 Virtual Show platform. |
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June 8, 2009 PDN Talks Up Success of Inaugural Virtual Event This article explains, "As the area of virtual trade shows grows, it pays to look closely at the track record laid down by early adopters." The article highlights metrics that illustrate the reach and traction of the ON24-produced show. |
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June 8, 2009 Can't Make the Live Event? Go Virtual This article describes the "big boosts" in online show providers' business. Featured is ASI's virtual tradeshow, created by ON24, which far exceeded all expectations, according to ASI CEO Tim M. Andrews. |
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May 18, 2009 Virtual-Event Solution Makes Lead Scoring a Breeze According to this Eloqua case study, "ON24 offers simple webinar registration, clear instructions, and the ability to handle not just simple PowerPoint presentations but also robust question-and-answer sessions. Moreover, ON24 is deeply involved in coordinating the pre-event marketing and notifications, as well as the surveys and follow-up e-mails after." |
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May 5, 2009 A Frost and Sullivan Global Market Leadership Award for Virtual Events Goes to...ON24 Commenting on this recognition, ON24 CEO Sharat Sharan says that the Market Leadership Award confirms that the market response to ON24's growing product portfolio has been overwhelmingly positive. ON24 CMO Denise Persson adds that ON24 Virtual Show is making possible many new applications, including hybrid trade shows and internal meetings, which is also contributing to ON24's domination. |
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May 1, 2009 The "V" Word In this in-depth article, ON24 CMO Denise Persson explains how factors such as green agendas and the economy are driving virtual event demand growth. |
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May 1, 2009 Summer Sales Meeting Goes Hybrid This case study describes a successful hybrid (in-person and virtual) sales meeting held by ON24 customer GoldenGate Software. |
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April 20, 2009 All Learning, All the Time Writer Paula Santonocito describes a new ON24 Virtual Show application, a Virtual Learning Center, as a tool which allows companies to save money and time while delivering robust training. It is "...a highly interactive, completely customizable solution that leverages 3-D capabilities to simulate a client's work environment." She goes on to describe the tool's advantages, saying, "With the economy forcing organizations to cut back on travel expenses, virtual learning offers a viable alternative to traditional training." |
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April 6, 2009 Sales Teams Use Virtual Events for More than Cost Savings This article highlights ON24's customer survey findings and alludes to two significant trends--communicating and selling virtually. The article makes the case, through its recap of the survey findings, that B2B sales professionals are looking to virtual events to shorten their sales cycles. "Regardless of whether you believe the numbers of this particular study, there's no question that virtual events are growing in popularity, as evidenced by the rapid growth of companies that provide such services." |
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March 25, 2009 A Tale of Two Trade Shows According to Denis Pombriant, a virtual Oracle customer exposition developed with ON24 Virtual Show was an approach more attuned to the times and customer-centric than a traditional customer convention held by another firm at the same time. He predicts that this recession could do for trade shows what the last recession did for face-to-face briefings, which are now conducted largely via web conferencing. |
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March 22, 2009 ON24 Virtual Show Platform Drawing Crowds This article describes the success of ON24 Virtual Show. "With strong growth in the previous year and a generous share of the publishing industry as clients, plus large multinational corporations, ON24 is poised to be a dominant player in the growing virtual event industry." |
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March 22, 2009 Review of Oracle's Partner Expo Online, a Great Virtual Event Francine Adams describes Oracle's Partner Expo Online, an ON24 Virtual Show, as "the ultimate in virtual conferencing." She adds, "The Expo itself was every bit as effective as being in person without the air fare, travel expenses, parking and meals." |
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March 20, 2009 Oracle Puts on a (Virtual) Show Scott Budman describes Oracle's virtual partner expo, created with ON24 Virtual Show, as "super-realistic" and having "impressive detail." He describes ON24 as "a company in high demand." |
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March 19, 2009 New Virtual Way to Beat the Recession Scott Budman of the Bay Area's NBC 11 features the Oracle Partner eXpo Online in an interview with ON24 CEO Sharat Sharan. According to the report, "ON24 designs events in painstaking detail for companies all over the world. And, these days, with companies spending less, ON24 is on fire." Budman then adds, "ON24 is hiring-and moving forward by helping others scale back." |
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February 25, 2009 ON24 Raises the Profile for Virtual Trade Shows VentureBeat's Dean Takahashi summarizes ON24's record business performance in 2008: "The virtual trade show is catching on, according to one of the leading companies in the space. San Francisco-based ON24 says that the company grew sales 40 percent in 2008 and saw its client base expand to 700 customers." |
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February 20, 2009 Ahead of the Curve-Virtual Shows ABC News Now, a 45-million-subscriber cable news network, aired an interview with ON24 Vice President Tom Masotto which featured ON24 Virtual Show. |
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February 19, 2009 How to Give a Webinar (and Not Look Like an Idiot) In this bylined article by ON24 CMO Denise Persson, strategies for combating presenter "webinar worry" are described. |
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February 17, 2009 Business Solutions: Smart Ways to Cut Costs Hot technologies for 2009 will be those that can save money - including ON24 virtual events solutions. "...TechInsights decided to put together interactive online seminars for potential customers. The company uses Webcasting software from San Francisco-based ON24 Inc., which charges between $800 and $20,000 per event, depending on the number of attendees and what features a customer chooses." |
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January 30, 2009 76% of Enterprise Executives Predict Rise in Virtual Events for 2009 Virtual Worlds News included results from the recent ON24 survey of projected virtual events usage in an article that addresses the effects of an "economy continuing in a downward spiral" on the replacement of physical conferences and meetings with virtual alternatives. |
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January 23, 2009 'Virtual' threatening 'Physical'...But 'Physical events' still hold core utility! Prashant Sharma examines the implications of the recent ON24 market trend survey regarding the growth of virtual events versus physical events. Sharma states: "Big & glossy physical events such as Trade shows and conventions require some heavy investments and in such an economic downturn, enterprises are now relying more on the nearest alternative to physical events, Virtual events." |
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January 19, 2009 Lithium Technologies Uses Webinar Series to Quadruple Leads Dan Ziman, Lithium's director, marketing programs, was interviewed by Christopher Hosford regarding Lithium's webinar programs. Powered by ON24, Ziman stated: "We probably quadrupled the number of leads coming into the company during that time frame," he said, adding, "Our webinar series produced the lowest cost per lead of anything we did in 2008." |
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January 19, 2009 Virtual Events Yield Real Leads Christopher Hosford writes how webinars can be powerful lead generation tools when produced and managed properly. Kim Ryden, director of demand generation, ON24, emphasizes: "ROI starts with the planning stages," said Ryden. "You want to segment your database and market to those people who have responded to something else in the past." |
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January 19, 2009 Good Time to be a Webinar Guy Sue Pelletier summarized ON24's recent survey on Face2Face, a MeetingsNet Blog, highlighting that this is "fortunate news for ON24, seeing that it's a webcasting/virtual meeting company." |
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January 16, 2009 Survey Shows Explosive Growth for Virtual Events in 2009 Corporate Incentives & Meetings summarizes a survey issued by ON24 regarding the growth of virtual events. |
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January 15, 2009 Study Confirms Explosive Growth for Virtual Events in 2009 Michael Doyle provides a summary of a recent survey issued by ON24 regarding the shift from physical to virtual events in 2009. |
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January 15, 2009 Report: More businesses are going virtual Kristina Knight highlights the value of virtual events for saving costs and convenience. She summarizes the ON24 survey: "Forget about sending sales people to ten or fifteen trade shows this year; with the tightening economy in the US, more and more businesses are finding virtual trade shows to be more beneficial. The survey from ON24 found that more than half of businesses are using virtual events this year." |
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January 14, 2009 5 Steps to Double Conference Attendance: Inject Virtual Webcast & Trade show Note: Article available to non members for first week. Membership required for access afterwards. In this MarketingSherpa a case study, Elsevier, one of the leading medical and life science publishers, discusses how it used a virtual show to drive and extend the audience for their Vaccine Global Congress in Boston. According to Nigel Clear, Commercial Director of Elsevier: "For every one conference delegate we can attract, how many more can't make it because of time constraints or limited travel budgets?" says Clear. "Scientists and researchers in developing nations, in particular, often can't afford the expense. We wanted to take our scientific knowledge to as wide an audience as possible." |
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January 14, 2009 Survey finds marketing events shifting from the physical to the virtual BtoB Magazine published results from the ON24 survey of more than 10,000 executives regarding the shift from physical to virtual events in 2009. |
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January 14, 2009 Bad News for Meeting Planners Ken Molay of The Webinar Blog summarizes key findings from an ON24 survey which queried executives regarding their 2009 anticipated use of trade shows, conventions, and internal meetings as opposed to webinars and virtual shows. |
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