Decide first whether you mostly sell through automated replays, run marketing events, or host a community. Each kind of webinar platform is built around one of those jobs. Then judge the shortlist on what happens after the session: recordings, replays and leads arriving in your CRM.
This list is for marketers, coaches and trainers who run webinars to teach, sell or build an audience, and who've decided EasyWebinar isn't the right fit any more. There are seven platforms below, in no particular order, sorted first by the kind of session each one is built around.
Built for selling, marketing or community
Selling with live and automated sessions
WebinarJam and WebinarNinja both handle live and automated webinars, and they're aimed at people who sell or teach through them. They're the closest match if you rely on replaying your best session on a schedule. Check how offers appear during a replay and whether the timing matches the live version, because a mistimed offer in an automated session looks odd to attendees.
Marketing team platforms
Livestorm, Demio and BigMarker focus on marketing teams: branded events, joining without a download for attendees, and data that flows into your CRM. Choose from this group if webinars feed a sales pipeline, and ask your sales team what they need from each attendee record before you decide, since that tells you which CRM fields matter.
Community and general meetings
Crowdcast is built around community events and audiences that come back, while Zoho Webinar pairs webinars with video conferencing for general business use. If your sessions are more like talk shows than presentations, look for guest invites and audience questions on screen; if they're formal training, look for handouts, polls and attendance reports.
Seven webinar platforms, A to Z
Alphabetical, in no particular order, each summarised from the vendor's own description. Use the groups above to narrow the field first, then read the lines for the two or three that match how you run sessions.
BigMarker
Best for: Marketing teams wanting webinars that run in the browser with marketing features built in, which the vendor presents as an end-to-end webinar solution.
Crowdcast
Best for: Creators and community builders who host online events to reach and grow an audience; the vendor says every event runs in one tool, and a trial is named.
Demio
Best for: Marketers who want a simple, no-download experience for attendees plus the marketing tools they need, as the vendor puts it; a free plan is named.
Livestorm
Best for: Marketing teams running branded events who want engagement data synced to their CRM, with AI features added, according to the vendor.
WebinarJam
Best for: Course creators and coaches selling through live or evergreen webinars with one-click offers and built-in marketing, as the vendor describes it.
WebinarNinja
Best for: Educators and small businesses running live, automated or hybrid webinars to win leads and customers; the vendor says setup takes minutes.
Zoho Webinar
Best for: Businesses wanting webinars and video conferencing from one platform, which the vendor pitches as suitable for companies of any kind.
Quick comparison
| Tool | Format | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| BigMarker | No-download webinar software | Webinars with built-in marketing features |
| Crowdcast | Community events | Running community events without switching tools |
| Demio | Webinar software for marketers | Simple browser webinars for marketers |
| Livestorm | Webinar platform for marketing teams | Branded events with CRM sync |
| WebinarJam | Live and automated webinars | Selling with live and evergreen sessions |
| WebinarNinja | Live, automated and hybrid webinars | Lead generation, sales and teaching webinars |
| Zoho Webinar | Video conferencing and webinars | Video meetings and webinars from one platform |
Advice for hosts on the move
Keep your registrant list and your best recording safe before anything else. They're the two things that took the most work to build. Export registrants with their consent records, download your recordings in full quality, and save your registration page copy so you can rebuild it quickly. Then plan the switch around your event calendar: move after a big launch webinar, not just before it, and run one smaller session on the new platform before you move your automated replays across.
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If you sell through automated webinars, prioritise tools that support replays on a schedule. If you run events for a marketing team, prioritise CRM sync and branded rooms. If your webinars are mostly internal training, attendance reports and simple joining matter more than sales features. For wider choice, see my guide to webinar software and my list of webinar platforms for course creators.
Joining is easy; the follow-up decides it
EasyWebinar's own homepage pitches live sessions that people join from a browser, which you then turn into an automated webinar that keeps selling, with your CRM or theirs. That's two promises: easy joining, and value after the live session ends. Both matter, but the second is where a switch hurts if you get it wrong.
Joining in a browser is now common across this list, so the real difference sits afterwards. Test how attendees register and join, then check what you get once the session ends: recordings, replays and leads in your CRM. Tools here split by who they're built for and how much you set up yourself, so run one real session through each. After a trial session, check that:
- The recording is ready to share without editing, within a reasonable time.
- No-shows receive a replay link automatically.
- Registrant and attendee details reach your CRM or email tool with the right tags.
- You can see who stayed to the end and who left early.
- An automated replay can run on a schedule without you logging in.
If a platform gets all five right on your trial, the rest comes down to preference: the look of the room, the host controls and how comfortable your presenters feel on it. Ask the people who'll present every week, not only the person who signs off the tool. A good fit usually shows up in your follow-up within a few sessions.
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Frequently asked questions
What's an automated webinar?
It's a recorded session that plays on a schedule as if it were live. Hosts use them to run the same presentation many times without being there.
Should attendees need to download anything?
Ideally not. Joining from a browser removes a common reason people drop off before the session starts, so test the join flow on a phone and a work laptop.
Do I need to tell attendees a webinar is recorded?
It's good practice to be clear. Consumer and advertising rules on misleading claims vary by country, so check your regulator's guidance before presenting a replay as live.
How many people can join a webinar?
Limits vary by platform and plan. Check each vendor's plan page against your largest expected audience before you commit.
What should I do with webinar recordings?
Send them to registrants, cut them into short clips for social media and reuse them as automated sessions. A recording often keeps working long after the live event.
How do I move registrations from one platform to another?
Export your contacts with their consent records, import them into your email tool, and build new registration pages in the new platform. Leave out anyone who never agreed to hear from you.
