Airmeet vs. Communique Conferencing

It's good if you want to use an online platform for events and you don't mind paying high annual fees. Not suitable for SMEs or startups.

Incentivized

The platform is well suited for delivering a unique and elevated experience for guests. Also, events with 200+ attendees. I would not recommend using Communique for simple and very small events. There are dozens of cheap options for these.

• Networking
• Engagement
• Native streaming
• Ease of use login for attendees.

Incentivized

• Delivering a unique and elevated experience by using a platform with a unique look and feel.
• The platform capsulizes everything and makes information easily accessible.
• It's the team support that keeps us coming back. We have a dream team which is why our events go off so well without a hitch.

• Regular pricing is very expensive for what it does
• Support is somewhat lacking
• Sometimes video is unreliable

• Nice to add personal agenda, which is on the roadmap this year

It was always a bit cumbersome to use. It was a great concept but poorly executed.

Usability is critical with virtual events both for our team to set up and administer as well as for our attendees. Communique Conferencing is easy for our team to administer. We survey our attendees during and after virtual events. The feedback regarding usability is very positive.

The Communique project team is

• Knowledgeable
• Responsive
• Willing to go above and beyond to make our events successful

We actually don’t use Airmeet because of usability and (now) pricing. You can spend $4,000 on Airmeet or $200 on major platforms and be just as satisfied.

We found out the hard way that there's a lot of smoke and mirrors in the virtual event space. We had no idea the level of proper vetting we should have done before hosting a client event with our reputation on the line.

• Support: The PM was located in our time zone and way more responsive.
• Platform: It's hard to assess platforms on one 60-minute demo. When it came down to hosting a virtual event there were a lot of limitations with the other platforms (e.g., no ability for booth reps to proactively chat with visitors, no ability to search for other attendees, no ability to send broadcast messages to communicate to attendees during live days, etc.). Communique Conferencing had all of these and was easy for attendees to use.
• Data security: We are a financial firm, so data security is huge. We did not realize the lack of basic attendee data security with some of the other platforms until our IT team performed and assessment. Communique Conferencing was one of the only platforms that passed.

• Increased our reach to more than 70 countries.
• Increased the number of attendees from a maximum of 100 to 800.
• Designated office space has led tot he team bonding better and more seamless communication.

Incentivized

• Higher attendance - Extend the geographic reach of our events
• Wow factor - Position our firm as leading edge
• Thought leadership - The webinar component helps deliver engaging presentations
• Analytics - Everything is tracked for amazing metrics