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WebinarNinja 5.0 — Beautiful webinars. No worries.
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WebinarNinja 5.0 is an all-in-one, easy to use webinar software that has been created to allow hosts to focus on the content of the webinar and not the tech.

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Leon Hitchens
The latest iteration looks great guys! My question here is quality? Is there any difference between the browser based model and the downloadable versions?
Omar Zenhom
Maker
@leonhitchens - Great question! The best way I can answer it is by sharing our own experience. When we started WebinarNinja in 2014, we were NOT a browser based software. One of the biggest reasons we moved to being browser based was quality control. A couple of years ago we made the move to being browser based. With the vast majority of the app's computing is done on our scaleable AWS servers, it allows us to to provide a consistent, reliable experience for our users. Apposed to desktop software where you have to trust the user's computing power will hold up and not crash (cough Skype). This is normally fine with apps where a reboot is not a drama. But with live video, an interruption is no joke. Not to mention. updates are much easier for us and users, as it's a seamless experience with no need to prompt the user to update their software. Thanks for checking us out 😀
Laura Roeder
Looks slick, we've compared a few webinar products for MeetEdgar - what differentiates WebinarNinja from other webinar platforms like WebinarJam or Zoom?
Omar Zenhom
Maker
Hey @lkr ! Good question! WebinarNinja focuses on making the experience better for hosts and attendees. We don't try to cram in features or catering to enterprise clients. We are totally browser based (you got to download software with Zoom) and make it easy to set up a webinar with our 10-second creation (it's 10 steps with WebinarJam) We also include all types of webinars with our plans so you don't need to buy separate software to run automated/recorded webinars (like WebinarJam. Zoom only does live). We include Live and Automated webinars with all our plans and offer Series & Summits &Hybrid webinars with our other tiers. We also, in my opinion have the BEST replay experience ever. When live you can change your layouts to show screens (i.e. host video, share screen, slides, co-host) in different arrangements including picture in picture. The magical part is that we reproduce this experience in the replay recording so it matches the live experience as well. Other webinar software just give you a replay with a default grid of the screens. Not so cool when on live you had your slides on full screen and people can't read the slides on the replay with this silly girded layout. This replay functionality was one of the most challenging aspects in building 5.0 because no one has done it before 😉 We really work hard to allow you to be in full control with your webinars without all the clutter and complication. Lastly, our support team is the best. I LOVE THEM! We know that our users use webinars to grow their business. It's high stakes. They want to look great in front of their audience. Our team not only helps with getting started with the app but how to prepare and deliver a great webinar experience as well. We see ourselves more than just a tech company. We believe its just as important to provide the training and support you need to win with our product, as the product itself.
Gezim Hoxha
I started a free trial but found out that Starter plan doesn't allow for recurring webinars. I'm trying to get into webinars and have a lot to learn. I don't care to do a hybrid or fully automated webinar. I just want a simple plan that will allow me to practice. I tried to contact support but it took me to the knowledge base page. Cancelled trial. I'd signed up for WebinarJam in the past and their marketing side of things was top notch. For my first webinar, the viewers had been stuck on the same slide for about 20 minutes so I cancelled it thinking this browser tech just isn't there yet. I'm on zoom now and no issues when it comes to playing but their marketing side of things is just not there. They don't even have replays! Anyway, that's my life story. If anyone has a good recommendation for webinar software, let me know! I wanted to try WebinarJam again but they're marketing kind of creeps me out. I got a lot of spam (err..marketing emails) from them. WebinarNinja team, hope some of this is somewhat useful to you. Keep up the good work. We need good webinar software :)
Omar Zenhom
Maker
@happygezim Hey Gezim! Starter plans for sure include Automated webinars (which is the same as evergreen webinars). When you say recurring webinars...are you speaking about live webinars that happen over and over? You can clone any type of webinar at anytime. The knowledge base suggestion is an automated message via Intercom to try to help you while one of our support team members servers you. If you can give me a bit more detail of what you are looking for in terms of recurring webinars, can see if our team can add it to our roadmap :)
Gezim Hoxha
@bizrepublic Hi Omar. Thanks for the response. It just occurred to me that Intercom was blocked by Ghostery on my browser so I missed that. I realize Starter plan gives you automated webinars but I don't need that. I want to send out a webinar link to each new user that registers and have them choose a time from a list of 3-5 times during the week. I then want to do each webinar live when the date/time comes. Cloning doesn't work for me because I'd have to do a lot of manual work and send people 3-5 links. Am I making sense at all? Thanks again, Omar!
Omar Zenhom
Maker
@happygezim Yeah that makes total sense :) and something we can consider adding to our road map. Good suggestion!
Brennan Dunn
Nice job, @bizrepublic! It's been great seeing WebinarNinja grow & evolve over the years. Quick question: My preferred "stack" is YouTube live embedded on a static page with something like Chatroll, and then handling registration and pre/post follow-up using my ESP (Drip) Can I maintain a similar stack? And have my ESP handle registration (e.g. add tag to subscriber -> register in WebinarNinja)? My frustration with a lot of webinar software in the past is that they want to handle registration using their hosted landing pages – and I'd love to programmatically push new registrants into an upcoming webinar.
Omar Zenhom
Maker
Thanks @brennandunn! Loved seeing you grow as well my man. You're doing amazing things. Love this question because our users requested this a few months back and we've been working on it! We are hoping to release a whole new feature later this month called On-site Registration. This will allow you to use any landing page or/with ESP to register your attendees to the webinar. It will work with anything that allows an HTML form embed. We currently have a Zapier integration but are also working on full featured integration with major ESP's like Drip that will allow you tag to your hearts desire within WN based on actions like 'registered but did not attend' or 'left before your offer was shown'. This second feature is due later in April/May. Needs crazy testing as you can imagine 😅
Brian Dean

If you're doing webinars on the reg, I highly recommend trying 5.0.

Pros:

So so easy to use. Plus cool advanced features if you need them.

Cons:

Nothing really.

Omar Zenhom
Maker
Brian! You're an inspiration man. You are our go to source for working on our SEO for WebinarNinja. We are doing well on that front thanks to you but got more work to do, as always the case with SEO 😀 Got Backlinko bookmarked!
Omar Zenhom
Maker
Hey all! Thanks Iz for the share! You run a great PH community in beautiful Sydney. We started WebinarNinja back in 2014, scratching own itch. I was running webinars but hated the available solutions. I created a VERY beta version of WN to just run my own webinars. My attendees asked me what I was using and if they could buy it. In 48 hrs we pre-sold 250 spots. Over the years we iterated based on user feedback and today we have over 13,000 paid users. Recently, we released our latest version WebinarNinja 5.0. Our goal is to make the tech of webinars fade in the background so hosts can focus on the content of their webinars. We aim to push improvements and updates to our users every month. WebinarNinja is a self-funded, small team of 30 hard working ninjas. Please ask any and all questions you have about WebinarNinja or our challenging journey creating a webinar software.
Kevin Gilbert
@bizrepublic What are the new 5.0 features? Is iOS fully supported now in all features and functionality?
Omar Zenhom
Maker
Hey @wkeving! Yes. iOS is fully supported now (thanks to Apple allowing WebRTC in iOS11). We really worked on an improved experience in creation, presenting and interacting with features like: - Upload your PowerPoint slides & docs right inside WebinarNinja! - Faster webinar creation - Insert YouTube videos at anytime during the live broadcast - Dynamic layouts - Improved chat with Emojis 😎 - Our new Series & Summits webinars - A powerful webinar search engine, The Webinar Finder, to help hosts get more attendees. ...and a whole lot more...for a quick walkthrough of 5.0 and its features, you can check out our features page at: https://webinarninja.com/features/ 😀
Iz
Hunter
Omar and Nicole demoed and sponsored the Product Hunt Sydney event here in Sydney. They wowed the attendees with WebinarNinja's 5.0 capabilities and ease of use. They also took us through their journey releasing 5.0. It truly is a complicated process to build and easy-to-use product. With the release for version 5.0, WebinarNinja is pretty much positioned as the best webinar software on the market. Omar and Nicole are super proud for the platform to have hosted webinars from the best in the industry. This message is from Omar and Nicole, the founders of WebinarNinja: After 18 months of work, we are busting with excitement to share WebinarNinja 5.0 with the community! Let’s be honest. When it comes to webinar software, most are clunky, unattractive, difficult to use and barely do what you need. We set out to create a revolutionary webinar platform that improves the webinar experience for both you, the host, and your attendees. Our mission- To make your webinars better with no worries. WebinarNinja 5.0 is an all-in-one, easy to use webinar software that has been created to allow you to focus on your content of your webinar and not the tech. - Create a webinar in 10 seconds! - HD, Zero-delay webinars making your presentations more engaging and interactive. - Run more than just live webinars- run automated webinars, series and summits and even insert recorded video while on a live broadcast. All with the option to be paid or free. - There’s no need to jump around from screen to screen. You can upload your presentation slides right inside WebinarNinja. - Chat, answer questions, run polls and even display gorgeous looking offers at anytime. - Get more attendees with our powerful webinar search engine- The Webinar Finder. Please feel free to ask any questions about WebinarNinja 5.0 or the journey in building it.
Christian Giordano
I don't do webinars, but wow! I watched the 10 minutes presentation and can't see what else someone would want. Watch this space! 🙌
Omar Zenhom
Maker
@nuthinking Thanks Christian! Appreciate you :)
Nicole Baldinu
Maker
@nuthinking Awww thanks!
Brian Baulch

Have not found webinar app that really comes close to Webinar Ninja 5.0,

Pros:

Great digital presentation and active engaging community

Cons:

They keep improving it so regular I dare not request anything i can think up could cause burnout

Etienne Garbugli

Terrible company. They charged me without giving any warning and then pointed to a no-refund policy mentioned in their terms & conditions. The support team got aggressive when I asked for a refund, and they never helped me there. In the end, I got no value out of their product and they scammed me out of $49.

Pros:

Nice design. They're good at selling the product.

Cons:

They oversell the product. Lots of bugs and issues (can’t watch webinars on mobile, upload videos, stats are no good, etc)

Spencer Fry
A question Podia's creators often ask me: Why webinars? Why not Facebook live?
Omar Zenhom
Maker
Great question @spencerfry! Let me preface this by saying that the teams at Facebook created a great tool with FB Live and this is not to put them down. It’s to show you the difference between FB Live and webinars. The main difference between using Facebook vs. webinars comes down to the control you have...control of your long-term marketing and relationship building with potential clients. 1. With webinars, you collect your attendees' email addresses. This allows you to later follow up and build a relationship with your audience. You can give them more value and eventually make an offer to them. With FB Live there is no way to follow up and you cannot contact them directly via email. You can only really comment below the video and that post gets buried in FB quickly. 2. Webinars are a controlled environment. When your attendees are on your webinars there are no other distractions like notifications, updates or other things in the feed on the page. With FB live your attendees are a scroll away from leaving your presentation. There's a crazy amount of distraction with tons of other content everywhere. 3. With webinars (especially with WebinarNinja 😉), you can be a whole lot more interactive. You can run polls, take questions (separate from the chat), even display offers right on the webinar page at anytime. You can also email them before or after the webinar to give them updates or reminders. 4. With our built-in follow-up sequence you can choose to automatically send your webinar replays to your attendees. You can customize that message to include any other offers or copy. 5. With webinars on WebinarNinja, you can share your screen and presentation slides. This means you don't need to be on camera all the time. You can talk over your slides or whatever your choose to share on your screen easily with no other software. 6. When attendees register and attend a webinar, they are coming with a different mindset. They are coming to learn and to stay for the length of the workshop. On FB Live, most are really only attending if they happen to be on FB at the time of your live video, with no intention to watch your live video to the end. There is a whole lot less commitment in this situation. To sum up, Facebook Live is a good tool within the social ecosystem but not so great for acquiring targeted leads and building trust with potential clients. Webinars are like presenting in a private auditorium with a captive audience. While Facebook Live is like having a stall at the county flea market, shouting for attention.
Krishna De
@bizrepublic Interesting to see your thoughts on this. Actually there is software you can use that means that you can run polls and take questions and share your screen on Facebook live. The integration of Messenger bots and getting people to subscribe by email is also changing Facebook Live today. I also see increasingly people asking for email addresses to then optin into a live stream on Facebook is a closed group that they only can access having gone through that landing page. What I am interested in is how tools like WN could be integrated into the platform that @spencerfry created (which I happen to be a customer of) - his platform is a great though I would like to see an integration with live streaming - I messaged him about this last week! Perhaps the two of you should talk as a user I can see some interesting synergies that would be great for both of your customer bases. P.S. Just a coincidence that I see Spencer asked the question as I was scrolling through the comments!
Stefano Messori

I have been with this guys since the beginning of version 4.0 and let me tell you that there has been a lot of work going on behind the scenes!

WB 5.0 is a game changer, possibly the easiest webinar software to use. With the latest (last week) new Replay feature (which I have tried and it is 99% there) it rocks!

Behind the product, which you can discover for yourself (free trial), I believe there is a lesson from this guys: continuous improvements.

Creating an excellent webinar platform it is not an easy job; I believe this team of ninjas are building something remarkable.

Keep up the great work folks!

Pros:

Any type of webinar (live, automated, series & hybrid) you need to market and sell your product/service with just three clicks!

Cons:

I needed today's version of WN 5.0 for the last few years :)

Ryan Soper-Powell

Whilst I may only be a sporadic user of the platform today, I have been onboard since v4 was launched.

Version 5.0 was built from the ground up and ups the game all over again.

IMHO, it's clear to see why established personal brands have moved their webinars to WebinarNinja and I am proud to be a supporter.

Pros:

Omar and his team work extremely hard to provide outstanding responsive support & the platform features and availability are second to none.

Cons:

None that I can think of

Omar Zenhom
Maker
Thanks Ryan! Your words are like a power up from a classic video game- giving us renewed energy! But seriously, it's so nice to see how much our work is appreciated and pays off for our users.
Jose Paul Martin
Gotta admit, Omar and the team have been working hard on this, and they're developing improving it each time I see it!
Justin Jackson
This latest iteration looks great! 🙌
Omar Zenhom
Maker
@mijustin!!! Means a lot from a guy that is great at esthetics.
Iz
Hunter
I witnessed Omar, Nicole and their distributed team put the final touches to the last iteration. It was such hard work and they did a great job. I am a big fan Justin, Product People was recommended to me by a fellow SaaSter a while back :)
Mike Sowden

WebinarNinja helped me launch the first version of my storytelling course and secured my first sales - and it was super easy to set up and get started with. For that alone I'd be grateful, even if the product froze at that point - but Omar has spent the intervening years constantly improving it and working really hard to add new features that actually matter. I'm now planning to make recorded webinars a big part of my business in 2018 and WebinarNinja is how I'm doing it.

Pros:

Very easy to get started with, perfect for beginners, and seems immensely powerful beyond the basics (although I'm no expert).

Cons:

None I can think of, frankly.

Omar Zenhom
Maker
Thanks Mike! You're a baller user ;)
Nomiki Georgiadis

Brilliant Webinar Software that surpasses all the other software I've used in the past, like GoTOWebinar, WebinarJam and 3 others I've used. The quality of the webinar delivery and support is very important to me and WebinarNinja does all this and more.

At the end of the day, I want my audience to have a great experience with video, audio and text interaction with me and Webinar Ninja delivers on this.

Other Cheap software that use Google hangouts like WebinarJam had caused me a myriad of headaches with lagging, poor video quality during live stream and audio drop out. This was a terrible experience for my audience and that's why I was so delighted to have WebinarNinja.

Omar and his development team keep working hard, and have created this amazing updated version of Webinar Ninja 5 and they simply keep adding functionality which is making it the Superior Webinar software available.

I love how it connects to all the major CRMs and email autoresponders- especially the one I use, PLUS Omar's team is currently adding them in as direct integrations. Brilliant.

I love Webinar Ninja and I know once you give it a try, you will love it too.

Pros:

WN5 does everything an online marketer and business owners needs for creating a seamless experience for their clients & audience engagement

Cons:

None- they have addressed all my needs with their ongoing development.

Nicole Baldinu
Maker
Hi Nomiki! We are so thrilled to read this. It's comments like these that inspire us to keep improving and to do everything we can to make a better software for people like you. Thank you so much!
Frank Jon Cona
Hey Omar..looks awesome.. Do you have info comparing WN to Goto? TY
Omar Zenhom
Maker
Hey @mefranco! Thanks for the question. GoTo has been a solid app for some time but it's not created with business owners and marketers in mind. You will need a more than just GoTo to market your webinars and follow up with your webinar attendees. WebinarNinja prides itself as an all-in-one webinar solution, giving the host everything they need to run webinars- registration pages, thank you pages, email notifications, built in marketing with our webinar search engine-The Webinar Finder and more. There is nothing to download with WebinarNinja. We are totally browser based so your attendees don't need to download anything to attend your webinars. This equals higher attendance rates. As a former H.S. and college teacher, I am obsessed with the learning environment so we mad sure interaction is done easily with our Studio area. A separate Q&A area, insert YouTube videos at anytime live, Dynamic layouts, as well as the ability to upload your PPT slides directly in WN so you can manage everything on one screen. No need to share screen (you still can thought if you want). Oh! One more I should mention. GoTo Doesn't offer the wide range of webinar types we do- Live, Automated, Series & Summits and Hybrid. Plus we're just nicer to look at :)
Henry Scullion

Software that I don't know how to use effectively is useless. Webinar Ninja offer great free courses, business advice and support so that I can put it to use right away.

Pros:

Easy to use, with great educational support and webinar marketing tools included.

Cons:

None.

ARUN BHARDWAJ
It's one of the worst products with even worse customer service!! People get disconnected from webinar all the time and they are the most unethical company when it comes to billing and customer satisfaction
aditya lakhe
Hey this is an amazing product. Just wondering is it possible to analyze engagement of any webinar session like who used the chat feature, who used the questions and poll feature or how long each participant were present in the webinar. If yes, how effective is it?