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ON24 Announces Virtual Show Solution
ON24 Virtual Show Provides Enhanced Interactivity, Customization
and Reporting Features for Global Organizations
San Francisco, CA
June 30, 2008
ON24, Inc. (http://www.ON24.com), the global leader
in webcasting and virtual events solutions, today launched ON24
Virtual Show, a flexible solution that provides organizations a
virtual venue for trade shows, job fairs, conferences and training
summits. With robust reporting analytics and professional networking
capabilities, ON24 Virtual Show promises to make virtual events
a more engaging and interactive experience while nurturing key relationships
amongst exhibitors, sponsors and attendees. ON24 Virtual Show integrates
ON24's flagship webcasting solution within its environment.
ON24 Virtual
Show features:
* Customizable User Interface: Whether for consumer,
business or technology shows, ON24 Virtual Show enables organizations
and
show producers to customize the look and feel of the show environment
accordingly. This includes complete customization of the plaza,
exhibit hall, communications center, and individual booths.
* Integrated Webcasting and Show Reporting: Provides
real-time information on attendee activity throughout the show,
including
document downloads, presentations
viewed, average viewing times, participation in discussions, and responses
to polls and surveys.
* Professional & Social Networking: Attendees
can create profiles, set privacy preferences, and connect with other
show attendees for online chats
and professional networking opportunities. Within the communications center,
attendees can participate in scheduled or ad hoc group discussions, as
well as post and reply to forum discussions on the message board.
* "Smart" Booths: With ON24's patent-pending "smart booth" technology,
exhibitors can recommend personalized content based on an attendee's
profile, such as business strategy for business professionals while
providing technical
specifications to IT attendees.
* "Moving" Exhibit Floor: The booths, building, and exterior landscape
each move at different speeds, creating a 3D-like feeling of "walking" through
the exhibit hall.
* Multi-Lingual Support: ON24 Virtual Show supports
double-byte and European languages, such as Chinese, French, Japanese
and Spanish.
"ON24 has a history of providing our customers with reliable
solutions that work every time with global customer-centric service," said
Sharat Sharan, President and CEO of ON24, Inc. "With ON24 Virtual
Show, we are transforming how organizations leverage webcasting
and virtual events for their global communication and demand generation
needs."
Reduce Costs, Maximize ROI, Expand Revenue Opportunities
With
ON24 Virtual Show, organizations can reduce costs and lower their
impact on the environment, while achieving significant business
benefits. This includes decreasing time to plan and hold an event,
lowering cost-per-lead, and extending brand awareness to customers,
partners and employees. ON24 Virtual Show also expands the revenue
opportunities by enabling organizations to extend the physical trade
show by offering a virtual show component.
According to B2B Marketers Fail the Community
Marketing Test, Forrester Research Inc., May 7, 2008, "Trade
shows and sales meetings will have a digitally equivalent component
that extends the value
of the physical activity to a larger community or over a longer
period of time. By integrating the real and virtual events and distributing
the cost over many higher-value contacts, these tactics will become
more personal and essential to the community at large because they
represent opportunities to deepen relationships with other community
members."
According to Steve Gershik, Vice President of
Marketing Innovation, Eloqua, "With rising fuel costs and increasing
environmental consciousness, we have participated in virtual conferences
and tradeshows
as a cost-effective alternative or supplement to our existing marketing
programs. The value of a virtual tradeshow is the ability to dynamically
interact with our customers anywhere at anytime, while having detailed
reporting to help our sales team follow up on top sales leads. In
working with ON24 for our webcasting programs, ON24 has the right
mix of backend reporting analytics, responsive services team, and
reliable platform required for a successful virtual show."
Additional
Resources:
* 2006 Meetings Marketing Report (http://mcmag.texterity.com/mcmagazine/mmrphx/200608/):
Corporations spent an average of $107 billion dollars traveling
to and participating at conventions and meetings.
* 2008 FOLIO: BtoB Survey (http://www.foliomag.com/2008/2008-b-b-ceo-survey):
Larger publishers saw events grow from 10 percent of total revenue in 2006
to 14 percent of total revenue in 2007. Smaller publishers however, reported
events fell from 7 percent in 2006 to just 4 percent in 2007.
* ON24 Media Kit (http://www.on24.com/abouton24_pressroom_mediakit.html):
Access screenshots of ON24's webcasting and virtual events solutions,
including ON24
Virtual Show.
* ON24 Virtual Show (http://www.on24.com/products_virtualshow.html):
Product page for ON24 Virtual Show.
About ON24, Inc.
ON24, Inc. (http://www.ON24.com) is the global leader of webcasting
and virtual events solutions for demand generation and corporate
communications. ON24 provides the most reliable and trusted
solutions that enable organizations to plan, produce and deliver
cost-effective
online events, including lead generation webinars, virtual shows,
internal communications, continuing professional education and
executive announcements.
More than 600 global organizations in
publishing, technology, life sciences, government, and financial
services rely on ON24, including
Business Objects, Cardinal Health, Cisco Systems, UBM Media, Credit
Suisse, U.S. Department of Education, GE Healthcare, IBM, Motorola,
National Science Foundation, and Samsung. ON24 is headquartered
in San Francisco, with offices in Washington, D.C., New York,
London and Beijing.
"Insight24®" - your B2B rich media
network for information, intelligence and insight - is a trademark
of ON24, Inc.
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