Balloon 

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Balloon is a virtual events platform, focusing on attendee engagement and enabling organizers to monetize their events efficiently. Balloon features: - Advanced, and fun networking, one-on-one, or in small groups (cocktail tables). For one-one-one, attendees can meet with other attendees randomly, or based on ticket matching rules (e.g. job seekers meeting with recruiters during a virtual jobs fair) - Multiple stages, and live video streaming via Balloon Studio (backstage) and RTMP - Tiered expo booths, allowing organizers to better monetize their exhibition function: Expo booths can have live video streaming or pre-recorded videos, downloadable files, promos, and ways to capture qualified leads and generate new business. - Breakout sessions: general type sessions, round-tables, or small group meetings. - Live chat, with dedicated chat rooms for each event function (e.g. general, specific stage/booth, etc.) - Tiered sponsors, with flexibility on defining tiers (e.g. names, etc.), thus providing organizers with yet one more way to monetize their events - Advanced search so that attendees can navigate to any speaker, agenda item, etc. from anywhere in the app - Scalable platform, enabling organizers to host events with hundreds of thousands of attendees - Fun and fresh UI/UX - Speed optimizations, ensuring the platform feels light on all devices - Responsive design, enabling attendees to attend an event on their mobile devices - Browser compatibility - Agenda item reminders - Advanced branding and look-n-feel customization - Branded email communication, applying event logos, title, and colors - Powerful admin interfaced (Balloon Manager), from where organizers can fully control and customize to a great extent their organization and events. - Ability to sell free or paid tickets, with a certain validity period, inventory amount, etc. Organizers get paid out automatically for ticket sales. -Ability to integrate with favorite tools, e.g. Slack, Intercom, Drift, or even custom web-hooks, so that organizers get notified for new event registrations - Advanced SEO for the event registration page so that events can be discovered organically - Advanced and real-time event analytics, also proving insights to exhibitors and sponsors. - Uploading attendees via a .csv file (available for certain plans), if tickets sold externally - Ability to link own Google Analytics to monitor event traffic in real-timeSee more