A webinar platform in the browser, for up to 300 people

It is the webinar side of RepBud Reconnect: a browser-based platform for hosting a live session to an audience of up to 300 people. You get a registration page and reminders, a backstage and stage you control, guest speakers and a co-host, voted Q&A you can review, polls, live captions and translation, a video replay, livestreaming, an embed for your own website, and follow-up emails and reports afterwards. It is part of the RepBud plan you already have, so there is no separate webinar licence.

No. Attendees open the link in a browser on a computer or a phone, give their name and email at the door, and they are in. There is no app to install and no account to create. Live captions rely on the browser’s own speech recognition, so they work in Chrome and Edge but not in Firefox or Brave.

Up to 300 at once on First Class and Charter, and up to 50 on Business Class. The host, a co-host and guest speakers are on stage and do not use attendee seats. First Class includes 50 webinar hours a month and Business Class 25, and a session can run for up to three hours.

Sign in to RepBud Reconnect and choose Webinar on the Meetings page. Pick the length and your expected audience, choose a time the calendar shows as available, and create it. Share the registration link, send your guest the speaker link, open the room a few minutes early, and press Go live when you are ready. Afterwards the replay, the follow-up emails and the downloads are on the same Meetings page.

Yes. Each webinar has a speaker link: whoever opens it checks their camera and microphone and joins you backstage, not in the audience, and you put them on stage when you are ready. You can add one co-host by their RepBud email; they can go live, bring people on stage, mute, hide questions and end the session with you. You can also bring anyone from the audience up to speak.

Attendees type a question and vote up the ones they want answered, so the most popular rise to the top of your list. Each person has one vote per question, and anyone can ask anonymously, in which case no name is shown, to you included. Someone who joins late sees the questions so far. You mark each one answered as you go, type an answer or reply privately, show the one you are answering on screen, and can hide any that should not be seen.

Yes. Each viewer picks a language and the captions, the chat and the questions are translated for them, and they can have the translation read aloud. Ten languages are supported: English, Mandarin, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Arabic, Japanese, Hindi and Swahili. It is there to help people follow along, and like any translation it can get things wrong, so use your judgement on anything that matters commercially.

With recording switched on in your settings, the session is recorded from the moment you press Go live, not before. The video replay gets its own page, shared with the people who registered by default and linked in your follow-up emails; you can hide it from the Meetings page if you would rather keep it to yourself. The audio is also turned into a written recap for you.

Yes, on First Class and Charter. Add up to three destinations in the webinar’s settings, each with the stream address and key from YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook or any service that accepts RTMP, then press Stream out in the room once you are live. The people watching there see the stage; registration, Q&A and the attendance report stay with the people who joined in RepBud.

From the Meetings page you can download the registrants with their answers to your questions and whether they attended, the attendance with when each person joined and how many minutes they stayed, the questions and poll results, and a transcript. Time spent waiting before you went live is not counted as attending.

On registering they get a confirmation with a calendar invite in their own time zone, then reminders a day and an hour before, each with a note from you if you add one. Afterwards people who came get a thank-you email and people who registered but missed it get a sorry-we-missed-you email, both in your own words and both with the replay link. Replies to any of them come straight to you.

Yes. Move a webinar from the Meetings page and the people who registered are emailed the new time with an updated calendar invite, and their reminders follow the new time. Cancel it and they are told, with a note from you if you want to add one.

Yes, it is built for that. Representation companies, tourism boards, DMCs and hotels run destination and product training for travel agents and tour operators, often across several countries at once. Invites show each person their local time, captions translate into ten languages, and the replay covers those in a time zone that did not suit.

Webinars are part of Reconnect, which is included with Business Class and above. Business Class allows up to 50 attendees and 25 webinar hours a month. First Class and Charter allow up to 300 attendees and 50 hours. There is no separate webinar licence and no charge per attendee.

Yes. Speakers arrive backstage, where they can see and hear the stage. You put each one on stage or take them off with one click, choose a layout for the audience, and each speaker has a name tag with their title and company.

Yes. Switch on question review for a webinar and each question comes to you and your co-host first. Approve it and everyone sees it; dismiss it and nobody does. You can also type an answer for everyone or reply privately to the person who asked.

Yes. You can accept only certain email domains, only the addresses on an invite list, or approve each registration yourself, and set a closing time and a limit.

Yes. Copy the embed code from the webinar’s settings and the session, with chat and Q&A, plays on a page of your own site.