Airmeet vs RingCentral Events

Airmeet is a platform for webinars and virtual, hybrid and in-person events, founded in August 2019 and led by CEO Lalit Mangal, with its engineering roots in Bengaluru. It grew during the 2020 shift to online events, raised a $35M Series B after its Series A, and says more than 4,000 organizations have used it. Its core job is running branded events where attendees do more than watch a stage: they network, visit booths and talk at tables.

The event toolkit covers registration pages, ticketing, a backstage for speakers, multi-track sessions, polls and Q&A, plus Social Lounge tables, Speed Networking, Fluid Space and exhibitor booths. Airstudio handles streaming and recording, and AI tools (Airgenie for summaries and content, Airshots for clips) repurpose sessions afterwards. Pricing is attendee-based: Premium Webinars is self-serve, while Events, Managed Events and the Agency plan are quoted.

Airmeet fits marketing teams, associations and agencies that run recurring webinars plus a few larger community events per year. It is less suited to simple one-off meetings, and Premium Webinars streams at 720p with 1080p as a paid add-on. Livestorm is simpler for browser-only webinars, Zoom Events wins where Zoom is already standard, and Hopin's event product now lives inside RingCentral Events.

Buying tip: plans are billed on actual attendees, not registrations. If attendance exceeds your bundle, extra people are still admitted and billed after the event on a pay-as-you-go basis, so model your show-up rate and pre-buy attendee bundles before a big launch.

RingCentral Events is the virtual and hybrid event platform formerly known as Hopin. Hopin was founded in London in 2019 by Johnny Boufarhat and grew explosively during the pandemic; in 2023 RingCentral, the US cloud communications company, acquired the events product and folded it into its video portfolio alongside RingCentral Webinar and RingCentral Video.

The platform recreates the structure of a physical conference online: a main stage for keynotes, parallel session rooms, one-to-one and group networking, sponsor expo booths, chat, polls and Q&A. For hybrid events it adds registration, ticketing, on-site check-in and badge printing, and organizers get attendee analytics, custom branding and integrations with marketing automation and CRM systems. Pricing is per organizer on an annual commitment, starting with the Events Pro plan, with unlimited events and registrations and a 30-day free trial; the product is aimed at companies running several events a year.

RingCentral Events suits marketing and event teams that need a full conference experience with networking and sponsors, particularly organizations already using RingCentral communications. It is much more than a webinar tool, so smaller teams running simple online talks will find Zoom Webinars, Livestorm or RingCentral Webinar easier and cheaper. Enterprise event programs also compare it with Cvent, Bizzabo, ON24 and Airmeet. Since the acquisition, the product's roadmap follows RingCentral's priorities, which buyers should confirm before signing a multi-year contract.