ClickMeeting vs RingCentral Events

ClickMeeting is a webinar and online meeting platform based in Gdańsk, Poland. It started around 2011 inside the email marketing company GetResponse and became an independent company in 2016. It reports more than 15 million users a year and is ISO 27001:2022 certified. Its core job is to run live, on-demand and automated webinars in the browser, with no download needed for attendees, plus the registration, payments and follow-up around them.

Features include registration pages, polls and surveys, screen sharing, breakout rooms, recording, AI transcription, certificates, paid webinars with Stripe or PayPal checkout and discount codes, and streaming to YouTube and Facebook. Plans are priced by attendee count: Live covers real-time events in tiers from 50 to 1,000 attendees, Automated adds pre-recorded webinars that run on a schedule with automatic reminders and follow-ups, and Enterprise supports events up to 10,000 viewers. There is a 14-day free trial for 25 attendees.

ClickMeeting fits trainers, educators, SaaS marketers and small businesses that want a reliable, easy webinar tool with built-in monetization. It is less suited to large hybrid conferences or deep marketing automation. GoTo Webinar is the long-time enterprise standard, Livestorm offers a more modern event workflow with stronger CRM sync, and Demio or WebinarJam focus on marketing-driven evergreen funnels.

Buying tip: price tiers jump with attendee count (Live is $48 for 50 attendees but $335 for 1,000 monthly), so pick the tier that matches your typical live audience and save up to 20% with annual billing.

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.