How Avention increases on-demand engagement via Engagement Hub

About Avention

Industry: Technology/Software

ON24 Solution: Engagement Hub

Summary

Upgrading its monthly thought leadership webinars to Webcast Elite has helped Avention draw more prospects who are ready to be contacted immediately. On-demand access to archived webinars posted on the company’s ON24 Engagement Hub has increased audiences by an average of 40 percent. By creating and delivering its webinars on the ON24 webinar-based marketing platform, Avention is saving between 5 to 10 hours per event.

Industry: Technology/Software

ON24 Solution: Engagement Hub

Upgrading its monthly thought leadership webinars to Webcast Elite has helped Avention draw more prospects who are ready to be contacted immediately. On-demand access to archived webinars posted on the company’s ON24 Engagement Hub has increased audiences by an average of 40 percent. By creating and delivering its webinars on the ON24 webinar-based marketing platform, Avention is saving between 5 to 10 hours per event.

Introduction

Webinars that educate, motivate

Avention, Inc., formerly OneSource, provides real-time, actionable B2B data from the world’s most comprehensive database with a sales and marketing enablement platform geared toward the business information needs of sales, marketing and research individuals.

The company runs a series of monthly thought leadership webinars, partnering with industry-leading B2B sales and marketing companies that share a common audience. The webinars are:

Webinars that educate, motivate

Avention, Inc., formerly OneSource, provides real-time, actionable B2B data from the world’s most comprehensive database with a sales and marketing enablement platform geared toward the business information needs of sales, marketing and research individuals.

The company runs a series of monthly thought leadership webinars, partnering with industry-leading B2B sales and marketing companies that share a common audience. The webinars are:

  • Purely educational, not promotional
  • Co-promoted with the partnering speakers
  • Part of the company’s B2B University that provides education about relevant topics in the B2B space

With the rebranded company’s new direction, Avention is expanding its webinar program to extend its reach to customers, prospects and Avention sales teams.

Situation

‘Clunky’ platforms don’t measure up to the expert content

Avention had experience using two other platforms for its webinars; however, neither was sufficient for its sophisticated B2B webinars.

  • Ineffective demand generation tools. The platforms didn’t report audience interactions, making it difficult to track and score leads.
  • Downloading and archiving files was a nightmare. Recorded files were delivered in a format that couldn’t be used anywhere else.

‘Clunky’ platforms don’t measure up to the expert content

Avention had experience using two other platforms for its webinars; however, neither was sufficient for its sophisticated B2B webinars.

  • Ineffective demand generation tools. The platforms didn’t report audience interactions, making it difficult to track and score leads.
  • Downloading and archiving files was a nightmare. Recorded files were delivered in a format that couldn’t be used anywhere else.
  • No on-demand access means when the webinar is over, it’s over. The inability to make the webinar available for on-demand viewing limited Avention’s ability to reach more prospects and continue to fill the funnel.

Both platforms were fraught with technical issues, and there were times when they flat out did not work.

Solution

A powerful platform that just works

When considering new platforms, the Avention marketing team wanted something that was plug and play. The ON24® Platform fit the bill and more.

  • ON24 Engagement Hub: Avention created “The Avention Network: Build the Future for the Business of Tomorrow,” a customizable digital library with a single sign-on capability so audiences register once and can view all the on-demand webinars posted.
  • Marketing automation integration for efficient follow-up: Automated information upload takes a time-consuming task off the marketing operations person’s plate. Coupled with the Webcast Elite robust and customizable reporting, Avention can more easily track leads from registration through hand-off to sales and every interaction in between.

A powerful platform that just works

When considering new platforms, the Avention marketing team wanted something that was plug and play. The ON24® Platform fit the bill and more.

  • ON24 Engagement Hub: Avention created “The Avention Network: Build the Future for the Business of Tomorrow,” a customizable digital library with a single sign-on capability so audiences register once and can view all the on-demand webinars posted.
  • Marketing automation integration for efficient follow-up: Automated information upload takes a time-consuming task off the marketing operations person’s plate. Coupled with the Webcast Elite robust and customizable reporting, Avention can more easily track leads from registration through hand-off to sales and every interaction in between.

 

  • Exit surveys identifying leads: Avention posted a short questionnaire that opens up on the default console to identify webinar attendees in the ready-to-buy phase.
  • Easy event duplication: With Webcast Elite templates and event cloning, Avention can reuse select webinar components or the entire event.
  • Stress-relieving simu-live option: Avention has the flexibility to pre-record its hard-to-schedule speakers and still deliver a live, moderated event. Presenters appreciate the ability to re-record slides to their satisfaction.

Results

A platform that delivers now, and later

Prior to ON24, Avention measured webinar success by the number of registrations and attendees. Now they can see real results:

  • An average of 40 percent of webinar viewers are on-demand: dramatically increasing reach and the number of attendees and leads.
  • Higher duration-in-webinar. More attendees are staying to the end of the webinar, which Avention credits both to its content and presenters and the positive, trouble-free experience with Webcast Elite.

A platform that delivers now, and later

Prior to ON24, Avention measured webinar success by the number of registrations and attendees. Now they can see real results:

  • An average of 40 percent of webinar viewers are on-demand: dramatically increasing reach and the number of attendees and leads.
  • Higher duration-in-webinar. More attendees are staying to the end of the webinar, which Avention credits both to its content and presenters and the positive, trouble-free experience with Webcast Elite.
  • Time savings of between 5 to 10 hours for each webinar. While the simplified setup saves the most time, Avention has also reduced its workload with one-click posting of archived webinars to the Avention ON24 Engagement Hub and website and automated data transfers to its marketing automation system.

As the company evolves from its rebranding, Avention will be looking to enhance the monthly webinar series to include customer webinars and reaching prospects at multiple touchpoints in the sales funnel.

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“Our ON24 Engagement Hub lets our audiences register once for a single webinar and then watch everything. On our end, we can publish an archived webinar to the content gateway with a single click: no downloading and re-uploading media. We save a lot of time and get a bigger audience.”

Cari Zoch , Brand Communications Manager, Avention

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