Attendee Engagement News for 13 November 2024

Top News: Enhanced User Experiences, New Agenda and More

The product team has three big improvements they're working to deliver in this window that we know you’re going to love:

1. Webinar: Webinar Agenda - The agenda allows you to outline individual segments of the webinar or event, including information specific to each planned program item.

   

2. Attendee Hub: Live Display Branding - Brand your Live Display look with new configuration options that adds color selection, background images, and new chart designs for a modern and elegant look for your session engagement.

   

3. Webinar: Direct Login Link - The registration tab will contain a direct link to the login page for organizers to use on internal websites, emails, and other promotional areas. This is an easy and direct way for registrants to access the webinar quickly.

   

13 additional improvements to make your job easier

If you thought the above items are exciting, wait until you see what else the team plans to release in the next launch window:

• OnArrival Payments Enhancement: New reader and Tap-to-Pay support - Cvent has released an update introducing a new OnArrival Payment Reader for onsite payments and Tap to Pay on iPhone. The new reader supports contactless and chip credit cards, enabling staff to streamline the check-in process and attendees to make payments with contactless cards. Expected Release date: 13 November 2024

• Attendee Hub (Event App): Home screen refresh - Each section now features new designs and distinct styles tailored to the content it showcases. Expected Release date: 13 November 2024

• Attendee Hub: Individual Icon Swap - Replace default icons for Attendee Hub pages with ones from other icon packs that better match the context of these pages and adhere to your branding strategy. Expected Release date: 13 November 2024

• Attendee Hub/Webinar Studio: Improved "Join" Experience - We've combined the readiness checker and Camera/Microphone setup into a single step, streamlining the process of attendees joining a webinar. Expected Release date: 13 November 2024

• Attendee Hub: - AI Writing Assistant v2 that employs the state-of-the-art ChatGPT-4 Omni to deliver superior content generation capabilities. Expected Release date: 13 November 2024

• Webinar: - Import Invitees and Send Invitations. By importing invitee lists, you can target your outreach, maximize registration rates and engage your audiences more effectively. Expected Release date: 13 November 2024

• Appointments Premium: - Upload resources such as PDF, DOC, DOCX, TXT, PPT, PPTX, JPG, JPEG, PNG, XLS, XLSX, CSV. Make sure attendees can share the necessary materials with others during their meetings. Expected Release date: 13 November 2024

• Appointments Premium: - Enhanced meeting scheduling featuring intelligent suggestions for meeting times on the open-ended scheduling form. Expected Release date: 13 November 2024

• Appointments Premium: - Enhanced attendee search. When searching for attendees to invite to your appointments, the search results will be displayed in a logical order, prioritizing first name, last name, company, then title. Expected Release date: 13 November 2024

• Attendee Hub Event App: - A new design for "Discussions". This new design provides a modern social feed experience that attendees will find more familiar, making it easier to engage with one another. Expected Release date: 13 November 2024

• Attendee Hub: - Attendee profile pictures will now be displayed in chat comments to foster an engaging experience. Expected Release date: 13 November 2024

• Attendee Hub/Webinar Studio: An improved network health monitor that utilizes a new network measuring methodology and more frequent measurements will provide users with highly accurate readings about their network connectivity to the event. Expected Release date: 13 November 2024

• Attendee Hub Event App: Enhanced navigation increases the natural discoverability of Discussions, Check-In QR Codes, Settings, and the Exit Event. Expected Release date: 13 November 2024

Other news that may interest you...

Attendee Hub Event App Updates – See a summary of the app enhancements that have rolled out in each release window here.

Remember Attendee Hub customers - If you have an active event between Wednesday and Sunday of this release date, you will not see these new features until the Monday after the release. This is to ensure we are not releasing features into active, ongoing events.

Visit our Community with questions

Do you have questions about anything we’ve rolled out this window? As always, get questions answered in the Community via the Open Forum. Also, plan to attend our next quarterly Product News webinar on November 20, when the product team will be on the call to share updates and answer questions!