Spotlight: Cvent Essentials and Webinar: Modern Branding, Easier Set-Up, and a New Website Templates Beta

We’re continuing to modernize the Essentials and Webinar experience so you can deliver polished, on-brand events with less effort. Our latest updates focus on brand consistency, visual polish, and making it easier for teams to build and reuse event website designs.

Theme Controls (Now Live)

Theme Controls give admins a unified, centralized way to define brand colors, fonts, logos, and styling—and apply them across websites, emails, surveys, on-site tools, and more.

Every new event automatically inherits your organization’s Theme, helping teams produce consistent, compliant experiences without manual adjustments or extra QA.

Smarter, More Flexible Website Design (Live + Improving Continuously)

We’ve modernized the Essentials and Webinar website builder to make it easier to produce clean, professional layouts without design expertise.
These enhancements help teams:

• Build pages with cleaner spacing and a more modern structure.

• Use updated media options for a stronger visual impact.

• Work within guardrails that protect brand consistency while still allowing planners to customize event-specific content.

These upgrades form the foundation for more advanced template and layout capabilities coming soon.

Website Templates (Now in Beta)

We’ve launched early access testing for Website Templates, a major step toward enabling scalable, repeatable website creation inside Essentials and Webinar.

What this means

Admins can design a website layout once, lock down the brand elements, and safely empower planners and marketers to:

• Fill in only the event-specific content (agenda, speakers, images, copy).

• Launch consistent, compliant websites faster.

• Reduce design work and eliminate one-off, manual rebuilds.
  

Templates create a safer, more efficient model for scaling repeatable events across your organization.

Want to join the beta?

Sign up directly here

What’s Next

We’re continuing to enhance the branding and design experience, with upcoming improvements planned for:

• Template flexibility and new layout controls

• Expanded theme options

• Additional email design and customization updates

• New content and guardrail capabilities for extended users
  

More updates are on the way as we continue to improve how Essentials and Webinar support fast, scalable, and fully branded event creation.