Demio
A no-download webinar room sized by the attendee cap you choose
Demio is a browser-based webinar platform for marketing, sales, and customer success teams that runs live, automated, on-demand, and multi-session series events with branded registration pages, automated reminder emails, in-room polls, handouts and featured actions, HD streaming, replays, and CRM sync; it is priced per host with an attendee cap you select from fifty up to three thousand.
Overview
Demio launched in 2015 with a narrow, unfashionable proposition: make the webinar room itself pleasant, and make it work in a browser. While competitors chased virtual-event platforms with expo halls and networking lounges, Demio kept building the same product better. That focus is still the reason people pick it. The room is clean, the presenter controls are where you expect them, slides and videos are uploaded ahead of time rather than screen-shared, and attendees click a link and are simply in.
The company was acquired by Banzai International in 2021 and is now a product line inside a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: BNZI). That ownership is worth understanding before you commit. Banzai has been through a difficult period as a public company, including a one-for-twenty reverse stock split effective in May 2026 and a series of small capital raises. Demio itself continues to ship and remains the most commonly recommended mid-market webinar tool for small teams, but a buyer signing an annual contract should know the parent is financially stretched rather than assume it is a quiet independent SaaS business.
Pricing is the clearest in the category. Starter is 45 dollars a month billed annually (63 monthly) for one host, fifty attendees, and three-hour sessions. Growth starts around 75 dollars per host per month annually for a 150-attendee room and climbs with the cap you choose, with 500, 1,000, and 3,000 available; the 500-attendee configuration lands around 164 dollars a month annually. Premium is 196 dollars per host per month billed annually with unlimited hosts, ten-hour sessions, ten people on stage, Demio AI, custom domains, and auto-transcription. A fourteen-day free trial runs Growth features capped at twenty attendees and one-hour sessions.
The important structural detail is that automated and on-demand webinars are not on Starter. If your reason for buying is an evergreen funnel, the entry price is Growth, not 45 dollars. That is a common and expensive surprise.
Best for
Small and mid-size marketing, sales enablement, and customer success teams who run a regular cadence of live and automated webinars, want a predictable per-host monthly bill with a room size they can plan around, and value a clean no-download attendee experience over broadcast production control.
Not the right fit for
- Anyone buying at the 45-dollar Starter price expecting automated webinars; automation, custom branding, 1080p, and live captions all start at Growth, so the honest entry price for an evergreen strategy is roughly double what the headline suggests.
- Teams whose attendance is wildly unpredictable; you pick a cap in advance and a session that outgrows it turns people away, which makes Livestorm's pay-for-who-showed-up model a better structural fit.
- Production-minded broadcasters who want scene switching, overlays, multi-camera, and 4K local files; Demio is a webinar room, not a studio, and StreamYard or Riverside will out-produce it comfortably.
- Buyers who need vendor financial stability as a procurement criterion; Demio's parent Banzai International is a small-cap public company that executed a one-for-twenty reverse split in 2026, which is a legitimate thing to weigh on a multi-year commitment.
- Organizations needing genuinely large events, multi-track agendas, expo halls, or attendee networking; the ceiling is three thousand attendees in a single room and there is no virtual-venue layer.
How it works
- 1
You create an event and choose the type: a live session, an automated session that plays a recording on a schedule while behaving like a live room, an on-demand session that starts whenever someone registers, or a series where one registration covers several dates. Demio generates a branded registration page for each, with custom fields that map to your CRM.
- 2
Before the session you upload your slides and any video clips into the room. This is a deliberate design choice: rather than screen-sharing a local deck and hoping your bandwidth holds, the assets sit on Demio's side and you advance through them, so a presenter on hotel wifi does not degrade the audience experience.
- 3
Registrants get confirmation and reminder emails on a schedule you configure. At session time attendees join in a browser tab with nothing to install. You run polls, drop handouts into the room, push featured actions (Demio's term for a timed CTA), field chat with tagging, emoji reactions, and at-mentions, run a moderated Q and A, and can promote an attendee onto the stage.
- 4
Afterwards the recording becomes a replay you can gate or make public, convert into an automated or on-demand event so it keeps generating registrations, or restream elsewhere. Analytics report registration and attendance rates, watch duration, poll answers, and who clicked which featured action, and push into HubSpot, Marketo, Salesforce, ActiveCampaign, and the rest of the connector list so the follow-up happens in your existing systems.
Feature breakdown
27 features in 5 modulesEvent types
Live, automated, on-demand, and series, with a clear paywall between them.- Live events
- The base format available on every tier. Session length is capped by plan: three hours on Starter, eight on Growth, ten on Premium.
- Automated events
- A pre-recorded video runs on a published schedule while the room behaves like a live session, with chat, polls, and featured actions firing at timed points. Requires Growth or above.
- On-demand events
- The session starts as soon as a registrant asks for it, so there is no wait between interest and viewing. Growth and above.
- Series events
- One registration covers a multi-part sequence of sessions, which is the right structure for a course, an onboarding curriculum, or a multi-week campaign. Available from Starter.
- Replays
- Every session produces a replay that can be gated behind a form, sent to no-shows automatically, or published openly.
The room
What the attendee and the presenter actually experience.- No download for attendees
- Attendees join in a browser on desktop or mobile with no client, plugin, or install prompt. This is the feature Demio's reputation is built on.
- Pre-uploaded slides and videos
- Assets are uploaded into the room in advance rather than screen-shared, so playback quality does not depend on the presenter's upload bandwidth. Screen sharing is still available when you need it.
- Stage capacity
- Four people on stage on Starter, six on Growth, ten on Premium, which is the practical constraint on how large a panel you can run.
- Bring attendees on stage
- Promote an attendee into the presenter view for a question or a customer story, then send them back to the audience.
- Virtual backgrounds and brand customization
- Branded room design, colors, and virtual backgrounds; custom branding is a Growth-tier feature rather than a Starter one.
- 1080p streaming and live captions
- Full HD output and live captioning both start at the Growth tier; Starter runs at standard quality without captions.
Engagement and conversion
The tools that turn attention into pipeline.- Polls
- Launch polls mid-session with results shown live or held back; responses are attributed per attendee and exported into your CRM as qualification data.
- Featured actions
- Demio's timed call-to-action: a button or offer that appears in the room at a moment you choose, with click tracking per attendee. This is the mechanism that makes a webinar measurable as a revenue event.
- Handouts
- Drop documents, decks, or resources into the room for attendees to download during the session, with download tracking.
- Chat with tagging, reactions, and mentions
- Room chat supports at-mentions, emoji reactions, and tagging so a moderator can triage a busy room without losing threads.
- Q and A
- A separate moderated question queue distinct from chat, so genuine questions do not get buried under conversation.
- Private moderator communication
- Hosts, co-hosts, and moderators can coordinate out of the attendees' view during the session.
Registration, email, and follow-up
The demand-generation wrapper around the room.- Branded registration pages
- Generated per event with custom fields, hosted by Demio or on your own custom domain at the Premium tier.
- Automated reminder emails
- Confirmation and reminder sequences run automatically, with the send schedule configurable per event.
- Follow-up and no-show emails
- Automatically send the replay to no-shows and a different follow-up to attendees, which is where most of the post-event conversion actually happens.
- Auto-transcription
- Session transcripts generated automatically, available on the Premium tier.
- Demio AI
- AI-assisted content and summarization features bundled at the Premium tier.
Data, distribution, and administration
Where the numbers and the video go afterwards.- Analytics dashboards
- Registration-to-attendance conversion, watch duration, drop-off points, poll responses, handout downloads, and featured-action clicks per event.
- Restreaming
- Push the session out to external platforms alongside the native Demio room, so public reach and gated capture coexist.
- Event admin seats
- Fifteen event admins on Starter, twenty-five on Growth, fifty on Premium. These are distinct from host licences, so people can build and manage events without each needing a host seat.
- Unlimited hosts on Premium
- Premium removes the per-host constraint entirely, which changes the arithmetic for teams with more than four or five people who present.
- CRM and marketing automation sync
- Native connectors to HubSpot, Marketo, Salesforce, ActiveCampaign, Keap, Drip, and others push registration and engagement data as it happens rather than as a post-event CSV.
Use cases
4 documentedB2B marketer running a monthly webinar program
One live session a month plus an evergreen version of the best-performing one, an audience that averages 120 live attendees, and a HubSpot instance that needs the engagement data to trigger lead scoring.
Growth at the 150-attendee cap covers the live cadence, the automated event turns the best session into a permanent lead source, and featured-action clicks and poll answers arrive in HubSpot as scoring signals rather than as a spreadsheet.
Customer success team running onboarding cohorts
New customers need a three-part onboarding curriculum, delivered live but with high no-show rates, and the team is tired of manually chasing people with recordings.
A series event captures one registration for all three sessions, automated no-show emails deliver the replay without anyone touching it, and watch-duration data shows which module people actually finish.
Course creator selling from webinars
The business model is a free training session that converts to a paid course, and the conversion depends entirely on the offer appearing at the right moment with a working link.
Featured actions fire at a scripted time with per-attendee click tracking, handouts deliver the workbook in-room, and the automated event runs the same funnel on a schedule without the founder presenting live every week.
Sales enablement lead running partner training
Partner reps need recurring product training, attendance must be provable, and half the partners work at companies where installing a desktop client requires a ticket.
Browser-only attendance removes the IT blocker, per-attendee watch duration proves who completed the training, and event admin seats let regional managers build their own sessions without buying host licences.
Pricing
from $45 per month billed annually (Starter, one host, fifty attendees)Per-host subscription with an attendee cap you select. The cap, not usage, is the primary price driver; event admin seats are separate from and cheaper than host licences.
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $45 (annual) or $63 (monthly) per month |
No automated or on-demand webinars, no custom branding, no 1080p, and no live captions. If evergreen is your reason for buying, Starter is not your plan. |
| Growth | From about $75 per host (annual), around $99 monthly, rising with the cap per month |
The 500-attendee configuration lands around $164 a month billed annually (about $234 monthly). This is the tier most buyers actually need. |
| Premium | $196 per host per month, billed annually |
Unlimited hosts is the real unlock; if you have five or more presenters, Premium can be cheaper than Growth. |
Billing notes
- Annual billing is meaningfully cheaper than monthly across every tier, typically saving around thirty percent.
- The attendee cap is a hard room limit, not a soft overage. Exceed it and additional people cannot join, so size for your best expected session rather than your average.
- Automated webinars, on-demand webinars, custom branding, 1080p streaming, and live captions are all gated to Growth. The 45-dollar headline covers a plain live-only room.
- Event admins are included in generous numbers on every tier and are not host licences, so people can build and manage events without adding cost.
- Session length is a real constraint at the low end: three hours on Starter rules out a full-day workshop, which needs Growth (eight hours) or Premium (ten).
- Demio is owned by Banzai International (NASDAQ: BNZI), which completed a one-for-twenty reverse stock split in May 2026. Weigh that when considering a multi-year prepayment.
Value assessment: Demio at Growth with a 150-attendee cap is the most sensible default purchase in this category for a small marketing team, and roughly 75 dollars per host per month for live plus automated plus on-demand plus real CRM sync is fair. The pricing is transparent, the cap is a number you can plan a budget around, and the room quality is genuinely better than most competitors at any price. Two things dent the value. First, the 45-dollar Starter tier is a lure rather than a plan, because it excludes the automation that most buyers came for. Second, the cap-based model punishes success: a session that draws six hundred people on a 500 cap turns away a hundred registrants who had already given you their email address. Judged on what you get at Growth, Demio is solid value; judged on the advertised entry price, it is misleading.
Strengths & limitations
Strengths
- The best-executed no-download webinar room for small teams, with pre-uploaded slides and video that keep quality independent of the presenter's connection.
- Genuinely transparent pricing with the attendee cap stated plainly, which is rare in a category full of quote-gated vendors.
- Live, automated, on-demand, and series events all in one product, so the same asset works as a live launch and then as an evergreen funnel.
- Featured actions with per-attendee click tracking turn a webinar into a measurable revenue event rather than a brand exercise.
- Deep native marketing-automation connectors including HubSpot, Marketo, Salesforce, ActiveCampaign, Keap, and Drip, with real-time push rather than post-event export.
- Generous event admin counts separate from host licences, so operations staff can build events without consuming expensive seats.
- Unlimited hosts on Premium changes the arithmetic favourably for teams with many presenters.
Limitations
- Automation is paywalled above Starter, making the advertised 45-dollar entry price unrepresentative of what most buyers will pay.
- The attendee cap is hard: exceed it and registrants are locked out mid-session, with no overage mechanism.
- Session length caps of three hours on Starter and eight on Growth rule out full-day formats without moving to Premium.
- No production studio features: no scene composition, no custom overlays beyond branding, no multi-camera, no high-bitrate local recording.
- The ceiling is three thousand attendees in a single room, with no expo halls, multi-track agendas, or attendee networking for larger virtual events.
- Parent company Banzai International is a financially stretched small-cap public company that executed a one-for-twenty reverse split in May 2026, which is a real consideration on a long contract.
Head-to-head comparisons
4 alternativesDemio vs Livestorm
from Pro at approximately 2.50 euros per attendee credit; third-party trackers report an entry block around 105 euros per monthBoth are browser-first webinar platforms with registration, reminders, and CRM sync, and the real difference is billing. Demio charges per host with an attendee cap you choose; Livestorm charges per attendee who actually shows up and never charges for hosts. Take Demio if you want a predictable monthly number and a room size you can plan around. Take Livestorm if your attendance is volatile, your no-show rate is high, or you have a dozen occasional presenters who would each cost a Demio seat.
Full Demio vs Livestorm comparisonDemio vs WebinarJam
from $39 per month billed annually (Starter, 100 attendees)WebinarJam is cheaper per attendee by a wide margin (500 attendees for 79 dollars a month annually, bundled with EverWebinar) and is built for the direct-response launch playbook. Demio costs roughly double for the same room but has a cleaner interface, better CRM depth, and a product that does not feel like a 2015 marketing funnel. Choose WebinarJam if the webinar is a sales pitch and price per seat is the deciding factor; choose Demio if it is a marketing program that has to integrate properly with HubSpot or Marketo.
Full Demio vs WebinarJam comparisonDemio vs eWebinar
from $99 per montheWebinar cannot run a live webinar at all; it is a dedicated evergreen automation platform priced per active webinar with unlimited attendees, starting at 99 dollars a month. Demio does live and automated in one tool with an attendee cap. If your program is genuinely evergreen, eWebinar's unlimited-attendee model and twenty-five interaction types beat Demio's automated mode outright. If you need to run live sessions too, Demio is one tool instead of two.
Full Demio vs eWebinar comparisonDemio vs Contrast
from $0 (Free), then around $69 (roughly 60 euros) per month for ProContrast is the cheaper, newer, more AI-forward option with a real free tier for thirty registrants a month and pricing that scales on registrants rather than a room cap. Demio is the more mature product with deeper automation formats, longer sessions, and a larger connector list. Start on Contrast's free plan if you are testing whether webinars work for you at all; move to Demio once the program has a cadence and needs series events and reliable marketing-automation sync.
Full Demio vs Contrast comparisonImplementation & onboarding
- Setup time
- About an hour for a first live event: create the event, upload slides, restyle the registration page, set the reminder schedule, and connect your CRM. An automated event takes longer because you have to script where the polls and featured actions fire against the recording timeline.
- Learning curve
- Low for hosts. The room is deliberately simple and most presenters need one dry run. The parts that take real work are timing featured actions against an automated recording and configuring the CRM field mapping so registration data lands usefully.
- Onboarding
- Self-serve on Starter and Growth, including the fourteen-day trial. Premium adds a dedicated account manager and priority support. Demio publishes a substantial library of webinar-strategy content that is more useful than most vendor marketing.
- Migration notes
- No bulk importer for another platform's events or recordings, so past webinars stay with the old vendor unless you re-upload the video files as automated events, which is a viable and reasonably quick path. Registration and contact history should move through your CRM rather than through Demio. Rebuild registration pages and email sequences by hand.
Platform, API & security
- Platforms
- Web browser (attendees and presenters, desktop and mobile)Restreaming to external platforms
- API
- REST API and webhooks for events, registrants, and attendance, plus native connectors and Zapier for workflows outside the connector list.
- Compliance
- GDPRCCPA
- Data residency
- Primarily US-hosted; regional hosting options are not published.
- SSO
- Not published as a self-serve feature; enquire at the Premium tier.
- Security notes
- Standard encryption in transit and at rest. As a product line of a publicly traded parent (Banzai International, NASDAQ: BNZI), Demio inherits public-company reporting obligations, though that is a disclosure benefit rather than a security control.
Support & resources
- Channels
- Email supportIn-app chatPriority support on PremiumDedicated account manager on Premium
- Documentation
- Help center covering event types, registration, integrations, automated event configuration, and troubleshooting, alongside a large webinar-strategy content library.
- Community
- No large official user forum; the vendor runs its own educational webinars and a substantial blog.
Company
- Founded
- 2015
- Headquarters
- Bellevue, Washington, United States (Banzai International)
- Ownership
- Owned by Banzai International, Inc. (NASDAQ: BNZI)
- Employees
- Not separately disclosed for the Demio product line
- Funding
- Acquired by Banzai International in 2021; Banzai went public via SPAC in 2023 and has since raised capital through a series of small public offerings.
Funding history
| Round | Amount | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acquisition | Not disclosed | 2021 | Demio acquired by Banzai International as its webinar product line. |
| SPAC listing | Not disclosed | 2023 | Banzai International lists on NASDAQ under BNZI. |
| Public offerings and restructuring | Multiple small raises | 2026 | Banzai completed a one-for-twenty reverse stock split effective May 2026 and a public offering of roughly 0.9 million dollars in July 2026; it also acquired assets from ConnectAndSell. |
Timeline
- 2015Demio launches as a browser-based webinar platform built around a no-download attendee experience.
- 2018Adds automated and on-demand event types, moving from a live-only tool to an evergreen-capable one.
- 2021Acquired by Banzai International and positioned as Banzai's webinar product line alongside its other marketing technology.
- 2023Banzai International lists on NASDAQ under the ticker BNZI, making Demio part of a publicly traded company.
- 2025Demio AI, auto-transcription, and custom domains ship at the Premium tier; series events and restreaming mature.
- 2026Banzai executes a one-for-twenty reverse stock split in May and continues small public raises; Demio pricing settles at Starter 45, Growth from about 75, and Premium 196 per host per month annually.
Integrations
- HubSpot
- Marketo
- Salesforce
- ActiveCampaign
- Keap (Infusionsoft)
- Drip
- Mailchimp
- GetResponse
- Zapier
- Google Analytics and Facebook Pixel
- REST API and webhooks
Frequently asked questions
10 questionsWhat is Demio?
Demio is a browser-based webinar platform for marketing, sales, and customer success teams. It runs live, automated, on-demand, and multi-session series events with branded registration pages, automated reminder emails, in-room polls, handouts, timed calls to action, replays, and CRM sync. Attendees join in a browser with nothing to install.
How much does Demio cost?
Starter is 45 dollars a month billed annually (63 monthly) for one host and fifty attendees. Growth starts around 75 dollars per host per month annually for a 150-attendee room and rises with the cap you choose from 150, 500, 1,000, or 3,000; the 500 configuration is around 164 dollars a month annually. Premium is 196 dollars per host per month annually with unlimited hosts. There is a fourteen-day free trial and no free plan.
What does a 500-registrant webinar cost on Demio?
You would need the Growth tier configured for a 500-attendee room, which runs around 164 dollars a month billed annually or about 234 dollars billed monthly, for one host. That is a flat cost whether the session runs once or eight times that month, which is why Demio suits a regular cadence better than a single annual event. Note that 500 registrants rarely means 500 attendees, so a 150 or 500 cap decision should be made on your historical show-up rate.
Does Demio do automated or evergreen webinars?
Yes, but not on the Starter plan. Automated events (a recording that plays on a published schedule while the room behaves as live) and on-demand events (which start whenever a registrant asks) both require Growth or above. This is the most common pricing surprise with Demio, so budget from Growth if evergreen is why you are buying.
What happens if more people show up than my attendee cap allows?
They cannot get in. The cap is a hard room limit with no overage mechanism, so anyone arriving after the room is full is turned away even though they registered. Size the cap for your best expected session, not your average, or consider an attendee-metered platform like Livestorm if your traffic is genuinely unpredictable.
Do attendees need to install anything?
No. Demio runs entirely in the browser on desktop and mobile for attendees and presenters alike. This is the product's founding premise and the main reason it is recommended for audiences at companies with locked-down laptops where installing a desktop client requires an IT ticket.
Who owns Demio?
Demio was acquired in 2021 by Banzai International, which listed on NASDAQ under the ticker BNZI in 2023. Banzai has had a difficult run as a public company, including a one-for-twenty reverse stock split effective in May 2026 and a series of small capital raises. Demio continues to ship, but a buyer weighing a multi-year prepayment should factor the parent's financial position into the decision.
Can Demio stream to YouTube or LinkedIn at the same time?
Yes, Demio supports restreaming the session to external platforms alongside the native room, so you can keep gated lead capture while also broadcasting publicly. It is not a substitute for a production studio like StreamYard if the public broadcast is the main event and needs custom layouts and overlays.
How deep is Demio's CRM integration?
Deeper than most tools at this price. Native connectors to HubSpot, Marketo, Salesforce, ActiveCampaign, Keap, Drip, and others push registration and engagement data in real time, including poll answers and featured-action clicks, so lead scoring and follow-up automation can fire during or immediately after the session rather than waiting for a CSV export.
How long can a Demio session run?
Three hours on Starter, eight hours on Growth, and ten hours on Premium. The Starter limit is genuinely restrictive if you run workshops or training days, and it is a common reason teams upgrade even when their attendee numbers would fit the lower tier.
Editorial verdict
Demio is the safest default recommendation in this category for a small marketing team, provided you budget for Growth rather than the advertised 45-dollar Starter price. The room is the best-executed no-download experience at this end of the market, the pricing is honest about what a seat and a cap cost, and the marketing-automation connectors are deeper than anything else nearby. Buy it if you run a regular webinar cadence, want live and evergreen in one tool, and need engagement data flowing into HubSpot or Marketo without manual work. Approach with open eyes on two points: the attendee cap is a hard wall that penalizes an unexpectedly successful session, and the parent company is a financially stretched small-cap public business, which is worth weighing before you prepay a multi-year term.
Written by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Awards, when shown, are judged against the published criteria in our methodology.