eWebinar
Automated webinars that stop pretending to be live
eWebinar is a dedicated automated webinar platform that turns a pre-recorded video into a recurring, on-demand, or just-in-time session with more than twenty-five preprogrammed interactions, real-time moderated chat, branded registration pages, automated email and SMS reminders, and full funnel analytics; it does not run live webinars at all and is priced per active webinar with unlimited attendees and unlimited sessions.
Overview
eWebinar exists because its founder got tired of giving the same demo. Melissa Kwan sold her previous company, Spacio, in 2019 after years of running live webinars, product demos, onboarding sessions, and training calls that were substantially identical every time. eWebinar launched in 2020 with her partner David Dawson as CTO and a deliberately narrow scope: automate the repeated session, and make the automation good enough that attendees do not feel cheated by it.
That narrowness is the product's defining feature and its main constraint. eWebinar cannot host a live webinar. There is no live room, no going on stage, no real-time presenting. What it does instead is take your recording and wrap it in the machinery that makes an automated session feel attended: more than twenty-five preprogrammed interaction types firing at timed points, real-time chat where a human moderator can genuinely reply while the video plays, just-in-time scheduling so a visitor never waits more than a few minutes for the next session, and reminder sequences over both email and SMS.
The chat implementation is the part that separates it from every competitor's automated mode. When an attendee types, moderators get a real-time alert by email, browser notification, or Slack, and any number of moderators can respond at no extra cost. If nobody is around, an auto-response acknowledges the message and any unanswered question triggers a follow-up email. The result is asynchronous but honest: attendees are not tricked into thinking a fake live chat is happening, and they still get an answer.
Commercially it is a bootstrapped, small, profitable business rather than a venture rocket. Kwan has spoken publicly about growing to roughly 750,000 dollars in ARR with around 700 customers on a very small team. Pricing is per active webinar rather than per seat or per attendee: 99 dollars a month for a single active webinar, 199 for two to five, 299 for six to fifteen, and 15 dollars a month for each additional active webinar beyond that, with unlimited attendees and unlimited sessions at every level. For a business whose entire funnel is one evergreen demo, that is the cheapest structure in the category by a distance.
Best for
Small SaaS companies, agencies, and course businesses whose demo, onboarding walkthrough, or training session is substantially the same every time, who want it available around the clock without anyone presenting, and who would rather pay per active webinar with unlimited attendees than per seat with an attendee cap.
Not the right fit for
- Anyone who needs to run a live webinar; eWebinar has no live room at all, so a product launch, a panel, or anything with genuine real-time presenting requires a second platform.
- Teams running a large library of one-off sessions; pricing scales on active webinars, so twenty distinct evergreen funnels costs meaningfully more than a platform priced on attendees.
- Buyers who want a large vendor with an enterprise procurement process; eWebinar is a bootstrapped company at roughly 750,000 dollars ARR with a very small team, which is a strength operationally and a risk on paper.
- Broadcast-oriented teams wanting production control, overlays, multi-camera, or simulcast to YouTube and LinkedIn; eWebinar plays a file, it does not produce a stream.
- Organizations whose compliance team requires SOC 2, SSO, and formal data residency commitments; eWebinar does not publish that apparatus and is not sized to.
How it works
- 1
You record the session once, or reuse a recording you already have from Zoom, Demio, Loom, or anywhere else, and upload it. There is no live presenting step at any point in the eWebinar workflow, which is the whole point.
- 2
You then lay interactions along the video timeline. eWebinar offers more than twenty-five types including polls, surveys, quizzes, open-ended questions, timed special offers and calls to action, tips, downloadable handouts, and feedback forms, with conditional logic so different answers lead to different follow-ups. The vendor's own guidance is to place one roughly every three to five minutes, which is a more useful piece of advice than most vendors offer.
- 3
You choose how the session is offered: on a recurring schedule in each attendee's own local time zone, just-in-time so a new instance starts within a few minutes of someone arriving, on demand for immediate viewing, or as a replay link that can be watched any time with full pause and skip controls. Registration can come through a hosted landing page, an embedded widget on your site, Zapier-driven auto-registration from another system, mid-webinar registration, or anonymous viewing with optional contact capture.
- 4
While the session plays, attendees can chat. Moderators get real-time alerts by email, browser notification, or Slack, and can reply live from any device; multiple moderators cost nothing extra. Automated welcome messages greet each attendee, auto-responses cover the times nobody is watching, and unanswered messages generate a follow-up email so no question is dropped.
- 5
Confirmation, reminder, and follow-up emails and SMS go out on schedules you configure from pre-written templates. Afterwards, analytics report visitor-to-registration conversion, attendance rate, drop-off points, average watch time, engagement by interaction type, and conversion via pixel tracking, with shareable reports that do not require a login.
Feature breakdown
29 features in 5 modulesAutomation and scheduling
The scheduling engine is the actual product.- Recurring schedules in local time
- Publish session times that render in each visitor's own time zone, so a global audience sees plausible options rather than a US-centric list they have to convert mentally.
- Just-in-time sessions
- A new instance starts within a few minutes of a visitor arriving, so the gap between interest and attendance is nearly zero. This is the single biggest lever on attendance rate in an evergreen funnel.
- On-demand viewing
- Immediate access on registration for people who will not wait even a few minutes.
- Replay links with full controls
- Registrants get a link to watch any time with pause and skip available, which is honest about the fact that it is a recording and increases completion rather than reducing it.
- Unlimited sessions and unlimited attendees
- No cap on how many sessions run or how many people attend on any plan. The meter is active webinars, not audience, which is structurally different from every capped competitor.
- Reuse of existing recordings
- Upload a recording from Zoom, Demio, Loom, or a camera; there is no requirement to record inside eWebinar.
Interactions
More than twenty-five preprogrammed types, timed along the video.- Polls and surveys
- Timed polls with results collected per attendee, usable as qualification data in follow-up rather than as an engagement gimmick.
- Quizzes
- Knowledge checks that make training and onboarding sessions verifiable rather than merely delivered.
- Open-ended questions
- Free-text prompts that capture context you would otherwise never get from an evergreen session.
- Special offers and CTAs
- Timed offers pushed at the moment they are relevant in the script, which is the conversion mechanism the whole product exists to deliver.
- Tips and advice segments
- Contextual notes that appear alongside the video to reinforce a point without editing the recording.
- Handouts
- Downloadable resources delivered in-session, with tracking of who took them.
- Feedback forms
- Structured post-session feedback capture built into the flow rather than bolted on as a separate email.
- Conditional logic
- Branch the experience based on an attendee's answers so a prospect and an existing customer watching the same recording get different offers and follow-ups.
Chat and moderation
The part competitors' automated modes get wrong.- Real-time moderator alerts
- Incoming chat triggers an email, a browser notification, or a Slack message, so a human can respond to an automated session in real time from anywhere.
- Unlimited moderators
- Any number of team members can be designated to answer chat at no additional cost, which matters because moderation is a shift, not a seat.
- Automated welcome messages
- Each attendee is greeted personally when they join, which sets the tone before any human is involved.
- Auto-responses when nobody is watching
- Out-of-hours messages get an honest acknowledgement rather than silence, which is the difference between an automated webinar that feels considerate and one that feels like a trap.
- Follow-up email on unanswered chat
- Any message left unanswered generates a follow-up email so no question is silently lost, which is the safety net that makes asynchronous moderation viable.
Registration and notifications
Five ways in, and a full lifecycle of reminders.- Hosted landing pages
- Custom-built branded registration pages with configurable form fields, generated per webinar.
- Embeddable registration widgets
- Drop the registration flow directly into your own site so visitors never leave your domain.
- Zapier auto-registration
- Register people automatically from an external system, which is how you wire an evergreen onboarding webinar to fire when a new customer signs up.
- Mid-webinar and anonymous registration
- Let people start watching without a form and capture contact details later, either optionally or as a required gate partway through. This trades some lead volume for far better top-of-funnel conversion.
- Email and SMS reminders
- Pre-written, editable templates cover confirmation, reminders, and post-session follow-up across both channels; SMS is delivered through a Twilio connection.
Analytics and integrations
Funnel reporting plus the plumbing to act on it.- Full funnel metrics
- Visitor traffic, registration rate, attendance rate, drop-off analysis, and average watch time reported per webinar, so you can see exactly where an evergreen funnel leaks.
- Engagement by interaction
- Per-interaction response rates show which polls, offers, and CTAs actually land, which is the data you need to iterate a script.
- Conversion pixel tracking
- Drop tracking pixels to attribute downstream conversions to a specific session rather than guessing.
- Shareable reports without login
- Send a live report link to a client or a manager who does not have an account, which is a small thing agencies value disproportionately.
- Native integrations
- Zoom, Slack, HubSpot, Marketo, Salesforce, Twilio, SendGrid, and Vimeo connect natively, with Zapier covering the rest.
Use cases
4 documentedSaaS founder giving the same demo forty times a month
Every trial signup wants a walkthrough, the founder is the only person who can give it convincingly, and the calendar is the bottleneck on the entire funnel.
The demo is recorded once, offered just-in-time so a signup can attend within minutes, and the founder answers chat asynchronously from Slack instead of sitting through the same forty-minute script again.
Customer success team running onboarding at scale
New customers all need the same onboarding walkthrough, live sessions have a fifty percent no-show rate, and the team is spending most of its week on repeat delivery rather than on accounts that need help.
Zapier auto-registers every new customer into a recurring onboarding webinar in their local time zone, quizzes verify completion, and the team's time goes to the chat questions that actually differ between customers.
Agency running evergreen funnels for clients
Five clients each need an always-on lead-generation webinar, and per-seat platforms with attendee caps make the unit economics of a small retainer impossible.
The 199-dollar tier covers two to five active webinars with unlimited attendees each, shareable no-login reports keep clients informed without adding accounts, and the cost per client funnel lands around forty dollars a month.
Course creator with a paid program
The free training that sells the course has to run several times a week to convert cold traffic, and the creator cannot present it live indefinitely without burning out.
The training runs on a recurring schedule with timed offers, conditional logic gives repeat attendees a different pitch, and pixel tracking attributes course purchases back to specific sessions.
Pricing
from $99 per monthSubscription priced by the number of simultaneously active webinars. Attendees, sessions, moderators, and registrations are unlimited on every level.
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Level 1 | $99 per month |
The right plan for a single evergreen demo or onboarding session, which is the majority use case. |
| Level 2 | $199 per month |
At five active webinars this works out to roughly 40 dollars per funnel per month. |
| Level 3 | $299 per month |
The per-webinar overage above fifteen is unusually reasonable and makes scaling a large library predictable. |
Add-ons
- Additional active webinar beyond 15 ($15 per month each): Applies on Level 3 and above; there is no attendee component to the overage.
Billing notes
- Pricing is per active webinar. Archiving a webinar frees the slot, so a seasonal campaign does not have to occupy a paid slot all year.
- Attendees, registrations, sessions, and moderators are unlimited on every level. This is the only mainstream platform in the category with no audience meter at all.
- There is no per-seat cost for team members, so the whole company can moderate chat without adding licences.
- SMS reminders are delivered through your own Twilio connection, so message costs are billed by Twilio rather than by eWebinar.
- A free trial is offered but eWebinar does not publish a fixed length on its own pricing page; third-party listings vary, so confirm at signup.
- There is no free plan, which is worth noting because several competitors including Contrast and StreamYard publish one.
Value assessment: For its single intended job, eWebinar has the best economics in the category and it is not close. A business whose entire funnel is one demo pays 99 dollars a month and can put ten thousand people through it without paying a cent more, while a comparable Demio or Livestorm configuration would cost several times that at the same volume. The unlimited moderator policy compounds the advantage because moderation is naturally a rota rather than a seat. The value collapses in exactly one scenario: a large library of distinct one-off sessions, where per-active-webinar pricing works against you and an attendee-metered platform wins. And of course it does nothing live, so if you also need live webinars you are paying for two products. Judged as a dedicated evergreen engine, it is the cheapest capable option available and the interaction depth justifies the price on its own.
Strengths & limitations
Strengths
- Unlimited attendees, sessions, registrations, and moderators on every plan, which is unique in a category built on audience metering.
- Just-in-time scheduling collapses the gap between interest and attendance to a few minutes, which is the single biggest driver of evergreen funnel performance.
- The chat and moderation design is the most honest in the category: real-time alerts to Slack, unlimited moderators, auto-responses out of hours, and follow-up emails for anything unanswered.
- More than twenty-five interaction types with conditional logic gives an evergreen session more depth than most live ones have.
- Five distinct registration paths including anonymous viewing and mid-webinar capture, which lets you optimize for volume or for lead quality deliberately.
- Per-active-webinar pricing at 99 dollars, with 15-dollar increments above fifteen webinars, is predictable and cheap for the common case.
- Bootstrapped and profitable with a founder who is publicly candid about the business, which is a different and in some ways more reassuring risk profile than a venture-funded competitor.
Limitations
- No live webinar capability whatsoever. This is by design, but it means most companies need eWebinar plus something else rather than eWebinar alone.
- No streaming or simulcast to YouTube, LinkedIn, or RTMP endpoints; the product plays a file to registrants and does nothing broadcast-shaped.
- Pricing scales on active webinars, so a large and varied library of evergreen sessions is comparatively expensive against attendee-metered rivals.
- The company is very small (roughly 750,000 dollars ARR on a tiny team), so there is real concentration risk and limited capacity for bespoke work.
- No published SOC 2, SSO, or data residency commitments, which will stop the conversation with some security reviews.
- The free trial length is not published on the vendor's own pricing page, and there is no free tier, so evaluation requires signing up before you can see the terms.
Head-to-head comparisons
4 alternativeseWebinar vs Demio
from $45 per month billed annually (Starter, one host, fifty attendees)Demio runs live and automated events in one platform with an attendee cap you buy in advance; eWebinar runs only automated events with no cap at all. If evergreen is genuinely your whole strategy, eWebinar's unlimited attendees and far deeper interaction library beat Demio's automated mode for less money. If you need live sessions as well, Demio is one tool instead of two, and its 150-attendee Growth tier is a reasonable place to start.
Full eWebinar vs Demio comparisoneWebinar vs WebinarJam
from $39 per month billed annually (Starter, 100 attendees)WebinarJam bundles EverWebinar from its Basic tier at 79 dollars a month annually, giving you live plus evergreen for less than eWebinar's single-webinar price. The catch is quality of experience: EverWebinar is a functional automation layer built for direct-response launches, while eWebinar is a more thoughtfully designed product with just-in-time scheduling, conditional logic, and honest chat handling. Take the bundle if price dominates; take eWebinar if attendees noticing the automation would hurt you.
Full eWebinar vs WebinarJam comparisoneWebinar vs Livestorm
from Pro at approximately 2.50 euros per attendee credit; third-party trackers report an entry block around 105 euros per monthLivestorm does live, on-demand, and automated in one browser-based platform and charges per attendee who shows up, which makes a high-volume evergreen funnel expensive there and free here. eWebinar cannot do live at all. Use Livestorm when you need one platform across formats and your evergreen volume is modest; use eWebinar when a single recording has to serve thousands of viewers and cost per attendee is the metric that matters.
Full eWebinar vs Livestorm comparisoneWebinar vs Contrast
from $0 (Free), then around $69 (roughly 60 euros) per month for ProContrast does live and on-demand webinars with AI clip repurposing and HubSpot-native workflows, priced on registrants from a free thirty-registrant tier. eWebinar does neither live nor repurposing but automates a single session far more thoroughly. They are complements more often than competitors: Contrast for the live program and the content it produces, eWebinar for the always-on demo underneath it.
Full eWebinar vs Contrast comparisonImplementation & onboarding
- Setup time
- The vendor claims under twenty minutes to launch a first webinar without instruction, and that is broadly credible if you already have a recording. Scripting interactions properly along the timeline is the part that takes real thought and is worth a couple of hours.
- Learning curve
- Low. There is no live-presenting skill to acquire because there is no live presenting. The genuine learning is editorial: deciding where the interactions go, what the conditional branches should be, and how the chat rota works.
- Onboarding
- Entirely self-serve, which is appropriate for a company this size. eWebinar publishes an unusually good body of educational content about automated webinar strategy, largely authored by the founder.
- Migration notes
- Migration is genuinely easy because the input is a video file. Export your existing recording from Zoom, Demio, or anywhere else and upload it; there is no requirement to re-record. Registration history and contacts move through your CRM rather than through eWebinar. Rebuild reminder sequences from eWebinar's pre-written templates, which is faster than porting them.
Platform, API & security
- Platforms
- Web browser (attendees and moderators, desktop and mobile)Embeddable registration widget for your own site
- API
- Zapier is the primary automation surface, with native connectors to Zoom, Slack, HubSpot, Marketo, Salesforce, Twilio, SendGrid, and Vimeo. A full public REST API is not the headline surface it is for larger platforms.
- Compliance
- GDPR
- Data residency
- Not published.
- SSO
- Not published.
- Security notes
- eWebinar does not publish SOC 2 certification, SSO, or formal data residency commitments. That is consistent with a bootstrapped company of its size but will end the evaluation for buyers with a formal security review process.
Support & resources
- Channels
- Email supportIn-app chatLive chat with the small team, which in practice often means a founder
- Documentation
- Help center covering interactions, scheduling modes, registration paths, chat moderation, integrations, and analytics.
- Community
- A founder-led podcast and a substantial body of written material on automated webinar strategy; no large user forum.
Company
- Founded
- 2019
- Headquarters
- Distributed; the founding team has operated remotely rather than from a fixed office
- Ownership
- Bootstrapped, founder-owned
- Founders
- Melissa Kwan, David Dawson
- Employees
- Very small; the founders have described running the business with a minimal team
- Funding
- No institutional funding. The founders have publicly described bootstrapping to roughly 750,000 dollars in ARR with around 700 customers.
Funding history
| Round | Amount | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bootstrapped | No outside capital | 2019 to present | Funded from the founders' own resources following Melissa Kwan's sale of her previous company, Spacio, in 2019. |
Timeline
- 2019Melissa Kwan sells Spacio and begins building eWebinar with David Dawson, motivated by years of repeating the same live demos and training sessions.
- 2020eWebinar launches publicly as a dedicated automated webinar platform with no live capability by design.
- 2021The interaction library expands past twenty-five types and conditional logic ships, giving evergreen sessions branching behaviour.
- 2022Just-in-time scheduling and multiple registration paths, including anonymous and mid-webinar capture, become the platform's conversion differentiators.
- 2024The founders publicly describe reaching roughly 750,000 dollars in ARR with around 700 customers, entirely bootstrapped.
- 2026Pricing remains per active webinar at 99, 199, and 299 dollars a month with 15-dollar increments above fifteen webinars, and unlimited attendees on every level.
Integrations
- Zoom
- HubSpot
- Salesforce
- Marketo
- Slack
- Twilio (for SMS)
- SendGrid
- Vimeo
- Zapier
- Conversion pixels for Google Ads, Meta, and LinkedIn
Frequently asked questions
10 questionsWhat is eWebinar?
eWebinar is a dedicated automated webinar platform. You upload a recording and it wraps it in the machinery that makes an automated session work: more than twenty-five timed interaction types, real-time moderated chat, branded registration pages, email and SMS reminders, and funnel analytics. It runs sessions on a recurring schedule, just in time, on demand, or as a replay.
Can eWebinar host a live webinar?
No, and this is deliberate rather than a gap. There is no live room and no real-time presenting. If you need live sessions you will need a second platform such as Demio, Livestorm, or Zoom Webinars alongside it. eWebinar's entire design assumes the presenting has already happened.
How much does eWebinar cost?
99 dollars a month for one active webinar, 199 for two to five, and 299 for six to fifteen, with additional active webinars beyond fifteen at 15 dollars a month each. Attendees, sessions, registrations, and moderators are unlimited on every level. There is a free trial but no free plan.
What does a 500-registrant webinar cost on eWebinar?
99 dollars a month, the same as a five-registrant one. There is no attendee meter, no room cap, and no overage on any plan, so 500 registrants, 5,000, or 50,000 all cost the same. That is the structural reason eWebinar wins on economics for a high-volume evergreen funnel, and why it is the wrong shape for a business running many distinct low-volume sessions.
Do attendees know the webinar is automated?
eWebinar is deliberately honest about it. Replay links offer full pause and skip controls, out-of-hours chat gets an auto-response that acknowledges nobody is currently watching, and unanswered questions trigger a follow-up email. The design goal is an automated session that respects the attendee rather than one that fools them, which is a different philosophy from the direct-response tools that simulate a live room.
How does chat work if nobody is presenting?
Attendee messages trigger real-time alerts by email, browser notification, or Slack, and any number of moderators can reply from anywhere at no extra cost. Automated welcome messages greet attendees on arrival, auto-responses cover the times nobody is available, and anything left unanswered generates a follow-up email so the question is not lost.
What is just-in-time scheduling and why does it matter?
It starts a new session instance within a few minutes of a visitor arriving, so the gap between someone becoming interested and actually attending is nearly zero. In an evergreen funnel that gap is where most attrition happens, and closing it is the biggest single lever on attendance rate. Recurring local-time schedules and on-demand viewing are offered alongside it.
Can I use a recording I made somewhere else?
Yes. eWebinar takes a video file, so a Zoom recording, a Demio replay, a Loom, or a camera file all work. There is no requirement to record inside the platform, which makes migration from another tool unusually painless: export the video, upload it, and rebuild the interactions.
Who owns eWebinar and how stable is the company?
It is bootstrapped and founder-owned by Melissa Kwan and David Dawson, with no institutional funding. The founders have publicly described reaching roughly 750,000 dollars in ARR with around 700 customers on a very small team. That means no investor pressure and a product that has stayed focused, but also genuine concentration risk and limited capacity for bespoke enterprise work.
Does eWebinar meet enterprise security requirements?
Probably not. eWebinar does not publish SOC 2 certification, SSO, or formal data residency commitments. For a small business buying a marketing tool that is usually irrelevant, but if your security review requires a certification package you should assume this is a blocker and look at Livestorm or Zoom Webinars instead.
Editorial verdict
eWebinar is the best automated webinar product on the market and the only one that treats automation as a design problem rather than a checkbox. Just-in-time scheduling, twenty-five-plus interactions with conditional logic, unlimited attendees on every plan, and a chat model that is honest with the attendee add up to an evergreen session that performs better than most companies' live ones. Buy it if you have one repeated session, a demo, an onboarding walkthrough, a training module, and you want it running around the clock for 99 dollars a month regardless of volume. Do not buy it as your only webinar tool, because it cannot do live, and be clear-eyed that this is a tiny bootstrapped company with no SOC 2 and no enterprise apparatus behind it.
Written by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Awards, when shown, are judged against the published criteria in our methodology.