# Livestorm

> Livestorm is a browser-based video engagement platform for webinars, product demos, onboarding sessions, and virtual events, covering registration pages, automated reminder emails, live engagement tools, on-demand and automated replays, simulcasting to YouTube and LinkedIn, and analytics that sync into a CRM; it is priced on attendee credits consumed over a twelve-month period rather than on host seats.

- Category: Webinars & Virtual Events (https://saastracker.org/categories/webinars-events)
- Website: https://livestorm.co
- Starting price: Pro at approximately 2.50 euros per attendee credit; third-party trackers report an entry block around 105 euros per month
- Free plan: No
- Free trial: A trial is available on request through the signup flow; Livestorm does not publish a fixed trial length on the pricing page
- Founded: 2016, HQ: Paris, France (fully remote team), Ownership: Venture-backed
- Profile last reviewed: 2026-08-22
- Canonical profile: https://saastracker.org/products/livestorm

## Overview

Livestorm was founded in Paris in 2016 and built its product on a single opinionated bet: nobody should have to install anything to attend a webinar. The whole platform runs in WebRTC in the browser, on both the presenter and the attendee side, which removes the most common failure mode in this category (a registrant clicks the link two minutes before the session, is prompted to download a desktop client, and never arrives). That decision has consequences elsewhere, mostly around raw production control, but it is why Livestorm consistently posts better attendance conversion than platforms that gate entry behind an installer.

The commercial model is the second thing that separates it. Most webinar tools charge per host seat and cap the room at a fixed attendee number. Livestorm charges for attendee credits: one credit is consumed per unique person per session over a rolling twelve-month window, and team members do not consume credits. No-shows cost nothing, which matters because webinar no-show rates routinely run between fifty and seventy percent. The vendor publishes Pro at roughly 2.50 euros per attendee credit; third-party pricing trackers report an entry point in the region of 105 euros per month for a starting credit block, and Livestorm does not publish a single flat monthly number on its own pricing page.

Feature-wise it sits in the middle of the category rather than at either extreme. You get registration pages, unlimited reminder and follow-up emails, polls, Q and A, chat, raise-hand, CTA buttons, PowerPoint embedding, live captions in beta, noise cancellation, AI-powered live translation, recording, on-demand and automated event modes, simulcast to YouTube, LinkedIn, X and custom RTMP endpoints, and an iFrame embed so the session can live on your own domain. It is not a production studio and it is not a dedicated evergreen-funnel tool, but it does live, automated, and on-demand honestly, which few platforms in this category actually do.

The company raised a 30 million dollar Series B in 2021 led by Aglae Ventures and Bpifrance Digital Venture, bringing total funding to roughly 35 million dollars, and runs as a fully remote team spread across more than fifteen nationalities. Headcount is not currently published. Livestorm carries ISO 27001 certification and hosts in the EU, which is the practical reason a lot of European marketing teams shortlist it ahead of the American incumbents.

## How it works

1. You create an event and pick its type: a live session, an on-demand recording that plays whenever someone registers, or an automated session that runs a pre-recorded video on a schedule while behaving like a live room. The registration page is generated for you and can be restyled with your logo, colors, and custom fields, or embedded into your own site via iFrame so the visitor never leaves your domain.

2. Registrants get a confirmation email and as many reminder emails as you configure, all editable and all branded. Livestorm does not meter these, so a three-touch reminder sequence plus a follow-up costs nothing extra. Registration data flows into HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Marketo, or whatever else you have connected, so the contact record exists before the session starts.

3. At session time everyone joins in a browser tab. Presenters share screen or upload slides, run polls, take questions through a moderated Q and A queue, push CTA buttons into the room, and can invite an attendee to raise their hand and come on stage. The room can simulcast simultaneously to YouTube, LinkedIn, X, and a custom RTMP destination while the native session runs.

4. Afterwards the recording is available for replay, the session can be converted into an on-demand or automated event so it keeps generating registrations, and the analytics export gives you per-attendee watch time, poll answers, chat messages, and question history. AI content repurposing pulls the transcript so the session can be cut into clips and written assets. Attendee credits are drawn down only for people who actually showed up.

## Best for

European and EU-data-conscious marketing teams running a steady program of live webinars, product demos, and customer onboarding sessions, especially those with high registration volume and typical no-show rates, who want attendees to join in a browser with zero friction and would rather pay for people who turned up than for a seat licence.

## Not the right fit for

- Anyone who needs a hard, predictable monthly line item; attendee-credit billing means your cost moves with how successful your webinars are, and a single unexpectedly popular session can burn through a quarter of your credit block.
- Broadcast producers who want scene composition, multi-camera switching, custom overlays, and 4K local recording; Livestorm is a browser room, not a studio, and StreamYard or Riverside will out-produce it every time.
- Teams whose entire strategy is an evergreen automated funnel with a chat moderator and timed offers; eWebinar and EverWebinar are purpose-built for that and Livestorm's automated mode is a lighter version of it.
- Buyers who need a genuinely free tier to evaluate with real audiences; Livestorm's current pricing page publishes no free plan, unlike Contrast, StreamYard, or Riverside.
- Organizations wanting a single vendor for webinars plus meetings plus phone plus contact center; Livestorm does not compete with Zoom on breadth and does not try to.

## Features

### Event formats

Live, on-demand, and automated handled as first-class modes rather than afterthoughts.

- **Live sessions**: The core format: a real presenter in a real room with real-time chat, Q and A, and polls. Pro sessions run up to four hours; Enterprise extends this to twelve hours for full-day events.
- **On-demand events**: A recorded session that plays the moment someone registers. Registration is still captured and reminders still fire, so the lead-generation machinery works identically to a live event.
- **Automated events**: A pre-recorded video runs on a published schedule while the room behaves like a live session, with chat available and a moderator able to answer. This is the closest Livestorm gets to an evergreen funnel.
- **Multi-session registration**: One registration page can offer several session times, which materially improves conversion when your audience spans time zones.
- **Recurring event series**: Repeat a configured event on a schedule without rebuilding the registration page, emails, and engagement setup each time.

### Attendance and access

The zero-install premise that defines the product.

- **Nothing to install for attendees**: Attendees join in a browser tab on desktop or mobile. There is no client to download, no plugin, and no corporate IT approval needed, which is the single biggest driver of show-up rate in this category.
- **Nothing to install for presenters either**: Hosts and guest speakers also run in the browser, so bringing an external guest onto a panel does not require them to set up software beforehand.
- **iFrame embedding**: Registration and the session itself can be embedded in your own website, so the entire journey happens on your domain rather than on a vendor subdomain.
- **Raise hand and bring on stage**: An attendee can request to speak and be promoted into the presenter view, turning a broadcast into a conversation when it needs to be.
- **Noise cancellation and live captions**: Built-in background noise suppression, plus live captions currently shipped as a beta feature for accessibility and comprehension.

### Registration, email, and audience

The demand-generation layer, unmetered.

- **Customizable registration pages**: Branded pages with custom fields, optimized for conversion, generated automatically for every event rather than built in a separate landing-page tool.
- **Unlimited reminder and follow-up emails**: Confirmation, reminders, and post-event follow-ups are fully editable and are not metered, so a multi-touch sequence costs nothing beyond the plan.
- **Contact profiles**: Every registrant accumulates a profile across events showing which sessions they attended, how long they watched, and what they asked, which is more useful for sales follow-up than a flat attendance list.
- **Custom branding across assets**: Logos, colors, and room design apply consistently to the registration page, the emails, and the live room itself.
- **Attendance certificates**: Certificates can be issued to attendees automatically, which matters for training, CPD, and accredited education use cases.

### Engagement and content

In-room tools plus what you do with the recording afterwards.

- **Polls**: Launch polls mid-session and export the responses per attendee, so answers become CRM-usable qualification data rather than a screen-share moment.
- **Moderated Q and A**: Questions queue for moderation, can be upvoted, and are exported with attribution after the event.
- **Live chat**: Public room chat with moderator controls, exportable alongside the rest of the session data.
- **CTA buttons**: Push a call-to-action into the room at the moment it is relevant, which is the mechanism that turns a webinar into a pipeline event.
- **PowerPoint and slide embedding**: Upload slides directly into the room rather than screen-sharing a local deck, which is more reliable on constrained connections.
- **Recording with start, pause, and stop control**: You control exactly what gets captured, so a pre-session speaker briefing or an off-record Q and A does not end up in the replay.
- **AI content repurposing**: Transcripts are extracted and used to generate derivative content for other channels, turning a single session into clips and written assets.
- **AI live translation**: AI-powered subtitles translate the session in real time, which is the practical answer to running one webinar for a multi-language European audience.

### Distribution, data, and administration

Where the session goes and who is allowed to run it.

- **Simulcast to social platforms**: Stream simultaneously to YouTube, LinkedIn, X, and custom RTMP destinations while the native Livestorm room runs, so reach and lead capture are not an either-or choice.
- **Analytics and reporting**: Per-event and cross-event reporting on registration, attendance, watch duration, and engagement, with full data export including registrant details and chat messages.
- **Session and workspace roles**: Granular permissions separate workspace administrators from event organizers and session-level presenters, which stops a large team stepping on each other's events.
- **Unlimited team members**: Team members do not consume attendee credits and are not licensed per seat, so adding colleagues to run events costs nothing.
- **Native integrations**: Popular app integrations on Pro, expanding to twenty-seven base integrations on Enterprise, covering CRM, marketing automation, calendars, and Zapier.

## Use cases

- **European B2B SaaS marketing manager**: Two customer-facing webinars a month plus a monthly product update, an audience across France, Germany, and the Nordics, and a legal team that wants EU data hosting and ISO 27001 evidence before anything gets signed. Outcome: Livestorm covers the compliance requirement, AI live translation handles the language spread, multi-session registration lifts attendance across time zones, and credits are only consumed by people who actually showed up.
- **Customer success lead running onboarding sessions**: New customers need a recurring onboarding walkthrough, but half of them fail to attend because the previous tool required a desktop client download at an enterprise with locked-down laptops. Outcome: Browser-only attendance removes the IT blocker entirely, the recurring event series runs the same session weekly without rebuild work, and an on-demand version catches everyone who could not make the live slot.
- **Demand-generation team with lumpy webinar traffic**: Some sessions draw forty attendees and one flagship session a quarter draws six hundred; a per-seat platform with a fixed room cap forces them to buy for the peak all year round. Outcome: Attendee-credit billing lets the small sessions cost almost nothing and the flagship absorb the credits it deserves, with team members excluded from the meter and unattended registrations costing zero.
- **Training provider issuing certificates**: Accredited sessions need proof of attendance and duration for each participant, plus a branded certificate issued afterwards without manual admin. Outcome: Per-attendee watch-duration data plus automatic certificate delivery closes the loop, and the full data export satisfies the accrediting body without anyone building a spreadsheet.

## Pricing

Attendee-credit consumption model. One credit is consumed per unique participant per session across a rolling twelve-month period. Team members are not counted, and no-shows consume nothing.

- **Pro**: About 2.50 euros per attendee credit credits purchased in twelve-month blocks. Unlimited events and unlimited recording; Sessions up to four hours; Unlimited team members, not counted as attendees; Popular app integrations; Standard multilingual support. Livestorm does not publish a single flat monthly figure for Pro; you configure a credit block and the effective monthly cost follows from it.
- **Enterprise**: Custom quote annual contract. Everything in Pro; Sessions up to twelve hours for full-day events; Twenty-seven base integrations; Dedicated customer success manager and live event shadowing; Custom analytics and VIP multilingual support with an SLA. Enterprise is quote-only, so the self-serve path for a small business is Pro.

Billing notes:

- One attendee credit equals one unique participant in one session. If the same person attends two of your sessions, that is two credits. If they register and never show up, it is zero.
- Replay and on-demand viewers consume credits as well as live attendees, which is easy to miss when modelling a program that leans on evergreen replays.
- Credits run over a twelve-month period rather than monthly, so seasonal webinar programs can front-load and back-load without waste.
- Livestorm alerts you as you approach the quota, and once the quota is exhausted new attendees are blocked from joining until you upgrade. That is a hard stop in the middle of a live session, not a soft overage bill, so leaving headroom matters.
- Team members and presenters are excluded from the meter, which makes Livestorm unusually cheap for organizations with many occasional hosts.
- Prices are published in euros; Livestorm is a French company and the pricing page quotes euro rates.

Value assessment: Livestorm is good value when your no-show rate is high and your attendance is uneven, and poor value when it is neither. Paying only for people who turned up is genuinely fairer than a seat licence with a fixed room cap, and the unlimited team members clause means a twenty-person marketing org pays the same as a solo operator for the same audience. The catch is forecasting. A quote-free per-credit model turns your webinar bill into a variable cost that rises exactly when a campaign works, and the hard block when credits run out during a live session is a worse failure mode than an overage invoice. If you can predict your annual attendee volume within twenty percent, buy the credits and the economics beat Demio or Zoom at similar volume. If you cannot, a capped per-seat platform will be less stressful even if it is nominally more expensive.

## Strengths

- Genuinely zero-install for both attendees and presenters, which lifts attendance rates and removes the most common day-of-event support ticket.
- Attendee-credit billing means no-shows are free, which is a real saving in a category where more than half of registrants routinely fail to attend.
- Unlimited team members at no additional cost, so a large marketing organization does not pay per host.
- Live, on-demand, and automated formats are all first-class rather than one of them being a token feature.
- EU hosting and ISO 27001 certification, which shortcuts the security review for European buyers who would otherwise be arguing about US data transfers.
- Simulcast to YouTube, LinkedIn, X, and custom RTMP runs alongside the native session, so you keep lead capture while also getting public reach.
- Unmetered reminder and follow-up emails, so building a proper three-touch reminder sequence costs nothing extra.

## Limitations

- The pricing page publishes no flat monthly number and no free plan, so building a budget requires a conversation or a configuration exercise rather than reading a table.
- Running out of attendee credits blocks new joiners mid-session rather than billing you for the overage, which is an unusually harsh failure mode.
- Replay and on-demand views consume credits, which quietly makes evergreen content more expensive than it looks.
- Production control is thin compared with a studio tool: no scene composition, no multi-camera switching, no high-bitrate local recording.
- The automated event mode is competent but shallow next to purpose-built evergreen platforms, with nothing like eWebinar's twenty-five interaction types or timed-offer machinery.
- Headcount is not disclosed and the last disclosed funding round was the 2021 Series B, so there is limited public signal on the company's current trajectory.

## Comparisons

- **Livestorm vs Demio**: Demio charges per host with a fixed attendee cap you choose up front, starting at 45 dollars a month for fifty attendees; Livestorm charges per attendee who actually shows up and never charges for hosts. Pick Demio if you want a predictable monthly bill and a room size you can plan around. Pick Livestorm if your attendance is volatile, your no-show rate is high, or you have many occasional hosts who would each cost a seat elsewhere.
- **Livestorm vs Contrast**: Both are European, both are browser-based, both do live plus on-demand well. Contrast is smaller, cheaper, has a real free tier for up to thirty registrants a month, and leans harder into AI clip repurposing and HubSpot-native workflows. Livestorm is the more complete event platform with twelve-hour sessions, certificates, and deeper role management. Start with Contrast if you are a small team testing whether webinars work at all; move to Livestorm when the program is established and the compliance review has begun.
- **Livestorm vs Zoom Webinars**: Zoom Webinars is an add-on to a Zoom Workplace licence and inherits Zoom's reliability, scale, and universal familiarity, at the cost of an attendee experience that often pushes people toward a desktop client. Livestorm keeps everyone in a browser and gives you far better registration, email, and marketing-attribution tooling out of the box. Choose Zoom if you already run on Zoom and want one vendor; choose Livestorm if the webinar is a marketing asset rather than a big meeting.
- **Livestorm vs eWebinar**: eWebinar does one thing, automated evergreen webinars, and does it more thoroughly than anyone, with twenty-five interaction types and just-in-time scheduling, but it cannot run a live session at all. Livestorm does live, on-demand, and automated in one platform with a lighter automation layer. Buy eWebinar as a dedicated evergreen funnel alongside something else; buy Livestorm when you need one tool covering the full range and can accept a simpler evergreen mode.
- **Livestorm vs StreamYard**: StreamYard is a production studio for broadcasting to social platforms with brand overlays, custom layouts, and a free tier; Livestorm is a webinar platform with registration, reminders, and CRM sync. They solve adjacent problems and plenty of teams run both. If your goal is a polished public live show on YouTube and LinkedIn, use StreamYard. If your goal is a gated session that produces named leads in a CRM, use Livestorm.

## Implementation

- Setup time: Under an hour for a first event. Create the event, choose the format, restyle the registration page, edit the reminder emails, and connect your CRM. There is no software rollout and nothing for attendees to prepare, so the usual pre-launch IT work simply does not exist.
- Learning curve: Low for the basic live event. The parts that take practice are the automated event mode, the role and permission model in a larger workspace, and the analytics export, which is powerful but not self-explanatory.
- Onboarding: Self-serve on Pro. Enterprise adds a dedicated customer success manager and live event shadowing, where a Livestorm person sits in on your first high-stakes sessions, which is the single most useful thing on the Enterprise list for teams running a flagship event.
- Migration: There is no bulk importer for another platform's past events or recordings, so historical webinar archives stay where they are. Contact and registration data comes across through your CRM rather than through Livestorm. Plan to rebuild registration pages and email sequences by hand; budget a day for a mature program.

## Platform, API & security

- Platforms: Web browser (attendees and presenters, desktop and mobile), iFrame embed on your own site, RTMP simulcast to YouTube, LinkedIn, X, and custom endpoints
- API: REST API and webhooks for events, registrants, and sessions, plus Zapier; deeper native integration counts are gated to the Enterprise tier.
- Compliance: ISO 27001, GDPR
- Data residency: EU-hosted, which is the practical reason many European buyers shortlist Livestorm over US-headquartered alternatives.
- SSO: Available on the Enterprise tier; not published as part of the self-serve Pro plan.
- Security notes: Livestorm publishes ISO 27001 certification and GDPR compliance, and the session and workspace role model allows granular separation between administrators, organizers, and presenters. Recording control is manual (start, pause, stop) so off-record segments can be excluded from the stored artifact.

## Support

- Channels: Email support, In-app chat, VIP multilingual support with an SLA on Enterprise, Live event shadowing on Enterprise
- Documentation: Help center covering event setup, registration pages, email customization, integrations, the API, and the attendee-credit model.
- Community: Active content and webinar-education program run by the vendor; no large independent user forum.

## Company

- Founded: 2016
- Founders: Gilles Bertaux, Tom Forlini, Vincent Garreau, Robin Lambert
- Headquarters: Paris, France (fully remote team)
- Ownership: Venture-backed
- Employees: Not published
- Funding: Approximately 35 million dollars raised, including a 30 million dollar Series B in 2021 led by Aglae Ventures and Bpifrance Digital Venture.

Funding history:

- Seed and early rounds (2017 to 2019): Approximately 5 million dollars combined. Early backing ahead of the Series B.
- Series B (2021): 30 million dollars. Led by Aglae Ventures and Bpifrance Digital Venture with participation from Raise Ventures and Idinvest, funding North American expansion and a planned tripling of headcount.

Timeline:

- 2016: Founded in Paris by Gilles Bertaux, Tom Forlini, Vincent Garreau, and Robin Lambert around a browser-first, no-download webinar experience.
- 2019: Expands from a single webinar product into a broader video engagement platform covering demos, onboarding, and training sessions.
- 2021: Raises a 30 million dollar Series B led by Aglae Ventures and Bpifrance Digital Venture to fund North American expansion.
- 2023: Adds automated and on-demand event formats as first-class modes alongside live sessions, plus simulcast to social platforms.
- 2025: Ships AI content repurposing and AI-powered live translation, positioning the recording as reusable content rather than an archive.
- 2026: Pricing consolidates around the attendee-credit model on Pro with a quote-only Enterprise tier; ISO 27001 and EU hosting remain the core enterprise sales argument in Europe.

## Integrations

HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Marketo, Google Calendar and Outlook, Slack, Zapier and Make, Google Analytics, YouTube, LinkedIn, X, and custom RTMP for simulcast, REST API and webhooks

## FAQ

### What is Livestorm?

Livestorm is a browser-based video engagement platform for webinars, product demos, onboarding sessions, and virtual events. It covers registration pages, unlimited reminder emails, live engagement tools like polls and Q and A, on-demand and automated replays, simulcast to YouTube and LinkedIn, and analytics that sync into a CRM. Nobody, attendee or presenter, has to install anything.

### How does Livestorm pricing actually work?

You buy attendee credits rather than host seats. One credit is consumed per unique participant per session across a rolling twelve-month period. Team members do not consume credits and no-shows cost nothing. The Pro rate is published at roughly 2.50 euros per credit; there is no flat monthly number on the pricing page, and Enterprise is quote-only.

### What happens if I run out of attendee credits during a webinar?

New attendees are blocked from joining until you upgrade. Livestorm warns you as you approach the quota, but the failure mode is a hard stop rather than an overage charge, so you should keep meaningful headroom before a session you expect to be popular.

### What does a 500-registrant webinar cost on Livestorm?

It depends entirely on how many of those 500 actually attend. At a typical forty percent show-up rate that is 200 attendees, which at roughly 2.50 euros per credit is around 500 euros of credit consumption for that session. If the same session is later offered on demand and another 150 people watch the replay, that is another 150 credits. The registrants who never turn up cost nothing, which is the whole point of the model.

### Do attendees have to download anything?

No. Attendees join in a browser tab on desktop or mobile, with no client, plugin, or IT approval required. Presenters and guest speakers are also browser-based. This is the single most consequential design decision in the product and it is why Livestorm typically posts better live attendance conversion than platforms that push a desktop installer.

### Can Livestorm run automated or evergreen webinars?

Yes. On-demand events play a recording as soon as someone registers, and automated events run a pre-recorded video on a published schedule while the room behaves like a live session with chat and a moderator. It is a real capability, but it is lighter than a dedicated evergreen platform: there is no equivalent of eWebinar's twenty-five preprogrammed interaction types or its just-in-time scheduling engine.

### Can I stream a Livestorm session to YouTube or LinkedIn at the same time?

Yes. Livestorm simulcasts to YouTube, LinkedIn, X, and custom RTMP destinations while the native session runs, so you get public reach and gated lead capture from the same broadcast rather than choosing between them.

### Is there a free plan?

The current pricing page does not publish a free plan. A trial is available through the signup flow but Livestorm does not publish a fixed trial length. If a genuine free tier is a requirement for your evaluation, Contrast, StreamYard, and Riverside all publish one.

### Is Livestorm suitable for European companies with data residency requirements?

That is one of its main selling points. Livestorm is a French company, hosts in the EU, and carries ISO 27001 certification alongside GDPR compliance. For European buyers this typically shortens a security review that would otherwise involve arguing about transatlantic data transfers.

### Who owns Livestorm and how is it funded?

Livestorm is an independent venture-backed company founded in Paris in 2016 by Gilles Bertaux, Tom Forlini, Vincent Garreau, and Robin Lambert. It has raised approximately 35 million dollars, including a 30 million dollar Series B in 2021 led by Aglae Ventures and Bpifrance Digital Venture. Current headcount is not published.

## Editorial verdict

Livestorm is the best browser-first webinar platform for a marketing team that treats webinars as a lead channel rather than a big meeting, and the attendee-credit model is the fairest billing structure in the category for anyone whose no-show rate is typical. Zero-install attendance is not a marketing line; it measurably changes how many registrants become attendees. Buy it if you run a steady program with volatile attendance, have many occasional hosts, and want EU hosting with ISO 27001 behind it. Think twice if you need a fixed, forecastable monthly cost, because credits that run out block joiners mid-session, or if your strategy is really an evergreen funnel, in which case a dedicated automation tool will do more for less.

## SaaSTracker awards

- Category Leader (Webinars & Virtual Events, Summer 2026): "Browser-based webinars with the registration, replay, and integration depth to be the category's serious default."

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Source: SaaSTracker (https://saastracker.org), an independent editorial project. This profile is compiled from public information, carries no peer reviews or paid placement, and was last reviewed 2026-08-22. Awards are judged on published criteria: https://saastracker.org/methodology