Vidthere Annual Reviews

This may end up being une of the best deals I've gotten.
Sure it has to be improved and they're not there yet, but watching the webinar and reading the answers, I'm willing to bet on them.
I'm very happy so far, and I think I will not be disappointed when they are done with their project.

... I can see there is VALUE in this deal/platform!
First off, I have to say that the platform is not in any way PERFECT (well nothing is! Zoom has its downside too, if you have been using it for your meetings + webinars feature is a separate plan altogether.)

If you'd like a short read of my article, just head over here:
https://mysoftwareadviser.com/articles/how-do-live-webinars-and-meetings-vidthere

What I like about this deal/platform?
🌮 WHITE LABEL - they started with CNAME but it had too many problems (in my experience - chrome extension not working under your domain, etc.) and on the 19th (hopefully) they will be releasing the full customizations. I see this as something that brings your brand up front (see next bullet)
🌮 SUB ACCOUNTS - I can have the same plan across my subaccounts (i.e. it's like having your own webinar/meeting platform)
🌮 "Dedicated servers" for you webinars/meetings. Unlike earlier platforms like Vectera, and others that use P2P (Peer to Peer) for their web meetings (this means it relies on the bandwidth/speed of the meeting participants, so when a participant has a SLOOOOW connection, the meeting experience is also SLOOOOW!). Again they are not yet like ZOOM which has invested heavily on their infrastructure but again this is a LIFETIME DEAL, so do the Math!
🌮 AUTORESPONDER - I can link to Sendfox and others
🌮 Custom SMTP (email notifications - hello SocketLabs!)

What needs to improve?
🌮 Again, whitelabel is yet to be released and fully tested by the USERS
🌮 The webmeeting interface is not as customizable as LIVEWEBINAR
🌮 Integrations with SuiteDash and other CRM platforms
🌮 Could not find a way to FLASH the video clips I stored inside the platform
🌮 Recordings are OK and it works, it is downloadable but could use an automatic save into my Cloud Storage (ahem IceDrive?!)

Overall, I think a lot of people downplay the platform / deal just because of previous launches by the people behind Vidthere. I am pretty sure they learned from the experience.

It's a BUY for me!

Cheers,

Mike
Mrdzyn Studio / MySoftwareAdviser.com

It was a rough start for this platform on Appsumo........however they have delivered the promises that they had made. A little bit more work on stability and producing training videos and it will be great. Hope they do produce some training videos on different features.

I tested Vidthere and I believe is promising. The setup was easy and the stream went smoothly.
I purchased 3 codes. If you missed other webinar platforms, then is a great choice for the money.
5 tacos from me.

I cannot get a meeting to work. Inconsistent camera working / not working... Attendee cannot be seen, I cannot be seen, then one of us can.
I would have liked the basic functionality to simply work. I'm sorry to leave such a review, but it's not working for me as described in the offer.

I made few testing events and it seems, it makes what I expect from. I can not judge the stability and other features, but I easily set up a new webinar. I would say user-friendly environment. I would give cons that there is only 1 registration screen, but if we can register via integrations (no idea), this is minor. I did not test payment yet, making other people presenters, but I will do it later. I have 60 days to test.

After try for 30 days +- , it forced me to post review.

We dont know how to tell you our experience,

While using this platformhere our short pros and cons,
Hope you fix your platform asap

cons
1. suddenly lost audio in the middle, internet no problem
2. Bad look in mobile
3. Much error when start webinar, launch 10x event, 3-4 of them always have problem, sound error, terrible upload rate, etc
4. Landing page feature is terrible, some of crucial things is uneditable
5. Give one of user HOST access, then error cannot share screen appear

I feel this is not quite ready, this app stressed out me more than make me happy

Pros
1. lifetime offer, is great

i think this software can be replacement for my zoom, but i think now i must search alternative

I was really excited when I saw this was a great alternative to "Go To Webinar" and that it is allowing sub-accounts. I stocked a few codes to test things out, but then paused when I saw that the entire our AS plan details is outlined in the sub accounts, for all to see. I reached out to support to explain the situation, but am really disappointed by the company's refusal to correct this & their lack of understanding as to why them listing all the details of the AS plan is a problem. They really think that our clients will be ok in seeing that they're paying a subscription on a plan that tells them it's a paid lifetime deal. If they can't fix this, I will be refunding my codes.

I am buy this product on AppSumo, and I was testing live webinar this is not support on mobile, mobile camera and mic not active and many option missing in chat box, I will not recommend anyone to buy this product.

Good: Its works well between devices. Delay in Mac & iOS devices
Waiting screen & landing page available

Con: Many missing features that I need:
1) Unable to view participants during screen sharing (not even talking head)
2) Arrangement of screens of participants, unavailable
3) Mobile phone screen not optimized on Safari iOS
4) Participants forced to turn on camera & mic. Unable to mute
5) Unable to mute participants in a meeting
6) No proper way to conclude meeting
7) UI has room for improvements
8) Does not allow host/presenter/participants to view themselves before turning on camera. (mirror feature would be good)

I was informed that new UI is coming. Hope this improves to be on par with Zoom & Bigmarker. Otherwise, easy refund. It Works. That's All Folks.

I was skeptical about this product. I could not think of any alternative to zoom !

But.Boom..Boom !! IT JUST WORKED AWESOMELY... Instant meetings and evergreen webinar. It's very simple and straightforward and at last would like to add that its really wonderful product and so much better than zoom.

Hoping that in their road-map ahead, they must be having so many things in their pockets for SUMOLINGS !

Thanks AppSumo for this deal !

VIDTHERE is an amazing tool, I am really happy to get found this product as up till now connectivity is very fast & fluid and its interface is easy to understand and usable. The high quality and easy to save recordings for future ref. are big plus. Also very easy to poll attendees to gather feedback.
Very flexible web based innovative solution for live meetings, evergreen webinar, live webinar, screen sharing...

I just want two issues to be IMPLEMENTED FOR Sumolings.

1. By default SSL should be there for the users from VIDTHERE team.
2. FPS should be 60 instead of current FPS of 25.

This tool is great value for the money. Kudos to team VIDTHERE & Thousands of tacos to AppSumo!

So many negative things have been said about this product but in my testing I really haven't experienced hardly any of those things.

The webinar quality is low bitrate (>1mbps), but I wouldn't say it is terrible. I have run a handful of test meetings at this point on both T-Mobile and my FIOS connection. Granted, these are both high bandwidth connections but low video bitrate should mean it works well in a lower throughput environment. It would be nice if there was a way to control this, but I understand people like automatic controls.

Their interface takes a little getting used to, but it seems pretty intuitive once you use it a little bit and has all the features that I would like to see in a solution like this.

I think if you combine this with VoiceMeeter and XSplit you could have a powerful webinar solution, but that isn't required. I can easily run a decent webinar right off of my Surface Pro X tablet, and once they figure out the mobile interface I could probably do it just as easily from my iPad, Tab S6, or mobile phone.

Overall, things seem right on track for an Appsumo deal. I am going to try to integrate this into my business and will come back once I've run some real webinars with it. I'll give it 4 tacos and the benefit of the doubt for now.

Vidthere is *not* yet the next Zoom Webinar...or GoToWebinar, or WebinarJam, etc. But it is exactly where I'd expect a young SaaS product raising capital to be — improving, and in VT's case pretty quickly at that.

And it's not nearly as bad as the flack it's getting. The UX does need some work (I'm an interaction designer – I'm willing to consult!), but it's not critically broken like some reviews/comments imply. And interaction flows are one of the easier items to fix over time. Thus far the team has been VERY responsive to my questions and requests (shout out to Sanja) with several changes already implemented in the past week.

I do agree that work needs to be done with the browser video interactions. The quality actually seems OK but perhaps not quite HD. I haven't tried the webinar feature, but in a meeting if you accidentally click on the video, the video (and audio) pauses. When clicked again the video jumps to live – it should probably have pause disabled entirely.

There was a visual delay of my local video feed, but the two others on the call (one on an iPhone) said my video and audio were sync'd, and they were sync'd for me. The video quality appeared fine.

The browser app & Chrome extension aren't ideal but functional. I'd vastly prefer a Mac app, which I'd assume/hope would assist with speed & quality.

There was an issue where I shared my screen and the recipient said there was too much pixelation to read my screen text clearly, but in the recording I could read it fine. So that's probably something to tweak for live video quality.

It also seems that mobile users can see the chat but can't enter text? At best, the mobile experience (beyond just video, which was fine) needs work.

Bottom line is I think Vidthere is worth the AppSumo 60-day guarantee. Yes, you may need to ask for a few things, but that's part of why apps come to AS. And for several use cases I think Vidthere can be perfectly acceptable now.

I'm going to give 2 tacos because the design of the app and the "functionality" with the exception of the quality of the videos, how obviously is the most important thing in a webinar services are OK. The idea around is well managed and the system works but:

You can't edit the webinars, you have to delete and star over -BTW the upload rate is terrible, like 15 minutes for 450mb and i have a bandwitch of 1gb- the support is very responsive, but not good answering questions, the reply "yes, you can" pointing me in a direction does not exist in the app.

I delete one webinar and create another because the system don't take my logo and happen again.

I can't see the url for the registration of the attendance

I can't localize the app, the system says in the step 4 i can change the text of the thank-you email, and option is not there, in the option 5 are reminders and i can't delete 1 so i guessed is the thank-you email because they never say what is what almost in anywhere, BUT the email i receive is the same seriously.

But the deal breaker was the video quality, i own a digital marketing agency, i can't use this app with my clients i attach the original, who i have to compress because i try with the original with 3gb and the page crash at 40% or less 3 times:

https://share.getcloudapp.com/GGuR4P6O

And the result:

https://share.getcloudapp.com/2NuyPJEP

Also, i do 10 trials and 4 of 10 the video stop for loading and I'm just 1 attendant, so... unlimited attendants 1 code for those evergreen webinars and 1000 participants for 10 codes... Man, you can't support 1 recorder attendant and you are going to say you can with 1000 live ones? This is a joke of a deal.

Appsumo Team, you are and always be my main option because in the opposite of your competition you always offer quality products and filter this kind of offers, i hope you are not going to become the next stacksocial or JVZoo, because this is a JVZoo app and nothing good never come from that place.

I've tested the platform twice with 4 people only (not 200!!!)

The video and audio start okay and the call goes as expected until suddenly things go south. In both calls and specifically when sharing the screen, the presenter goes off. The presenter needs to refresh the browser to get the platform to work again

There are other glitches with screen-sharing where you also need to refresh the browser to fix them not to mention the awful resolution. You can't read the words most of the time.

Now imagine this is happening to you on client calls or webinars

PS: internet speed is at least 500 MB for the whole 4 people
PPS: RUN

I was interested in the CNAME & Whitelabel and unlimited webinar users. I bought two codes to test all the functions ...and this app is just not ready

Cons
-The UI seems old. I didn't get the fresh vibe that is portrayed on their website.
-I, honestly, couldn't tell the difference between a webinar, a screencast and a meeting. The evergreen webinar looks slightly different.
-I never found the option to embed the code on a different platform.
-The trigger buttons (call to action) don't seem to be working.
-The landing pages are super basic and hardly would be useful to promote a webinar. Adding photos is a must.
-Email customization is incomplete and the footer still keeps a lot of elements of vidthere and Saasuma
-White-label needs work.
-It's not fully browser-based. Users need to download a chrome extension. I tried to open a meeting in Firefox and Edge and got an error message. It worked well on Chrome.
-There are discrepancies between the info from the help library and what is offered in the deal. E.g. limit of attendees for meetings and webinars.

Pros,
-The chat looks nice
-The screen sharing is fast.
-My question through the chat was responded quickly

I didn't test voice to text, video in video, simulated chat and broadcasting on social media.

Before getting a refund, I would like to see a webinar hosted by AS ... maybe I will see the potential.

Hi Sumolings,

So far, I find this product just a very beta platform that doesn't work.

Let me list what I found:
- Poor graphic on mobile and web
- NO HD 1080p recordings
- NO HD Live Stream
- Live Stream on Facebook integration OAUTH broken, after reporting it, it seems they've fixed it, but still you cannot stream anywhere else than your personal profile.
- Mobile webinar inability to share screen and camera view very small

This totally makes no sense and I don't understand why AppSumo hasn't tested the platform before listing it...
I will defo request a refund if within 1 week all problems mentioned will not get fixed.

Be careful, stay safe!

I don't normally write reviews because my English is bad. I just want to say that it is a useful tool although it is still limited in some features.
I give it 5 tacos because it is what I am looking for, although it would not be bad to have all the features of the roadmap.

Vidthere seems too good to be true.

The saying goes that if it is too good to be true then it probably isn't. But I am going to go against conventional wisdom and trust Vidthere & AS to deliver rather than hope they fail. Bought 3 codes.

What I am pleased about:
- 300 participants
- Unlimited webinar attendees
- 50 sub accounts (means I can give each employee/family a sub-account which they can create and have 300 participants of their own. Yet to verify this fully as my sub-accounts are yet to create their accounts)
- Clutter free home page with three main options - Events, Calendar, Contacts which then break up into further sections once you enter them
- Cname & whitelabel

What needs improvement:

- There are quite a few bugs (e.g. when I try to upload a CSV to contacts, nothing happens)

- It could be a bit more user-friendly (for example, having created a meeting, why am I not able to get a participant link to that meeting without having to edit it?)

But of course, I am viewing Vidthere as a startup that has come to AppSumo. Not as a company that I have had experience with in the past. This is my first experience with Vidthere and I see it as just another startup that has come here and I like what they are selling. I pray that they take feedback from Sumolings and get their developers to work on the feedback recieved from the community on a daily basis.

Thanks and best wishes :)
- CNAME & Whitelabel for all accounts including subs