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| Focus | Venue is designed for building community and inclusion with a trusted audience that you bring into the experience – building for culture, not meetings. | Hopin is optimized for external events, like conferences and trade shows | Not optimized for any particular use case |
| Production Tools | Venue integrates the best features of a video studio inside a real-time scalable experience – connecting the dots between content production and audience engagement. Venue gives you the tools for tight programming is that feels crafted just for you. Event creators can pre-create their run of show, or freestyle live on stage. | Hopin's technology introduces a lag between the video broadcast and the video consumption. Presenters and audiences get different experiences, limiting the authenticity that can happen at an event | No capabilities to produce an experience – what you see is what you get |
| Experience | Events on Venue are produced by the event creators, creating a high-touch, personalized experience for every attendee. | Attendees navigate themselves through an experience, like attending a trade show | Everyone gets the same unproduced experience |
| Audience expectations | Venue is a unique and modern Twitch-like experience, integrating immersive design elements, multimedia support, integrations to foster collaboration, and much more. It's what today's tech employees expect. | Hopin is a platform for virtual, hybrid, and in-person event experiences – not a focus on culture and engagement | The standard video call |
| Formats | Run your All Hands, Town Halls, Fireside Chats, AMAs, Talk shows, Diversity Equity and Inclusion initiatives, Product Demos, and more! | A familiar conference or expo experience | Short, task-focused meetings |
| Engagement features | Try the emoji cannon, confetti, built-in content and music library! Shoutout content to the stage, offer a purchases and downloads, and let attendees create their own custom social profile - selfie included! | Attendees can customize their in-event profile | — |
| Custom layouts | Make your speakers and and your content the hero – you have full control over layouts, focus, and more. | Pre-compose non-live video to customize the experience | — |
| Integrations |  Bring all of the apps you already use into Venue – then interact live on stage. | | Screenshare only |
| Agenda | Event creators on Venue build a curated and guided agenda for their attendees | Attendees can make a personal agenda | — |
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| Built-in Media | Upload your decks, videos, images, music and more directly to Venue is ready to turn your event into an experience. | — | — |
| Live Q&A | | | |
| Polling | Coming soon: in-app polls – or use your favorite integration to connect with your attendees. | | — |
| Breakouts | Set up breakout rooms before your event starts, or on the fly during the event itself. | | |
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| Pricing | Starting at $4/member/month. See more on our pricing page! | Starting at $99/month | Zoom's plans start at $200/year |