Pubble Live Q&A - Alternative to CoverIt Live?
TLDR: Pubble is a better product than CIL, shifting over is a no brainer.
CoveritLive was a competitor that we came across occasionally in the live event space. Their Live Q&A product competed with Pubble’s Live Q&A app. Towards the end of 2018, they announced that they would be discontinuing their service.
Since then we’ve had a steady stream of enquiries asking:
“Has Pubble got the same functionality as coveritlive?”
“We are currently using Cover it Live for Qs and As. Would Pubble be a possible replacement?“
“We have used a platform called CoveritLive for live chat events in the past, but have just found out that they are seizing to exist at the end of the year...”
Hence we felt the need to write this blog post. We needed to have something to point to!!
Both Pubble Live Q&A and CIL Live Q&A are designed to be embedded on your website. At a high level, the purpose of the products are similar - to enable the client to host the event on a page on their own website. However. the important differences are in the detail.
Rather than doing a complete feature comparison, we reached out to a few customers who recently shifted over from CIL to Pubble. Here’s their un-edited feedback in-full.
“At Aston University we were advertising a live chat to prospective international students using CoverItLive. We had to quickly come up with an alternative and after undertaking some research we took up a trial with Pubble.
We found Pubble to be an incredibly effective chat tool, which offered a much more sophisticated experience. It is particularly useful for sharing rich content such as videos to help reinforce the messages being delivered through the chat.
Given our predicament we were very pleased with the support provided by the Pubble team to help us get up and running. In the end, we had a very successful chat and are now signing up to use Pubble as our long term solution.”
Paul Hebron, Head of Marketing (Aston Business School & Postgraduate)
Moving to using Pubble has turned out to be a no-brainer. It’s a much more slick platform, with a variety of easy to use features, giving you and your audience a great user experience. Pubble has given us the opportunity to lift our scheme to a new level, bringing together current functions and introducing new ones under the same platform, whilst allowing us to capture data and report on engagement in a much better way.
Annica Murman, Engagement Manager
We are confident that Pubble is an excellent alternative to CoverItLive (CIL). Without exception, the feedback from clients who have shifted from CIL to Pubble, has been that Pubble is a better product. Distilling their feedback, the key themes
Events are more effective.
Customers and moderators prefer it.
Here are some recent examples of events that where Pubble replaced CIL:
Leeds University: Study Abroad at Leeds
Aston University: Postgraduate Live Chat
Loughborough University: Discover Loughborough web chat
“Web Chats” are very popular with Universities. They are really efficient way of engaging with a group of prospective students around a defined topic (ex. placement offers to International Students, Post Graduate Programme Q&A’s, etc.).
If you have been using CIL and are now looking for an alternative, Pubble really is an excellent product to power your Live Q&A’s. If you want to check out the features or see how the app works, take a look at the Live Q&A Product Page.
If you have any questions that you would like us to address, use the Ask button on the Pubble site and we will be delighted to help.
