Slido

Score8.6 out of 10

114 Reviews and Ratings

What is Slido?

Slido is an audience interaction platform that helps users to get the most out of meetings and events by crowdsourcing top questions and engaging participants with live polls and quizzes. From internal communications professionals to team leaders, conference organizers, and individual presenters, Slido can be used by those looking to enable open conversation at a live or virtual meeting. Slido works with popular video conferencing and presentation platforms and integrates with Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint, and Google Slides.

Since its foundation in 2012, Slido boasts having been used at over 1.2 million events and engaged 55 million active participants. Slido has been adopted by high-profile clients including Asana, BBC, Oracle, and conferences such as SXSW, Web Summit, and Money20/20. Slido was acquired by Cisco May, 2021, to enhance Webex interactivity.

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Screenshot of Slido Live polls

Record meetings / events
Meetings and webinars can be recorded for playback.
Category average: 9.1
Live chat
Participants can use one-on-one and group instant messaging to communicate privately or selectively during meetings.
Category average: 9.2
Quizzes
Assign assessments to determine audience metrics based on knowledge and skill set
Category average: 9.2

Responsive Design for Web Access
Web design aimed at producing easy-to-read sites across a range of different devices.
Category average: 8.2
Mobile Application
A dedicated app for iOS and/or Android.
Category average: 8.3
User authentication
Administrators can require users to authenticate their identities before joining a meeting.
Category average: 8.2

#1 most frequent

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

17.0%

46 installations of 271

#2 most frequent

Information

13.3%

36 installations of 271

#3 most frequent

Public Administration

11.4%

31 installations of 271

Arushi Batra View profile

Senior Technical Analyst in Information Technology at GlobalLogic (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Slido is a real-time interaction platform that seamlessly integrates with business messaging apps, such as Zoom and Webex meetings. It boosts audience engagement by simply conducting polls & Q&A. It helps in getting honest feedback because it hides the identity of the submitter. It gives real-time insights and reports for better decision-making. It offers various customization options built into it.

Pros

Boost audience or participants engagement.
Makes session more interactive and beautiful.
Seamless Integration with Webex Meetings.

Cons

It needs fast internet bandwidth.
Auto flagging needs to be added in case wrong or inaccurate questions.
Sometime tracking is challenging sure to dashboard has limited option for analysis.

Return on Investment

Slide improves our training sessions quality.
It saves resources money and time in getting the feedbacks.

Surbhi Katyal View profile

Senior Business Analyst in Information Technology at GlobalLogic (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Slido helps a lot in improving business problems by enhancing meeting engagement and productivity by simple adding polls, Q&A and quizzes. It gives transparency and build trust by giving every participant. It saves time in getting quick feedback. faster decision making and easy to identifying knowledge gap. it increase connections and transparency. It ensure for faster communication as well.

Pros

Quicker decision making and analysis.
Live polls and Q&A.
Increase audience participation.
Quickly integrate with other Webex products.

Cons

Poor internet speed shows delays in response of the app.
Limited customisation option, needs to be added more.

Return on Investment

Easily identify the audience sentiments.
Boost audience participation and interest.
Saves maintenance cost as well as time.

Akash Singh

Founder in Information Technology at Revenue Riots (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I'm use Slido to engage with my audience during meeting, presentations and events. It helps me to get live polls, questions and answers etc. Anonymity feature is the best thing which make users to contribute without hesitation.

Pros

Live Polls feature is the best thing in slido
Anonymous Q&A functionality
Real-Time Analytics

Cons

Mobile app experience in glitchy and not optimized
Limited logics in polls and interactivity
Starting plans has limited functionality

Return on Investment

Pricing is a major factor because in Starter plan it has limited featuress
Lack of custom reporting feature
Not always but sometimes struggling with the interface.

Alternatives Considered

ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude, Brevo, Amazon Web Services, Asana, Basecamp and Trello

Other Software Used

ChatGPT, Brevo, Asana

Nikita Singh View profile

Technical Specialist in Information Technology at LTIMindtree (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Slido is one of the finest audience interaction solution for online webinars and events. Seamless integrate with Webex meetings where we can assess polls, Q&A, surveys and quizzes. It makes the events more interactive, productive and increase the engagement. It has inbuilt analytics & reporting tool so that we can create the participation of audience reports and helps in decision making as well.

Pros

Makes webinar more interactive.
Easy to for us to understand the audience sentiments.
Boost audience participation or engagement.

Cons

Need subscription for adding polls & surveys.
Limited customisations options needs to be added more.
Poor internet bandwidth impact the performance of the events.

Return on Investment

It increase participations in our events.
Saves times and boost productivity.
Easy to understand audience sentiments.

Kanika Rajpal View profile

Technical Architect in Finance and Accounting at EY (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Slido basically we use for adding quizzes, polls and surveys in our training sessions and seminars for making more productive. It works flawlessly with every business messaging apps like Teams, Zoom and Webex Meetings. Collecting of audience feedbacks or answer during the seminars helps us to improves our next sessions and services. Wide range of customisation options also Slido offers.

Pros

Robust & Transparency.
Saves from becoming the sessions borring.
Allow us to improve services on the basis of polls responses.

Cons

Tool is paid needs subscription.
when audience count is huge difficult to edit or manage questionnaires.

Return on Investment

Boost audience engagement.
Boost clarity of the concepts that we taught in seminars
Boost thinking, ownership and skills.

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