Clickable Timed Call-to-Action Links for Pre-Recorded Webinars

Dear GoToWebinar Team,

I'd like to propose a feature enhancement that I believe would significantly increase the effectiveness of our webinars, and I'm sure many other users would benefit from it as well.

Feature Proposal: Timed Call-to-Action (CTA) Links for Pre-Recorded Webinars

Use Case: Many of us utilize GoToWebinar to present sales pitches, educational content, and other valuable information to our audience. Oftentimes, during these presentations, we want to direct our attendees to a specific action, like signing up for a service, buying a product, or visiting a particular webpage.

For instance, during a 60-minute sales presentation, there might be a segment at the 55-minute mark where the presenter shares a URL for attendees to visit and make a purchase.

The challenge is that not every attendee might remember or note down the URL at that exact moment. Having a clickable link show up in real-time, coinciding with the mention in the presentation, would make it more convenient for attendees and could potentially lead to higher conversion rates.

Proposed Feature Details:

Timed CTA: Within the GoToWebinar dashboard, when uploading or selecting a pre-recorded webinar, users can set specific timestamps where they'd like a CTA/link to appear.
Customizable CTA Text & URL: Users should have the flexibility to customize the text and the URL of the CTA to make it relevant to their content.
Visibility Duration: Provide an option for how long the CTA remains visible. For example, if I set a CTA at the 55-minute mark, I might want it to be visible for the next 5 minutes or until the end of the webinar.
Analytics: Incorporate tracking for how many attendees clicked on the CTA, which can be invaluable data for webinar hosts.
Mobile & Desktop Consistency: Ensure that this feature is seamlessly integrated across both mobile and desktop versions of the viewer interface.

Implementing this feature could greatly enhance the interactivity and conversion rate for many pre-recorded webinars. It would offer presenters an additional layer of engagement with their audiences, making the webinar experience more dynamic and result-driven.

Thank you for considering this suggestion. I believe that this feature would be a valuable addition to the already robust set of tools GoToWebinar provides. I look forward to hearing your thoughts and am more than willing to provide further feedback or details if needed.

Reed Floren

On Demand

Presenting

5 Comments

KateG
GoTo Manager
21 days ago
ccapezzali At this time, this feature is not on our current roadmap, but I have shared your input with the product team for consideration. There’s no need to create a new feature request—please be sure to vote for the existing suggestion so the team can see how much interest there is from the community. We appreciate your engagement and will keep you updated if there are any changes.
ccapezzali
New Member
22 days ago
KateG This was requested 2 years ago and is a feature I need to request as well. Do I submit a new request or can this be resumitted for consideration? It should be a simple add on your teams end, since you already allow linking to Youtube videos. This could be added to the engagement section, just like "videos" but instead "CTAs" with linkable URLs that can be injected at certain durations or perhaps have the entire page reload to our desired sign up page at the end of the webinar.
KateG
GoTo Manager
2 years ago
ESmith currently there is no way to insert hyperlinks into recorded webinars. I moved your comment to this recent idea because it's a similar request to have clickable links in recorded presentations.
KateG
GoTo Manager
2 years ago
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reedfloren welcome to the GoTo Community. Thanks for the well thought out idea. I will share this with the team.

Have you tried using QR codes in your recorded webinars?
ESmith
New Member
2 years ago
Looking for strategies for posting hyperlinks during a recorded webcast to things referenced in the session other than including in a post-event e-mail.