A great way to increase the engagement of your audience is through the use of polls and statements. Propose a statement and allow people to vote on it.

After the attendees have voted, they’ll directly be able to see the poll outcome.

It provides you with a good overview of the audience’s opinion. The results will offer some valuable market information, which you can use to take focused action on.

You can choose to copy an existing poll or create a new one.

Select your preferred 'Poll type'. This can be either a single or multiple choice poll.

For a single choice poll, the viewer can choose one answer.

A multiple choice poll allows viewers to select and send over multiple answers.

The added title is only intended for internal use. Make sure to give it a practical name, so you can easily remember to start a certain interaction during the live webinar.

Click on the text to edit and type out the question or statement.

Add answer options

Click on 'Add answer' to add more answer options. Click on the text to edit the individual options.

In order to remove an individual answer option, click on the trashcan icon.

After doing this, click on 'Create' to create a new poll.

You can set the amount of time the interaction should remain in view by default. You can change this duration during your live webinar or manually end the interaction early. See this article for additional information on how to start an interaction.

The pre-populated votes function lets you configure an amount of pre-existing votes for polls. This makes your webinar look busier, which is especially useful for automated webinars.

When the setting is enabled, you can set a number of pre-existing votes for each individual poll answer.

A poll with pre-populated votes will start with the votes you have configured. With the example above, this means that viewers will always see at least 7 votes having been cast, no matter if other attendees have voted yet or not. New votes add onto the totals.

When the poll activates in the webinar’s replay, it will combine both the pre-populated and ‘real’ votes and show the total.

If you use the recording to create an automated or on demand webinar, polls with the pre-populated vote counts will be automatically created. You can always disable these polls in the new webinar’s settings.

For an on demand and an automated webinar you need to set the start time, vote time and result settings for your poll.

Click on 'Start time' and fill in the time the poll should be started, fill in the vote time and how long results should be displayed.

The poll will be automatically started at the set time.

Choose '+ Add time' to plan another starting moment and continue by filling in the start time, vote time and result settings.

After doing this, click 'Create' to generate the poll.

In the overview for 'Interactions', choose 'Edit' to edit your poll. Everything you change will be saved automatically.

In the overview for 'Interactions', click on the arrow icon next to the poll and choose 'Remove' to delete an interaction.

The created interactions can be manually started in the live environment. Click here for more information on how to do this.

During the live webinar you’ll be able to see poll results in percentages and actual numbers to the right in your control panel.

Viewers will be able to view results after answering the poll and will be able to see the percentages if you checked that option while creating the poll.

It is also possible to share the results of your poll at a later point in the webinar, even if you haven't checked the option 'Show overall results to viewers'. Learn more about that here.

You’ll also be able to find poll results after the webinar in the 'Statistics' section of your dashboard. Click here for more information.

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