{"id":55347,"date":"2022-09-01T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newrcblog.wpengine.com\/us\/en\/blog\/?p=55347"},"modified":"2025-03-13T06:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T13:58:12","slug":"smashing-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/us\/en\/blog\/smashing-media\/","title":{"rendered":"How Smashing Media engaged attendees for an average of 13 hours on RingCentral Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hopin is now RingCentral Events<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-55342\" role=\"img\" src=\"\/us\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/smashing.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"53\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-55335 aligncenter\" src=\"\/us\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/smashing-media1-1024x417.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"417\" \/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"xs-title case-xs-title\">About<\/h3>\n<div class=\"w-richtext\">\n<p>Back in 2006, Smashing Media began as an online, educational publication that wrote articles for web designers and developers. Now, Smashing Media offers online articles, a print publication, books, a membership and even regular conferences and workshops.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Smashing Media\u2019s challenge<\/h3>\n<p>Each year, Smashing Media hosts SmashingConf San Francisco, an in-person event for hundreds of people in San Francisco, USA. SmashingConf is a playful, fun conference \u2014 with lego and drawing challenges, a live DJ, and competitions.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the Smashing team moved the event from in-person to virtual with the primary goal: Bring the same fun atmosphere of an in-person SmashingConf to their new virtual SmashingConf.<\/p>\n<p>They knew a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ringcentral.com\/video-call.html\">video call<\/a> or webinar platform wouldn\u2019t create this experience, so they started searching for virtual event platforms.<\/p>\n<h3>How SmashingConf created an on-brand virtual event experience that engaged attendees from start to finish<\/h3>\n<p>Amanda Annandale, Head of Events for Smashing Media, says the key to engagement at an online conference is making sure attendees feel involved in the experience.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s why she chose RingCentral Events as the virtual event platform for SmashingConf.<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote-text-break-point\">\n<p class=\"qute-text\">One of the main reasons RingCentral Events won us over is that attendees feel like they\u2019re a part of it. We&#8217;d have been a bit stuck this year [without RingCentral Events]. We wouldn&#8217;t have been able to develop and be ourselves as much.<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote-text-author\">\u2014Amanda Annandale, Head of Events for Smashing Media<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Annandale went on to explain that RingCentral Events innovative features \u2014 like its multiple rooms and video 1:1s \u2014 allowed the Smashing team to do more than just settle for a passable virtual event. With RingCentral Events, they could use their creativity and bring their unique brand to life.<\/p>\n<p>From beginning to end, the two-day SmashingConf San Francisco virtual conference showed off Smashing Media\u2019s fun brand, bright colors, and red cat mascot.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-55336 aligncenter\" src=\"\/us\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/smashing-media2-1024x756.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"756\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To welcome attendees and show them how to use RingCentral Events, the Smashing Media team created a welcome message inside RingCentral Events reception room, the first room attendees see upon entering the event. This message introduced attendees to the RingCentral Events platform, explaining how they could enter different rooms, customize their user profile, chat with attendees and more.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-55337 aligncenter\" src=\"\/us\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/smashing-media3-1024x650.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"650\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The event content kicked off with a live DJ playing music on the main stage.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-55338 aligncenter\" src=\"\/us\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/smashing-media4-1024x595.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"595\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Throughout the day, attendees could join different educational sessions and 1:1 video networking.\u00a0<strong>\u201cPeople absolutely love [the networking feature],\u201d says Annandale.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-55339 aligncenter\" src=\"\/us\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/smashing-media5-1024x592.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"592\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Using RingCentral Events Expo feature, event attendees visited different sponsor booths where sponsors chose between showing on-demand video or presenting live to anyone in the booth.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-55340 aligncenter\" src=\"\/us\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/smashing-media6-1024x523.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"523\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Smashing Media also brought their brand voice to life within RingCentral Events polls, asking attendees playful questions like \u201cHow many alarm clocks did you set on your phone today?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-55341 aligncenter\" src=\"\/us\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/smashing-media7-1024x492.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"492\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two members of the Smashing Media team hosted this event and attendees even joined in, sharing their screens and audio as hundreds of other attendees watched and participated in the chat.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-55334 aligncenter\" src=\"\/us\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/smashing-media8-1024x596.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"596\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Highest-quality engagement<\/h3>\n<p>328 attendees joined the live SmashingConf San Francisco, over a 94% attendance rate. The average attendee spent 12.85 hours in the event. \u201cWhich is impressive as our main content was 14 hours long,\u201d says Annandale.<\/p>\n<p>The virtual event was such a success that Annandale, once a skeptic of hybrid events, now plans to run future SmashingConf events as hybrid events, with both an in-person and virtual option. She says she was never interested in hybrid events \u201cuntil we started looking at RingCentral Events.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>What attendees said about SmashingConf San Francisco:<br \/>\n<\/strong>&#8220;Excellent work and great speaker line up. This has been one of my favorite conference experiences.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Such an amazing achievement around the world \u2014 all virtually! Really enjoyed it!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Really like the Smashing vibe.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u201cNo complaints. 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