Host Account:
Create a Host Account for yourself. By doing so you can enhance your podcast and stand-up performances, spread awareness
to those following you, and increase engagement. As a Host you can not only enhance any occasion
you are hosting but also be linked to other occasions you are involved in that utilize the platform.
If you are a guest on a podcast, you can encourage them to use CrowdUltra to link your Host
account with the occasion. This increases awareness and organizes your social engagement.
Channel:
Create a Channel for your podcast, comedy tour, and anything else you are involved in to establish a social hub for the community.
This makes it easy to engage with your crowd, increasing connection, engagement, awareness, downloads/views, and ticket sales.
Add Channel information including whatever you would like with endless customization through our
Rich-Text/HTML editor or by embedding webpages for the Channel and merchandise/ticketing. Add up to
five Co-Hosts if necessary, to provide equal access to the Channel. From here, Crowd Members can search
for and follow your Channel.
Events:
Create Events for any occasion you are hosting. Events enable organized engagement surrounding the specific occasion, establish an organized location to provide robust
information, assist with spreading awareness, and allow the Crowd to stay on top of everything.
Each Event has information including an image, location, date and time, and description. You can enable Event Engagement in several different forms. Events can be made private with a defined pin so
only a select group can participate.
Each Event can have additional information including whatever you would like with endless customization through our Rich-Text/HTML editor or by embedding webpages for the
Event and merchandise/ticketing. Event info can also be reposted to the feed as a feed announcement. This provides notice regarding the Event to your Crowd and allows them to also repost
the feed announcement increasing the level of visibility.
Hosts can record video to Dropbox, broadcast a livestream on YouTube, or embed recorded video within any Event. This allows Hosts to put on virtual or hybrid events that
allow those who cannot physically attend the occasion to be a part of the crowd. Crowd Members can view the embedded video/livestream from within the Event.
Include additional guests from your podcasts or opening acts involved in the Event. Including them spreads awareness to their followers and enables them to be asked questions or
tagged in posts organized within their own dedicated list. If they already have a CrowdUltra Host Account linked to the email address entered,
they will be invited to accept the Event from their own list of Events. If they do not have an account, they will be sent an email with a link and login pin
to engage.
If attendees have yet to join CrowdUltra, they can join to engage in seconds using our Quick Join feature. A Quick Join Link and ID are provided for every Event that can
be shared and used to sign up with.
Channel/Event Chat:
Every Channel and Event has a chat for all crowd members, Host(s), and speaker(s)/guest(s) to text message one another. Channel/Event chats enable organized
communication centered around the specific Channel or Event, strengthening connection and increasing engagement while never getting in the way of Event or daily
Feed engagement. Crowd members can also create their own personal group chats with other crowd members for every Channel and Event, allowing for personalized
chatting among friends surrounding the Channel or Event.
Ticketing:
Create and sell tickets for any Channel or Event. Sell Virtual/PPV tickets, up to five in-person ticket options, or both for Hybrid
Events. Our easy to use ticketing system offers flexibility and control to be perfectly tailored for any ticketed occasion. Sell
multiple ticket types such as day one and day two tickets or a VIP ticket. Determine the total ticket quantity available and how many
tickets can be purchased per person for in-person tickets.
Monitor ticket sales in real time through our robust reporting system. See what is delivering the most results and other actionable
insights to sell more tickets. Tickets are automatically marketed to your followers through our platform and via our search/discovery
functionality. They can also be easily marketed and shared anywhere else. We SEO optimize all Events and tickets to ensure the most
views, clicks, and conversions.
Our ticket scanner is the most accessible and easiest to use. The scanner is available on any device including phones, tablets, computers,
and scanning hardware. Tickets are accessible through our app along with being downloadable, shareable, and printable via email.
Our ticketing is developed with industry leading security standards to ensure ticket sellers and buyers are as safe as possible. All
purchasing and payout financial information is secured via Braintree and PayPal third-party services. We never store any sensitive
financial information.
Event Q&A:
Q&A is proven to be one of the best ways to engage with your Crowd in a way that strengthens connection with them. While podcasters
often use email, voicemail lines, and social media platforms like Twitter for Q&A, they are all limited in comparison to CrowdUltra.
The standard nature of getting in line or passing around a microphone to ask a question is also less efficient and effective than using CrowdUltra.
Questions are displayed in an ordered list from highest to lowest rank based on Crowd voting to assist in showing you what the
Crowd has the most curiosity about. This saves time along with providing a more organized and engaging environment for Q&A.
Questions can be asked before, during, after, or some combination of the three depending on your preference. This allows you to tailor
your Q&A experience to what works best for the occasion. You can field questions in advance to answer on an upcoming
episode, field questions to answer in real time while recording your episode, or field questions from the crowd after doing a stand-up performance.
Questions can be enabled to be asked in audio, video, and written format. Hosts may also allow questions to be asked anonymously. Listeners
can ask questions in general as well as to a specific Host or Guest. Questions can be answered in audio, video, or written format and marked
as answered if they were answered outside of the platform verbally.
Event Posts:
Allow the Crowd to easily post, share, and connect surrounding the occasion. Our platform provides an engaging environment that sparks interaction
email, DMs, and other outlets lack. By creating an organized environment for your whole Crowd to engage, you increase the effectiveness of social
engagement and connection surrounding the occasion.
Enable Event Posts before, during, after, or some combination of the three. Each Crowd participant can publish Event Posts free. Hosts can allow the Crowd to post audio,
video, images, links, YouTube/Vimeo videos, or written Posts. Posts can be published in anonymous format if allowed by the Host. This augments the experience allowing the Crowd
to share their experience and interesting things, be creative, have fun, as well as inform and help others.
Event posts are displayed in an ordered list from highest to lowest rank based on Crowd voting. Every post can be responded to by Hosts and Guests.
They can respond with audio, video, images, links, YouTube/Vimeo videos, or in written format. Posts can also be highlighted to spotlight to the Crowd
as a whole, or dismissed and removed from the list.
Event Call-Ins / Meet & Greets:
Participate in Call-Ins or Meet & Greets with your Crowd.
Allow your Crowd to join an ordered queue or submit their conversation topic for you to pre-screen. Engage with one or more members of your Crowd through audio or video chat.
Once the conversation is over, remove them from the chat and automatically be linked with the next Crowd member in the queue or select the next interesting topic.
The audio or video chat can also be recorded to Dropbox or recorded and livestream broadcast to YouTube.
Additional Features:
We provide many other additional features, including sending emails to all followers and exporting follower information. Hosts can send email announcements to all followers
of a specific Channel or Event. Hosts can also export information about their followers including their name and email so they can reach out beyond the platform.
Profile:
Create a profile to showcase who you are with the most customizable profile experience any social platform has ever offered.
Profile’s can be created with endless possibilities using our
Rich-Text/HTML Editor or by embedding your webpage. All Crowd Members can view and interact with
your profile.
Daily Feed:
The daily feed is designed to enhance engagement by enabling you to communicate in a powerful way and extend awareness.
Unlike other social platforms, we give you access to 100% of your following instead of <1-10%, do not advertise on our feed, or have algorithms manipulating
viewership and effectiveness.
Ask daily questions to your Crowd in audio, video, or written format. Answer questions from members of your Crowd in audio, video, or written format. Send daily announcements
to keep Crowd members in the loop and share content using our Rich-Text/HTML editor with countless embeddable integrations. Your announcements can be reposted by members of
your Crowd to everyone following them to extend awareness and organic reach.