Host Account:
Create a Host Account for yourself. By doing so you can enhance your podcast, 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 another 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 to establish a social hub for your podcast’s community. This makes
it easy to engage with your crowd, increasing connection, engagement, awareness, and downloads/views.
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.
Channels can also be created for anything else you’re involved in. Those following your Host Account
will automatically follow all of your Channels. This increases engagement and awareness while keeping
everything organized.
Events:
Create Events for every episode of your podcast to enable engagement surrounding the episode, provide robust
information, and spread awareness. By doing so you create a social environment and allow your Crowd to stay on top of every episode.
Each Event can be scheduled beforehand, during a live recording, or after the episode has been released.
Every 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 episode and merchandise/ticketing. This opens avenues
to allow your Crowd to download or listen/watch your podcast directly in the platform, purchase merchandise or
tickets increasing sales, spotlight sponsors or resources, and much more. 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.
Crowd Members can view the embedded video/livestream from the list of questions or posts as they engage.
Include guests for the episode 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 the guest already has 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.
If listeners 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. Members of the Crowd can also see who
they follow that is following the Event as well, to connect with them regarding the podcast.
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.
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.
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 your podcast. 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 pertaining to the episode after it
has been released.
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 on the podcast.
Event Posts:
Allow the Crowd to easily post, share, and connect surrounding the episode. 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 episode.
Enable Event Posts before, during, after, or some combination of the three. 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 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.
Ticketing:
We are disrupting the ticketing industry by offering the ability to sell tickets for virtual, in-person, and hybrid events
with the lowest fees and highest payouts. We only charge 3% + $1.50 per ticket transaction regardless of quantity to the buyer,
and our payout fee is $1.50 no matter the payout size.
Sell In-person tickets, Virtual/PPV tickets, 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 experience for both hosts and attendees is also far ahead of industry-standard, including functionality and features such as
re-entry being allowed while ensuring the re-entry process is not abused.
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 Stripe and PayPal third-party services. We never store any sensitive
financial information.
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, allowing Hosts to easily reach out to all their followers in mass. 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. Profiles can be created with
endless possibilities using our Rich-Text/HTML Editor or by embedding a webpage. All crowd members can view and interact with your profile, strengthening
your connection with them and increasing awareness about who you are.
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%. We do not advertise on
our feed or have algorithms manipulating viewership and effectiveness.
Q&A sparks conversation and encourages the conversation to continue. 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.
Create polls to engage, receive feedback, and learn from your Crowd. Add the poll question and up to five poll answers. Polls may be asked to all of your followers or more specifically to Channel followers, Event followers, or both. Crowd members may only respond once and will see the result percentages upon responding.
Create polls to engage, receive feedback, and learn from your Crowd. Add the poll question and up to five poll answers. Polls may be asked to all of your followers
or more specifically to Channel followers, Event followers, or both. Crowd members may only respond once and will see the result percentages upon responding.
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, spreading organic awareness
in a way that will increase your following.