Streamline your data management process with the Crowdcast + WebService SOAP integration

Crowdcast is a live video platform designed to collect with your audience through webinars, interviews, summits and more. Most webinar platforms don’t have a separate question section; you have to root through comments to see specific questions that attendees have asked throughout the live stream. Not only does Crowdcast have a separate question section, but it allows attendees to ask questions ahead of time, vote on questions, and see each question on the screen as it’s being answered.

With Crowdcast you can easily create Polls to interact with your audience and turn the webinar into a 2-way conversation. They gauge the interest of your audience on certain topics and require less of people than leaving questions and comments. You can set up polls ahead of time so attendees can begin answering the questions after they register, or you can create a poll while your webinar is live and ask attendees to weigh in with their feedback. Crowdcast also makes it easy for attendees to leave feedback and interact with each other in the Comment section on the right side of the window. And, because it’s separate from the Questions & Topics section, you can minimize the comment section as you’re hosting to cut back on distractions.

Crowdcast not only allows you to include a button for your call-to-action, but it places the button front and center on the screen. By placing the call-to-action in a prominent place, you’re able to call attention to it and easily point your audience to a sales page or link to another helpful resource. Whether you’re offering a new product or you’re sharing helpful information, you often want to include a call-to-action somewhere in your webinar window and direct your viewers to another page.

SOAP (originally Simple Object Access Protocol) is a messaging protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of web services in computer networks. Its purpose is to induce extensibility, neutrality and independence.

It uses XML Information Set for its message format, and relies on application layer protocols, most often Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) or Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), for message negotiation and transmission.

SOAP allows processes running on disparate operating systems (such as Windows and Linux) to communicate using Extensible Markup Language (XML). Since Web protocols like HTTP are installed and running on all operating systems, SOAP allows clients to invoke web services and receive responses independent of language and platforms.