
Marketing Meetup Podcast How to create webinars that drive results in 2026
Jan 16, 2026
Gene from Wistia, a senior webinar and video marketing expert, shares invaluable insights on maximizing webinar effectiveness in 2026. He emphasizes the importance of focusing on meaningful engagement metrics like revenue and product usage rather than vanity numbers. Discover tactics to keep attendees participating, the best times to host webinars, and how to repurpose recordings into attention-grabbing clips. Gene also discusses the impact of platform choice on webinars and strategies to boost audience involvement, ensuring your webinars drive real business results.
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Webinars Still Deliver High ROI
- Webinars remain high-ROI in 2026 and are valuable for B2B lead generation and customer engagement.
- They increasingly shift toward on-demand formats that extend a webinar's lifespan beyond the live event.
Measure What Matters, Not Vanity Metrics
- Measure beyond registrations and attendance by tracking revenue, trials, upgrades, and product engagement.
- Use poll and chat interactions to gauge buyer intent and personalise follow-up outreach.
Personalise Follow-Up By Engagement
- Personalise post-webinar follow-up using engagement signals like poll responses and chat questions.
- Send registrant lists who ‘raised their hand’ directly to sales to prioritise higher-intent leads.
