Pubble
Real-time audience engagement platform for media and live events
About Pubble
Pubble is a real-time audience engagement platform that turns passive viewers into active participants with live Q&A, polls, reactions, live blogs, and interactive widgets. Built for media organizations and live, hybrid, and corporate events, it lets editorial teams and event organizers run moderated conversations, drive subscriber engagement, and capture audience sentiment from a single unified dashboard.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Purpose-built for real-time media and live event engagement, not generic chat
- Broad toolkit covering Q&A, polls, reactions, live blogs, and on-screen walls in one platform
- AI-powered moderation keeps large live audiences safe automatically
- Embeddable widgets work natively on a publisher's own site rather than a third-party page
- Free tier and 30-day trial with no card required let teams evaluate before paying
Cons
- Free events are not supported — hosting a live event requires a paid plan
- Pricing is not fully transparent on the public site, so exact tier costs require contacting sales
- Niche focus on media and events means it is overkill for simple customer support chat
- Smaller vendor and community compared to mainstream engagement or webinar platforms
Key Features
Live Q&A
Interactive widget embedded on a publisher's or event site for real-time, moderated questions and answers between audiences and hosts — a blend of live chat, Reddit AMA, and Twitter Spaces
Live Blog
Lightweight embeddable widget for covering unfolding events like elections, sports, and breaking news while readers react in real time
Polls & Reactions
Live polls and emoji reactions let audiences instantly express how they feel about content during a broadcast, event, or article
SuperApp Widget
Real-time interactive panel for event sites and livestreams combining live chat, polls, and event info updates in one place
Wall Display
Dynamic real-time display that visualizes audience reactions, polls, questions, and announcements in one live feed for in-venue screens
AI Moderation
AI-driven profanity and spam filtering screens inappropriate content across chat, reactions, polling, Q&A, and walls before it goes live
Sentiment Analytics
AI analytics layer that monitors audience reactions, chat tone, and participation to measure the emotional state of an event in real time
Control & Canvas
Unified moderation interface to manage engagement widgets, assign roles, and segment audience interaction across multiple channels during live events
Pricing
- Core engagement widgets
- Limited conversations per month
- Community Q&A
- Standard support
- Higher conversation volume
- Bundled live Q&A events
- Bundled live blogs
- Custom branding
- Single sign-on (SSO)
- Dedicated account manager
- Priority support
- Custom conversation and event volumes
- Corporate and hybrid event tooling
- Advanced moderation and analytics
- Dedicated onboarding and support
Best For
Subscriber Q&As
Media publishers run weekly moderated live Q&As to keep paying subscribers engaged and coming back
Live News & Sports Coverage
Editorial teams cover elections, breaking news, and sports matches with live blogs while readers react in real time
Corporate Town Halls
Distributed organizations run virtual and hybrid town halls with live Q&A, polls, and check-ins
Hybrid Events
Event organizers combine on-site and remote audiences with social walls, selfies, and on-screen interaction
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