Chatroll

Chatroll provides real-time chat for live online events, helping organisers talk with their audiences as the event happens. It handles audiences as small as ten people or larger than 10,000, and the company says more than 10,000 organisations use it. Events can be set up in about five minutes, with default settings based on common good practice.

What Chatroll offers

• Event page — each event gets its own hosted Chatroll page.
• Embedded chat — the chat can sit inside an existing website or app.
• No downloads — attendees join on the web or on mobile without installing apps or plugins.
• Customisation — custom CSS and integrations for branding and setup.
• Statistics — an interface with audience data that users say helps when talking to advertisers and sponsors.

Who it works with

Its users range across education, charities and faith groups, podcasters and bloggers, online marketers, entertainment and sport including esports, companies, government, news outlets and financial services.

Key facts

• Based in: United States
• Scale: audiences from ten to over 10,000
• Users: more than 10,000 organisations, by its own count