ON24 Stock Price, News & Analysis
Company Description
ON24, Inc. (NYSE: ONTF) is a software company in the information sector that focuses on an AI-enabled, first-party customer engagement platform for B2B marketing, sales, and other customer-facing teams. The company describes its offering as an intelligent engagement platform that helps businesses bring their go-to-market strategy into the AI era and drive cost-effective revenue growth by combining first-party digital experiences, personalization, content, and engagement insights.
According to ON24, its platform enables customers to create digital experiences and then capture and act on engagement data from those experiences, with the goal of accelerating the buyer journey and propelling sales pipeline. The company highlights that it provides a valuable source of first-party data that can be used to drive sales and marketing innovation, improve efficiency, and increase business results.
Business focus and platform capabilities
ON24 positions itself as a customer and intelligent engagement platform for B2B organizations. Its materials emphasize live, simulive, and on-demand digital events, webinars, and other virtual experiences that can be turned into ongoing, omni-channel campaigns. The company states that its platform supports use cases such as demand generation, partner enablement, customer and client relationships, education, training, certification, and other audience engagement needs.
ON24 describes a core platform that includes products such as ON24 Elite, ON24 Breakouts, ON24 Forums, ON24 Go Live, ON24 Engagement Hub, ON24 Target, ON24 AI-powered ACE (Analytics and Content Engine), and ON24 Translate. These products are presented as ways to deliver interactive webinar experiences, breakout sessions, video-to-video interactions, live video events, always-on content hubs, personalized landing experiences, AI-powered analytics and content, and multilingual translation and localization capabilities.
The company has also announced ON24 AI Propel+, which it describes as a modern, intuitive solution designed to transform first-party engagements like webinars and other virtual events into full-funnel, omni-channel, global campaigns in a short period of time. ON24 states that AI Propel+ uses AI-powered content automation and first-party engagement data to help marketing and sales teams launch campaigns faster, scale more effectively, and personalize interactions across channels.
AI and data-driven engagement
ON24 repeatedly emphasizes artificial intelligence and first-party data as central to its strategy. The company reports that its AI-powered Analytics and Content Engine (ACE) can automatically repurpose webinars and other virtual events into derivative content and sync first-party engagement data with CRM and marketing automation platforms. It highlights the ability to analyze viewing time, content engagement, and calls-to-action to support personalized follow-up, better segmentation, and pipeline acceleration.
ON24 has announced a U.S. patent (No. 12,445,698 B2) for its AI-powered "Key Moments" technology. This technology is described as automatically identifying and extracting key moments from long-form video content, including virtual and digital events, and turning them into short-form video highlights. These highlights can then be used in personalized nurture campaigns, shared on social media, or delivered to specific audience segments to increase engagement.
Customer base and industry reach
In its public communications, ON24 states that it serves "industry-leading" companies and that its customers include some of the largest organizations in several sectors. The company reports that its customer base includes multiple large global software companies, top global asset management firms, major global pharmaceutical companies, and large global industrial companies. It also references customers in regulated industries and professional services, such as accounting, tax, consulting, and wealth management firms, as well as organizations in education and business schools.
ON24 has highlighted specific customer examples, such as Plante Moran and the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, to illustrate how organizations use its intelligent engagement platform and AI-powered analytics to scale virtual events, certification programs, and multichannel content, or to transform recruitment strategies through digital and hybrid events and breakout rooms.
Geographic footprint and corporate status
ON24 states that it is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and that it has offices in North America, EMEA, and APAC. Its common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ONTF. The company has disclosed that it has entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger with Cvent Atlanta, LLC and Summit Sub Corp., under which Summit Sub Corp. will merge with and into ON24, and ON24 will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Cvent’s affiliate upon completion of the transaction. According to ON24’s filings and press releases, upon completion of this proposed transaction, ON24’s common stock is expected to no longer be publicly listed and ON24 would become a privately held company, subject to the satisfaction of closing conditions.
Use cases and operational focus
ON24’s public materials describe its platform as being used by marketing, sales, customer success, event management, and other customer-facing teams. The company highlights use cases that include:
- Running live, simulive, and on-demand webinars and virtual events.
- Creating always-on content hubs and personalized landing experiences.
- Scaling digital and hybrid events for recruitment, education, and certification.
- Repurposing long-form event content into short-form assets using AI.
- Using first-party engagement data to inform follow-up, segmentation, and campaign design.
ON24 also notes collaborations and integrations, such as its integration with LinkedIn, which is described as enabling customers to build ON24-hosted experiences, publish them to LinkedIn Events, use LinkedIn registration forms that sync registrants into ON24, and run event ad promotions on LinkedIn. This is presented as a way to expand audience targeting and reach, simplify event creation and promotion, and connect event data across systems.
Position within the software and information sector
Within the software publishers and information sector, ON24 presents itself as focused on intelligent engagement for B2B organizations, with an emphasis on AI, first-party data, and digital experiences. Its communications stress the importance of turning digital events and long-form content into ongoing, data-driven campaigns that can support revenue growth, customer relationships, and educational or certification programs.