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Live polling, done simply
Practical guides, how-tos, and honest comparisons for anyone who needs a room to answer.
Oct 8, 2026 · 8 min read
Run a Live Event with a Moderator and a Phone Remote
Hand off a live event: a phone remote for slides, a moderator link for Q&A, a display link for the big screen, and helpers you approve by name.
Sep 29, 2026 · 5 min read
Live ranking polls: up/down reorder on phones, aggregate on stage
Studio walkthrough of PollsLive ranking questions: build the list, reorder with up/down on phone, submit, and read the live weighted chart on the host console.
Sep 29, 2026 · 8 min read
Why Event Pass instead of a subscription
When a one-time Event Pass beats a yearly plan: who it is for, what you buy, the night-of kit for a big room, and when a subscription is the better habit.
Sep 29, 2026 · 7 min read
Build with Pulse AI: from idea to live poll (beginner guide)
A beginner's guide to PollsLive Pulse AI: Ask AI vs Build with Pulse AI, idea to editable deck, rewrites, and what to do when AI credits run out.
Sep 25, 2026 · 5 min read
Approve-before-show Q&A: work the live moderation queue
Studio walkthrough of PollsLive Q&A moderation: pending count, Approve, Reject, Hide, Restore, and what the audience sees before a question hits the board.
Sep 24, 2026 · 4 min read
How to Run a Live Poll from a Blank Page
Create a live poll, put the join code on screen, watch the results chart move as people vote, and keep the recap afterwards. No app for your audience.
Sep 24, 2026 · 4 min read
Live Poll on Your Phone: What Your Audience Sees
What your audience does on their phone in a live poll: pick a choice, rank options, add a word, write a sentence or give a score from one to ten.
Sep 24, 2026 · 4 min read
Run a Live Quiz with a Leaderboard
Mark the right answer, put a countdown on the big screen, and show the leaderboard when each question closes. Players join from their phones, no app.
Sep 24, 2026 · 4 min read
Prize Draw: Pick a Lucky Winner on the Big Screen
Run a live prize draw from your PollsLive room: choose the hat, let the names spin on the big screen, and check the result afterwards.
Sep 22, 2026 · 6 min read
Pulse AI assistant in Studio: Ask AI without drafting a deck
Walkthrough of PollsLive Pulse AI, the green Ask AI assistant chat in Studio. How it differs from Generate with AI, what prompts work, and how the separate chat allowance works.
Sep 21, 2026 · 7 min read
How to run a concept-testing workshop with live polls
Facilitate a 45-60 minute remote or hybrid concept test with 2-3 concepts: preference, intensity scales, and open feedback using PollsLive live polls.
Sep 8, 2026 · 5 min read
Buy More AI Poll Credits Without Changing Your Plan
Ran out of AI credits mid-deck? One-time credit packs top up your monthly quota without a new plan. How they work, what they cost and when Pro fits better.
Sep 7, 2026 · 6 min read
Live Poll Presenter Controls: What You Can Do Mid-Session
The presenter screen during a live poll: move through the deck, jump to the slide someone asked about, read the connection badge, and end the session well.
Sep 3, 2026 · 6 min read
White-Label Live Polls: Your Brand On, Ours Off
Run a client-facing live poll that looks like your company: your theme, colours and logo, and no PollsLive badge in front of the room. What each plan includes.
Sep 3, 2026 · 6 min read
Event Pass Expired? Here Is Exactly What Changes
An Event Pass covers one event day, then ends on its own. Nothing you built or collected is deleted; only the room size goes back. What changes, and what next.
Aug 19, 2026 · 8 min read
One-Time Event Polling: Run One Event, No Subscription
Host a couple of conferences a year? A one-time Event Pass covers one event without a yearly plan. What it costs, how it compares and how to run the day itself.
Aug 19, 2026 · 7 min read
Live Poll Participant Limits: How Many Can Join at Once?
How many people can join a live poll at once on each PollsLive plan, from the free plan to the Event Pass, and how to pick the right size before your event.
Aug 19, 2026 · 8 min read
Audience Q&A with Upvotes: Let the Best Questions Rise
Open a Q&A your room can post to and upvote, choose what reaches the screen, and answer what most people want asked, not whoever reached the mic first.
Jul 10, 2026 · 9 min read
How to Read and Export Your Poll Results in PollsLive
Where to find your poll results, how to read the breakdown by question, and how to export everything to Excel or a PDF report. Step by step, with screenshots.
Jul 10, 2026 · 8 min read
When to Show Poll Results: Live, Reveal or Survey?
Show poll results as votes arrive, hide them until you reveal, or collect a whole survey on one page. How each option works and when to pick it.
Jul 10, 2026 · 8 min read
Employee Satisfaction Survey Template (Free, Ready to Run)
A free employee satisfaction survey template: 14 Likert-scale questions on work, leadership and culture, plus open feedback. Copy it and run it in minutes.
Jul 9, 2026 · 10 min read
How to Build a Poll from Scratch (Step-by-Step Guide)
Build a poll from a blank start: name it, add questions, pick question types, choose when results show, then publish or present. Screenshots for every step.
Jul 8, 2026 · 10 min read
The 12 PollsLive Question Types, and When to Use Each
What each of the 12 PollsLive question types does, from multiple choice and quiz to word cloud, ranking and Annotate, and the moment to reach for each one.
Jul 7, 2026 · 8 min read
Poll Templates: Save Your Own and Reuse Them
Turn any poll into a reusable template, start a new deck from it in one click, and keep polls tidy in folders. Run the same poll every week without rebuilding.
Jul 6, 2026 · 8 min read
Share a Poll Link, QR Code or Website Embed
Every way to get your PollsLive poll in front of people: a share link, a QR code, WhatsApp and Telegram, and an embed you can drop into any website.
Jun 30, 2026 · 11 min read
100 Trivia Questions for Work Meetings (Copy-Paste)
100 work trivia questions for Friday games, team socials and meeting warm-ups: general knowledge, company, industry, pop culture and geography rounds.
Jun 29, 2026 · 8 min read
75 Icebreaker Poll Questions for Work (Copy-Paste Ready)
A ready-to-use bank of icebreaker poll questions for team meetings, virtual kick-offs, workshops, and company all-hands, grouped by occasion and energy level.
Jun 28, 2026 · 8 min read
Planning Poker for Remote Sprint Estimation
Run planning poker online with hidden votes and a synced reveal, plus quick standup and retro polls: sprint estimation your remote team will actually finish.
Jun 28, 2026 · 10 min read
Best Kahoot Alternatives in 2026 (Free, No Student Login)
Kahoot's free plan caps how many players can join. Compare 6 Kahoot alternatives on free plans, student logins and price, with honest trade-offs for each.
Jun 28, 2026 · 8 min read
Recurring Polls: Reuse Them Instead of Rebuilding
Weekly pulse checks, monthly NPS, per-class quizzes: keep recurring polls in folders, reuse them, and watch the trend instead of starting from blank.
Jun 28, 2026 · 9 min read
Poll API: Embed Live Polls in Your Product
Create polls, run live sessions, read results and get webhooks from your own code: a developer's guide to the PollsLive poll API for SaaS and community apps.
Jun 28, 2026 · 9 min read
Continuous Product Discovery with Live Polls
Run lightweight product discovery in customer calls, community AMAs and roadmap reviews: prioritize features and validate bets with live polls, not guesswork.
Jun 27, 2026 · 9 min read
60 poll questions to ask your audience (by occasion)
A copy-paste bank of live poll questions for meetings, classes, events, webinars, and icebreakers, grouped by occasion, with the question type to use for each.
Jun 27, 2026 · 10 min read
50 Employee Engagement Survey Questions (Honest Answers)
Employee engagement survey questions across six themes: culture, managers, growth, wellbeing, pay and remote work, plus tips to raise your response rate.
Jun 26, 2026 · 9 min read
25 Virtual Team Building Activities with Live Polls
Virtual team building activities that work, from 5-minute live poll warm-ups to 30-minute quiz competitions, built for remote and hybrid teams.
Jun 26, 2026 · 9 min read
How to Make a Quiz with a Live Leaderboard
Build a timed, scored live quiz people play on their phones, with points, a speed bonus and a leaderboard between questions. No app and no login for players.
Jun 26, 2026 · 10 min read
How to Add a Live Poll to Any Presentation
Add a live audience poll to PowerPoint, Google Slides or Keynote without an add-in or rebuilding your deck: embed a poll slide, or switch to a browser tab.
Jun 24, 2026 · 7 min read
How to Run an NPS Survey (and Actually Read the Score)
What Net Promoter Score is, the one question behind it, how to calculate it, and how to run an NPS survey live or async, plus the follow-up that makes it count.
Jun 24, 2026 · 8 min read
How to Use an AI Quiz Generator (And Where They Fall Short)
AI quiz generators save hours of question writing, but they get facts wrong and miss your class context. How to get the most from them: AI drafts, human edits.
Jun 23, 2026 · 7 min read
Voting Methods Explained: Ranked Choice, FPTP and More
A plain-English tour of voting methods: first-past-the-post, ranked choice, approval and score voting, what each is good at, and which suits an online vote.
Jun 23, 2026 · 9 min read
Best Slido Alternatives in 2026: An Honest Comparison
Comparing Slido alternatives for live Q&A and polls: free plans, per-organizer vs per-presenter pricing, and which tool fits teams, classrooms and events.
Jun 22, 2026 · 11 min read
Online Voting: How to Run a Fair, Anonymous Vote
How online voting works, how to keep a vote anonymous and fair, and how to run one live in a room or async over a link. No accounts for voters.
Jun 22, 2026 · 7 min read
Word Cloud Questions: 20 Prompts for a Great Live Cloud
A live word cloud turns open answers into a picture the whole room can read. 20 word cloud questions that work, plus how to run one and the mistakes to avoid.
Jun 21, 2026 · 10 min read
8 Best Quiz Apps for the Classroom in 2026 (Compared)
The best classroom quiz apps of 2026 compared on free plans, student logins, question types and how they feel in a real lesson: Kahoot, Wayground and more.
Jun 21, 2026 · 8 min read
Hybrid Meeting Engagement: 12 Techniques That Work
Hybrid meetings fail when remote people become spectators. 12 techniques with live polls, async check-ins and structured Q&A that keep everyone taking part.
Jun 20, 2026 · 9 min read
Audience Response Systems Explained (2026 Guide)
What an audience response system is, how it works, what it costs, and which one fits your classroom, conference or company event. An honest guide.
Jun 20, 2026 · 11 min read
How to Create a Survey People Actually Finish
How to create a survey people actually finish: how many questions, what order, which question types, and the mistakes that make people quit halfway.
Jun 20, 2026 · 8 min read
All-Hands Meeting Ideas That Work (+ Poll Templates)
How to run an all-hands meeting people pay attention to: live polls, anonymous Q&A and agenda formats that turn passive attendees into participants.
Jun 19, 2026 · 9 min read
30 Survey Question Examples (and When to Use Each)
Copy-paste survey question examples for satisfaction, NPS, event feedback, employee pulse and product research, with the right question type for each.
Jun 19, 2026 · 10 min read
Live Poll Results Dashboard with PollsLive Webhooks
A developer guide to PollsLive webhooks: verify the HMAC signature, react to vote.created and session events live, and fall back to the results endpoint.
Jun 18, 2026 · 10 min read
How we put our weekly retro on autopilot with the PollsLive API
A developer's walkthrough: create a retro poll, open a live session, then pull results and a CSV, all from a small Node script on a cron. Real /api/v1 endpoints, real payloads.
Jun 18, 2026 · 6 min read
Poll vs Survey vs Form: Which One Do You Need?
Polls, surveys and forms get used interchangeably, but they solve different problems. The plain difference, with examples, so you pick the right one first time.
Jun 17, 2026 · 9 min read
Sprint Retrospective Ideas Your Team Will Actually Enjoy
A live, anonymous sprint retrospective that gets honest input in 15 minutes: a health check, kudos, went-well and improve word clouds, and a vote on fixes.
Jun 16, 2026 · 7 min read
Wedding Games for Guests: Live Crowd Games, No App
Get guests playing instead of scrolling: couple trivia, live polls and message walls for a wedding or party, joined by QR code with no app to install.
Jun 15, 2026 · 8 min read
How to Analyze Open-Ended Responses Live (No Spreadsheets)
Open-ended questions give the richest answers and the hardest live read. How to group free-text responses into themes in real time, with no spreadsheet.
Jun 12, 2026 · 8 min read
Exit Tickets and Live Quizzes: A Teacher's Guide
How to use live polls, exit tickets and quick quizzes to get instant feedback from a class, with no student logins and a generous free plan.
Jun 11, 2026 · 8 min read
How to Host a Trivia Night with a Live Leaderboard (Free)
Skip slow paper scoring and bar arguments: run a fast, fair trivia night on players' phones, with a speed-bonus leaderboard and no app to install.
Jun 9, 2026 · 8 min read
7 ways to make boring meetings interactive
Seven concrete, low-effort ways to turn a one-way meeting into a two-way one, using live polls, quizzes, scales, and anonymous Q&A.
Jun 8, 2026 · 8 min read
Church Engagement Ideas with Live Polls
Faith leaders want participation, not passive pews. How to use live polls, word clouds and quizzes with a congregation or youth group, with nothing to install.
Jun 5, 2026 · 9 min read
How to Run a Live Poll in 2 Minutes (No App Needed)
Run your first live audience poll: build a deck, hit Present live, and people join with a six-digit code or QR code. No app and no login to vote.
Jun 4, 2026 · 8 min read
Live Voting Tool for Nonprofits, Associations and AGMs
Counting hands at an AGM is slow and disputable. How associations run transparent live votes on motions, board elections and member feedback, with no app.
Jun 2, 2026 · 8 min read
The Honest Mentimeter Alternative (2026): PollsLive
Looking for a Mentimeter alternative? Compare free plans, per-presenter prices and features side by side, and see where Mentimeter still wins. Pro from $8/mo.
Jun 1, 2026 · 8 min read
Sales Kickoff Ideas: Energize Your SKO with Live Quizzes
An SKO that is all slides and quotas loses the room by mid-morning. How sales leaders use live quizzes, leaderboards and polls to make kickoff competitive.
May 29, 2026 · 9 min read
Live Feature Prioritization: Let the Room Rank It
Stop debating roadmap order where the loudest voice wins. Run live feature prioritization and user research sessions where everyone's input counts equally.
May 25, 2026 · 9 min read
How Founders Run an All-Hands People Stay Awake For
Most all-hands are a one-way broadcast nobody remembers. How founders turn theirs into a two-way meeting with live decisions, kudos and open questions.
May 22, 2026 · 9 min read
Anonymous Town Hall Q&A and Employee Pulse Checks
Employees rarely ask the real question into a company-wide mic. How People teams use anonymous live Q&A and pulse checks for honest input, tracked over time.
May 18, 2026 · 8 min read
Interactive Webinar Polls That Qualify Your Leads
A webinar where people just watch is a recording with extra steps. How marketers use live polls to keep attendees engaged and qualify leads at the same time.
May 15, 2026 · 9 min read
Live Audience Q&A at Conferences (Without the Hijacking)
Open-mic Q&A is a gamble: rambling questions, silences, one loud voice. Run moderated live audience Q&A and on-stage polls that surface what the room wants.
May 11, 2026 · 9 min read
Interactive Training: Keep a Workshop Awake After Lunch
The 2pm energy dip is real. How corporate trainers and L&D teams use live polls, knowledge checks and quizzes to keep a training room participating.
May 8, 2026 · 9 min read
Clicker Alternative: Engage a 300-Seat Lecture Hall
Physical clickers are expensive, easy to lose and a hassle to hand out. Run live concept checks in a big lecture on students' own phones, no app or account.