Note
Registration must be enabled to collect audience data.
On the Audience page, you'll find data about who registered for and attended your webinar. You can also see when your webinar is scheduled, view recap analytics, and more.
Tip
You can also view webinar details from the Overview page.
To access the Audience page, click "Audience" on your webinar's Overview page.
Alternatively, in the "Scheduled" tab, click the registrant count on the right to navigate directly to the Audience page. Completed webinars display the attendee count instead.
Connect to integration
Connect your webinar to your marketing automation platform and send registrant and attendee data to a list. If you don't currently have an integration connected, you'll see the option to "Connect to integration." Clicking this will prompt you to set one up. Select "Manage integrations" to navigate to your account's Integrations page.
Note
Only Account Owners and Managers can edit account-wide integrations.
Once you connect an integration, you'll see the “Connect” button on the Audience page.
In the modal, select a list from the dropdown menu, then confirm that you'd like to connect to it.
If you connect to a list after you've already received registrants, these will still sync to your integration. You'll see a notification indicating that registrations are syncing.
Once the integration is connected, the button will display as "Connected."
To change lists or disconnect the integration, click "Connected." In the window that appears, click "Disconnect From List."
To select a new list, click "Connect" again, then choose a new list from the dropdown menu.
Check out this page for more information on attendance data.
For more information on connecting your webinar data with an integration, check out the following articles:
Manage registrants
On the Audience page, you'll see how many people have registered for your webinar and, after your webinar, how many attended. If you have blocked domains, you can also see how many registrants with blocked domains signed up.
You'll see the specific registrant information you've collected (name, email, etc.). This includes the registration date, source, applicable UTMs (campaign, source, medium, term), contact status (new or returning), time watched, and more.
The audience list can be filtered by:
Allowed registrants
Restricted registrants
Attendees
Non-attendees
Returning
New
New contacts
On the Audience page, you'll see a New contacts tile. This metric shows how many new people you reached with your webinar.
Someone is considered a new contact if this is their first recorded interaction within the past 2 years. These interactions include:
Webinar registration (using a Wistia form)
Note
Classification is based on a rolling 2-year window.
You'll be able to identify new contacts from the audience table under the "Contact status" column
Tip
Use the table filter to quickly sort through returning or new contacts.
Import registrants
From the Audience page, you can bulk import audience members for your webinar using a CSV file.
Note
You must have the Wistia registration form enabled in order to use this feature.
To start uploading your registrants, click "Import."
From here, you may also download the CSV template to obtain a copy of the required format. Otherwise, click "Upload .csv" or drag and drop your CSV file.
Once your file is accepted, you can complete the import by clicking "Import and email x people."
Note
Confirmation emails (if enabled) will be sent to each imported registrant.
Export registrants
To export your registrant data, click into the "Export" dropdown menu on the Audience page and select whether you'd like to export all registrants, allowed registrants, restricted registrants, attendees, or non-attendees.
Once you make a selection, you'll automatically receive a CSV file download.
Manage webinar access
Wistia lets you manage who can access your webinar. You can use registration allowlists and blocklists to limit access by email address domain. You can also prevent specific individuals from entering your webinar (see below). For example, you may want to prevent competitors from accessing your webinar or restrict it to internal employees.
To set up domain-based restrictions for who can join your webinar, click "Manage access” from the Blocked tile.
From here, you can set up a block list or an allow list.
Note
Blocklists prevent users with email addresses from specific domains from joining your webinar. Allow lists are more restrictive and permit only users from specific email domains to join the webinar.
Once you’ve selected a list option, click "Next" and enter the desired domain names in the text box.
Click "Save allow list" to apply your block or allow list, or click "Change access type" to revert your decision and start from scratch. You can change these settings at any time in the Manage Access modal.
If you've restricted access, anyone from a restricted domain who tries to register for the webinar will appear in the registration table. However, these registrants will not receive any reminder emails, and when it’s time for the webinar, they will see a message stating that the event is unavailable.
Note
Restricted access will not work if a marketing automation form is enabled.
Remove and block registrants
After someone has registered for your webinar, you can still choose to block and remove them from the webinar. To do so, on the Audience page, click the three dots next to their name and then click "Remove and block registrant."
Click "Remove" or "Cancel" to confirm your decision.
Once you remove a registrant, their name will be crossed out in red.
You can unblock them by clicking the three dots, then selecting "Unblock and Re-invite registrant."
Manage attendees
Attendee heatmaps
Wistia’s heatmaps allow you to better understand how engaged each attendee was during the webinar. Click "Show Heatmap" to see how and when each attendee remained focused on your content and when they chatted.
Note
Heatmaps are available for webinars created on or after January 23, 2025. Webinars must use a Wistia registration form to display heatmap data.
Each heatmap includes the following metrics:
Attended: Indicates whether the attendee joined and was present during the webinar.
Focused: The times the attendee was actively engaged with the webinar window in focus.
Chat: Marks each time an attendee submitted a message in the chat.
Hover over a heatmap to scrub through frames from the recording and see exactly when an attendee was focused or not.
Tip
Click the heatmap header to sort the table by watched percentage and identify the most engaged attendees.
Audience touchpoints
On the Audience page of your webinar, you can gather additional details on a contact by clicking the magnifying glass icon next to their name and email.
This will reveal a contact card with their total touchpoint, registration, and attendance counts. The contact card also includes webinar properties and a chronological activity timeline.
A touchpoint is recorded when a known contact:
Registers for a webinar
Attends a webinar
Submits a video form
Note
Each interaction increments a running total over a rolling window of the last 2 years.
Understanding registrant vs. attendee counts
It's normal for there to be a gap between your registrant and attendee counts. Not everyone who registers shows up, so attendance is almost always lower than registrations.
There are a few legitimate reasons that attendee and registrant counts can differ:
Registered but didn't attend. Anyone who registered for but never joined the webinar only counts toward registrations, not attendance.
Live webinar attendance vs. on-demand views. On-demand recording views are tracked separately from live webinar attendance, so the total number of plays or views can climb well past the attendee count over time.
People are counted once; plays are counted every time. Attendance counts each person once. If an attendee refreshes, drops and reconnects, or opens the event on a second device, that accounts for one attendee but multiple plays.
Imported registrations. Registrants added from an external tool count toward registrations but never hit your Wistia registration page, so your registration total can be higher than your registration-page signups.
Note
Attendance only reflects the live webinar. To see how many people watched the recording afterward, look at the on-demand metrics rather than the live attendance number.




