SEATTLE, July 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Banzai International, Inc. (NASDAQ:BNZI) ("Banzai" or the "Company"), a leading marketing technology company that provides essential marketing and sales solutions, today announced a major upgrade to Demio’s AI Moderator.

Now powered by full webinar transcripts to deliver more accurate, context-aware responses in real time, the enhanced AI Moderator enables marketing, customer education, and demand generation teams to run more interactive, scalable events without adding operational overhead, transforming each webinar into a reusable content asset that continues delivering value long after the live session ends.

Live webinars remain one of the highest-intent touchpoints in any customer journey, yet organizations have historically lost most of the value they generate: hosts spend hours managing Q&A manually, and content produced for a one-time event rarely gets systematically repurposed. The upgraded AI Moderator directly addresses both problems. By drawing on complete session transcripts rather than isolated prompts, it provides richer, more contextually accurate responses during live events – reducing host workload and improving the attendee experience simultaneously.

Beyond the live event, Demio's AI-powered engagement and content workflows give teams structured pathways to distribute, repurpose, and amplify webinar content across channels – making each session a durable asset rather than a one-time broadcast.

"Webinars have always been one of the highest-intent moments in a buyer's journey – but hosting them at scale has required too much manual effort, and much of the content has simply disappeared after the session ends," said Joe Davy, Founder and CEO of Banzai. "The new AI Moderator changes that, by turning live webinar sessions into instantly available AI-led sessions. We're giving teams the tools to run better events and extract real, lasting value from every session they produce."

To support growing enterprise adoption, Demio has also completed significant infrastructure improvements – including CDN asset delivery and platform-wide performance optimizations – ensuring reliability and speed under increased demand. The upgraded AI Moderator is available now as part of the Demio platform.

About Demio

Demio is an intelligent audience engagement and webinar platform designed to help marketing, customer education, and demand generation teams run more impactful events and maximize the value of their webinar content. Learn more at demio.com.

About Banzai

Banzai is a marketing technology company that provides AI-enabled marketing and sales solutions for businesses of all sizes. On a mission to help their customers grow, Banzai enables companies of all sizes to target, engage, and measure both new and existing customers more effectively. Banzai has over 150,000 customers including Amazon, Dell, Salesforce, Aflac, Thermo Fisher Scientific, RBC Wealth Management, and Fitch Group. Learn more at www.banzai.io. For investors, please visit ir.banzai.io.

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