Google Workspace vs. Zoom Events & Webinars

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Google Workspace
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Google Workspace enables teams of all sizes to connect, create and collaborate. It includes productivity and collaboration tools for work: Gmail for custom business email, Drive for cloud storage, Docs for word processing, Meet for video and voice conferencing, Chat for team messaging, Slides for presentation building, and shared Calendars.
$6
per month per user
Zoom Events & Webinars
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Zoom Events and Webinars are part of Zoom’s event solutions that uses existing Zoom products to produce interactive and engaging virtual experiences. It combines Zoom Meetings, Chat, and Video Webinars in one solution that enables event organizers to produce ticketed, live events for internal or external audiences of any size.
$89
per month 300 attendees
Pricing
Google WorkspaceZoom Events & Webinars
Editions & Modules
Business Starter
$6
per user/per month
Business Standard
$12
per user/per month
Business Plus
$18
per user/per month
Enterprise
Contact sales team
Zoom Webinars
starting at $89
per month starting with 300 attendees
Zoom Events
starting at $149
per month starting with 100 attendees
Zoom Webinars Plus
starting at $99
per month starting with 100 attendees
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Google WorkspaceZoom Events & Webinars
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPlans supporting up to 10k attendees available. Discount available for annual billing. Pay-per-attendee available for Zoom Webinars Plus and Zoom Events.
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Community Pulse
Google WorkspaceZoom Events & Webinars
Considered Both Products
Google Workspace

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Zoom Events & Webinars
Chose Zoom Events & Webinars
We use Google Workspace as our primary email domain and online storage. Zoom Events & Webinars really does not offer this. I have used MS Teams in the past and still use it on occasion. In my experience, Teams used to be horrible to use and walled off to only people on your MS …
Chose Zoom Events & Webinars
GoToMeeting was a more expensive option even though it did have some added functionality we liked. It was also extensively used by our employees so transitioning them away from it was painful at times. Skype was also more expensive and didn't meet our needs in many ways. …
Features
Google WorkspaceZoom Events & Webinars
Online Events Marketing
Comparison of Online Events Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Google Workspace
-
Ratings
Zoom Events & Webinars
9.3
31 Ratings
6% above category average
Branding options00 Ratings8.731 Ratings
Virtual Event
Comparison of Virtual Event features of Product A and Product B
Google Workspace
-
Ratings
Zoom Events & Webinars
8.5
5 Ratings
7% above category average
Registration, RSVP, and ticketing00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
Email marketing00 Ratings8.93 Ratings
Livestreaming00 Ratings9.14 Ratings
Audience engagement00 Ratings8.85 Ratings
Event recording00 Ratings7.45 Ratings
Virtual booths00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Networking00 Ratings7.53 Ratings
Event analytics00 Ratings9.15 Ratings
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Google WorkspaceZoom Events & Webinars
Small Businesses
Microsoft 365 Business Premium
Microsoft 365 Business Premium
Score 8.9 out of 10
Whova
Whova
Score 9.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Microsoft 365 Business Premium
Microsoft 365 Business Premium
Score 8.9 out of 10
Whova
Whova
Score 9.4 out of 10
Enterprises
Microsoft 365 Business Premium
Microsoft 365 Business Premium
Score 8.9 out of 10
Whova
Whova
Score 9.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
Google WorkspaceZoom Events & Webinars
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(120 ratings)
8.4
(80 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(5 ratings)
2.0
(3 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(11 ratings)
8.9
(11 ratings)
Support Rating
2.2
(12 ratings)
7.2
(7 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Google WorkspaceZoom Events & Webinars
Likelihood to Recommend
Google
Google Workspace does offer several different plans that can match well with the stage of your business. As your business grows, the higher plans can provide the better tooling or expanded features/products to scale with your needs. It would probably become very complicated to swap over to, if you are deeply embedded with another competitor. But, it could be a nice platform to consolidate several disconnected systems under one roof.
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Zoom
Zoom is well-suited for any service-based business that relies on face-to-face communications, whether for client meetings or external sales calls. Zoom also provides a good platform for internal team meetings to discuss creative ideas or for one-on-one sessions. Zoom is also excellent for larger webinars where you need to present to larger audiences.
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Pros
Google
  • Google Calendar...amazing. I don't need to ask team members when they're busy anymore and play this game of bouncing times back and forth. All I need to do is enter their email address and it shows my calendar and theirs side by side and then select the day and time I find that works best for the both of us.
  • I actually prefer Google Meet over Zoom. Zoom bogs down my computer and I find their UI overcomplicated for what it actually does. Google Meet is simple and does practically everything Zoom does without needing to pay any extra money.
  • Sheets integrates with our CRM (Copper) so it's perfect for us. Being able to export information out of our CRM into sheets and then create pivot tables from that data makes our lives a million times better.
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Zoom
  • Zoom calendar integration is a great way to see what calls are upcoming
  • Ease of use for screen sharing and video call settings
  • Zoom Workplace is reliable at blocking out external noise that should be muted from actual conversation taking place in calls
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Cons
Google
  • Pricing is a little bit higher than other services
  • The cost of each email inbox costs the same whether you want just email or all of the features. For example, we wanted a support email address that we could setup our support desk with. The cost of that added account is the same as the account I use with all of the features.
  • They removed their free tier for small organizations like mine and restricted the free tier from adding new domain names. This was likely due to abuse, but everyone lost the privilege of the free service.
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Zoom
  • I wish there were more polling options available in Zoom in general, and this extends to both webinar polling and post-webinar surveys. Could certainly do with a more robust polling feature set.
  • Setting up Registration for Zoom webinars can be very tricky, and I usually advise against webinar registration. The fact that users have to manually download an .ics to add it to their O365 calendars after registering means lots of issues with users attempting to join after registering early.
  • I would have complained about lack of breakout rooms for webinars, or the fact that the practice room can't be turned back on after it was turned off, but Zoom recently implemented webinar breakout rooms plus the Backstage feature, so both of these common complaints are now fully addressed!
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Likelihood to Renew
Google
There is no better solution for cloud storage and real time collaboration. The amount of features included in G Suite is unmatched and out of other things we’ve tried over the years, nothing comes close to being as great of a tool.
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Zoom
We will be renewing with Zoom as long as it continues to meet our needs for client and lead outreach needs in a robust manner. With little error and an easy to use interface, Zoom has met our needs and exceeded our expectations. The cost is right and with a short learning curve, Zoom has been an easy decision to make and maintain.
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Usability
Google
Google Workspace is incredibly intuitive and user friendly. It's easy to adopt through simple features, for example the prompts to enable Gemini on each call for note taking is reliable, and helps to stop you forgetting to use the feature. The main reason for a strong rating is the consistency and reliability, whilst there's definitely areas for improvement, for example additional calendar features (sharing), or deeper functionality in sheets. The level that it provides means that anyone adopting it will be able to take full use of features within a day or two. Gmail, calendar and the documentation suite contain all the basic features for a small / medium business to run at a high level day to day, with minimal downtime or learning curves.
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Zoom
Zoom Events is complex, but gets "almost easy" with experience and good guidance. I tell people, "Hosting a meeting is like driving a car; hosting a webinar is like driving an 18-wheeler; and hosting a Zoom Event is like flying a commercial airliner." You need experience, training, and ongoing guidance to be good at Zoom Events. Zoom has staff that knows everything there is to know about Zoom Events, but finding them and reaching them isn't easy. There aren't many consultants out there that are affordable and experienced.
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Support Rating
Google
My experiences of getting support have been positive. Calling in is not overly difficult, but it does require getting a PIN. The knowledge of those responding to the calls has been impressive. I have managed to work with them to fix two Google bugs that I had identified. These bugs required a some technical expertise and the support staff were able to understand the issue and forward the concerns to the appropriate persons. The first bug was fixed with 24 hours. The second bug took a little longer, but it was also more complicated to reproduce.
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Zoom
Zoom [Video Webinar] has online web portal where user can take control of the meetings and their settings. It provides details of all the meeting happened and also provides participants list. It has support for webinars and recording also. Zoom [Video Webinar] gave special cloud permissions for paid users also from web portal and that can help in saving disk space.
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Implementation Rating
Google
nothing to say
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Zoom
Implementation was very feasible during our initial usage of the Zoom after COVID-19.
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Alternatives Considered
Google
There are lots of competitors to various tools in Workspace, like Meet versus Zoom. However, Microsoft is the other big competitor I can think of for Google Workspace as a whole. To me, at least, the strength of Workspace is how easy it is to share and collaborate with others. For items that I only need for myself and can keep on my own computer, I typically rely on Microsoft Word, Excel, etc. For items that I need to share, I turn to Workspace a lot. Being able to collaborate in real-time and not having to send documents back and forth is so amazing, and such a time saver. And I love that Workspace is also a built-in tool with Dropbox now.
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Zoom
We moved away from MS Teams due to several factors: 1)The ability to have a calendar reminder pop up for the upcoming webinar. 2)The ability to have Zoom automatically send a customized one hour reminder email to everyone who registered. 3)Webinar templates that speed up the setup of each of our webinars. 4)Integrated polling and collaboration tools.
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Return on Investment
Google
  • Zero to no time managing tools allows us to focus on work saving us time and money
  • Google Workspace allowed us to seamlessly transition to a fully remote workforce when the Coronavirus pandemic started - no lost time or productivity.
  • Easily able to extend our workspace and add features, e.g. Voice, saving us time implementing other services.
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Zoom
  • Prior to Zoom, the best way to train was to travel to their business. Or to do it remotely, it was to allow multiple hours and allocating time to help them set up the technology. It was a mess. We were able to shave travel costs/technology implementation costs.
  • We no longer have to waste time playing technology ping pong, bouncing between different platforms. Zoom Video webinar just works.
  • My tech team used to have to set up the webinar events, because of how complicated GoToWebinar can be. Zoom makes it easy that anyone can do it.
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