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What is Zoom Events & Webinars?
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,…
I am a Big Fan of Zoom Events & Webinars and Events Services!
Zoom Webinar, Best in class, nothing better
Zoom Webinars For The Win
We stayed connected as a team which improved performance and productivity thanks to Zoom Webinars.
Zoom Events is the LEADING virtual and hybrid events platform
Zoom Events -- Much more than a collection of Meetings and Webinars
Zoom for Events
Amazing Zoom Experience for Video Conferencing and Meetings
Zoom Webinar the ease of use,management & participation
No proof of emails being sent to delegates through Zoom
Zoom Video is a simple and effective way to communicate online
A superior and high quality virtual meeting tool
Features are excellent.
Know The Zoom Way of Meeting Up!!
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Popular Features
- Branding options (31)8.080%
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Pricing
Zoom Webinars
starting at $79
Zoom Sessions
starting at $99
Zoom Events
starting at $149
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features
Online Events Marketing
Features related to the marketing and branding of online events, and use of online events for marketing purposes.
- 8Branding options(31) Ratings
Users can customize the look and feel of the application so that online events are branded (colors, company logo, etc.)
Virtual Event
These are features for Virtual Event software.
- 9Registration, RSVP, and ticketing(4) Ratings
Attendees can register, RSVP, and/or purchase tickets for the event in advance
- 7.9Email marketing(2) Ratings
Personalized email marketing to registered attendees, either within the software or through integrations
- 9.4Livestreaming(3) Ratings
Events can be broadcast live to hundreds or thousands of attendees
- 7.8Audience engagement(4) Ratings
Interactive features like live chat, polls, Q&A, and gamification
- 9.2Event recording(4) Ratings
Events can be recorded so that attendees can rewatch presentations at a later time
- 8Virtual booths(2) Ratings
Sponsors can set up customizable virtual booths that attendees can visit
- 7.2Networking(3) Ratings
Video and text chats specifically for attendee networking are available
- 9.3Event analytics(4) Ratings
Analytics and reporting (e.g., total attendee counts at individual presentations and booths, satisfaction with presentations) are available to help determine the success of events
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What is Zoom Events & Webinars?
Zoom Events and Webinars are part of Zoom’s event solutions, helping customers host virtual and hybrid events and large-scale broadcasts.
Zoom Webinars supports single-session large broadcasts. The product provides the ability to stream to third party platforms, embed into a webpage and send out a single link to attendees. The straightforward set up enables users to host a large broadcast at any moment.
Zoom Webinars features:
- Engages audience with high-quality video webcasting
- Boosts engagement with Q&A, polling, and reactions
- Improves webinar strategy with post-event reporting
- Supports up to 100,000 attendees and 100 panelists
Zoom Events is an event management platform built on Zoom’s video technology. It is used to create and manage virtual events of any size. Zoom Events offers added features such as event hubs, customizable registration and ticketing, attendee networking through a chat-enabled event lobby, and event reporting, including registration, attendance, and ticket sales. The solution is designed to simplify hosting, marketing, and reporting on virtual and hybrid events.
- Customize event landing pages for branding
- Branded emails to promote events
- Performance measurement within an interactive dashboard
- Collaboration with co-hosts and co-editors
- Professional events tools: Simulive and Backstage
- Audience engagement tools, with multi-session events
- Tailored ticketing and mobile app
- Expo Floor and Sponsor area to boost event revenue
- Customizable profiles to foster attendee networking
- On-demand viewing in the Event Lobby to expand event reach
- Accelerated event setup with curated event templates
Zoom Events & Webinars Features
Virtual Event Features
- Supported: Registration, RSVP, and ticketing
- Supported: Email marketing
- Supported: Livestreaming
- Supported: Audience engagement
- Supported: Event recording
- Supported: Virtual booths
- Supported: Networking
- Supported: Event analytics
Online Events Marketing Features
- Supported: Branding options
Zoom Events & Webinars Screenshots
Zoom Events & Webinars Video
Zoom Events & Webinars Competitors
Zoom Events & Webinars Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
Supported Countries | All countries |
Supported Languages | All languages |
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(1-25 of 25)Zoom Webinar, Best in class, nothing better
- Simple user experience--very intuitive for attendees to join, interact with Q&A
- Adaptable and feature rich--very easy to set up Webinars for different use cases with features like registration, Q&A, practice session, HQ video, branding and virtual backgrounds, polls/quizzes, post-surveys, breakouts, resources, production studio, FB/YT Live, captions/translation, etc
- Aesthetically pleasing--new branding options (such as webinar wallpaper, custom backgrounds, and name tags), plus the recent addition of the Production Studio feature, means it's easier than ever to produce beautiful and appealing webinars.
- Panelists, practice session, and backstage--Zoom makes it easy to set up webinar panelists ahead of time, and get them into the room early for a practice session. The new backstage option is even more powerful than the practice session feature.
- The bleeding edge--Zoom is continually adding powerful new features for Webinar rooms, where other programs leave you with the same ol' stagnant feature set.
- 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!
Zoom Events is the LEADING virtual and hybrid events platform
- Very quick and easy to set up a multi-day/concurrent session event
- Assign host/alt host permissions for speakers and support staff to start and run their own sessions
- Livestream to lobby for easy admin management
- Simulive for automatically playing out pre-recorded content as if live.
- Production Studio for more professional looking productions
- Option to automatically move participants to next session
- Broadcast message to concurrent sessions (breakout room like functionality)
- Improved Expo and Networking functionality (they are a bit basic now)
Zoom for Events
- Zoom rooms are particularly helpful especially in breakouts and allowing event attendees to get to know one another
- Zoom is easy to use when I need to record an event or presentation so that I can share and engage with donor and friends who cannot attend
- Presenting via zoom is easy to use for myself and for guest speakers even those who are not as tech savvy
- While I like the zoom rooms sometimes there have been delays in starting them leading to confusion with attendees - this may be a connection issue rather than a product issue but wanted to mention it
- Zoom does tend to get more glitchy then other platforms I have used - especially when presenting my screen or sharing a video. Not sure why.
We used zoom for several team meetings where it allowed us to talk as one large group and then break out into rooms and allowed us to connect more intimately as small groups
Amazing Zoom Experience for Video Conferencing and Meetings
- User Friendly
- Screen sharing
- Free video Recording
- Calendar invites and follow-ups
- It is difficult to use Zoom for low band width connection.
- One hour bracket for free user should be increased
- Mobile browser view is difficult to join
Internal Team Meeting can easily be conducted if a resource is on work from home
Presentations can efficiently done through Screen Sharing
Webinars can be organized
It can easily be integrated with different platforms like Upwork
It is very easy to Sign Up and manage it.
- Multiple Speaker/Panelist
- Unmute attendees at times
- Registrations & data collection
- Background Banners in webinar without sharing presentation
- Starting Webinar from Mobile
Know The Zoom Way of Meeting Up!!
- The screen sharing feature
- Recording of meetings
- Providing breakup room
- Admin controls.
- Chat option
- Sometimes irrelevant background noise creates disturbances that need to be identified and auto mute them
- Identifying spamming messages on chat option and providing admin to block or remove
- When having large participants presentation screen to users ratio should be properly adjustable
- It is also prone to cyber-attack like we fear having a sensitive discussion which is crucial to the organization, so if zoom provides a highly secure connection at premium charges, it will be highly appreciated
3.office events.
4. Conducting meeting seminars for a huge crowd like for thousands .
5. The events or private meetings which need to be recorded and be stored in cloud memory for future references.
6.It is also prefect for medium sized enterprises where meetups are more frequent.
7. It can also be sync with slack which most of the enterprise uses.
Zoom meetings are less appreciated in.
1.Highly sensitive meetings.
2.In a conversational class or interactive teaching programs where 2 -3 people couldn't be heard distinctibly and it creates chaos.
3.Using it as debate forum whould be of less use people can't be assessed properly when their body guestures could be judged properly and simultaneously people talks creates easy chaos.
I highly recommend Zoom [Events]
- Has camera access
- We can choose our name displayed
- It is user-friendly
- Making a change on the name we have displayed can be easier
- Would like more hidden option tabs
- More participants on the free version
No need to be Tech Savvy to use Zoom Video Webinar!
- The ease of using other apps while on a zoom video call
- The ability to disable audio during the call so that it can be used on another app
- [A] simple way to chat within the group to all audience[s] or a particular user
- Ease of scrolling through the videos of participants as well [as] the participant's list
- The chat room can enable the option of sending a broadcast to participants on the meeting without sending [it] to all
- A participant can be on hold on a meeting instead of leaving the meeting and returning
- Noise reduction if possible for background noise from some participants
- Recording : Recordings done by Zoom are high quality and are in very small size. This makes recordings portable and also Zoom provides direct Live on YouTube feature.
- UI : The user interface of Zoom is very easy and simple. The options are well stacked and enlarged so one can understand them. Scheduling, sharing, starting a meeting is [not] rocket science in Zoom.
- Presentation : With zoom one can easily present the screen or any particular document. It has annotation tools which is very useful while teaching online.
- One Click Join : With this anyone can join the Zoom meeting links with just one click. No sign up required, no wastage of time.
- Limitation for BASIC User : Zoom currently have 100 participants limit and 45 minute meeting limit for Basic users but I think it must have to be increased in order to have a more brief look over its working
- Cloud Storage For Basic User : Zoom doesn't provide any cloud storage for your recordings for Basic Users, while MS Teams does, and I think that where zoom can make improvements.
- Video Presentation : Zoom lacks performance at the time of video presentation. Video lags at the time of presentation.
- Very easy to use.
- Ability to connect through desktop, mobile apps or even landline.
- The webinar recording is a great feature.
- Chatting within the mobile app can be a little difficult.
Zoom your way to better video conferencing.
- Zoom is platform agnostic. It's easy for anyone with a phone or device to attend a webinar.
- Zoom doesn't require downloading or signing up for software. Users can click through the provided URLs and are immediately in the webinar space.
- Zoom provides direct access to meetings. Some of the platforms we sampled required attendees to "appear" in a waiting room and be approved by the host. This complicated matters when the host is trying to "host" the webinar and approve people. We love that with Zoom people can pop in, drop out, and come back any time during the presentation and discussion.
- I would love to see the ability to change recording features. For example, when we record a webinar, it captures whomever is speaking/presenting. I would love the option to set the video record parameters to capture other elements, including chat and discussion.
- I would love to see Zoom embed a video editing component to their offerings. Currently, we download the webinar recording, import it into a video-editing software, and then place introduction and conclusion elements. Why can't I just do this straight into Zoom. Maybe they can partner with Microsoft or Adobe Photoshop Elements to easily feature drop-and-drag video editing. This would enable users to brand webinars inside the platform.
Explore other options so you can see how terrible they are. Then get Zoom because it just freakin' works!
- Easy for the administrator to set up and get started.
- Easy for participants to jump in. No configurations. It just works right out of the box.
- Really easy interface with clear buttons/actions.
- Fast and reliable.
- It can get expensive with a large team.
- Some features in Zoom Meeting aren't in the Zoom Webinar (and vice versa).
- The analytical data you can get on your viewers isn't as good as GoToWebinar. The tradeoff is still that Zoom Webinar is a frictionless experience.
For group training, it allowing participants to ask questions and presenting content without any hiccups. You can gauge the participation level and share content like PDFs/slides/etc. You can also invite additional hosts and have multiple cameras if you have a Q&A style session. I even know of colleges that use Zoom to connect multiple classrooms in different cities together.
For presentations with clients/companies - it just works! Any computer with access to a browser can get it to work - no messy configurations or long installs. I can share the zoom link with them and see them in the room within 2-3 minutes. Try that with Skype/GoToWebinar, and it'll take 10-15 minutes of installing, account creation, and other annoying setups. We can whiteboard, draw things out, share a screen with a Google Document... it's great.
Zoom Video Webinar isn't a replacement for live training. No technology is.
Zoom Video Webinar is great
- Great way to meet face to face with our internal team and with our clients.
- We use this tool to share and collaborate on documents. Allows us to make real time edits.
- Zoom is very user friendly and very few call in or user issues. Some of the other web conferencing tools we use often drop calls or have issues with sharing.
- Notification of a when a new chat has been typed would be great. Often times there will be a chat and no one sees it.
- Notification of updates that need to be done ahead of time would be great. It's always frustrating to have to do an update right before a call. Or allow individuals to still get on a call and then update after the call.
- I don't have any other suggestions. I enjoy using zoom and I appreciate that we rarely have any connectivity issues.
Great to Grow & Expand Your Company
- One thing that is amazing about Zoom is that you can pull up a PowerPoint, use a laser or draw on it and then record yourself presenting it to people!
- Another thing I love about Zoom is that you can schedule meetings and send out the ID for them so that people can mark it on their calendars and join if they want to.
- One thing that Zoom does that I like is that every one that is on can have their face showing and talk or respond if they want to. You can chat with so many people at once from all over!
- I'd love to see where you can make a personal meeting ID. I would like to be able to name my meetings so that people know what it is and its easier to put the ID number in.
- I'd also like it if I'm not showing my face, my little screen goes away because I always think that my face is still being shown even if it isn't.
- Meetings can be integrated with external calendars that provides an advanced option to facilitate interactions when meeting starts, such as asking for a password to prevent unauthorized access.
- Chat with other attendees and store relevant information about them in an address book inside Zoom
- Screen share with others in a meeting while having the ability to record audio and video.
- Share only a specific window or an entire desktop.
- It is not convenient in Zoom Webinar that toolbar is not displayed properly when set at the bottom of the screen, as it only opens from top to bottom.
- Main window can't easily be resized as some buttons will disappear and become unusable when there is a meeting going on.
Video Conference Powerhouse
- Screen sharing: Zoom enables users to seamlessly share their screen, chat through messages, and empowers listeners to virtually raise their hand when they have a question.
- Mute all participants: Zoom can allow presenters to mute all participants and prevent their video feed from being broadcast
- Works on any device: Users can log in from a computer, tablet, or smartphone
- Some users outside the organization have complained about issues getting the Zoom links to work
- Once in a blue moon, we have audio issues with Zoom, the video will work fine but sometime the audio will cut in and out
- It would be great for mobile users to be able to select any user in a conference and see their video feed (instead of letting Zoom decide)
- High-quality sound and video.
- Great mobile app for dialing in for video and or audio calls as needed.
- Chat feature for larger scale calls to help manage questions and reducing talking over each other.
- Individuals cannot turn on the feature to mute audio or video upon meeting entry, only the meeting organizer can change these settings.
- We have had issues with larger meetings in which some participants are unable to enter, no resolution for the issue right now.
- The sound in rooms can sometimes default to a high volume regardless of the volume left from the previous call.
- Zoom handles multiparticipant meetings very well through a centralized screen that allows you to see all participants, conduct group or individual chat sessions during the meeting and allows anyone to share documents in the meeting.
- The chat feature in Zoom is very helpful during a meeting for discreetly reaching out to another colleague in the meeting when you want to share verify or validate something before announcing publicly in the meeting. It's great to have sideline conversations that are relevant to myself and another colleague in the meeting without disturbing the meeting.
- The video features of Zoom are great! Since many of my meetings are conducted virtually, it's nice to see and talk with someone via Zoom's video feature to make our conversations more personal and meaningful
- As much as I like the chat feature, I haven't found a way to save a chat or retrieve a chat when a meeting ends. If I am not the meeting host, everything disappears once the host ends the meeting. There are many times I'd like the ability to save a transcript of the chat.
- I routinely falter with the microphone feature. I have set defaults to mute my microphone and video when I join a meeting, but there isn't an obvious visual queue onscreen in Zoom to let me know I am on mute. The microphone icon in the lower left of the screen does change appearance between live and muted, but it's not obvious. Many of my colleagues end up speaking for a minute or 2 before realizing they are on mute.
- Screen sharing in Zoom is easy to initialize, but as a participant viewing, it can be challenging to quickly get the screen ratios established so you can view the shared items at a reasonable size.
Best platform for reliable meetings!
- The streaming is smooth even with a huge number of participants.
- Scheduling meetings is easy and you simply can share the invite link with the audience who needs to be in there.
- The platform is very flexible and perfect for conferences. Private chat feature makes it have a smooth presentation. Sharing screens and showcasing presentations are convenient.
- Honestly, there is nothing that I dislike about the software. The features are great and have been very convenient in all aspects.
Zoom past the competition with Zoom Meeting
The tool has also been beneficial for online students in working on group projects and recording asynchronous presentations.
- It records to MP4 format which can be easily saved to a local machine and edited with even basic software such as iMovie or Windows Media Maker
- The desktop application makes creating and scheduling meetings very simple and it always supplies a conference line with no need for cumbersome integrations
- The mobile app is fantastic and works very well for our students who are on the go
- Zoom training and tutorial catalog is very well done, even our technically challenged users have little issue getting comfortable with the tool
- It handle multiple cameras (up to 50!), with high quality video very smoothly and is 'smart' in term of eliminating echo and muting noisy users.
- The chat feature is by far the worst part of Zoom, you can't adjust text size or color or allow for multiple chat room within the same meeting (for groups or breakouts )
- The Polling Feature could probably use more variety at this time. It def lags behind tools like Adobe Connect there. Also, the creation of Polls during a live session can generally be fairly cumbersome.
- The 40 minute time limit for the basic account can be a pain point and it seems fairly pointless as a user can just restart the meeting immediately once the time expires. There is probably a more effective way to limit the Basic account for the PRO
The main issue with Zoom right now is probably the price point for Pro accounts. If you are a very large organization that needs to buy 100s or even 1000s of PRO accounts their pricing might be cumbersome to absorb initially.
Zoom Closes Any Distance Gap and Allows Anyone to "Be There"
- With Zoom Video Webinar it is really quick and easy to set up a conference call in a matter of seconds. You can set up and send out invites to a meeting and get everyone dialed in incredibly fast.
- The video and audio quality with Zoom is some of the best I have experienced.
- Screen sharing works very well. Many of the meetings we conduct with Zoom Video Webinar require multiple people to share their screen throughout the meetings and Zoom does a great job of this.
- I honestly cannot think of any issues we have had with Zoom. We have been using it for years with no issues.
- The only complaint that I can come up with (and this isn't really a complaint) is that there are some features that you have to pay extra for. We have never had a need for these, but they do exist and potential customers may want to be aware of this.
Best videoconferencing software
- Very fast installation.
- Really easy to use.
- Great communication quality. Great quality of response time.
- Some clients have difficulty downloading and installing the EXE file.
I always use it for this purpose, so I have no highlight about an less appropriate scenario.
Simple for marketers AND for attendees
- The interface is clean and attendees don't seem to have a problem downloading the software and accessing the webinar for the first time.
- Creating a webinar is simple.
- We love practice sessions and the ability to manage broadcasts, promoting panelists, etc.
- Integrations with other platforms, like HubSpot, could be stronger.
- Landing page registration and confirmation emails aren't as customizable as we'd like.
- Upgrading between attendee tiers isn't very streamlined and has left us in a bind when we underestimate the number of attendees we expect and are unable to open the room up for more participants to join while the webinar is in progress.
Zooming Leads Through Zoom
- Zoom allows presentation to groups in a cost effective way.
- Zoom has allowed us to cut down time spent in preparing trainings.
- Zoom has given us a great way to present training and use it to generate leads on new clients through free webinars.
- It is not as robust as some of its competitors as it doesn't have all the features present that they do.
- Zoom is fairly easy to use but has been difficult for some of our users to transition to who have used other products extensively.
- I can't really think of any other cons. Overall it's a pretty decent product.
Zooming away!
- It's easy to set up a customized page that reflects your brand
- It's simple to set up the actual webinars themselves
- The controls & functionality are very easy to use
- It doesn't do well on notifying you when/who is signed up
- It is a pain to create webinars that happen at different times of the day (e.g. having a webinar at 10 am & 2 pm every day requires 2 separate webinars)
- The quality of the screen share with video or Prezi is not great