Overview
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 33)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 Webinars For The Win
- Ease of webinar setup
- Webinar templates
- Reporting
- Collaboration Tools
- I will we could add registration disclaimer language to the Webinar templates.
- Some of the customization and setup features are difficult to find.
- I would like to add someone to help me run webinars without paying for them to have their own webinar platform. We should be able to buy one platform and both of us log into it and setup and run webinars from it.
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 Events -- Much more than a collection of Meetings and Webinars
- Easy data entry using imported CSV files
- Full speaker and session images and text, with individual itineraries for attendees.
- Duplicate the structure and format of an existing event for your next event, or create an event template to easily replicate future events
- Automated language caption translation on-the-fly for a growing list of languages
- Like most Zoom products, Zoom Events is actively being improved and updated. The release cycle is monthly, which means event planners need to keep up with changes.
- While Zoom Events also works for in-person only events, this will require a certain mind-set shift to work well for many organizations.
- There is a core group of small business Zoom Events users who can provide help to new-comers, and an increasing number of helpful on-boarding resources, but Zoom Tier 1 support still starts out with the most pedantic questions; it's difficult to reach someone who can really help you with a difficult problem if you are not a large Zoom customer.
- Professional Services is available from Zoom, but it the cost is out of reach of most small businesses and non-profit organizations.
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
No proof of emails being sent to delegates through Zoom
- record webinar
- practice session
- No information or record if any of their emails have been sent or not. (follow-up emails)
- Easse of Use to connect with individuals
- Opportunity to include large groups in the meetings
- private and secure
- Call in could be easier to navigate
- Allow the host more options to control the meeting
Features are excellent.
- For the purpose of voice recording and onboarding new employees, this works well.
- It is simple to use and has a pleasing appearance.
- It is a fantastic tool for recording and archiving critical recordings.
- It could be easier to share documents at a meeting.
- If this is your first time attending a Zoom webcast, please arrive five minutes early. It might take some time to get there.
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.
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.
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.
- Zoom is convenient and easy to use. This means I can use it easily, but also my clients appreciate that it's not very technical or hard to figure out. It works for everyone!
- Zoom is affordable. I appreciate that I can use it for free up to so many minutes, and that I can have some free storage. I pay to use it for longer periods and this is affordable, too.
- It's easy for my clients to create an account, access the meetings and join. They don't mind going to the effort of using a technical tool, so I am able to use this service often and it adds value to what I offer.
- I hardly ever have technical difficulties, so it is reliable, which is very important to me!
- I am able to switch screens to show my documents or slides. This is very nice in my workshops so that my attendees can follow along and understand better. I think it's easy to use!
- I would like it if Zoom offered cheaper storage for my recordings. It is expensive. So we upload our recordings to YouTube.
- I am happy with all other aspects of Zoom!
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.
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.
Zoom at its best!!
- Video interview meetings
- Audio interview meetings
- Screen sharing in meetings
- Zoom is very easy to use for anyone who has or does not have knowledge, you adapt very quickly to its interface.
- It takes time to connect through link.
- I don't like the feature that Zoom doesn't tell me the count of calls I made on a daily basis. I have to manually count in the Zoom desktop app that I use.
Zoom Zoom Zoom!
- Clear video and audio
- Ability to quickly share screen
- Easy to Use
- Email Invites do not look great
- Setting up a meeting can be a little confusing at times
Very effective once you get the hang of it
- Single platform.
- Flexibility in audio/video.
- Easy set up of meetings.
- Recurring meetings.
- Use of host passwords.
- Calendar integration.
Simple and Easy to Use Platform.
- Zoom Video Webinar is easy to install and use. It is extremely user friendly.
- Many apps can be integrated with Zoom. I integrated Google Calendar with Zoom to manage my schedule easily.
- The quality of video streaming is much better than other similar vendors. It is rare to experience technical issues during video-based meetings.
- Sometimes the users are inaudible. Like other video communication platforms, I need to exit and return back to the meeting to solve the problem.
The basic plan of Zoom has meeting limitations up to 40 minutes hence users need to upgrade their account for extended meetings.
Easiest webinar tool
- Easy to set up
- Super reliable
- Great sharing features
- The UI feels outdated
- 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)
Zoom does it right every time, on every device (including CarPlay), on every calendar, and at a moment's notice.
- Screen sharing.
- Video conferencing.
- Handling the VOIP/Telephony.
- Fast meeting initiation.
- Not terribly many come to mind - they really have thought of everything. The only limitation I have experienced is corporate adoption. Even their free version runs great and cuts off at a reasonable time.
- 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.