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Zoom Events & Webinars

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,…

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Recent Reviews

Zoom for Events

9 out of 10
December 06, 2023
We used to use Zoom all the time - with the start of the pandemic it came in very handy. I worked events and with the pandemic and the …
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Know The Zoom Way of Meeting Up!!

8 out of 10
April 05, 2022
Soon after the pandemic, the entire business ecosystem moved to an online mode of business which helped us to connect with our colleagues …
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Awards

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Pricing

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Zoom Webinars

starting at $79

Cloud
per month starting with 500 attendees

Zoom Sessions

starting at $99

Cloud
per month starting with 100 attendees

Zoom Events

starting at $149

Cloud
per month starting with 100 attendees

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://zoom.us/pricing/events

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Marketing personalization with Zoom Webinars and Outreach

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Connecting Zoom Webinars with Keap [PlusThis Tutorial - Part 2]

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Zoom Webinars Review: is it Worth the Upgrade? [+Better Alternatives]

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Zoom Webinars Review • Demo & Quick tutorial

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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.

8.3
Avg 8.5

Virtual Event

These are features for Virtual Event software.

8.5
Avg 8.2
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Product Details

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.


Zoom Events is available with the following features:

Zoom Sessions includes Zoom Webinar features, along with:
  • 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

Zoom Events includes all features of Zoom Sessions, and the following:
  • 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

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Zoom Events & Webinars Video

What is Zoom Webinar?

Zoom Events & Webinars Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesAll countries
Supported LanguagesAll languages

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

GoTo Webinar, Webex Webinars, and ON24 are common alternatives for Zoom Events & Webinars.

Reviewers rate Livestreaming highest, with a score of 9.4.

The most common users of Zoom Events & Webinars are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Zoom lets you play any streaming videos smoothly without any lag.
  • It helps a great option to record and archive important recordings.
  • If you have not attended a Zoom webcast, please plan to join five minutes early. Sometimes it takes time to get there.
  • You may be prompted to “Run” the program software, which sometimes takes over 3 to 5 minutes, and then only you will enter the Webcast.
Meredith Brough | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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!
November 19, 2019

Zoom to progress!

Guy G. Gray | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • We use Zoom with our internal software development team which is global in scale to review code, product enhancements, and general collaboration.
  • It is great for our external presentation to prospects.
  • The only issue I have is that I have been a user of GoToMeeting for many years and very comfortable with the tools and navigation. Using Zoom took some time to adapt to their platform and tools.
Maury Rubin | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Usually, it offers a crisp video.
  • It's nice that you can have multiple hosts to control the meeting.
  • It's sometimes hard for our clients to get into the meeting in a seamless manner. When a new client clicks a zoom link it always prompts them to download the app instead of just launching in their browser.
Rocky Kev | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Katelyn Rylee | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
November 05, 2019

Zoom at its best!!

Anil Gurudinasinghani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Mogana Tashiani | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Karee Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Can watch or listen via mobile app
  • It’s free
  • Can ask questions/interact
  • I like that don’t have to be on Facebook or anything to use it - but would be great if it could be connected to FB or Instagram live.
  • It’s hard to send instructions for log in to people - I find people get confused.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy to use platform.
  • Nice customer support.
  • Many great features like voting or short questions to keep the audience engaged in a training session.
  • High-quality audio and video.
  • Mobile app video and audio quality need some development.
Stefanie Wittmaak | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Virtual meetings - Our team is able to communicate face to face for weekly meetings regardless of our location.
  • Training sessions - The screen share feature plus the ability to record training sessions makes long-distance a non-issue.
  • Mobile option - Works on a desktop as well as through the mobile app, so meetings can happen wherever.
  • It does use a lot of bandwidth to run, and I have encountered issues with connectivity with the mobile app.
  • Previously there were some privacy issues that Zoom did not address initially. We even had a meeting hacked by someone trying to crash the party. Those issues seem to have been addressed with the most recent update.
Vaibhav Choksi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Dustin Hovey | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Chris Carpenter | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Jillian Straw | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Not having a cap on a number of attendees in each Webinar.
  • Having an easily accessible app for both iPhone and Android
  • Allowing users to schedule others within the same organization if given access.
  • The download process has been a bit wonky for some of our prospective clients. It would be nice if there was a way to have the same quality but on a website instead of the app for one time users.
Albert Ellenich | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Hanaa Ibham | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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.
Mark Nowowiejski | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • 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
Chris McCarthy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Their mobile version is lightning fast, even for first-time users to get started and join a video call multiple times in a day, even on short notice.
  • Popular! That matters because when we use it in large groups for training, we find that most already have it installed.
  • Clarity and quality of the video sessions are excellent! When training, audience attention really matters.
  • It’s a great technology, but I recommend they work on simplifying scheduling. It is always a challenge, not nearly as streamlined as it could be. If zoom worked on that one improvement they would have seriously raised the bar for all other video communication tools.
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