Zoom Webinar, Best in class, nothing better
February 27, 2024
Zoom Webinar, Best in class, nothing better
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Zoom Webinars
We've been using Zoom Webinars since 2014. Everything from Director's Quarterly meetings to major company announcements to DEIB events. We average at least two major webinars per week, sometimes as many as eight per week, all conducted under Zoom. Attendance ranges from just a few hundred to over 1500. There simply isn't a better platform for mass one-to-many video communication.
- 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!
- Our main need that Zoom Webinar meets is the need to have frequent company video webinars, and it's a need that Zoom meets far better than any other tool available.
- The branding features available allow us to keep branding for internal and external webinars strong, unlike other tools which have minimal branding capabilities for webinars.
- Zoom's new Events offering makes it easy to set up engaging and interactive hubs for multi-day webinars.
- Adobe Connect, BlueJeans Events (discontinued), Skype for Business, now part of Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams, Google Hangouts (Classic), GoTo Webinar and Webex Webinars
The combination of superior ease of use, relative affordability of a license, high participant volume, rich feature set, custom branding capabilities, excellent audio/video codecs, lean resource usage, and studio production features.
Do you think Zoom Events & Webinars delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Zoom Events & Webinars's feature set?
Yes
Did Zoom Events & Webinars live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Zoom Events & Webinars go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Zoom Events & Webinars again?
Yes