Zoom has announced that its Webinars can now host up to one million attendees.
Zoom has expanded its webinar offerings to include a variety of single-event packages catering to larger audiences. These new options allow customers to host webinars with capacities ranging from 10,000 up to one million attendees. Additionally, each option comes with Zoom’s Event Services team’s expertise, ensuring hosts can provide a polished and engaging experience for their audience.
Smita Hashim, Chief Product Officer at Zoom, commented:
Zoom’s expanded capacity webinar offering is revolutionising the way organisations can seamlessly connect and engage with massive audiences. Now, event organisers have the flexibility and power to host truly interactive experiences on an unprecedented scale and the ability to purchase large single-use webinars.”
Zoom outlines its single-use webinar solution, which can elevate large-scale communications, enabling smooth interaction between hosts and audiences across all sectors.
In an enterprise context, Zoom suggests that companies could convene their entire global workforce in a single event via the new webinar offering. This enhanced capacity could function for large-scale all-hands meetings, enabling CEOs and senior leaders to simultaneously address every employee, ensuring that essential messages are conveyed across the entire organisation.
Furthermore, Zoom underlines this feature is also beneficial for industry conferences and trade shows, allowing for scaling keynote sessions. As a result, more participants can directly engage with industry leaders, fostering greater participation and engagement levels.
Zoom’s webinar solutions, including Zoom Webinars, Zoom Sessions, and Zoom Events, are now accessible for purchase both online and through direct sales. Initially, Zoom’s single-event webinar options will be exclusively available within the US market.
More Specifics On Zoom Webinars’ Feature Set
Zoom Webinars intend to transform the virtual event space with robust capabilities, ensuring hosts and attendees enjoy a seamless and engaging experience.
Zoom stresses that the core of Zoom Webinars is the promise of reliability. The platform boasts advanced audio and video quality that Zoom says consistently outperforms competitors. It cites its zero latency feature to ensure all attendees are in sync and experience the webinar in real time.
Zoom affirms that Webinars’ scalability is unmatched. It accommodates a wide range of event sizes, from 10,000 to an impressive one million attendees. The platform supports lengthy sessions of up to 30 hours, depending on the customer’s chosen capacity plan, and features up to 1,000 interactive video panellists. This scalability makes it simple for hosts to disseminate their message through a user-friendly webinar platform.
Another hallmark Zoom emphasises is ease of use. Event organisers can set up their webinars with minimal effort, requiring just a few clicks to get started. Attendees are greeted with the Zoom interface, while hosts can elevate their webinars with professional branding, including custom virtual backgrounds, name tags, and wallpapers.
Zoom says it offers a flexible pricing structure to meet its customers’ diverse needs. This includes various plans for single events, monthly and annual subscriptions, and options tailored to different event frequencies and sizes. For those with more advanced requirements, Zoom highlights its Sessions and Events services, which provide a comprehensive virtual event platform.
Lastly, Zoom Webinars come equipped with premium analytics tools. Hosts can delve into performance reports that track registration, attendance, and audience engagement. These insights are crucial for evaluating a webinar’s success and making informed decisions to enhance future events.
Zoom Launches New AI Companion Capabilities and More
Last week, Zoom introduced new AI companion capabilities and customisable landing pages for Zoom Events and Zoom Sessions.
In its latest update, Zoom enhanced its companion features by improving meeting summaries and integrating generative AI into Zoom Clips. The update also includes significant enhancements to Zoom Whiteboard and new integrations of Workspace Reservation with Slack and Teams.
New features include AI-powered virtual backgrounds, enabling users to create custom backgrounds using text prompts. The tool now also incorporates optical character recognition (OCR), which converts images of text shared during meetings into machine-readable formats, further improving meeting summaries. In-meeting chat messages provide additional context for these summaries.
Moreover, Zoom Clips can now automatically generate titles and descriptions from transcripts. Meeting summaries, previously accessible only to hosts, can also be shared with co-hosts.
