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Zoom Webinars and Zoom Meetings make it easy to bring global events to life virtually.
Utilizing these two modern tools is essential for creating engaging, interactive, and varied online events.
Since large-scale seminars for 10,000 or more people can be easily held , the number of users is rapidly increasing all over the world.
This tool, which allows anyone to easily waiting room , the screen will change to the following screen. Please wait until the host world-class online events, is rapidly spreading in Japan.
Regardless of the size of the company or organization, realizing an impactful online event is a powerful weapon for customer marketing.
Zoom webinars and Zoom meetings will accelerate the DX reform of companies and organizations at once, but there are some important differences between the two.
This time, what is a Zoom meeting? What are the features and differences of Zoom webinars? We will explain in detail the common questions about Zoom such as.
What is a Zoom webinar?
“Webinar” is a portmanteau of “web” and “seminar”. A webinar is a virtual event with an online audience only .
For this reason, it is qualitatively different from seminars attended by physical audiences.
“Zoom webinar” is a webinar that uses the latest tool “Zoom” that anyone can easily use.
Zoom webinars allow organizations and businesses to deliver online events over the Internet to a select group of people connected to computers.
A Zoom webinar attendee is someone who joins the webinar from a PC, Mac, tablet, smartphone, etc.
Audio and video allows attendees to see and hear the host, panelists, and speakers .
In addition to video, you can deliver PowerPoint slides and synchronize with other presentations through the camera.
You can also use the screen capture feature to share your host’s PC screen or show your application or website to your audience.
It’s easy to let invited panelists speak, and manage the audio of participants with the audio mute function.
Using Zoom webinars makes marketing on Zoom webinars very powerful.
When you have a large number of attendees, Zoom’s feature richness is essential to achieving an impactful event.
Zoom offers useful features and advanced security that other similar tools do not.
A Zoom webinar is a tool that allows you to take advantage of various customer interaction opportunities and marketing benefits.
Key Features Available in Zoom Webinars
- Q&A function for participants to ask questions to the host and panelists
- Ability to chat and mute between attendees, hosts and panelists
- Enable hands-on session
- Video on/off selection for hosts, panelists, etc.
- Audio mute function on/off
- Voting function during and after the seminar
- Questionnaires during and after seminars
- Detailed comparative analysis of seminars and provision of improvement measures
- Various other functions that can be used for marketing
- Help function for how to use various functions
The webinar market is showing strong growth every year.
There are several reasons for this, but one of them is that webinars are a very effective marketing tool.
Also, significant cost savings are possible .
Additionally, Zoom webinars are live and interactive.
From an educational point of view, using webinars also brings a very high degree of interaction.
Attending Zoom webinars helps you learn and understand faster.
Compare the features of Zoom meetings and Zoom webinars
Many people seem to be asking, “What is a Zoom meeting?”, “What is a Zoom webinar?”, and “What is the difference between the two?”
Zoom meetings and Zoom webinars have similar features and functionality, but there are some key differences.
A Zoom meeting allows one person to be the organizer (host) and other participants to have two-way communication on an equal footing . Think of it as a “virtual conference room”.
Hosts and participants can share their PC screens with other participants.
Zoom Webinar is a tool that can be used by installing a paid add-on for Zoom Meetings.
What is a Zoom meeting? Its main function
Let’s specifically compare the features of Zoom meetings and Zoom webinars.
Zoom Meetings is a tool designed for two-way conferences and meetings that connect multiple people .
This makes Zoom meetings ideal for group meetings, team meetings, sales demonstrations, online learning, online training, quick meetings, and more .
First of all, I will introduce the functions that can be used in the Zoom meeting.
What is a waiting room?
A passcode is required, but hosts can enable waiting rooms to screen attendees and only those invited to the event can join. Security is enhanced by excluding unplanned and unwanted attendees.
What are registration settings?
An option to schedule a Zoom meeting and ask for attendee registration. You can customize the registration page and set the required input fields.
What is screen sharing?
Meeting organizers can share valuable content and participants can share their screens. When you share your screen, your computer’s audio is also shared, allowing you to play music and videos.
What is a whiteboard
When you share your screen, you can share your whiteboard. This allows you to share a blank screen and add annotations to it. You can draw, write, and even put stickers on it, just like you would on a classroom whiteboard.
What is a breakout room
Breakout Rooms feature allows you to split your Zoom meetings into up to 100 sessions, creating separate spaces for small group discussions.
What is reaction
Zoom meeting participants can react with emoji during the meeting and communicate without interrupting the meeting.
What is voting
You can set up and run up to 25 polls in one Zoom meeting. Conduct single-choice or multiple-choice polls to facilitate meeting participation.
When hosting a Zoom meeting, it is important to understand the features available to the host and the procedures for enabling/disabling them, turning the mute function on and off, etc.
What is a Zoom webinar? Its main function
Zoom webinars are the perfect tool for seminars, presentations, etc. for large audiences, as they are more controllable by the host and allow participants to join without muting their audio or video.
In Zoom webinars, information is mainly sent by the host and panelists. Attendees (guests) can listen, learn, and participate in Zoom webinars by raising hand, asking questions, chatting, Q&A, and taking surveys.
Zoom webinars support large internal and external events such as company plenary sessions, city councils, product launches, customer conferences, concerts, and religious gatherings .
Zoom webinars are designed to allow hosts and panelists to share video, audio, and screens. The host can also allow guests to speak by unmuting them.
Webinars require pre-registration and allow hosts to add their own registration questions .
By adding questions during the joining instructions, you can scrutinize the content of the Zoom webinar and use it for marketing later.
You can also set up to join the Zoom webinar by simply clicking the link when the webinar is held without registering.
A webinar can be a one-time event, a series of events, or multiple sessions of the same session.
What is a source tracking URL
When hosting a Zoom webinar, share your webinar registration page in multiple locations to create a unique link that allows you to see where your registrants are coming from.
For example, you can share one source tracking link on Facebook and another on Twitter to see which performs the best.
What is Q&A
The Q&A feature allows participants to submit questions during the webinar. Hosts, co-hosts, and panelists can answer submitted questions.
After the webinar, you can download the Q&A report and review the questions submitted.
For example, you can see what questions and topics participants asked for better follow-up after the webinar.
What is a post-webinar survey?
When scheduling a webinar, you can set up a survey that will be displayed after the event.
This feature is great for getting feedback on event progress, content ratings, and more.
What is Participant View Management?
The webinar has 3-screen support to view panelists, speakers and presentations simultaneously.
Additionally, the host can spotlight multiple users’ videos for attendees to view.
What is streaming
Zoom webinars can reach a wider audience by broadcasting live to YouTube Live, Facebook Live, or your own streaming platform.
Number of participants and difference between plans
There is also a difference in the number of participants available for Zoom meetings and Zoom webinars.
Depending on the license, Zoom meetings can have up to 100 concurrent participants for free licenses, and up to 1000 concurrent participants depending on the size of the license.
Zoom webinars scale from 500 up to 50,000 participants, depending on your license.
| The number of participants | |
|---|---|
| Zoom meeting | Capacity Up to 100 people with a free license. Up to 1000 depending on plan and large meeting add-on |
| Zoom webinars | 500-50,000 participants, depending on license |
What are the benefits of using Zoom webinars?
Let’s take another look at the features and differences between Zoom meetings and Zoom webinars.
A Zoom meeting is an online meeting. You can use it for internal meetings, meetings, business negotiations with customers, etc. Through the camera, you can see each other’s faces and talk, and you can turn on and off the audio mute function. However, it doesn’t allow the host to fully control the meeting or the panelists to speak.
A Zoom webinar is an online seminar. Hosts and panelists are the main organizers, and guests are invited. Participants can speak when the host unmutes them. It is suitable for small-scale product information sessions and large-scale global events.
The biggest advantage of Zoom webinars is the “marketing function” . Zoom webinars have a wealth of features that you can use in your marketing.
Before the Zoom webinar is held, you can add “questions” to the registration function. By setting additional questions, you can get a detailed understanding of the attributes of Zoom webinar participants (gender, age, region, purpose of participation, etc.).
During a Zoom webinar, you can ask questions, Q&A, chat with other participants, raise your hand, and poll.
In addition, even after the Zoom webinar is held, you can use detailed analysis and analysis reports of the webinar, questionnaires for participants, URL transition function, etc.
By utilizing the various functions of Zoom webinars, you can maximize your company’s marketing activities and their effectiveness.
Zoom webinars are online seminar hosting tools, but behind them are various marketing functions .
summary
We have explained in detail the questions “What is a Zoom meeting?”, “What is a Zoom webinar?”, and “What is the difference between the two?”
Whether you are holding a Zoom webinar for the first time or want to make your next Zoom webinar even better, advance preparation is essential.
If you want to safely hold a Zoom webinar and succeed in customer marketing, please consider NEC Networks & System Integration’s webinar distribution support service and financial DX service.
In addition to supporting Zoom online events, NEC Networks & System Integration’s extensive experience and long-standing track record will provide comprehensive support for studio environment construction, camera settings, mute functions, how to use panelists, various fees and expenses, contract procedures, etc. We will support you.