Meeting or Webinar?

Created by Faye for Freshworks, Modified on Fri, 30 Jan at 11:06 AM by Faye for Freshworks

There are two types of Zoom meetings:

Meeting
Webinar

One of the explanations that the VES (Virtual Event Specialist) team use is:

Think of a meeting as people sitting around a board room table where anyone can contribute to the conversation at any time. Think of a webinar like a lecture hall or auditorium where the presenter is delivering a talk.

You can see the full comparison on Zoom's website.

Some of the key differences are:

	Meeting	Webinar
Description	Zoom meetings are ideal for hosting more interactive sessions where you’ll want to have lots of audience participation or break your session into smaller groups.	Think of webinars like a virtual lecture hall or auditorium. Webinars are ideal for large audiences or events that are open to the public. Typically, webinar attendees do not interact with one another. Though Zoom provides options for you to get more social with your attendees, your average webinar has one or a few people speaking to an audience.
Best Used for	Remote Presenters	Large events and public broadcasts (50+ attendees) such as: Town halls Quarterly updates Educational lectures
Q&A	N/A	✔
Polling	Yes	Yes
Breakouts	Yes	N/A
Capacity	Up to 100 with free license (40 min limit), up to 1,000. Encore's standard license is 1000	Ranging between 1000-50,000 participants, depending on the license. Encore's standard license is 1000

Remember there may be Navigator packages at 500 and 1000.