Zoom Webinar

Zoom Webinar

The Meeting and Webinar platforms offer similar features and functionality but have some key differences. 

Meetings are designed to be a collaborative event with all participants being able to screen share, turn on their video and audio, and see who else is in attendance.

Webinars are designed so that the host and any designated panelists can share their video, audio and screen. Webinars allow view-only attendees. They have the ability to interact via Q&A, Chat, and answering polling questions. The host can also unmute the attendees. Attendees in webinars, can not rename themselves as well. 

Meetings versus Webinars

 

Meeting

Webinar

 

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

Small to large groups (2+ participants) for:

  • Customer-facing meetings

  • Sales meetings

  • Training sessions

Large events and public broadcasts (50+ attendees) such as:

  • Town halls

  • Quarterly updates

  • Educational lectures


Typically used by

  • General employees

  • Training groups

  • Event hosts

  • SVPs and C-Suite

Availability

Included in your SU licensed Zoom account

Additional feature that is given as needed for the event 

Feature Comparison

Feature

Meeting

Webinar

Feature

Meeting

Webinar

Participant roles

Audio sharing

  • All participants can mute/unmute their own audio

  • Host can mute/request to unmute participants

  • The Host can set all participants to mute upon entry

  • Only the Host and panelists can mute/unmute their own audio

  • Attendees join in listen-only mode*

  • The Host can unmute one or more attendees

Video sharing

All participants

Hosts and panelists

Screen sharing

Capacity

Up to 300 depending on the license

Up to 10,000 participants, depending on the license.

Participants list

Visible to all participants

Visible to host and panelist

Email reminders

N/A 

If registration is enabled

Chat

In-meeting Chat

Webinar chat

Meeting reactions

Only raise hand

Q&A

N/A 

File transfer

 N/A

Whiteboard

Annotation

Polling

Polling for meetings

Polling for webinars

Livestream

Facebook, YouTube, Workplace by Facebook, Custom Streaming Service

Facebook, YouTube, Workplace by Facebook, Custom Streaming Service

Registration

Registration for meetings

Registration for webinars

Closed captioning

Recording

Breakout rooms

N/A 

Practice session

 N/A

Waiting room

 N/A

Paypal integration

N/A 

Require password to join

International dial-in numbers

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