Zoom webinars can now host a million attendees

Video conferencing platform says new feature will enable organisations to connect with massive audiences.

The video-conferencing platform now allows webinar hosts to choose an option where they can stream to any number of attendees from 1,000 to one million.
The video-conferencing platform now allows webinar hosts to choose an option where they can stream to any number of attendees from 1,000 to one million. Photo Credit: Adobe Stock/Urbanscape

Video conferencing software company Zoom has expanded its webinar plans to accommodate up to a million attendees in a single-use webinar offering.

Most notably, the single-use webinar options can accommodate larger event sizes of 10K, 50K, 100K, 250K, 500K, and 1M attendee capacities, complete with support from Zoom’s Event Services team to ensure hosts deliver a professional, engaging experience.

With this new feature, webinars will be able to host sessions of up to 30 hours long – depending on the purchased capacity plan – and feature up to 1,000 interactive video panellists.

“Zoom’s expanded capacity webinar offering is revolutionising the way organisations can seamlessly connect and engage with massive audiences,” said Smita Hashim, chief product officer at Zoom. “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 says the new single-use webinar offering will transform how large-scale communications are conducted, enabling CEOs and senior leaders to address their workforce during large all-hands meetings, celebrities and public figures to host fan meet-and-greets, and government agencies and nonprofit organisations to address the masses during a crisis or campaign.