Platforms

• Intuitive and simple to create and join meetings

• Cheaper than competitors

• Paid plans have larger meeting capacities than competitors at similar price points (150 people at £11/month compared to Zoom’s 100 people at £11.99/month)

• Free version gives access to max 150 people meetings for 2 weeks (doesn’t require credit card details to sign up)

• Doesn’t have as many features as other services

• Slightly more expensive for paid plan

• Free version allows up to 100 people with a 40minute meeting cap

• Paid plan has meeting duration to 24hours and 100 people max. To increase participant number, next pricing plan is 10 times the cost.

• More features (many are available in the free version)

  1. Can apply filters to the webcams and add in virtual backgrounds to your webcam and hide your actual background

  2. File sharing through chat

  3. Can force mute all attendees (great for online events)

  4. Quiz function

• Better for discussions and planning – can separate a team meeting into smaller breakout rooms

• Reputation for stability and high-quality video and audio

• Many schools, colleges and University students may have access via their institution

• All participants need an account

• Meeting time unlimited

• Harder to use that GoToMeeting or Zoom

• Maximum 250 people in a meeting

• Most intuitive to use on a desktop browser

• Currently free for up to 100 participants and maximum 1-hour length meeting

• Email invites to meeting

• Participants appear as email account names

• Full integration with google Apps

• Access from all devices

• Can directly stream from Facebook with a webcam & microphone

• Can connect to some meeting platforms (e.g. zoom) or a streaming platform (e.g. streamyard, OBS) to allow for a more comprehensive stream

• Allows to be easily shared via Facebook pages, groups and profiles

• Comment section accessed only by those with a Facebook account

• Maximum 240 minutes length

• Can directly stream from YouTube with a webcam & microphone

• Can connect to some meeting platforms (e.g. zoom) or a streaming platform (e.g. streamyard, OBS) to allow for a more comprehensive stream

• Maximum 36 hours length

• Chat function for comments accessed by those with a YouTube account only

• Can be viewed on desktop, phones and even smart TVs

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• Platform to prepare a stream, bringing together webcam feeds, screenshare, videos, text pop ups and message highlights

• Completely online, no software to download

• Can be connected to them stream onto Facebook and YouTube

• Free plan available, limited to 20 hours streaming a month. Limited features and streamyard logo watermarked on streams

• $25 a month for Basic package allowing for unlimited streaming, custom logo and lots more!

• Free streaming software but requires good processing speed and memory on operating device

• Less user friendly than StreamYard, but allows greater functionality

• Requires time to become familiar with the operating the software

• Can be connected to them stream onto Facebook and YouTube

• Lots of plugins available to have webcam feeds, screenshare, play videos

• Simplest way to collate details for attendees

• Completely free

• Will require a separate method for ticker payment, this can be specified within the form itself

• Create a sign up form to collate details of attendees

• Easily email attendees with updates

• Free to use if tickets are ‘free’. You may wish to supplement, by asking for payment separately

• Can take payment too, but will incur a charge that can either be covered by you, or passed into the ticket cost

• Create a sign up form to collate details of attendees

• Easily email attendees with updates

• Free to use if tickets are ‘free’. You may wish to supplement, by asking for payment separately

• Can either pay per ticket sold, or pay for a package to sell a certain number of tickets (reduced cost per ticket)

• Additional charge maybe incurred via stripe or paypal to process the payment too

• Can allocate for attendees to cover fees with ticket purchase cost

• Can integrate with other online tools