Host a Webinar for Up to 10,000 People with Microsoft Teams Live
Empower Thousands through Microsoft Teams
Creators nowadays are being more creative in terms of sharing new content through the vast set of cloud solutions available on-demand as we continue to do our part to flatten the COVID-19 curve by staying indoors.
When sharing content online, say hosting a webinar or online meeting while keeping in touch with your peers or viewers — while your intent is to empower them through your content, keep in mind that as a host, you need to also bear in mind everyone’s security online.
Security in sharing content online can be traced in your platform of choice.
Yes, there may be a lot out there that you can get for free but please take a couple of minutes to do your due diligence in ensuring the platform you will choose is safe for you and anyone else you will invite.
What is a Webinar Platform?
If you’d like to host a webinar in the future, your webinar platform is where you do your presentation, lecture, workshop or seminar.
It is where you transmit your content since it is designed to be capable for audio / video conferencing and screen sharing — two important features needed to engage with your audience remotely.
Webinar-Platforms-of-Choice for Remote Workers on Quarantine
While majority of the businesses around the world are on halt due to the coronavirus quarantine, one company became the King of Quarantine Economy, and that is Zoom as they report jump from 10 Million to 200 Million Users within 3 Months.
However, there is one big challenge Zoom has to face in the coming weeks, and that is mainly on the privacy side of the platform and the rise of Zoom video-conference hijacking aka ‘zoombombing’.
As Zoom continues to keep up, its closest competitor, Microsoft’s Teams Platform moves forward with an announcement offering free Microsoft Teams to service to all organizations worldwide and highlighting how Microsoft encrypts data end-to-end while using the platform.
At a very high-level, Microsoft Teams and Zoom both overlap and compete in terms of the set of services they offer as a collaboration tool or even as a Webinar-Platform-Of-Choice.
When to Use Microsoft Teams Live?
You may have heard or even used Microsoft Teams as a platform. Allow me to drill down when to differentiate a simple Microsoft Teams Meeting versus using Microsoft Teams Live.
Smaller to Medium Number of Attendees: 1–300 Attendees with Microsoft Teams Meeting
Our day-to-day engagements during the quarantine period were now replaced with online meetings.
For Microsoft Teams, each Teams Meeting (as we call it) that you organize can be attended by up to 300 users — internal (part of organization domain) and external users combined.
Sharing screen and control features are included. Presenter can even record the webinar for future reference.
Bigger Audience: 301–10,000 Attendees with Microsoft Teams Live
If you are looking for an alternative that can handle more people, ideal for online conferences or webinars or weekly town hall sessions, Microsoft Teams Live is the answer.
Read: Best Practices for Producing Microsoft Teams Live Event
It supports up to 10,000 people joining at once, at this point without breaking the bank as Teams is available for Free for 6-Months with NO strings attached, just peace of mind.
To get started on your next Microsoft Teams Live Event, feel free to check out this walkthrough. Your attendees will be able to join either through the Teams app or through the browser for attendees joining externally.
Read More: Attending Microsoft Teams Live Event
Final Thoughts on Microsoft Teams Live
As a top of mind this quarantine period, of all webinar platforms out there, Microsoft Teams is considered as standout at this point of time — both on capability and security standpoint.
In reality, you will hear both Teams and Zoom not formally rolled out as pop-up use cases in companies world wide. With employees leveraging Teams for internal collaboration and Zoom on the external facing use cases.
Above all — the final decision still depends on the organization requirements.
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