Overview
Within Webex, there are two main offerings that are provided to create a meeting room: Webex Meetings and Webex Webinars. Understanding the differences of these two features is crucial to planning which one is the best fit to use on your next upcoming meeting invitation.
Webex Meetings
A Webex Meeting is a virtual meeting that offers collaborative features for small to medium group sizes.
Meeting Features:
- Suitable for groups up to 1,000 participants.
- Encourages interactive features such as reactions, chat, and polling.
- Usually does not include detailed participant registration or attendance features.
- Standard controls for meeting hosts as well as participants.
- Offers screen sharing, file sharing, and document editing for all participants by default.
- Applicable for small to medium scale virtual meetings such as recurring meetings (1-on-1 meetings, team meetings) or project work/discussion sessions.
Webex Webinars
A Webex Webinar, on the other hand, is designed for online events catered to a large number of users.
Webinar Features:
- Suitable for groups up to 100,000 attendees.
- Offers versatile presenter controls for managing audience interaction and content.
- Includes tools for event hosts to track and manage attendance as well as participant registration.
- Enhanced controls for the organizer.
- Provides features for content-sharing however, delegated to presenters delivering.
- Organizers have the ability to grant interactive tools to anyone in the meeting room.
- Applicable for large scale virtual events such as online conference presentations and panel discussions.
Additional Information
To learn more about Webex Meetings and Webex Webinars, please visit the following resources..