In the ever-evolving world of virtual events, creating a seamless and engaging experience for attendees is key. One feature that’s helping event organizers strike the perfect balance between preparation and live interaction 

is Simulive in Zoom Events. This tool has become a game-changer for many professionals, including myself, who aim to deliver polished presentations while staying accessible to their audience.

Recently, I had the opportunity to host a Zoom Event where I leveraged the Simulive feature. For the main session content, I pre-recorded my presentation, allowing me to deliver my message with precision and consistency. During the event itself, I stayed behind the scenes in the Backstage area, monitoring the session and responding to attendees’ questions in real time. This approach not only helped me engage with my audience more effectively but also reduced the pressure of speaking live.

What makes Simulive so unique is the ability to transition seamlessly from a pre-recorded session to live interaction. Once the pre-recorded content ended, I stepped into the spotlight for a live Q&A session. This combination of polished delivery and real-time interaction added a personal touch that attendees 

truly appreciated. Simulive also provides flexibility for event hosts. While you must be present during the session's transition from pre-recorded to live, you’re not required to stay for the entire duration of the playback. This means you can multitask or handle other event logistics, knowing you’ll step in when it’s time to engage directly with attendees.

Whether you're managing a large-scale virtual conference or running a focused educational webinar, Simulive offers a perfect blend of structure and spontaneity. By preparing your content in advance and staying available for live interaction, you can create an event experience that’s both professional and highly engaging.

Have you tried Simulive yet? If not, I highly recommend exploring it for your next Zoom Event. It’s a tool that truly empowers you to deliver the best of both worlds.

Things to consider: 

Limitations of Zoom Events simulive webinars

• During the simulive phase, hosts and panelists cannot speak or appear on live video in front of webinar attendees and can only use the chat and Q&A features. However, once the simulive playback ends and the webinar transitions to live (if the option was enabled), all previously restricted features—such as video, audio, and full interaction—are enabled.
• Only the speaker view is selected in recordings, even if you recorded with multiple views.
• Hosts can’t add multiple cloud recordings to a single simulive webinar.
• Since simulive webinars start automatically, they do not support practice sessions. If backstage is used, access to backstage will begin at the scheduled time.

  

 I've been producing webinars on zoom for several years now, and in the earlier versions of Zoom, there used to be an option to automatically engage "Original Sound for Musicians" when a certain sound source was selected. 

Right now if you change audio sources, it toggles off as well and stays off when you come back to the sound source which previously **was** in "Musician" mode. 

Would it not make more sense for it to have to be turned off if you DON'T want it, (after all you've already selected to engage it the settings). 

It worked fine before, could we have that again?

I'm not sure if there's been a change in the way zoom does it, but it used to be that I was able to set up "Speaker View" as the default view for attendees in a webinar.

Does anyone know how to set this up now? I've tried looking up and down the settings, and I can't seem to find a way to do it. 

In case this feature is not built-in, I hope the folks from zoom are looking at this. it's especially helpful when there are many moving parts in the Webinar and sometimes changing the view is overlooked - which leads to the audience seeing what it's not supposed to...

Hi!

I have upgraded my plan to include zoom sessions for a given number of attendees. I am in zoom events and I have added all of my business and billing information (setting up registration payments through stripe), but how do I start creating my event?

Thanks!

If you have a CUSTOM DOMAIN set up for your Zoom Events/Sessions license (see this), please check to see if it is working.

Zoom engineers are troubleshooting a ticket I've entered about this error which causes ALL of my user-facing event pages (Hubs and session landing pages) to generate this error:

See this Zoom Clips for how this affected a client event announced on LinkedIn:

https://us02web.zoom.us/clips/share/A2F3MRYxd3A5NEs3SVRpQ2Z5TG9Fa2xoZ1Z3AQ 

Please post a reply here if you are experiencing this issue.

I am unable to register for public webinars with my free zoom account. 

I am trying to join a public webinar hosted by Aurora Energy: 

https://auroraer.zoom.us/webinar/register/1817338665272/WN_Za6zPKuiQEubkfNhvOTW1g#/registration
However, when I enter my registration information, I get an error saying "This webinar is only for authorized people. Register with a different email address". Although the webinar is clearly a public webinar, and the email adress I use for registration has a free zoom account associated with it. 

I have raised this issue with Zoom in several tickets over the last few months, without getting any helpful response. Now my tickets are simply being closed whenever I create them. 

Anyone else has similar problems, or is there anyone with a free zoom account who has actually been able to register for a public webinar? 

I attempted to Live stream a LI Live event yesterday. Everything set up correctly and I hit the go live button...but there was quite a significant lag between what I was saying and when it was broadcast, meaning I ended up speaking over myself or leaving big gaps while I waited for the sentence to finish. Does anyone know why this was happening and how I fix it? I had to end the live event and reschedule as a result.