Hi everyone! I’m a marketer who helps plan and run webinars regularly, and I’m trying to better understand what really makes a difference when choosing a platform or running a smooth event.

If you’re a webinar producer or just heavily involved in execution, I’d love to know:

What are the top 3 features you can’t live without when it comes to webinar platforms, specifically Zoom Webinars?

Are there any things you wish existed but don’t?

I’m especially interested in answers from teams that run high-volume or high-impact webinars, but insights from anyone are appreciated!

Thanks in advance

Last week, our organization held a webinar, and I was pleased to see 71 registrants. However, when I downloaded the list, only 65 registrants had been "approved". I know I did not deny any registrants, so how did this happen? 

Also, I noticed that some who had been denied actually did attend, so what happened there?

I want to prevent this from happening in future webinars, so please help me understand.

Thank you, 

Heidi Whitman

National Association of District Export Councils

I recently ran a series of webinars over multiple days and because we had many attendees, I set it up as a recurring event to ensure the webinar link stayed the same for all sessions.

Each session had multiple panelists at different times, but I could not invite people to be a panelist for just one session. This led to a few awkward moments because panelists didn't just have one email with their panel time, they had an emai with the full list of sessions and could join at any time. Some of them clicked in to "test" the link while another presentation was happening.

Is there a way, in the future, to reuse the same webinar link but to add panelists only to their particular session at their session time?

Is this something Zoom Sessions or Events can handle? It seems like an overkill solution.

Hi folks,

I'm looking at this article and I still have a couple of questions on Zoom simulive webinars.
1. Can we run multiple at once from the same Zoom account? We have 'normal' webinars running at the same time. Is it possible to have multiple simulive or live webinars at once?
2. Is it possible to run one without any chat support? Or to have a way where we are notified internally if there's a question in the chat (Like in eWebinar)

Thanks,
Cliona

Anyone else getting invitations to zoom calls from spammers?

This used to happen a lot to me on other platforms, but it seems that they have now moved to Zoom instead! 

At least on the other platform it was very easy to report it as spam - but I don't see that here - and the Zoom support AI bot can't handle it !! If anyone knows how to reach a human at Zoom HQ to flag this stuff, please let me know...

Here's the title of the latest one I've received:

Eblog Reveal: Auto Create Network Of High-Ranking Niche Sites Without Wordpress, SEO or Tech Skills & Earn $10k-$20k/mo Recurring Income

Hello, I am the host of a webinar. Today, I did a practice session with one panelist, audio is working when speaking. I will have a prerecorded presentation for the webinar, when I am sharing my screen, there is no sound coming from my computer. I can hear the sound from the video, but not the rest of the participants. I cannot click the option share sound (it is grey, not available) when I click on share screen. I tried to restart my computer, it did not work.

Could you please help me with this?

It seems there is no way to stop spammers from just adding you to their webinar. I get added nearly every week to some spammer's zoom meeting trying to sell some product. There is no spam option on the invite or way to report them. There is only a cancel meeting option and contact organizer.  Why doesn't zoom add in a feature to report them or remove the option to just upload a list they purchased of names and emails??