What is Zoom Webinars used for?

Zoom Webinars is Zoom's commercial product for running webinars and virtual or hybrid events with large audiences, now presented as Webinars and Events. It is a good fit for marketing webinars, internal training sessions and hybrid conferences.

How much does Zoom Webinars cost?

Zoom Webinars doesn't publish fixed prices; pricing is quoted on request.

Is Zoom Webinars open source?

No. Zoom Webinars is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Zoom Webinars include Jitsi Meet, BigBlueButton and plugNmeet.

What are some alternatives to Zoom Webinars?

Zoom Webinars competes with GoToWebinar, Livestorm and ON24. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Zoom Webinars alternatives.

Zoom Webinars: features, pricing and alternatives

About Zoom Webinars

Zoom Webinars, now presented as Webinars and Events, is Zoom's product for running webinars and virtual events for large audiences. A small group of hosts and panelists presents to a much larger group of attendees, who engage through the tools the host enables.

The vendor groups its features into event flexibility, event production, audience engagement, content repurposing, and insights and integrations. Use cases listed include standard webinars, virtual and hybrid event platforms, video on demand, event production, training and podcast software.

It belongs to the Zoom family of products and is a commercial hosted service. Zoom publishes a general pricing page, and sales contact is available for larger or custom events.

Key features

Webinars for large online audiences
Virtual and hybrid event hosting
Event production tools
Audience engagement features
Repurposing of event content
Video on demand
Event insights and integrations

Good fit for

→Marketing webinars
→Internal training sessions
→Hybrid conferences

Tags: webinars; virtual-events; hybrid-events; zoom; video-conferencing; live-events

Zoom Webinars: questions and answers

What is Zoom Webinars used for?: Zoom Webinars is Zoom's commercial product for running webinars and virtual or hybrid events with large audiences, now presented as Webinars and Events. It is a good fit for marketing webinars, internal training sessions and hybrid conferences.
How much does Zoom Webinars cost?: Zoom Webinars doesn't publish fixed prices; pricing is quoted on request.
Is Zoom Webinars open source?: No. Zoom Webinars is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Zoom Webinars include Jitsi Meet, BigBlueButton and plugNmeet.
What are some alternatives to Zoom Webinars?: Zoom Webinars competes with GoToWebinar, Livestorm and ON24. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Zoom Webinars alternatives.