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Why Choose Virtual Events over Zoom or Video meeting platforms?

Today, it won’t be wrong if we claim Zoom Meetings have become our way of life. Easy, breezy & at your convenience just after a hassle-free download. But have we come to consider that despite its presence, there are just a few areas that it is rather difficult to explore. For example, at our very own events industry, can a few zoom meetings & breakout rooms fulfill all our comprehensive requirements. We don’t think so! After all, all meeting platforms are not event platforms.

And here is why!

Virtual Events invoke an Immersive Experience

Make your attendees experience a lively, immersive, and engaging experience. From creating a monument to cloning any real space, all is possible with a Virtual Event platform. It’s quite evident that this feature is unique to Virtual Event platforms and differs from Zoom Meetings or any other Video Meeting Platforms. A Walkthrough to your Virtual Event, different halls, themed games is only possible with our Virtual Event Platform. For example, you can have an entire physical to the virtual transition of your preferred space as well as host your event at any unimaginable or futuristic space. Your attendees can experience q real-like world on their devices. Also, with zoom meetings, parallel events or activities are not possible whereas in a Virtual Event platform, like ibentos upto 20 event activities are possible simultaneously. These can be either in the form of conferences, breakout sessions, interactive sessions, games, or an exhibition. Your attendees need not click on different URLs to be in the event. Be it a small event or a mega one, the virtual events platform serves all purposes.

Virtual Events are for User Comfort

Give utmost attention in providing a smooth and effective experience to attendees while logging in to a virtual event. This can be in-action with a Virtual Events platform only when there is only ONE platform to experience the entire event without multiple URLs. What sets the Virtual Event platforms apart is the comfort factor that comes without Zoom fatigue and much wider options to network. The networking options among attendee to exhibitor or attendee to organizer is not limited to Video meetings but has Voice Calls & WhatsApp Chats added to it. Virtual & Hybrid Events allow users/attendees to explore, and needless to say, it will be extremely challenging to keep them engaged if we limit their experience to a Video meeting platform only.

Additionally, you can invite a much higher number of attendees to your virtual event with a basic package as compared to zoom. It highly depends on the platform you choose for example in ibentos you have up to a minimum of 2000 attendees at once at your virtual event platform.

Engagement Factors:

Virtual Events are more interactive and allow you the opportunity to incorporate games and activities like photo booths and scribble walls into your own event. These features make Virtual Event platforms unique in their approach towards audience engagement and retention rate. A normal standard meeting platform will not be able to cater to such diverse needs of your attendees. Hence, a Virtual Event platform is any day a more engaging option for your Virtual Event.

Meaningful & Integrated Reports:

While standard meeting platforms can help in basic interactions, detailed tracking of the happenings of your virtual event can be made possible with virtual events only.

E-Commerce Integration

To initiate a transaction at your Virtual Event, you’ll have a payment gateway to go for any kind of purchases or sales. This might not be possible if you choose a standard meeting platform. Therefore, choosing the right platform where payment gateways can be integrated works best.

Features like Events Notify can be integrated!

We understand the need and benefits of marketing during a Virtual Event. To cater to that, we have introduced the ibentos Event Notify feature, wherein you can send event reminders to all attendees just before the final event via WhatsApp. We’re World’s 1st Virtual Events platform to have an official integration with WhatsApp for virtual event purposes. These integrations can be done for any particular communication platform including WeChat, emails, or SMSes.

Now, don’t you agree with us if you see the features of a Virtual Events platform? All we can say is you can definitely go ahead and choose the Virtual Events Platform for all your events rather than using a standard meeting platform. This quickly pops multiple questions in your mind starting from the execution of an event with such features to handling the backend with ease and expertise. No worries, because ibentos caters to all such requirements that arise while setting up a virtual event. To check out the various Virtual Event Solutions given by ibentos, feel free to ask for a demo.

Website: https://ibentos.com/

Resource: https://ibentos.wordpress.com/2021/08/06/why-choose-virtual-events-over-zoom-or-video-meeting-platforms/

More Resources:

- How to Go Green with your Events?

- Best Online Platform For A Virtual Education Fair – Offsite

- Top 5 Virtual Event Platforms that got you through in 2020.

- 5 reasons why millennials prefer Hybrid Events?

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