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Google Hangouts vs Crowdcast: What are the differences?
What is Google Hangouts? A communication platform. Message contacts, start free video or voice calls, and hop on a conversation with one person or a group.
What is Crowdcast? Grow your audience with live video Q&As, interviews, summits, webinars and more. It is a product to have highly interactive events over the web. Here are a couple of things it does for you: Register Users for a highly interactive webcast. Automatically sends reminders.
Google Hangouts and Crowdcast can be primarily classified as "Web and Video Conferencing" tools.
I am in the midst of planning an online webinar for middle school boys. There will be five panelists that will be present at different times, and the attendees will be participating in Q&A's as well as group discussions - like breakout groups. Since each attendee/panelist will have a different operating system, I want to know which tool is most effective and accessible for my event?
I've used Zoom for something similar, and it should work for you. Zoom is widely accessible, including via phone calls. Breakout rooms are included (https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/206476093-Enabling-breakout-rooms).
One challenge with middle school boys might be managing participant behavior. Regular Zoom calls with more than ~20 people can easily get chaotic. Zoom's webinar mode might be more appropriate for this use case. Webinars are an extra $40/month.
Zoom is more popular and have more control over participants, but Crowdcast is more flexible, because of the HTML5 support and can apply widgets on webpages. Both can be used on any platform, but zoom needs to be installed first.
