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Crowdcast vs GoToWebinar: What are the differences?
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.
What is GoToWebinar? Online meeting, desktop sharing, and video conferencing software package. It is an online meeting, desktop sharing, and video conferencing software package that enables the user to meet with other computer users, customers, clients or colleagues via the Internet in real time.
Crowdcast and GoToWebinar can be primarily classified as "Web and Video Conferencing" tools.
Some of the features offered by Crowdcast are:
- Bring someone "up on stage" virtually by inviting them on screen either from chat or before the event begins
- Engage with your audience through polls, questions and suggested topics
- Quickly accept payments for paid events via Stripe
On the other hand, GoToWebinar provides the following key features:
- Email Automation
- Custom Branding
- Practice Settings
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.
