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Livestorm vs Crowdcast: What are the differences?
What is Livestorm? *A browser based online web conferencing software *. It is the modern webinar solution for all customer training sessions, demo webinars and employee onboarding. Everything works inside the browser, in real-time, without any download.
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.
Livestorm and Crowdcast can be categorized 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.
Pros of Crowdcast
Pros of Livestorm
- On-demand webinar recording auto published1
- Store unlimited number of past meeting/webinars1
- 720p1
- Browser based zero install1
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Cons of Crowdcast
Cons of Livestorm
- Very limited recording hours1
- Bandwidth heavy1