Updated: May 31, 2023 (February 27, 2023)
Charts & IllustrationsComparing Live Events, Teams Meetings, and Teams Webinars
Live events, Teams meetings, and Teams webinars have different capabilities that make each suitable for specific scenarios. This chart summarizes the core capabilities of each type of event.
Live events are video broadcast events with limited interactivity. They can reach very large and geographically distributed audiences and support external encoders that enable the use of video production software for complex or highly produced events. Live events are best suited for events like organizational all-hands meetings, promotional events like product announcements, and other events where one or few presenters are broadcasting to a large audience. However, encoding and streaming live events involves a processing delay of 10 to 15 seconds before content reaches the viewer, and interaction is limited to moderated text-based Q&A.
Teams meetings are intended as video conferences of invited attendees with multiple presenters, video and audio from presenters and attendees, and a high degree of interactivity including apps such as collaborative whiteboards. Teams meetings focus on attendees that can interact in close to real time, and they can support an additional “overflow” of view-only noninteractive attendees. However, Teams meetings do not support enterprise content delivery networks (eCDNs), which can make them less useful for large one-to-many presentations.
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