Livestorm, the first video engagement platform that enables people to manage their meetings and webinars, today announced the addition of six new features designed to enhance engagement during virtual events and meetings. Individuals attending or hosting virtual meetings and webinars are susceptible to distractions, running over allotted meeting times and displaying unprofessional or monotonous backgrounds. The purpose of Livestorm’s new features is to mitigate these issues, help improve engagement and continue to elevate the user experience.
Upon popular request, breakout rooms are available to all Livestorm users. A breakout room is a dedicated space in which a small group of people can get together to solve problems, have short discussions or network. In the physical world, we often see these during workshops, at networking events or even large conferences. They can be equally effective when implemented during the virtual versions of similar events and in everyday group video meetings.
The new Timer App feature helps to effortlessly track and manage time for events, whether it is a webinar, large scale event or meeting, by setting the timer for your event, adjusting the visibility of the timer for guest speaker(s) and participants, adding music that plays when the timer starts and offers the ability to add, subtract, pause, or start your timer. Most notably, the Timer App also allows hosts to launch a timer in order to help them keep time while leading a presentation that can be kept private or displayed to all.
With 25 to 35% of Americans still working from home, virtual background images that appear behind participants in online events are still very much a necessity. Livestorm’s new Virtual Background Library offers 120 free virtual backgrounds across categories including the outdoors to professional offices and celebratory holidays.
Livestorm also added another plugin to their marketplace, Slido. Understanding that engaging a remote audience can be challenging, Slido will give Livestorm users new ways to interact with their audiences using open-ended questions, different types of polls, word clouds, and more. This app can be found in the App marketplace or by searching for it via the “Install more” shortcut in an event room’s Apps menu. This new integration is part of a larger ecosystem of applications in Livestorm’s marketplace, including Gusto which simplifies employee onboarding, Marketo for data automation, Beekast to boost the interaction with your events, and other collaborative platforms such as Miro and Google Doc.
“We make a point of listening to our customers as we understand how important capturing undivided attention is to determining the impact of virtual events and meetings,” said Gilles Bertaux, co-founder and CEO of Livestorm. “We’re thrilled to offer our customers these new features that prioritize engagement for attendees and a seamless, integrated platform for meeting and event organizers.”
Lastly, Livestorm users can now increase engagement from beginning to end with registration limit, calendar view and mandatory polls. With registration limits, event organizers can build excitement ahead of an upcoming event by setting a limit on the number of registrants allowed to attend and displaying the limit on your registration page. Because locating event sessions by date can be difficult, Livestorm also developed a new Calendar View. Calendar View allows users to view, create, and edit event sessions on your schedule. To further encourage event participation, you can now make your polls appear as a model in the middle of your event room by making them mandatory. To do this, simply select the new “mandatory poll” checkbox when you create a poll.
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