Virtual events are much beneficial in present days scenario to avoid in-person contact, also individuals can participate in the events from the comfort of your home office space or personal space. There is no doubt that virtual events will be here for a long time. Let us see few things to keep in mind if you have plans to conduct one any time soon.
Exponentially Huge Crowd
Usually, the audience will be more when you conduct a virtual event when compared to an in-person event. So, the person who conducts the event should be well prepared as the travel time and expenses are no longer a barrier for anyone around the world to attend the event. When you are choosing a video platform for the virtual elements of your program, you have to choose the video platform that can handle the large crowd with the best features. Make sure that technical errors will not be an issue during the event.
Prerecorded or Live event
Live sessions are always lively and the energy level and excitement of it are different from pre-recorded. But the live sessions’ drawback is, they can affect the presence of people from different time zones. Pre-recorded gives you more control over it but viewers won’t be having the chance to interact. These challenges can be overcome by conducting a semi-live session. This means, a pre-recorded session followed by a live question-answer with the speaker. It will be more stress-free and easier to handle the crowd.
Make it short and easy to grasp the idea
When you conduct a live in-person event, it can be 45 minutes to 1 hour long, you will get the attention of the audience if the content is interesting. It is different in the case when you conduct a virtual event. The audience feels difficult to sit and watch for a long time of the pre-recorded or live session. One hour is way too long for virtual events. The small screen cannot hold someone’s attention the way a live speaker can. So always keep the virtual sessions short and crisp. Break things into segments that are 20 to 25 minutes long. For an hour session, consider having a 25 minutes talk followed by 15 minutes panel discussion and 10 minutes for a question-and-answer session.
Flawless playback virtual event
In a real-world situation, we can’t predict everyone will be using the same device with the same amount of bandwidth. People will be attending the event from any device under a wide range of bandwidths. To avoid a frustrating audience, you have to ensure that the platform you are using should be ready for that. A virtual platform like CredCV has adaptive streaming technology, it automatically switches to the best resolution to avoid buffering delays. This will provide a flawless playback experience to the attendees.
Virtual and in-person events are two different things having their own positives and negatives. One of the positive sides of a virtual event is the data-driven insights it provides. Virtual events give what your audience cares about and their interests. This data will help you to know what your audience is engaging in in many ways. If someone rewinds a portion of your virtual event and watched it again? It represents a strong insight into the content you delivered and the attendee’s interest in it. Information about the session’s attendees started and the attendees finished will give you an idea about what their interest is. Also, the question and answer they asked in the session will give insight into the audience’s interest in it. This will help you to build a clear profile of the attendees’ interests than you could identify if they were at the in-person event.
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