On Monday, Zoom announced that it has officially raised the webinar limit to 1 million attendees for all customers. Event organizers can now select the intended size of an event, with a cap of 10k, 50k, 100k, 250k, 500k, and 1m attendees, the company said in a press release. Webinars can last up to 30 hours and feature up to 1,000 “interactive” video panelists.
Zoom made no specific reference to the Democratic political group fundraisers in the press release. It said that it envisages a range of uses for such large-scale, one-off events, including massive internal corporate “all-hands” meetings, celebrity-hosted events such as fan “meet and greets,” brand product launches, and crisis communications for government agencies.
“Now event organizers have the flexibility and power to host truly interactive experiences on an unprecedented scale and the ability to purchase large single-use webinars,” said Smita Hashim, chief product officer at Zoom.