In the new order of world affairs, events have taken a different shape altogether. To keep people’s spirits high and bring them together at a seamless platform is where the virtual events shine bright.
Virtual events are online events often featuring webinar and webcasts, ranging from small meet-ups to large scale conferences. Virtual events are the best way to reach out to a large-scaled audience or even create buzz for prospective attendees.
Just like any event, a virtual event also requires the same attention and supervision. The only point of difference is the venue and the modes.
The uprising of the virtual events is not only limited to video conferences but also involves managing various aspects such as registration, hype and invites, live streaming and payments.
5 Different Types of Virtual Events
- Webinar
A webinar is nothing but a virtual seminar hosted from one place that reaches various invitees. This type of virtual event is best suited to a larger audience with diverse content. With proper tools for Q&A, downloading file and pools, this becomes one of the most trusted and user- friendly mediums for a virtual event. They can even be white-labelled for branding and marketing purposes.
2. Cloud Virtual Events
Imagine yourself virtually entering a place where you can find yourself networking with other attendees and exchanging your views on common ground without actually being together. 3D visuals are created and stimulated to give you the same experience as a physical event to facilitate virtual reality.
3. Podcasts
Nowadays podcasts are becoming more and more popular because of speakers’ views and thoughts on a topic that interests the audience that makes them glued to the session. A podcast is a series of spoken words in audio files. They can be pre-recorded or even live-streamed.
4. Concerts
An upcoming trend in the entertainment industry is an Online Concert. A single platform for all the music lovers and fans to attend and enjoy their favourite artist as they perform for them.
5. Virtual Meet-ups
An informal or formal gathering of people in which they tend to express their views. This type of virtual event only allows limited access keeping in mind the purpose and the context for the meet-up.
Why should you host a virtual event?
With social distancing becoming a norm and data becoming more affordable, it is quite evident that the future is going to be all about remote participation. The major advantage of hosting a virtual event is that it is cost-effective and convenient and allows easy accessibility to a wider audience. With the world getting hit by the global pandemic Covid-19, events across the globe seem to have got cancelled. In the comings times, companies and individuals will certainly prefer virtual events for all the obvious reasons.
Additionally, virtual events allow easy accumulation of analytics and event data, almost as easily as the physical events. With such information, one can conveniently measure the ROI of the event quicker than ever before.
So think about hosting a white-labelled virtual event for your next corporate meeting or launch!