Difference between Zoom Meeting and Zoom Webinar

Sometimes, you need to have a meeting. Sometimes a webinar is best. To decide which is best for your event, you'll need to know the differences between them.

• A Zoom Meeting is best for more interactive sessions where you’ll want to have lots of audience participation. In a zoom meeting, everyone is able to speak and participate. In a Zoom Meeting you can also create breakout rooms. Breakout room can't be created in a Zoom Webinar.
• A Zoom Webinar is more like a lecture or auditorium. Only Hosts, Co-Hosts, and Panelists can activate their camera and speak.

• Host and co-host
• Participant

• Panelist
• Attendee

• All participants can mute/unmute their own audio
• Host can mute/request to unmute participants
• The Host can set all participants to mute upon entry

• Only the Host and panelists can mute/unmute their own audio
• The Host can unmute one or more attendees