With virtual experiences being crucial to reaching business goals, there’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all webinar.
Well, at least there shouldn’t be.
Different event formats work better for different types of audiences. So it’s important that the virtual platform you choose is flexible and engaging.
Here are five popular virtual and hybrid formats that you can use Splash Studio for today.
The term webinar can mean a lot of things to a lot of people.
In this instance, consider it your classic presenter-driven stream and demo where the audience will be off-camera.
A webinar is Splash Studio’s bread and butter format.
In Studio, hosts have access to sophisticated tools for making a captivating presentation:
As to the latter, Q&A, chat, and polls are crucial for this format, as it’s the primary way to allow the audience to be a part of the action.
Bonus: For most marketers, on-demand content is a standard part of the post-event playbook. Splash Studio events are automatically recorded and staged.
This means you’ll waste no time activating your evergreen content strategy.
The biggest challenge of a hybrid event is creating an inclusive experience for the virtual audience.
Sure, it’s easy enough for them to hear the presenter or follow the screen-share. But what about the serendipity and human connection of IRL?
With Studio’s Networking Circles, hosts are able to create planned acts of human connection for their virtual audiences.
Here’s how it works:
What’s beautiful about this is the virtual audience is able to participate in icebreaker activities and networking.
As live attendees mingle and break out, so can the virtual ones!
They can even create their own circles to create smaller groups or even meet one on one.
Inviting experts and thought leaders to a virtual event is a tried and true format.
Where it can get messy, though, is when there are too many presenters on the stream at once. That can confuse the audience and makes it difficult for the speakers to be at their best.
Splash Studio is perfectly suited for the panel and roundtable format because it has advanced staging functionality that empowers hosts to think and act like a producer.
When presenters are backstage in Splash Studio the audience can’t see or hear them.
But the host sees presenters on “their bench” — a queue at the bottom of their screen — and can easily move them on and off stage with a couple of clicks.
This creates a very polished looking presentation that’s easy to follow — eliminating the overwhelming “Brady Bunch” stack of video screens and potential for an accidental Zoom bomb.
It also creates a sense of suspense, as new speakers can be revealed when their presence will have the biggest impact.
Studio’s Q&A, chat, and post-event networking options also give the audience various degrees of engagement with your panel.
Sharing recorded video during a live webinar has tremendous upside.
Then why aren’t more hosts leveraging the format? Because webinar platforms don’t make it easy.
Until now.
With Splash Studio, streaming a Youtube or Vimeo video isn’t just easy for presenters, but silky smooth and enjoyable for your audience.
No choppiness. No audio lag. And if you introduce your video right, it’ll seem as if you’re beaming a co-presenter in live via satellite.
Everyone has different definitions of simulive.
The most engaging form of it we’ve seen — and use for our own webinars — leverages Splash Studio for a balanced mix of live and pre-recorded content.
But, if you’d prefer to go live and roll tape, that totally works, too. You can even pre-configure it to have attendee networking, polling, chat, and Q&A.
A full company “All-Hands” meeting is a format used to communicate important updates to employees, often from the execs and leadership.
So it’s essential that the virtual presentation comes off professionally, and that non-speakers are given a voice to offer feedback.
Splash Studio is a major upgrade to the one-size-fits-all meeting link, which can get messy fast depending on the size of your company.
In Studio, there are Hosts, Presenters, and Audience member access levels, the former two require a passcode. Plus, the defined onstage and offstage areas allow the Host to dictate who is seen and heard by the audience — and when.
It looks great and looks especially polished and cohesive.
Interactive features like Q&A, polling, and chat make it easy for the audience to engage with speakers.
And Hosts can even promote audience members to appear on stage so they can ask their questions live or offer feedback.
To top it off, the meeting is automatically recorded, and can easily be gated and made available for on-demand viewing.
This means employees working asynchronously can easily catch up when they start their work day.
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And there you have it — five great event formats supported by Splash Studio.
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