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Fuze vs Crowdcast: What are the differences?
What is Fuze? Online Meetings for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android. Fuze is the highest quality most reliable way to meet, share, and get work done. Fuze supports 12 HD video conference streams and up to 250 participants with clear HD voice. Share high resolution interactive content with powerful co-annotation controls.
What is Crowdcast? Grow your audience with live video Q&As, interviews, summits, webinars and more. It is a product to have highly interactive events over the web. Here are a couple of things it does for you: Register Users for a highly interactive webcast. Automatically sends reminders.
Fuze and Crowdcast belong to "Web and Video Conferencing" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Fuze are:
- Consistent experience across supported devices
- Mobile: iOS and Android
- Desktop: OSX, Windows, and Linux
On the other hand, Crowdcast provides the following key features:
- Bring someone "up on stage" virtually by inviting them on screen either from chat or before the event begins
- Engage with your audience through polls, questions and suggested topics
- Quickly accept payments for paid events via Stripe
I am in the midst of planning an online webinar for middle school boys. There will be five panelists that will be present at different times, and the attendees will be participating in Q&A's as well as group discussions - like breakout groups. Since each attendee/panelist will have a different operating system, I want to know which tool is most effective and accessible for my event?
I've used Zoom for something similar, and it should work for you. Zoom is widely accessible, including via phone calls. Breakout rooms are included (https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/206476093-Enabling-breakout-rooms).
One challenge with middle school boys might be managing participant behavior. Regular Zoom calls with more than ~20 people can easily get chaotic. Zoom's webinar mode might be more appropriate for this use case. Webinars are an extra $40/month.
Zoom is more popular and have more control over participants, but Crowdcast is more flexible, because of the HTML5 support and can apply widgets on webpages. Both can be used on any platform, but zoom needs to be installed first.
