OziboomerQ: Hi Ben, Thanks for your offer on appsumo.
My question is about the limitations in reference to Zoom or BigMarker.
Does one summit or one broadcast count as one attendee inside Zoom or Bigmarker?
Is Heysummit then controlling the access to the specific broadcasts and the usage inside Heysummit or do you need a corresponding account limit with Zoom or BigMarker?
The reason I ask is in relation the restrictions of Zoom and Bigmarker.
I'm hoping that the attendees inside Heysummit are counting as one attendee "Heysummit"watching a broadcast from Zoom because in that circumstance we can have other speakers using a free Zoom account rather than having to run at enterprise cost levels through Zoom or BigMarker.
Do speakers need their own Zoom accounts and can they use Zoom Free options or do we need to have all the speakers on our zoom account as hosts?
How are our attendees withing HeySummit counted in the webinar providers?
Other thing I can see Youtube is referenced for replays along with Wistia and Vimeo but is it possible to use the Youtube live video link as the video source and just stream through Youtube rather than using Zoom or BigMarker?
Is there an chance an option for custom RTMP to be incorporated in the future?
Best regards,
David Schummy
Ben_HeySummit
May 15, 2024A: Hey David,
Thanks for reaching out and for sharing your questions.
Essentially, HeySummit creates the Zoom or BigMarker webinars for you based on the talks you setup in your summit. We keep all of the details (title, description and date in sync) as well as ensuring that your speakers are added as presenters.
When the time arrives for a talk to go live, we send email remainders out to all attendees. In this email we include the join URL so that the attendee can join the Zoom or BigMarker webinar. As a result, each attendee that decides to watch the webinar live will therefore show up as an individual person within the Zoom or BigMarker webinar. This means that you need to make sure that your Zoom account is setup to accomodate the total number of 'live' attendees you expect to host.
As a mini case study - we ran a 100 speaker strong event last year. We had 3,500 attendees and over 700 booked into most talks. For that single month we paid a couple of hundred dollars to zoom to upgrade our account to allow up to 500 live attendees - just in case we needed them. It turns out though, that we didnt need this level at all - the most any of our talks received in terms of live attendees was around the 70 mark. My general point being that the show up rates are often always far lower than the total number of attendees that registered their interest. Just something worth bearing in mind.
One other point worth noting based from your question, is that you don't need each speaker to use their own Zoom account to host their talk. You, as the event organiser will decide who the host will be (you might have one host for all talks within your summit, or a couple to share the load). Each host you add will link their Zoom account. Its that zoom account that we use to auto create the webinars. For example. In our case last year, we had 100 speakers. Rather than spread those speakers out over 4 weeks with just me hosting them all, i decided to schedule their talks over a 2 week period. Doing this meant that many of our talks were doubled up in terms of timings and so I brought in a team member to host the other ones. In that scenario, we therefore had two Zoom accounts connected to our HeySummit event - one for each host.
In terms of adding youtube streaming for the talks themselves or RTMP streams - this is something we absolutely plan on adding. We appreciate that not everyone is going to want to broadcast their talks through tools like Zoom or BigMarker so we want to make sure that we cover those scenarios.
Sorry for such a long reply - i wanted to give you as much background as possible.
If you have any further questions just let me know.
Cheers,
Ben