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Samba Live for Webinars

Manage meetings, webinars, and events from anywhere in the world on any device to an audience of any size

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Samba Live for Education

Fully engage your learners and maximize their education with a tool built for their success

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Samba Live for OEM

The worlds best fully customizable white label webinar platform built entirely in HTML5 and WebRTC

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Layouts

Change the layout of your video conference in just a few clicks

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Custom Branding

Customize your webinars to make the platform your own

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Live Streaming

Broadcast interactive webinars to YouTube and Facebook Live

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Webinars vs. Meetings

Although meetings and webinars share some common features, they are designed for different use cases. In this comparison we want to provide a guide on the differences between webinars and meetings.

Best use cases

While meetings are more collaborative, where every participant can turn on their camera and share their screen, webinars are strictly divided into hosts actively presenting and participants interacting via Q&A, polls or similar features.

Webinars

  • One or more hosts (= speakers)
  • Virtual space for events
  • Ideal for large audiences or events
  • Usually open for the public
  • Participants usually don't interact with each other
  • Used for town halls, lectures, product presentations, keynotes, large events
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Meetings

  • Two or more participants
  • Virtual space for interactive meetings
  • Ideal for high participation
  • Usually invite-only
  • Participants are active and interact with each other 
  • Used for internal and external meetings as well as trainings and sales meetings
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Feature comparison

In Samba Live, webinar accounts have all meeting features, so they can be used for both.

Feature Webinars Meetings
HD video conferencing Yes Yes
Computer (VoIP) and telephone conferencing Yes Yes
Desktop and application sharing Yes Yes
MP4 recording in the cloud Yes Yes
Instant or scheduled meetings Yes Yes
Custom, persistent meeting room links Yes Yes
Send email reminders Yes Yes
Password protection Yes Yes
Content library Yes Yes
Whiteboard Yes Yes
Participant list Yes Yes
Shared notes Yes Yes
Group messaging, private chat and presence Yes Yes
Modes Yes Yes
Breakout rooms Yes Yes
Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption Yes Yes
AES 256 bits encryption Yes Yes
GDPR and HIPAA Yes Yes
Reporting and statistics Yes Yes
REST API Yes Yes
Branding Optional add-on Optional add-on
Vanity URL Optional add-on Optional add-on
Hand-raise Yes No
Lobby Yes No
Polling Yes No
Q&A Yes No
Layouts Yes No
Live stream to YouTube Live and Facebook Live Yes No
Invite participants as speakers or audience Yes No
Floor control and user roles Yes No
Landing and registration pages Yes No
Event scheduling Yes No
Hide participants list Yes No
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