Overview
This guide focuses on video software designed for businesses and professionals who use virtual meetings as a component of their day-to-day business. Video conferencing software enhances collaboration with remote video meetings and chat sessions and directly reduces travel costs for in person meetings.
To qualify for inclusion in the Video Conferencing Software buyers guide, a product must:
- Enable video and audio communication between two or more parties
- Enable event hosts to modify specifications and manage guest invites
- Includes screen sharing, recording capabilities and chat features
Common feature sets
The Guide
The video software in this guide is broken down into a number of high level rating and ranking categories which you can see to your right. There are also secondary sub-categories which you can find below in this column.
Relevant Categories
About the Guide
Leaders: The Leaders category is hand picked software by the 50Wheel team based on market success, popularity and growth rate.
Top Rated: The Top Rated category is customer rated software by the over 100,000 users who visit 50wheel.com each month.
Definition: Learn more about this category of software with a short elevator pitch, a breakdown of the top features, and a pricing and packaging overview.
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Leaders
Highfive
Highfive has reimagined video conferencing and online meetings with a fully integrated hardware and software platform that delivers intelligent in-room video conferencing that takes less than 15 minutes to set up.
Zoom Meetings
Zoom Meetings provides an easy and reliable cloud platform for video, phone, content sharing, and chat runs across mobile devices, desktops, telephones, and room systems. Zoom Meetings connects teams, friends and customers using online video.
Proficonf
Proficonf is cloud-based video conferencing platform that makes it easy to host video conferences and meetings without downloads or installations.
GoToMeeting
GoToMeeting is a full featured video conferencing and online meetings solution for businesses. Complete with integrated voice, screen sharing, online video and more, GoToMeeting makes it easy for remote workforces to collaborate using video.
Join.me
Join.me is a video collaboration tool designed to launch a web video meeting with a single click. The software provides instant screen and web cam share to a number of participants without any software to download.
mmhmm
mmhmm is a video streaming platform that lets you transform your live videos into an engaging show, instantly. With mmhmm you can edit, add special effects, and move everything on screen in seconds and in real-time. With mmhmm creating professionals ...[Read More]
Lifesize
Lifesize provides cloud-based video conferencing software and services with integrated equipment. The company's award winning 4K video conferencing and service architecture is enabling teams at major corporations to communicate across the globe.
Top Rated
Highfive
Highfive has reimagined video conferencing and online meetings with a fully integrated hardware and software platform that delivers intelligent in-room video conferencing that takes less than 15 minutes to set up.
S5D RUSH
S5D RUSH is an interactive video platform that creates photorealistic, 3D virtual exhibits, videos, presentations and environments to be streamed seamlessly from any browser or device with no download or installation required. S5D RUSH is designed to...[Read More]
Whereby
Whereby is the ultimate video meeting software that makes it easy for businesses and teams to collaborate from anywhere with without restrictions such as software downloads or logins.
streamGo
streamGo provides a live streaming platform that boosts engagement through online events including webinars, webcasts, virtual events and podcasts and much more.
Lifesize
Lifesize provides cloud-based video conferencing software and services with integrated equipment. The company's award winning 4K video conferencing and service architecture is enabling teams at major corporations to communicate across the globe.
Blizz
Blizz from TeamViewer™ is powerful online video meeting software that enables connections with global teams through video, voice, instant chat messaging, screen sharing, and more on any device, anywhere!
LoopUp
LoopUp is a premium remote video conferencing and meeting solution that makes it easy to collaborate in real-time using web video and conferencing technology.
All software in category
What is video conferencing software?
The Elevator Pitch
Eliminate the need for in-person attendance at important business meetings, and improve schedule efficiency while strengthening client relationships.
Reap these other added benefits:
- Instant meetings with anyone, anywhere in the world.
- Dedicated meeting rooms and consistent functionality.
- Event management controls for branding and personalization
The Top Feature Sets
Video conferencing software is simply web meeting software that leverages latency-free streaming video technology to deliver a real-time video chat and communication experience.
The top feature sets include:
- The ability to schedule and invite attendees to meetings.
- The ability to record meetings.
- The ability to share a screen, application or media file.
- The ability to invite large groups of attendees to a meeting.
The Pricing & Packaging
One of the biggest benefits of this type of video software is the low cost to entry, making it really easy to get started. Most vendors offer starter plans with limited functionality for free.
Generally, vendor plans are packaged with:
- Basic one-to-one meetings and screen sharing.
- Recording functionally (both locally and cloud)
- Unique meeting URLs
- Meeting analytics and viewership
Organizations that use video software for sales are paying on average $15 per month, per user.
The Top Software Available
When it comes to vendors that offer video conferencing software, there are over 20 of them. They come from all across the globe, with the most popular being in the United States. Depending on your specific need, each vendor has its specific niche and tailors their technology slightly to serve it. Go out and explore, compare and see what’s right for you and your business.