Airmeet vs Zoom Webinars

Airmeet is a platform for webinars and virtual, hybrid and in-person events, founded in August 2019 and led by CEO Lalit Mangal, with its engineering roots in Bengaluru. It grew during the 2020 shift to online events, raised a $35M Series B after its Series A, and says more than 4,000 organizations have used it. Its core job is running branded events where attendees do more than watch a stage: they network, visit booths and talk at tables.

The event toolkit covers registration pages, ticketing, a backstage for speakers, multi-track sessions, polls and Q&A, plus Social Lounge tables, Speed Networking, Fluid Space and exhibitor booths. Airstudio handles streaming and recording, and AI tools (Airgenie for summaries and content, Airshots for clips) repurpose sessions afterwards. Pricing is attendee-based: Premium Webinars is self-serve, while Events, Managed Events and the Agency plan are quoted.

Airmeet fits marketing teams, associations and agencies that run recurring webinars plus a few larger community events per year. It is less suited to simple one-off meetings, and Premium Webinars streams at 720p with 1080p as a paid add-on. Livestorm is simpler for browser-only webinars, Zoom Events wins where Zoom is already standard, and Hopin's event product now lives inside RingCentral Events.

Buying tip: plans are billed on actual attendees, not registrations. If attendance exceeds your bundle, extra people are still admitted and billed after the event on a pay-as-you-go basis, so model your show-up rate and pre-buy attendee bundles before a big launch.

Zoom Webinars and Zoom Events are the webinar and virtual event products of Zoom Video Communications, the San Jose company (renamed Zoom Communications in late 2024) whose meeting software became the default for video calls. Zoom Webinars handles broadcast-style sessions where panelists present to a large audience, while Zoom Events (including Zoom Sessions for single and multi-session events) adds event hubs, lobbies, ticketing and multi-day conference features on the same infrastructure.

Webinars include registration with custom questions and approval, branded pages and emails, a backstage area for panelists, Q&A, polls, chat, reactions, and live captions. Simulive plays pre-recorded content as if it were live, and recordings become on-demand content. Zoom Events adds an event lobby, networking, expo booths for sponsors, ticketing and multi-track agendas for virtual and hybrid conferences. Reporting covers registration, attendance and engagement, and integrations connect to HubSpot, Marketo, Salesforce and other marketing tools. Licensing is per host and attendee capacity, starting at 500 attendees for Webinars, with larger capacities and Events packages priced higher or quoted.

Zoom is a safe choice for company all-hands, large customer webinars, training and conferences, because attendees already know the interface and the video infrastructure is reliable at scale. Marketing-focused tools usually offer richer engagement analytics and conversion features: Livestorm and Demio run fully in the browser with marketing integrations, and ON24 provides enterprise-grade engagement analytics.