Our aim in Groups is to make hybrid work and communication simpler and extra inclusive than ever earlier than. This pursuit is core to the hassle we put into creating significant connections between folks by means of our end-to-end occasions platforms, whether or not one-to-one conferences or giant one-to-many hosted digital occasions. We launched our new digital streaming occasion resolution for giant occasions, city corridor, in September 2023. City corridor has continued to drive new, thrilling experiences for our prospects, similar to the flexibility to deliver a number of presenters on stage, ship out attendee emails, and see real-time well being analytics for the occasion. As we transfer ahead, we’re excited to proceed to share our newest options with you and allow you to know what to anticipate from city corridor within the subsequent yr.
Moreover, we is not going to retire Groups Stay Occasions in September 2024, as beforehand introduced. City corridor will proceed to be the platform the place our new options and worth land, and we encourage Groups Stay Occasions customers to benefit from these new improvements by upgrading to city corridor when prepared. We’ve spoken with prospects and perceive how necessary it’s to make sure a easy transition to city corridor. We’re dedicated to creating it as straightforward and useful as doable for purchasers to experiment, undertake, and implement city corridor as their vacation spot for large-scale digital occasions, in addition to permit prospects to improve from Stay Occasions to city corridor on their very own schedule. Within the coming days, prospects who’re nonetheless utilizing Groups Stay Occasions, and want to proceed to take action previous September thirtieth, 2024, will be capable to schedule Groups Stay Occasions cases past this date.
Updates about options that can be rolling out to city corridor will be discovered on our city corridor adoption web page, and we’ll talk future updates about Groups Stay Occasions plans through blogs, MC posts, and every other boards the place this announcement is distributed.
City corridor improvements ship new methods to have interaction your viewers
City corridor adoption continues to develop as we proceed to prioritize driving new worth for our customers. Within the final quarter, we noticed important will increase in new prospects attempting city corridor, complete utilization, and the variety of hosted occasions. Our mission is to proceed so as to add new further capabilities to city corridor that make your streaming digital occasions extra impactful to audiences and extra seamless to execute. As we stay up for the approaching yr, we can be delivering key options to proceed to construct on the extremely partaking and interactive experiences that city corridor delivers. Attendees will quickly be capable to categorical their suggestions and engagement by means of dwell reactions, streaming chat and presenters can work together with their viewers through increase fingers. Superior manufacturing experiences such because the producer position, queuing shared content material and preview scene assist are additionally coming to city corridor, offering a brand new degree of occasion execution capabilities.
Once we initially introduced city corridor in September of 2023, we made our customers conscious that we’d proceed to launch city corridor options that present an identical expertise on the town corridor as Groups Stay Occasions. Within the subsequent twelve months, we plan to proceed to deal with these areas on the town corridor to make sure that we offer the identical characteristic effectiveness that prospects have come to count on from Groups Stay Occasions. Some key options that can be out there on the town corridor within the subsequent yr to assist obtain this effectiveness embody:
- Engagement capabilities (sure Q&A capabilities: voting, filters, sorting, and archive questions; export inquiries to CSVdownload Q&A report)
- System capabilities (MTR-W assist for presenters and attendees and CVI and VDI assist)
- Superior manufacturing experiences similar to producer position, queuing shared content material, and preview scenes.
The mixture of ease of use and adoption of city corridor, attaining characteristic effectiveness between the Stay Occasions and city corridor, and the brand new additive worth that’s unique to city corridor going ahead are all nice causes for present Stay Occasions customers to contemplate upgrading to city corridor to benefit from what we’re constructing.
For the most recent updates, characteristic timelines, and information about what’s coming for Groups city corridor, please go to our city corridor adoption web page.
