Our objective in Groups is to make hybrid work and communication simpler and extra inclusive than ever earlier than. This pursuit is core to the trouble we put into creating significant connections between folks by 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 answer for giant occasions, city corridor, in September 2023. City corridor has continued to drive new, thrilling experiences for our clients, corresponding to the power 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 reap the benefits of these new improvements by upgrading to city corridor when prepared. We’ve spoken with clients and perceive how essential it’s to make sure a easy transition to city corridor. We’re dedicated to creating it as straightforward and useful as potential for purchasers to experiment, undertake, and implement city corridor as their vacation spot for large-scale digital occasions, in addition to enable clients to improve from Stay Occasions to city corridor on their very own schedule. Within the coming days, clients who’re nonetheless utilizing Groups Stay Occasions, and want to proceed to take action previous September thirtieth, 2024, will have the ability to schedule Groups Stay Occasions situations past this date.
Updates about options that shall be rolling out to city corridor may be discovered on our city corridor adoption web page, and we are going to talk future updates about Groups Stay Occasions plans by way of blogs, MC posts, and every other boards the place this announcement is distributed.
City corridor improvements ship new methods to interact 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 vital will increase in new clients attempting city corridor, whole 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 look forward to the approaching yr, we shall be delivering key options to proceed to construct on the extremely participating and interactive experiences that city corridor delivers. Attendees will quickly have the ability to specific their suggestions and engagement by reside reactions, streaming chat and presenters can work together with their viewers by way of elevate palms. Superior manufacturing experiences such because the producer function, queuing shared content material and preview scene help are additionally coming to city corridor, offering a brand new stage of occasion execution capabilities.
After we initially introduced city corridor in September of 2023, we made our customers conscious that we might 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 give attention to these areas on the town corridor to make sure that we offer the identical function effectiveness that clients have come to anticipate from Groups Stay Occasions. Some key options that shall be obtainable on the town corridor within the subsequent yr to assist obtain this effectiveness embrace:
- Engagement capabilities (sure Q&A capabilities: voting, filters, sorting, and archive questions; export inquiries to CSVdownload Q&A report)
- System capabilities (MTR-W help for presenters and attendees and CVI and VDI help)
- Superior manufacturing experiences corresponding to producer function, queuing shared content material, and preview scenes.
The mix of ease of use and adoption of city corridor, attaining function 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 reap the benefits of what we’re constructing.
For the most recent updates, function timelines, and information about what’s coming for Groups city corridor, please go to our city corridor adoption web page.
