Skype Meeting Broadcast enables organizations to broadcast a Skype for Business meeting on the Internet to up to 10,000 people, who can attend from a browser on nearly any device. Meeting broadcast makes it easy to host large virtual meetings like internal “Town Hall” style meetings and public webinars.
The service includes integration with Bing Pulse, for real-time polling and sentiment tracking, and Yammer, to enable attendee dialogue during the broadcast.
Communicate to the size of your audience When to use varying types of communication?
Broadcast meetings are the perfect solution for reaching large audiences. See which modes of communication will best help you achieve your goals.
Communication type
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# of people*
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Use cases + benefits
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Instant message
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2+
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Quick, informal communication and collaboration
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Email
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2+
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Written communication that is typically longer that instant messages and is best memorialized in an email thread.
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Phone Call
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2
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Real-time collaboration. An efficient way to get people up to speed; helps eliminate miscommunications.
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Conference call
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3+
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Collaborative phone conversation with multiple parties in various locations.
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Video call
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2-10
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When face-to-face communication is best for a meeting’s success, but people are in different locations.
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Webinar
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10–250
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Presenting information to a medium-sized or largescale audience. May or may not require or allow audience participation
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Broadcast
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250–10,000
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One-way presentation or town-hall style meeting, catered to reach a large audience in many locations
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*Based on general numbers and software; actual numbers may vary with different platforms.
When to meet and when to broadcast?
A typical video call or meeting can pose problems when accommodating more than a few attendees—while they’re great for one-on-one collaboration sessions, background noise, a lack of control, and scaling capabilities limit their effectiveness. A larger audience requires a more robust alternative. Consider a broadcast solution for meetings you’d hold in an auditorium, if everyone were in the same location. Online meetings are comparable to the type of meeting you’d hold in a conference room. Take a look at when a broadcast or meeting solution is best for your needs.
Skype Meeting Broadcast roles -
Organizer. Creates the meeting request and invites attendees. Reviews meeting reports.
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Producer. Manages the meeting sources (live presentations, dial-in presentations, audio, video, and PowerPoint decks), records the event, and posts the recording to Office 365 Video.
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Event team member. Participates in the meeting by presenting live or dialing in from a remote location.
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Attendee. Watches the event online.
Attendee options
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Anonymous: anyone with the meeting link can join the meeting
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Secure: only attendees listed below can join the meeting
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All Company: anyone from my company can join the meeting
Features -
Schedule your meeting: use the Skype Meeting Broadcast scheduling and management portal to schedule a meeting
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Manage an Event: Upload PowerPoint decks, cue live feeds from Camera sources, activate feeds and, switch sources during event. You can have one feed providing audio and another providing video.
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Customize your meeting: add a Yammer feed or Bing Pulse to your meeting so your audience can participate during the event and you can gauge their involvement and satisfaction
Large Meeting Capabilities
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Skype Meeting
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Skype Meeting Broadcast
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Maximum audience size
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250
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10,000
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Presenter Camera A/V
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Present a PowerPoint
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Desktop & App Sharing
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Attendee Camera A/V
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Collaborative Apps (Whiteboard, Poll, Q&A)
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Engagement Apps (Pulse, Yammer, Q&A)
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PSTN Access
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Cloud based meeting recording
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Client DVR controls (ex: pause, rewind)
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Branded meeting experience
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Meeting Producer role
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Distribution of the media content of a broadcast meeting utilizes Microsoft Azure's Content Delivery Network (CDN) to achieve very high scale, supporting thousands of people watching a broadcast. The chunked media content passing through the CDN is encrypted, and the CDN cache has a limited lifetime. Because Azure CDN is not included in the services that commit to meet the EU Standard Contractual Clauses, Skype Meeting Broadcast has been disabled by default for all locations worldwide.
Customers with EU Standard Contractual clauses must choose whether or not to opt into the service after reviewing the information in our communication to them. In the regions not affected by the EU Standard Contractual Clauses, the IT Admin can manually activate the Skype Meeting Broadcast feature.
To setup …
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Enable Skype Meeting Broadcast for your organization: You need to enable Skype Meeting Broadcast for your organization. See, Enable your organization for Skype Meeting Broadcast to have us walk you through this.
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Enable external access and setting up allowed domains: You can use either Skype for Business admin center or the Office 365 admin center to enable external access and allow access. See, Set up Skype Meeting Broadcast for the walkthrough
The Skype Meeting Broadcast portal can be found at portal.broadcast.skype.com. You can also go to broadcast.skype.com and go to the main Skype Meeting Broadcast page.
Resources
Watch Videos …
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First look at Skype Meeting Broadcast - Duration: 9 minutes, 6 seconds.
Read …
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What is Skype Meeting Broadcast?
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Schedule a Skype Meeting Broadcast event
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Manage a Skype Meeting Broadcast event
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Join a Skype Meeting Broadcast
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Set up Skype Meeting Broadcast
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Enable your organization for Skype Meeting Broadcast
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