Why 2020 Was a Great Year for Zoom Video Communications

There’s a good chance you’re one of the millions of people currently working from home or out of school due to COVID-19. In that case, you should already be familiar with Zoom, a teleconferencing app that’s based in California, USA. 

Zoom provides video conferencing, online chat, teleconferencing, telecommuting, distance education, and social relations. They have witnessed a tremendous increase in the number of downloads and user base of the app on both Apple and Android devices worldwide. It’s so popular on mobile that it’s 2nd only to TikTok as the world’s most downloaded app across the last few months. 

During the 2020 period, Zoom gained close to 20 million new mobile users. Obviously, it earned Zoom billions of dollars in return. They have a significant advantage since it’s free of charge and available on both android and iOS devices. It’s also being used on PCs. If you wonder why Zoom is much more popular than any other teleconferencing software, here are some reasons:

1. Whether you’re talking to friends, your teacher, or your boss, it never hurts to look your best. Zoom contains filters that beautify and optimize your camera. Its virtual backgrounds are another crucial detail. You can swap out whatever is behind you in the video to any setting, whether it be a background of an office, the Milky Way galaxy, or the Burj Khalifa.
2. Zoom offers consistent video call quality and a simple user interface. Streaming a video on zoom beats both Hangouts and Skype when it comes to consistency. 
3. It enables its users to record meetings and share high-quality videos over Zoom to other users.
4. It can connect to over 100 people in the same virtual conference. 

Different ways some sectors have benefited from using Zoom

Schools

Zoom has been used by both the staff members to carry out meetings and plan what’s next in the curriculum. Teachers have used it to carry out lessons online with students at the other end of the video call conference. With Zoom, an instructor can monitor up to 99 students simultaneously in one video conference. 

Workplaces

Various companies have used Zoom as a communication tool with employees to plan and execute work from home. It has enabled bosses to keep track of the employees and their work progress while making it easy to share files and videos between them.

Social Life

Zoom has been used by families and friends to keep track of and communication between loved ones. It has enabled families far apart and unable to meet due to lockdowns emphasized by different countries to video call each other. It may not be as lively as when you meet your loved ones physically, but seeing them on a high-quality video and conferencing with entire factions and friends is always refreshing and heartwarming.

How Zoom plans to evolve and keep ahead of its competitors. 

Microsoft’s Skype and Teams, as well as Google’s Hangouts, are a few of the competitors investing a lot of money to beat Zoom’s popularity and steal away their user base. The competitors are introducing new features like upping the number of people in a conference room or making the services free, where Zoom has been flourishing.

It has recently been discovered that Zoom privacy may be at risk, and stealing user information is possible. For example, one can use an automated tool called Zoom bombing, which can help unauthorized users join meetings they weren’t invited to. However, they are planning to fix these problems to retain the trust of its users. 

As the pandemic comes to an end, it’ll be interesting to see whether Zoom will continue to thrive as the video chatting king.