Adapting from Home: This Week’s View of Video Meeting Triumphs and Concerns
March 27 2020 - 8:15AM
Business Wire
8x8.com/live Documents the Leading Trends in
How People Around the World Are Using Video Meeting Technology to
Teach, Heal, Work, and Socialize
8x8, Inc. (NYSE:EGHT), a leading integrated cloud communications
platform, today announced its findings from an analysis of the
social conversations about 8x8 Video Meetings and its related
open-source project Jitsi.org use cases. Additionally, 8x8 reported
that the global monthly active users of 8x8 Video Meetings is
nearly 4.5 million, as people adopt video conferencing technology
with unprecedented velocity. A livestream of these social
conversations, daily updates on usage stats, and other video
meetings and remote work resources are available at
8x8.com/live.
Video Conferencing and Meetings Notable Stats:
- Video conferencing and meetings search volume is up 1,000% year
over year.
- There were over 25,000 social conversations regarding 8x8 Video
Meetings and Jitsi.org in the last 30 days.
- These comments represent approximately 25 percent of video
conferencing social conversations since February 27, 2020.
- The top 5 countries for conversation in rank order are Germany,
France, Spain, United States, and Italy.
Five Trending Dynamics:
- Privacy Makes a Public Statement: In light of
exponential demand, the developer community rallied around the
cause by standing up thousands of instances of Jitsi on their
infrastructure to ensure access to free, stable video meetings.
Posts from the open-source community have spiked over the last 24
hours widely applauding platforms for ensuring privacy, security,
and the ability to host on their own servers.
- Can You Hear or See Me Now?: Developers and users note
that voice, video quality, screen sharing and privacy is a cause
for both choosing and switching video platforms.
- People are Social Creatures: Social gatherings, from
support groups to parenting playdates and game nights to musical
rehearsals, have taken the platform by storm. Yoga classes, karaoke
nights, happy hours, and in every situation, there are people who
are smiling, laughing, and persevering in the midst of
uncertainty.
- Learning Is a Team Sport: Teachers, tutors, and students
around the globe turn to 8x8 video as they find themselves unable
to return to the classroom. In one case, a high school musical
director used the platform to conduct a two-hour run through with
his lead actors. Another moved all of her piano students onto the
platform to maintain her regular lesson schedule.
- “Seeing” a Patient @Distance: For health and mental care
professionals, they’re turning to the 8x8 platform to deploy
eMedicine programs, offering to treat and diagnose patients over
video. In one instance, a wellness specialist was hosting free
sessions to help people cope with the significant economic and
cultural changes that have come as a result of the
coronavirus.
4.5 Million Video Meetings Monthly Active Users Globally; 1
Million Increase in Last 48 Hours
8x8 is the main contributor to the Jitsi.org open-source
solution, and the standalone and integrated versions of 8x8 Video
Meetings for business are based on it. The Jitsi.org code has been
hardened with over a million downloads and in applications like
banking video conferencing, education as a service platforms and
home security applications globally. The product is packaged with
8x8 X Series for businesses that have a mobile and remote workforce
requiring a highly reliable and resilient solution across desktop
and mobile devices for voice, video, chat, contact center, APIs and
advanced analytics. It is also available as a standalone offering
and as part of 8x8 Express, which is for small organizations and
teams that require a complete, preconfigured business phone system
with a dedicated business number, video meetings and messaging in a
single desktop and mobile application.
The free, standalone version of 8x8 Video Meetings, introduced
to the public in November 2019, is available at https://8x8.vc, and
includes international dial-in numbers in more than 55 countries.
8x8 Video Meetings utilizes the WebRTC standard which enables
attendees to instantly join meetings without any downloads or
plugins.
About 8x8, Inc.
8x8, Inc. (NYSE: EGHT) is transforming the future of business
communications as a leading Software-as-a-Service provider of
voice, video, chat, contact center, and enterprise-class API
solutions powered by one global cloud communications platform. 8x8
empowers workforces worldwide to connect individuals and teams so
they can collaborate faster and work smarter. Real-time business
analytics and intelligence provide businesses unique insights
across all interactions and channels so they can delight
end-customers and accelerate their business. For additional
information, visit www.8x8.com, or follow 8x8 on LinkedIn, Twitter
and Facebook.
8x8® and 8x8 X Series™ are trademarks of 8x8, Inc.
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