On the other hand, Skype and Messenger Rooms do not have any time limits. Google is not enforcing that limit until September 30, but even then it is an improvement over Zoom’s 40-minute limit. While all you need to join a Google Meet meeting is a Google Account, which anyone can sign up for using an email address, free meetings only last for 60 minutes. Google Meet is clearly going after Zoom, but Google is still careful to leave exclusive features for its paying customers. And Google has been flexing Meet’s muscles all month.
Last week, Facebook launched Messenger Rooms. Last month, Skype started letting users join video meetings without having to sign up or download anything. As a result, Zoom is now the undisputable leader, and tech giants are trying to catch up. Zoom traded privacy and security to make joining video meetings with hundreds of participants dead simple. Zoom started as an enterprise tool, even if it’s now also being used to broadcast yoga classes, happy hours, and dinner parties. What caught tech companies off guard, however, is that people would also use their work video chat tools for fun. In the age of coronavirus, it’s not surprising that workers are increasingly using video conferencing tools. Last month, Microsoft shared that Skype’s daily active users were up 70% to 40 million. That’s still a far cry from Zoom’s 200 million meeting participants, but at least it’s on the same order of magnitude. On Alphabet’s Q1 2020 earnings call yesterday, CEO Sundar Pichai revealed that Google Meet passed 100 million meeting participants last week and is adding “roughly” 3 million new users every day. Google will start to enforce the time limit restriction on September 30. Anyone with a Google Account will be able to start, join, and schedule a Google Meet call for free “starting in early May.” But there are some limitations: Meet video calls can have up to 100 participants and last up to 60 minutes.
Google Meet, the video conferencing tool formerly known as Google Hangouts Meet, is arriving for consumers “over the coming weeks.” Until now, Google Meet was only available to business and education users via G Suite. Join us on November 9 to learn how to successfully innovate and achieve efficiency by upskilling and scaling citizen developers at the Low-Code/No-Code Summit.
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