So why did we start using Zoom rather than any of the host of other very capable video conferencing packages. In 2023 Zoom still holds a dominant position with 55% of the video conferencing market, a level at which the US courts start to pay attention to a company’s actions from an anti-trust viewpoint. In 2020 its turnover increase by 326%, its share price rocketed, meetings held on Zoom increased by 2900% and the number of users expanded by thousands of percentage points.

Zoom has found itself drowning in revenue. Somehow Zoom have managed to become the 21st century BiroĪs they say, ‘other brands of video conferencing software are available’, so why has ‘to Zoom’ become a verb? The pandemic has even launched Zoom into the Oxford English Dictionary, becoming one of its words for the year for 2020! They’ve managed to achieve what very few with the exception of Mr Hoover and Mr Biro have ever managed to do. The 8 best free alternatives to Zoom (and most are better than Zoom too!)

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