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Virtual events platform Hopin acquires video streaming studio StreamYard for $250 million

Venture Beast

Hopin, an 18-month-old virtual events startup valued at $2.1 billion, has acquired video streaming studio StreamYard for $250 million. Read More.

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The massive bust in virtual event platforms and what comes next

Trends in the Living Networks

The last few days have marked the massive bust in virtual events: Verizon closed down BlueJeans, Run The World bought by EventMobi, and Hopin’s event management platform was acquired by RingCentral. While a sale price wasn’t disclosed Techcrunch noted that there were 500 events recently listed, down from 15,000.

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Xsolla launches Unconventional for game-like virtual events

Venture Beast

Xsolla is launching Unconventional, a platform for holding virtual events for the game industry in partnership with Pantera Entertainment. Read More.

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Roblox has big plans for virtual music events

The Verge

On a Friday night in September, more than a million people showed up to an album launch party inside the virtual world of Roblox. American pop star Ava Max held a “virtual fan meetup” in the game to celebrate the launch of her new album Heaven & Hell. They’re events that have attracted millions of virtual attendees.

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The Engagement You’ll Find at Our Virtual Events

CIO Business Intelligence

A record number of participants turned out for a discussion group with one of our speakers, Tom Kouloupolous , futurist and chairman and founder of Delphi Group, during our April virtual summit, CIO’s Future of Cloud and Data. Indeed, interaction is what makes a virtual summit a conference vs. a webinar. Text chat was different.

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As events go virtual, what are compelling formats and styles for virtual keynotes?

Trends in the Living Networks

Until just a few months ago almost all conferences brought many people together into large venues, with captivating keynote speakers as drawcards and to set the tone of the event. Now almost all events are virtual, creating a very different dynamic for both audiences and speakers. Challenges of virtual events.

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Skittish is a virtual event space built from the lessons of the pandemic

The Verge

XOXO Festival co-founder Andy Baio unveiled his newest project on Tuesday : a new platform for virtual events called Skittish. Skittish looks like a very cute version of social spaces in video games like Second Life or VRChat but built specifically to host online events. And Baio knows how to pull off good events.). (And