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Webcast Webinar Events

Webcast webinars allow organizers to host large, broadcast-style sessions with up to 3,000 attendees (Plus plans) and 500 attendees (Pro plans) in listen-only mode. This allows organizers to reach bigger audiences with even greater engagement, while ensuring a smooth join thanks to the browser-based Instant Join app.

The features that are available on your account may vary depending on your subscription plan.

Make sure you are running a supported system.

Schedule a webcast event

Organizers will see an option to choose Webcast as the event type while scheduling a webinar.

Start a webcast webinar

Organizers can start a webcast webinars the same way they would classic webinars.

Webcast FAQs

See Are there FAQs for webcast webinars? for a full list of Webcast webinar events FAQs.

System requirements to host Webcast webinars

Operating system

Windows 7 – Windows 10 Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) - 10.13 (High Sierra)
Software GoToWebinar desktop app

System requirements to join Webcast webinars

Operating system

Windows 7 – Windows 10

Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) - 10.13 (High Sierra)

Linux / Ubuntu (Chrome or Firefox only)

Google Chrome OS (Chromebook) (Chrome only)
Web browser

Google Chrome (most recent 2 versions)

Mozilla Firefox (most recent 2 versions)

Apple Safari (most recent 2 versions)

Microsoft Edge (most recent 2 versions)

Internet Explorer v11 or later
Software Adobe® Flash® Player enabled (Internet Explorer only)