#1 most frequent
United States of America
53.7%3,332 installations of 6,208
What is Google Meet?
Google Meet, formerly Hangouts Meet, replaces the former Google Hangouts as the company's G Suite integrated web conferencing tool, allowing users to join meetings directly from a Calendar event or email invite from a computer, phone, or conference room. G Suite's Enterprise edition also creates a dial-in phone number for each meeting, as an additional convenience.
Categories & Use Cases
Product Demos
Top Performing Features
Participant roles & permissions
Administrators can grant users different levels of access to conferences, as moderators, presenters, attendees, or participants. Permissions can be set for individual users, or based on user role/group.
Category average: 8.3
Low bandwidth requirements
Software is optimized so that meetings do not require a huge amount of bandwidth.
Category average: 7.4
Mobile support
Attendees can access meetings/webinars from mobile devices.
Category average: 8
Areas for Improvement
Record meetings / events
Meetings and webinars can be recorded for playback.
Category average: 8.3
Q&A
Attendees can ask questions during the presentation.
Category average: 8.1
Integrates with social media
Integrates with social media sites like Twitter and LinkedIn to promote meetings and webinars.
Category average: 7.7
Who Buys & Uses Google Meet
#2 most frequent
India
9.2%572 installations of 6,208
#3 most frequent
Canada
5.4%334 installations of 6,208
One of the best platforms for video communications if not the best
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I decided to use Google Meet more and more because me and anyone I worked/I'm working with realize that it's a more intuitive and simple to use platform, at least when we compare it to the others. Moreover, we face no issues even when a poorer connection occurs either at my end or at the other person's end.
Pros
- User-friendliness
- Immediacy
- Reliability
Cons
- So far, I have nothing to complain about Google Meet.
Return on Investment
- It makes every work-related conversations easy to conduct or participate in because I usually experience no issues in either audio or video quality, and well as screen sharing.
Usability
Google Meet is the Best
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I think that Google Meet is an amazing product and easy to use. Meet we use in our day to day life and it helps to make a good connection.
Pros
- Customer meeting
- Quick connect
- Slack friendly
Return on Investment
- Positive
Usability
Lightweight Mobile Browser friendly Video Conferencing tool
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We at salesforce using Google Meet for internal team collaboration and video conferencing. It is very lightweight and we are able to run it on browser itself. Everyone in my company is using Google Meet.
Pros
- It's very lightweight so it doesn't require much internet bandwith
- Even it's background filters are very good and lightweight
- It's user experience is very simple and easy to use
Cons
- I think audio is a concern for me, I find zoom's audio better than Google Meet. so they should improve audio quality
Return on Investment
- Making remote communication easy
- We are able to work from different location easily
- calendar integration makes it easy to schedule meeting with colleagues
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Slack, Microsoft Teams and Zoom Events & Webinars
Google Meet Seamless Reliable and Efficient Tool for Video Conferencing
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It is primarily used in my organization for seamless virtual meetings between our employees and clients. It is quite a reliable platform when comes to online interaction and provides smooth communication across departments and teams working remotely. It significantly reduces certain business problems like reducing travel costs, real time collaboration with teams and efficiency of teams regardless of locations. Our organization also utilizes in our regular training sessions and large scale webinars. Meets integration with other Google services is just phenomenal, Meet with Google workspace certainly enhances employees productivity, easy scheduling of meetings, document sharing and screen presentations. We also use meet for daily brainstorming sessions, customer presentations, training sessions and large scale organizational webinars. It is quite an incredible tool for day to day use and is very beginner friendly. Its intuitive dashboard is just flawless and one can easily use it without any specified technical knowledge. At last Google Meet ensures smooth professional virtual interactions among organizations which makes it an indispensable tool for us.
Pros
- Google Meet provides seamless integration within Google workspace with tools like Calendar, Gmail and Google drives making it an effortlessly to invite people.
- Users can significantly attach there documents with Google Drive without any hassle. It ensure that all have access to required documents before and while the meeting continues.
- Google Meet runs very smoothly in browsers that significantly eliminate compatibility issues and can be run on any device.
- Meeting links can be shared quite easily and in just a single click one can join it that reduces technical barriers.
- It often works quite well in low bandwidth areas which is truly phenomenal
Cons
- Its a great tool but it lacks features like muting and unmuting participants on a single click
- If meeting are going a larger basis there must be a hard mute button to prevent participants unmuting themselves.
- Its free users cannot record meetings which only available in paid option.
- It does not have any cloud storage management facility
- AI enabled noise cancellation feature is useful but significantly needs improvement as it often mute human voices along with background noise.
Return on Investment
- It's a part of Google workspace so businesses can significantly save up to 50% when opting for it in place of Webex or Zoom
- It also eliminates travel cost and saves immense time of employees, Whether they require to attend meetings or training sessions which significantly reduces operations cost up to 40%.
- Real time documentations significantly improved miscommunication between employees and project turnaround times by 25%
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Webex App, Microsoft Teams and Zoom Events & Webinars
Other Software Used
Google Drive, Google Calendar, CRM Assistant for Gmail™
Service is top notch at reasonable pricing
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I work under head chef. Our most briefing is done on online meeting. So, we all use Google Meet most of the time. we basically get knowledge on recipes and other customer issues with food. We also talk about the new methods we would like to use in our culinary department. Also, some of our HR meetings are also held online and we can get update directly. During peak season, we have to rotate our shifts and communicate via Google Meet.
Pros
- Easy to join the meeting.
- Using chat messages for better communication.
- Voice clarity is top notch.
Cons
- Video or sharing screen takes time to connect.
- I think drop of call due to slightly unstable internet is pathetic.
- UI seems out of update to me.
- I think the call recording feature should be added in free plan.
Return on Investment
- Increased contact frequency, which has an influence on contract length, sales volume in customer service
- Reduced travel expenses for a face-to-face encounter.
- Work closely with the team throughout the day
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft Teams and Webex Meetings
Other Software Used
Webex Meetings, Webex Calling, OBS Studio
