Livestream All-Hands Meetings
Live streaming all-hands meetings are a great way for high-growth companies to communicate information to large, teams, allow them to move fast and align around important issues. In 2014 Airbnb was growing rapidly, and pivoting like Rafael Nadal. Airbnb partnered with Repertoire Productions to produce live streamed all-hands and because of these bi-weekly meetings, Brian Chesky and the executive team could present timely information about major events and policies that affected everyone in the company. Live streams are more effective than sending a company wide email. Using HD multimedia livestreams, the executive leadership could communicate clearly, and their passion would always shine! It was no accident Airbnb won the Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award #1 Best Place to Work and remain at the top on Glassdoor. Airbnb is also ranked Top Global Employer Global Brand Health Report published by Hired.com.
Airbnb’s direct video interaction with the entire team was a major factor in Airbnb’s agility, employee satisfaction, which undoubtedly led to a greater customer experience.
Common Questions & Concerns about Live Streaming Meetings
Security (Huge!)
Live streaming technology
Production Value (Do you want a zoom room or TED talk?)
Bandwidth
Q&A from remote locations
Security for Live Streaming All-Hands & Quarterly Meetings
When the CFO is on stage talking about sensitive earning calls, the company is very concerned that confidential financial, strategic or even legal matters aren’t viewed by the wrong people. At Repertoire, we work with IT teams to build the most secure system to post private videos that cannot be embedded on an unauthorized webpage or viewed by the wrong people. Hint, a password protected livestream won’t cut it.
If you would like to talk about how we keep livestreams secure, contact us and we’re happy to help you custom tailor the best solution for your company.
Live Streaming Technology for All-Hands Meetings
There are a lot of decisions to make about which technology to use. We’ve seen companies choose the wrong Content Delivery Network (CDN) because of an aggressive sales team – an embarrassing mistake that cost the company millions of dollars for a sub-par product and service.
Beyond the CDN, where is the often sensitive video going to live after the fact? What’s the best bang for the buck. Should you host your own CDN, or rely on a white label brand. Do you want interactive polling after the livestream? And finally what’s the best equipment to maximize the production value with the least amount of labor, once you’ve decided how to deliver the video to your team?
All-Hands Meeting Production Value (Skype, Zoom or TED Talk)
Having gotten our start producing the first EVER TEDx event (TEDxSF in 2010), we’re a little bias when it comes to the power of production value. Obviously, it’s hard to justify spending real money talking to a remote team of 20-30 employees. In this case, a google hangout, projected skype call or even zoom room would make financial sense. But if you’re paying 1,000 or more employees to watch a 90 minute all hands meeting, and higher production value will keep them engaged, the higher production value easy to justify.
The more effective you can be with your communication tools, the better the information and passion can be presented to your team. Repertoire produces meetings that offer HBO quality streaming, crisp audio, lower thirds graphics, closed captioning in any language and switching seamlessly between video angles, slides and promotional video or remote locations.
Live Streaming Bandwidth
As a policy, we ask for consent before nerding out about bandwidth specifics. So high-level, when 500 employees are watching the CEO present her all-hands livestream quarterly meeting from a remote office, it uses a LOT of bandwidth. Most modern silicon valley offices have gigabit fiber. 500 employees watching a pretty standard 5Mb/s HD livestream will use 2.5 Gigabits. The two best solutions to video lag in remote offices are to watch the stream in groups, or set up a distributed video network like HIVE.
Streaming All-Hands Q&As
One of the most amazing things about livestreaming all-hands meetings is that it gives the employees a chance to hear the vision, and also be heard. There is an art to running a Q&A session. Whose questions are taken. Are the questions curated. Who curates the questions. Are the questions piped in and asked by an assistant in the room, or are they fed to the DSM, a down stage viewing monitor located at the feet of the executive on stage? Repertoire knows how the big Silicon Valley companies like to run Q&As. However you decide to run yours, we have the knowledge and tools to help it run smoothly.
