Even 5 years ago people though that online conferencing was a packed market. Webex, GoToMeeting, and Live Meeting from Microsoft were all big players.However, it seems the market for online conferencesis still growing and and the topic remains relevant to the founders of startups.The founder of the German service NetviewerAndreas Schweinbenz, shared interesting statistics.It turns out that the market is in Europe, approximately equal to its volume in the states for 2003 (about $ 400 million).Ielogically, for the following 6 years of web conferencing market in Europe should grow by 10 times (up to the current level of US). This doesnt even take into account people using products such as gotomeeting free.

Moreover, Netviewer, proceeds of which ($ 20-30 million a year) about the level of income Citrix GoToMeeting 6 years ago, at the moment, took second place in the whole of Europe and seeks to takeover Webex.Today Netviewer has about 15 thousand customers.


Andreas also revealed a few secrets to promote its service.First, unlike most American ISPs, Netviewer offers a SaaS version, and web conferencing system that you can install on your own server.Typically, said Andreas, begins with SaaS version, but after they convinced the quality and begin to use web-meetings more broadly - they are more inclined to protect the server web conferencing own firewall. Reviews of gotomypc have pointed the firewall out as a very important feature.

In addition, Netviewer has a personal version which is distributed free of charge.In this way the company was able to zasabmitit its program to hundreds of software archives, and to significantly expand its range of users will get free advertising.

Do not forget the developers of the Netviewer and technological innovations.Sessions of web conferencing in conjunction Netviewer allows to view streaming video and listen to (VoIP) audio quality.