Sep, 2001 : Yahoo! Announces Internet Broadcasting Packages

📅 September 27, 2001 - Yahoo! Inc. (yahoo.com), has announced the availability of business solutions to help companies communicate with customers, employees, and business partners. New Internet broadcasting packages delivered through Yahoo!'s business communications division, Yahoo! Broadcast Services (business.broadcast.com), offer alternatives to traditional corporate conferences, sales meetings, and trade shows.

With travel and meeting costs rising and recent travel restrictions causingexecutives and conference organizers to cancel previously scheduledmeetings, Yahoo! says it has developed solutions that can be rapidlydeployed, are less costly, and have proven very effective as an alternativeto conventional large-scale meetings.
"Speaking with one voice to hundreds, or thousands, of internal and externalcontacts is an essential part of strategic business communications," saidJim Fanella, senior vice president of Yahoo!'s business and enterpriseservices division. "Yahoo!'s solutions will allow companies to continuevital communications that were centered around large scale meetings andmaintain critical and focused outreach to customers, sales forces, andbusiness partners."
Two immediately available packages are the Virtual Conference and anExecutive Communications Center.
The Virtual Conference product addresses a variety of meeting needs. Unlikea traditional conference, numeroussubject tracks can be made available forlive or on demand viewing and can be accessed by thousands of individuals atnumerous global locations. The Virtual Conference combines audio, video,informational slides synched to presentations, and a browser to view othermeetings associated with the same conference. It also features polling,question and answer, document sharing, live attendance tracking, and postevent reporting on attendees. There is an optional pay-per-view capability,as well.
Given heightened demand in Global 2000 corporations for rapid internalcommunication, the Executive Communication Center is specifically tailoredto deliver high-level information during times of breaking news that willaffect a company or its business. The product serves as an immediatecommunications channel to allow rapid global distribution of criticalcorporate information to internal audiences. Yahoo! Broadcast Servicespersonnel will be available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week toacquire and distribute corporate broadcasts within four hours of receipt.