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Beyond the Broadcast: Building a Custom Q&A Webinar with RTMP and Plug-N-Meet's Broadcast API

· 6 min read
Jibon L. Costa
Founding developer

Hosting a professional webinar often means balancing a high-quality broadcast with meaningful audience interaction. While RTMP streaming delivers a polished, one-to-many presentation, managing audience questions in a large-scale event can quickly become chaotic. How do you ensure every valuable question is seen, moderated, and delivered to your host without disrupting the flow?

Plug-N-Meet's API-first approach, combined with its robust RTMP broadcasting capabilities and the new room/broadcastToRoom API, provides the perfect solution. This guide will show you how to build a custom, curated Q&A system that allows your audience to submit questions through your own platform, which are then seamlessly delivered to your webinar host in real-time.

Beyond the Presentation: Designing Interactive Webinars with Plug-N-Meet

· 6 min read
Chaboud Simon
Community & Marketing Lead

We've all been there: a webinar that feels less like a live event and more like a glorified slideshow. The presenter talks at the audience, the chat scrolls by unnoticed, and engagement dwindles. In today's digital-first world, simply broadcasting information isn't enough. Your audience expects to participate, to contribute, and to feel like an active part of the experience.

At Plug-N-Meet, we believe webinars should be dynamic, engaging, and truly interactive. It's not about replacing your presentation, but enhancing it with tools that foster real-time collaboration and feedback. This guide will show you how to leverage Plug-N-Meet's powerful features to design webinars that captivate your audience and deliver measurable results.

Everyone on the Same Page: Synchronized Video Playback in Your Meetings

· 4 min read
Bob Teng
Developer Advocate

You have a video you need to discuss with your team—a new marketing ad, a training module, or a customer testimonial. What do you do?

The usual options are frustrating. If you share your screen, you're often left with a choppy, low-resolution video and distorted audio. If you paste a link in the chat, everyone watches at their own pace, making it impossible to pause and say, "Let's talk about what happens at the 1:32 mark."

At Plug-N-Meet, we believe watching a video together should be a seamless, collaborative activity. That's why we built the "Play External Video" feature—a powerful tool that synchronizes video and audio playback for every participant, turning passive viewing into an active, shared experience.

Beyond the Chat: How to Engage Your Audience and Make Decisions with Live Polls

· 4 min read
Bob Teng
Developer Advocate

You're hosting a webinar and ask a critical question: "Does this new feature seem useful to you?" The response? A few scattered "yes" messages in the chat, buried between "hello from Brazil" and a question about something else entirely. You have no real data, no clear consensus, and no way to gauge the true opinion of your audience.

Text chat is great for conversation, but it's a terrible tool for structured feedback.

At Plug-N-Meet, we believe that understanding your audience shouldn't be a guessing game. That's why we built a simple, powerful Live Polling feature directly into the core meeting experience. It's the definitive tool for transforming a passive audience into active participants and for making data-driven decisions in real-time.