Zoom announced last week that it has surpassed 300 million daily users. The popular platform made the announcement on the occasion of the announcement of new features it has introduced.
However, Zoom has now admitted that this is not the case and changed the announcement it had made on its Blog.
As The Verge, every sentence that included the phrase “300 million daily users” in the company’s statement has been changed to “300 million daily meeting participants.” The change appears to have been made by the platform on April 24, a day after multiple websites reported that these were false claims.
A blog post posted by Zoom on April 22 referred to conference call participants as “users” and “individuals.” The company said that when it realized this error, it reworded its post to “participants.”
For those who don’t know, the phrase “daily active users” refers to the number of people who visit a platform in a single day. The “trick” with conference call participants is that the total number is based on the number of meetings the person participates in on a given day. So, for example, if a person participates in 3 conference calls in a single day, the platform records that as three different participants.
Furthermore, Zoom's statements that it managed to reach 200 million users last March, up from 10 million at the time, also referred to participants in video conferences and not everyday users.
The fact that Zoom misrepresented its daily users is certainly a positive for its competing platforms. Google Meet recently surpassed 100 million daily conference participants, while Microsoft Teams recorded 200 million daily conference participants in March.
