Zoom Entertainment: 5 Ways to Spice Up Online Meetings

With the onset of the pandemic, online meetings have become the way to go about one’s business. Be it online classes or online meetings with clients or employees; Zoom is a commonly used video calling application among all people. 

However, meetings on Zoom can become arduous and boring. You may find attendees disengaging, therefore missing important instructions or presentations. In addition, people inevitably miss out on topics because they either start scrolling through social media or daydreaming. 

Zoom entertainment can be a way to spice up online meetings to engage the participants. This article will cover 5 ways to ensure zoom entertainment so that the meetings become events people look forward to. 

5 Ways to Spice Up Online Meetings

Here are some quick, easy, and fun ways to boost engagement at your Zoom meetings. 

1. Start with Icebreakers

One of the downsides of online meetings is that people become awkward interacting with one another through the screen. Team-building prompts can be a great way to break the ice and start conversations with coworkers or classmates.

You can introduce an icebreaker question or activity to make all the members feel included in the meeting. We have a few games for this purpose. You can try these out. 

One ideal game for Zoom entertainment is the ‘Traffic Light’ game, where the participants have to declare what mood they are in – green, yellow, or red. For example, the yellow mood might mean feeling tired. 

Another team-building exercise is introducing icebreaker questions. This can be a great way to start conversations and make the meeting fun. The first thing the meeting facilitator must do is ask everyone to suggest topics of discussion. This can include a range of topics like favorite movies, books, television series, places to visit, fun lockdown activities, and so on.  

2. Frozen Screen

Have you ever gone through a Zoom meeting where at least one participant’s screen has not frozen? This is the reality for most people as internet connection might be poor or due to other issues. You can spice up the meeting by turning this sad reality into a fun game called Freeze. 

Stop mid-sentence while speaking pretending your screen is frozen. Someone in the meeting will then point out that your screen must be frozen and if that happens, you win a point. Introduce this fun game among your co-workers and capture all the awkward frozen moments. Turn it into an album of these funny images. 

3. Asynchronous Activities

Asynchronous games or activities are another way of providing Zoom entertainment. This entails playing a game on your own time and sharing the results during the meeting. 

You might even think of a fun ingredient collectively and take up a cooking challenge using the ingredient. You can then share your experience cooking the dish along with pictures of the food. 

These are ways that not only spice up Zoom meetings but also strengthen the team culture, bringing co-workers close to one another despite the physical distance. 

4. Never Have I Ever (work from home themed game)

We all know of the game ‘Never have I ever’ as a popular and typical party game where people sit in a circle and finish the sentence ‘never have I ever…’ with something they have never done. Those people in the circle who have done it will then have to take a sip of the drink they are having. 

This typical party game can be played in your otherwise boring Zoom meetings as well, with a few tweaks here and there. Stick to a work-from-home theme to make the game fun and relatable. It will truly make everyone laugh out loud with the revelations that come across in the game. 

A few examples of never have I ever that you can use in the game:

• Never have I ever forgotten to put a meeting link in the invite
• Never have I ever forgotten about a Zoom meeting completely until the host had to call up and remind me
• Never have I ever cooked a meal or done my laundry while in a meeting

5. Book a Speaker on Ovationz

Ovationz is a two-sided marketplace that connects talent with event organizers, party planners, and meeting hosts to create outstanding virtual events. This is a platform that allows you to easily hire entertainers like subject matter experts, entertainers, musicians, motivational speakers, and more for your virtual meetings. 

You can book such people at the last minute (at least 24 hours before the event) and enjoy next-level Zoom entertainment. You can choose entertainers from the Ovationz website, where they provide the portfolios and budget packages for hiring. You can even see reviews and ratings based on previous events to make a more informed decision. 

There are ten talent categories you can choose from depending on what kind of audience you will be addressing. Some of these categories are health and wellness, diversity, finance, business, leadership, content creation, arts and entertainment, future trends, innovation, and sustainability. 

Booking talent on Ovationz can be a great way to spice up virtual meetings and ensure the audience's engagement throughout. 

Summing Up

Virtual meetings can be a struggle. Many of us still prefer in-person meetings because of the visual factor where people can see each other; the gestures, body language, clothes, etc. 

But we can still find ways to host great online meetings by thinking up fun and entertaining activities. The 5 ways stated in the article can be a good starting point. Zoom entertainment is the only way to ensure the engagement of participants.