SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Zoom Video Communications (http://zoom.us) the first Unified Meeting Experience with HD video meetings and mobile screen sharing for up to 25 people using desktops, mobile devices and room systems, today announces it has reached more than 1 million participants worldwide. Zoom has transformed real-time collaboration experiences in an effort to increase the quality and effectiveness of cross-platform communication. Since the 1.0 release in February this year, Zoom has connected more than 400,000 meetings and 3,500 businesses, in over 2,500 cities worldwide.

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"We've received overwhelmingly positive responses from our growing customer base," said Eric Yuan, Founder and CEO of Zoom. "In the beginning, we had the goal in mind of creating a communication tool that allowed participants to connect and share information easily and with the highest-quality from anywhere in the world. With the emergence in participants from both businesses and individual professionals, we know we've created the next evolution in cloud video collaboration that provides the ultimate affordable, unified, cross-platform meeting experience for everyone."

Zoom is disrupting the communications space with its 3-in-1 (HD video conferencing, mobility and web meetings) cloud service at $9.99/month that lowers customer's operating cost dramatically.

Customer Quotes:

Browning Marean, Senior Counsel of DLA Piper

"Businesses like us are looking for ways to improve and simplify our video communications and empower everyone to communicate with clients more effectively. Zoom is a game changing technology, backed by the security and reliability of a cloud-based service, taking video conferencing to the next level."

Will Barrett, Senior Operations Officer of Bank of Tennessee

"Everyone that touches Zoom loves it, as it has the perfect balance between features and ease-of-use. Being able to tie together our conference rooms and mobile devices with HD video conferencing and screen sharing using an intuitive user interface is both incredibly powerful and fun!" 

Josh Spinner, Executive VP and CEO of the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation

"Today's students require dynamic, fresh, multimedia-rich learning experiences. Zoom enables our teachers to deliver crisp, interactive, online classes. Zoom's technology is intuitive and smooth. It excels on tablets and desktops alike, making it our platform of choice for delivering real-time synchronous classes, connecting Lauder E-Learning School students and teachers across Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic and worldwide.  Zoom enables us to focus on doing what we do best -- educating, engaging and inspiring."

About Zoom
At Zoom Video Communications, our mission is to develop a people-centric cloud service that unifies your meeting experience and improves the quality and effectiveness of communications forever. Zoom Video Communications is a privately held company headquartered in Santa Clara, California.  For more information please go to: http://zoom.us or follow us @zoom_us.

SOURCE Zoom Video Communications