Zoom Increased the Number of Users in Turkey by 139 Times

US-based video conferencing application ZoomZoom Video Communications, the developer of Zoom Video Communications, which was the period when the coronavirus epidemic started to spread all over the world. 2020 1st quarter financial reports shared.

According to the announced data, Zoom hosted 10 million daily participants in December 2019. April 2020this number in to 300 million took it out. The company managed to increase its revenues by 169 percent in the first quarter of 2020. to $328.2 million has been removed.

Zoom increased its popularity in Türkiye too

Zoom, which did not disclose the number of users by country, however, showed the proportional increase in the number of users on a country basis. Accordingly, the number of people registered to the free version of Zoom in Turkey increased from January to the end of April. 139 times increase showed.

Due to the coronavirus, many companies switched to a work-from-home model, and Zoom managed to increase the number of corporate users during this period. According to the data announced by Zoom, it had 10 or more employees in the first quarter of the year. number of corporate customers It increased 10 times.

A significant increase in the use of Zoom, privacy and security It brought with it concerns. Zoom has managed to gain the trust of its users in this regard, especially Zoom 5.0 It introduced many new features to users with its new version:

• AES 256-bit GCM encryption 
• security icon
• data center location
• green encryption shield 
• user reporting 
• set passwords for meetings
• limited screen sharing 
• Zoom Chat controls

Since Zoom hosts millions of meetings every day, it pays extra attention to security and is working on security and privacy features to secure the platform. CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) Council He stated that he was working with .