Technology Author：EqualOcean News , Enoch Gao Editor：Luke Sheehan Nov 03, 2021 05:17 PM (GMT+8)

The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 damaged many sectors. The videoconferencing market was among the winners.

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Tencent Meeting (global version – VooV Meeting) took its second mover advantage and tightly followed its global counterpart, Zoom. Released in late December of 2019, Tencent Meeting, although coming out seven years later than Zoom, has now become the most used video conferencing app in China. According to Tencent's vice president Yuepeng Qiu, Tencent Meeting now attains (source in Chinese) 200 million users and held more than 4 billion meetings in 2020.

At the time Tencent Meeting was presented, no one could predict its future impact in China. From its bare-bone functionalities and dated UI in earlier versions (even today 26% of its user ratings are 1-star), we could speculate that this app initially wasn't the tech giant's top priority.

Resulting from its unexcepted success, Tencent Meeting now joins the Tencent enterprise services ecosystem. The following months will see more integration between Tencent Meeting and Enterprise WeChat.