WebRTC's Bright Future

WEBRTC's Bright Future TokBox asked 1,000+ professionals from around the world about their experience with WebRTC and their plans to use it in the future. Respondent demographics Other China C-level 8% 3% 4% 12% Middle East 2% 4% Design Russia Marketing 4% Australia 5% 56% 45% Business Dev 7% 5% United States Software Canada Engineering 7% IT Ops 9% 27% Europe Product Management 7% of respondents are currently working on a real-time-communications app A Dominant Trend Technology architects building real-time-communication apps are switching from Flash to WebRTC. 88% of respondents consider WebRTC to be "increasingly important or "already critical" to their current work. 80% 60% plan to increase WebRTC usage plan to decrease Flash usage Industries respondents anticipate will adopt WebRTC over the next 24 months: Video Conferencing 75% 46% Telecommunications 44% 40% 29% Customer Service Education Healthcare/Telemedicine , WebRTC's Capabilities 101010101010 010101010101 101010101010 010101010101 101010101010 Video & Audio Audio Only Data Channels Percentage of respondents currently using each feature: 88% 41% 26% Percentage of respondents who chose each capability as the one they'd most likey use in future projects: 84% 7% 6% Video & Audio Audio Only Data Channels WebRTC's most useful advantages 40% 17% 16% 16% 6% 5% No downloads required Lower latency No A/V specialist Higher quality needed Other qudio & video Data channels WebRTC's biggest roadblocks 48% 20% 10% 8% 6% 5% 3. Lack of browser support Standard not fully defined Limited interop. Complex Other API No H.264 None support WebRTC's most-requested upgrades Mobile Multi-person Archiving/ Secure corporate Phone & video compatibility communication recording network deployment chat integration Learn more about the OpenTok Platform www.tokbox.com/platform