How to make a group video call on Skype

Skype lets you easily make group video calls and vice versa From what you might think, it offers the possibility that even people who are not registered in the service with a Skype or Microsoft account can participate, which makes everything even easier.

Services such as Skype are assuming the usual means of communication between the population, not only because they allow very direct contact due to the possibility of see family and friends in pictures, but also by being able to establish voice conversations.

In any case, Skype is not the only option available, we also have the video calls from WhatsApp or those from Facebook Messenger that have arrived recently, or also applications like Zoom, but the truth is that Skype offers good quality in video calls.

Of course, in case you don't want to install Skype on your computer to make a group video call through this app, but If you want to take advantage of all its features, you should know and try Meet Now, a free online service that we talked about recently.

If you already have the application installed, you should know that there are two ways to make a group video call with your Microsoft contacts or with other people who don't even use the service, so we're going to show you those two ways in case you want to try both.

Invite to a group meeting from a link

The first possibility is the same thing that Meet Now offers, that is, generate a link from within Skype so that anyone, Whether you are registered or not, you can join that group meeting or video call without installing, simply from the browser.

If this option is the most appropriate, follow these steps:

1. Open Skype and sign in with your account. In the upper left part click on “meeting”.

Wait a few seconds for the link to that group video call to be generated, all you have to do is copy it and send it to anyone who is going to participate in that video call

1. Finally, click on “start call” and you can start the group meeting with all those people who have seen the address you you have sent and they have clicked on it to enter from their browser. Remember that you can mute the microphone, remove the camera, blur the background and many other things.

Create a group chat

The other option is to directly create a group chat on Skype, from which you can make a video call to the people you are going to introduce in that group, although you can later enable the link of said meeting for other users who do not have an account. Just follow these steps:

1. Open Skype, sign in and tap the “ new chat/new group chat” tab.

Now enter a name and click on the blue arrow to move forward

1. Add the contacts that will be in the group video call and tap “done”.

1. When you have them, the group conversation will be created and now you just have to start the video call. If you want to add more people, click on the option “x participants” that appears at the top to open the properties of the new chat you have created.

1. Finally, click on “ share link to join the group”, enable the box below and now you have to send that link to the people you want to join the group video call via Skype. You can undo this action whenever you want.

Remember that for a group video call via Skype to be fluid and for you to see and hear the people participating in it, You must have a good Internet connection, otherwise you may find cuts in the webcam image and sound.