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Unless it’s a purely social brouhaha, eight people is the absolute maximum tolerable number of participants for a meeting on Zoom. Six is better.
The only people who enjoy over-stuffed video meetings are director-level and above, because they can survey their organizational kingdom. For the rest of us plebs, large meetings offer diminishing returns: minimal interaction, inevitable cross-talk, quiet people disappear, loud people dominate with low-calorie contributions, no real work happens, and with more participants it’s easier for each person to hide in distraction. So why bother?
If your goal is simply to distribute information to a group, a shared document is more efficient, searchable, and doesn’t waste everyone’s time.
In other words, that meeting should have been an email.