NewcastleGateshead virtual backgrounds for Zoom and Teams

Use your Zoom and Teams meetings as an opportunity to share the beautiful icons and landscapes of NewcastleGateshead and North East England with potential visitors, investors or residents for the region.

Below are two sets of virtual backgrounds – one without captions and one with. So you can choose whether you want a background that explains the image or if you’d like your fellow Zoom meeting participants to ask.


Backgrounds without captions


Backgrounds with captions


How to upload virtual backgrounds

Virtual background features allows you to display an image as your background during a virtual meeting. This feature works best with a green screen and uniform lighting, to allow Zoom or Teams to detect the difference between you and your background.

Instructions for using Zoom virtual backgrounds

Instructions for using Microsoft Teams virtual backgrounds