As the year draws to a close, we decided to take a deep look inside slideshare and come up with the ruling trends of 2009. We are calling this the SlideShare Zeitgeist 2009…this is a collection of facts & trivia that we hope you will find interesting.
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SlideShare Zeitgeist 2009
1.
2. A quick peek into ruling trends in the world
of presentations for the year gone by.
Think presentations, presenters, presentation-ware,
global usage trends, which topics hit the popularity
charts, etc.
Plus some fun trivia to tickle your fancy :)
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3. Who spoke how much?
.
the average number of slides in a presentation
the maximum number of slides
in a presentation
Now that’s averaging about 3.75 slides a day over an year!!!
4. How many slides per presentation?
less than
slides
- slides
-
slides
-
slides
>
slides
% % % % %
Guess ‘less is more’ holds true for presos too…
5. How much they said and how!
The average number of slides per language
French
Chinese
38 The French… expressive as ever!!
Korean
30 Japanese
Dutch German 27 Romanian
Italian 25 Portuguese
24
23 23 Spanish
22 21
English 20
18
6. It happens the way it is written!
Presentation typography
Arial %
Times New Roman %
(wingdings) %
Verdana % Tahoma % Calibri %
Comic Sans %
Wingdings!!! The third most used fonts on SlideShare! How??
If you got the answer let us know in Bullet points! ;)
7. Did the time of the year affect presenters?
Percentage of uploads per month
.%
.%
.% .%
.% .% .% .% .% .%
.% .%
JAN FEB MAR A PR M AY JUN JUL AUG SEP OC T NOV DE C
Well SlideShare presenters apparently prefer winter to
summer for content creation. Cooler heads perhaps!
8. Some presentations won all hearts!
The most favorited presentations
Culture
from Reed Hastings
What the F**K is Social Media: One Year Later
from Martha Kagan
Basics Of Social Media Roi
from Olivier Blanchard
Looks like ‘social’ went highly social this year around!
9. Some presentations caught more eye-balls than others!
The most viewed presentations
Healthcare Napkins All
Object Oriented CSS from Dan Roam
from Nicole Sullivan
iPhone AppStore Secrets - Pinch Media
from Pinch Media
10. Some presentations went places!
The most shared presentations
Culture
from Reed Hastings
Healthcare Napkins All
What the F**K is Social Media: One Year Later from Dan Roam
from Martha Kagan
One year on ‘WTF is Social Media?’ is still at it!
11. We saw an entire range of presentation formats!
O DP %
PPS X .%
PPS
K E Y N OTE .% %
P OT .%
PPT X
%
PPT
% For every PPTX, there are almost 4 PPTs!
12. Pictures replaced thousands of words!
the average number of pictures in a presentation
kb the average size of the pictures
The top 1000 presentations in 2009 had an average picture
count of 24.27! Guess you always say it better with pictures!
13. Picture this!
Percentage distribution of presentations with images
between
- - images images
>
images
-
images
-
images
NO
images
% % % % % %
7% without a single image! Presentations or Docs?
14. It was also about sizing it up!
. MB the average size of a presentation
. MB the average size of a document
These ‘Docs’ too were being responsible and more particular
about their sizes. Guess there’s something to names after all!
15. Rich media did it’s bit
The ratio of slidecasts* to videoslides* was .6 : 1
Slidecasts Videoslides
Does that mean Audio killed the Video Star??
* slidecasts: audio synchronized to slides (e.g. a webinar)
* videoslides: YouTube videos inserted in SlideShare presentations
16. There were some sexy stats!
The ratio of males to females was
3:1
Average number of slides
male users female users
Women said it with lesser compared to men!
17. Top 12 tags
media social hotel
business marketing
travel management
earnings finance web
quarterly
income
18. TOP 5 TAGS USED BY FEMALES
web
social marketing
twitter media
TOP 5 TAGS USED BY MALES
social
business marketing
travel management
19. Presentations went all over the world!
Continent-wise content distribution for 2009
%
%
% %
%
United States contributed the most views!