Presenting the SlideShare Zeitgeist: The World’s Presentation trends for 2008
Dec 27, 03:31 am PST
As the year draws to a close, we decided to take a deep look inside slideshare and come up with the ruling trends for the year gone by. We are calling it the SlideShare Zeitgeist 2008…this is a collection of facts & trivia that we hope you will find interesting. We’ll write a quick daily blogpost from today till the 31st of Dec, publishing a few trends … and off course, we’ll also compile this into a slideshare presentation, that you can carry to your blog…so here it comes
Average slides per slideshare presentation: Wondering how long the average presentation for 2008 was? We did some number crunching and the figure turns out to be 21 (21.65 to be accurate). Did that surprise you?
Average words per slide: This is somewhat disturbing… 36. Thats the number of words people are putting into each slide created. (This number is probably skewed by some large, wordy presentation decks, since the average words in the most popular presentations on slideshare is likely to be much lower). The world has a lot to catch up!
Longest slideshare presentation for 2008: This will be hard to believe….. it’s a preso with 1162 slides… yes you read this right. And we’re not linking to it here; that’s the fun part - go search for this on slideshare:-) Wonder whats Guy Kawasaki would have to say about this (Guy has his famous 10-20-30 rule for presentations)?
How many slides per presentation breakup: Here’s the scoop. Enjoy!
1 - 10 slides : 31%
10 - 30 slides : 47%
30 - 50 slides : 13%
50 -100 : 6%
100 - 200 : 1.25%
200 - 300 : 0.17%
300 - 500 : 0.09%
> 500 : 0.03%
Please check back for our blogpost tomorrow for more zeitgeist trends!
Dec 27, 5:32 am
[...] are only 6 slides for now, but according to Slideshare Blog there should be more tomorrow. Anyway, I am going to add these pieces of information to the [...]
Dec 27, 5:56 am
What was this 1,100+ slides presentation? Link?
Dec 27, 6:14 am
We should redo this analysis for the top 10% most popular presentations on SlideShare.
Dec 27, 9:07 am
One thing i suspected was it must be Amit who must hv written this blogpost and Amit it is! Only Indians are such inveterate number crunchers, perhaps! (cf. Dhoni letting Yuvraj and Gambhir play on to a century!)
Anyhow i Like this number crunching! Hope more trends will be mined in the next few days and shared - and not all of them, just numbers.
Dec 27, 11:23 am
Interesting blogpost! Who came up with this idea?