SlideShare
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SlideShare is an American hosting service, now owned by Scribd, for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos. Users can upload files privately or publicly in PowerPoint, Word, or PDF format. Content can then be viewed on the site itself, on mobile devices or embedded on other sites. SlideShare also provides users the ability to rate, comment on, and share the uploaded content. Launched on October 4, 2006, the service positioned itself to be similar to YouTube, but for presentations. The company was acquired by LinkedIn in 2012, and then by Scribd in 202
Key facts
- Website.name
- SlideShare
- Website.type
- Slide hosting service
- Website.logo
- SlideShare logo.svg
- Website.logo_size
- 250px
- Website.screenshot
- Slideshare preview.png
- Website.language
- Multilingual(5)
- Website.collapsetext
- Screenshot
- Website.area_served
- Worldwide
- Website.founder
- Rashmi Sinha
- Website.parent
- Scribd
- Website.registration
- Mandatory with credit card
- Website.industry
- Internet
- Website.num_users
- 70 million
- Website.current_status
- Active
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Described at
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tapor.ca →SlideShare is a community for sharing presentations. You can use this free online service to share slides from a talk, share lesson plans, or disseminate information.
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Encyclopedic overview
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- References
- External links
SlideShare is an American hosting service, now owned by Scribd, for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos. Users can upload files privately or publicly in PowerPoint, Word, or PDF format. Content can then be viewed on the site itself, on mobile devices or embedded on other sites. SlideShare also provides users the ability to rate, comment on, and share the uploaded content. Launched on October 4, 2006, the service positioned itself to be similar to YouTube, but for presentations. The company was acquired by LinkedIn in 2012, and then by Scribd in 2020.
In 2018, it was estimated that the website gets an estimated 80 million unique visitors a month. SlideShare's biggest competitors include Zoho.com, Issuu and edocr.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “SlideShare” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.