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Also known as slideshare.net

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

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

6 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Slidecast
  • Zipcasts
  • See also
  • 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.