Popular presentation-sharing website Slideshare posted its annual Zeitgeist summary on Tuesday, 17th Jan 2012; bringing some interesting data to the fore.
For instance, presentations written in Japanese have the highest average number of slides (29), women use fewer slides than men in their presentations and the longest presentation uploaded in 2011 is 2811 (In 2010 the number was 1,937 slides)
Some other interesting highlights:
1. Average Slide per presentation is 22.
2. Average size for the uploaded file is * Document – 1.8 MB & * Presentations – 3.7 MB
3. The Americas and Europe uploads almost 80% of the slide decks (Surprised not to see any number from India!)
4. PPTX is the most popular format.
5. 8.2% of the popular presentations are keynotes
6. 21 is the average no of images used per presentation which is 37 average in case of popular ones.
7. Popular Presentations Use a Lot of Slides: The total number of slides in the top 1,000 slide decks has about 65 slides per presentation. The average number of words per slide is 32.
8. None of my Slideshows have been featured in the entire Zeitgeist (Again a surprising fact that is difficult to digest 
)
If you’re interested in digging deeper into what makes a presentation so good that people want to share it, check out the most popular presentations of 2011.
The entire Zeitgeist slideshow is available below:
Architect for Breakthrough Achievement, Abhishek Shah has 13+ years of experience in selling, managing, building and leading sales organizations regionally and internationally. He is a sales development leader and experimenter. His ideas about selling are convictions about life, money, and meaning. He loves #technology & calls #socialmedia as his first love. He holds a bachelor's degree in commerce from Shri Ram College of Commerce and is a MBA from Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad. He lives in New Delhi India with his proud family and spends his free time pursuing one of his many interests, which include tinkering with gadgets & hardware, playing with his little tiger Aarav!! He calls Appitive.com as the daily Social Media Appetizer for which he is the CEO and managing partner.
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