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Type of site | Slide hosting service |
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| Available in | Multilingual(5) |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Founder(s) | Rashmi Sinha |
| Industry | Internet |
| Parent | Scribd |
| URL | www |
| Registration | Optional |
| Users |  70 million |
| Launched | 4 October 2006 |
| Current status | Active |
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.[1] The company was acquired by LinkedIn in 2012,[2] and then by Scribd in 2020.[3]
In 2018, it was estimated that the website gets an estimated 80 million unique visitors a month.[4] SlideShare's biggest competitors include Zoho.com, Issuu and edocr.
- ^ "Introducing SlideShare: Power Point + YouTube". TechCrunch. 2006.
- ^ Yarow, Jay (2012-05-03). "LinkedIn Is Buying SlideShare For $119 Million". Business Insider. Retrieved 2013-02-18.
- ^ Ha, Anthony (2020-08-11). "Scribd acquires presentation-sharing service SlideShare from LinkedIn". Tech Crunch.
- ^ "Domain: Slideshare.net". Click. Archived from the original on 2010-10-10.