And The #1 Presentation of The Year Is…

Every year, many thousands of presentations are uploaded to SlideShare on almost every topic imaginable. The site has 25 million visitors monthly so it gets used a lot! You can sort by popularity, and in 2010 the most popular presentation was this:

The above presentation was viewed over 100,000 times, so that’s considerable exposure for the presenter’s message.

Each year, SlideShare puts together a Zeitgeist Report that provides insights into the world of presentations. Some of the more interesting facts from this year’s include:

• The average number of slides per presentation is 19. However, popular presentations have an average number of 63 slides.
• PowerPoint is used for 96% of the presentations. It is interesting to note that while Keynote is used in only 1.7% of presentations, it accounts for 16% of the top 1000 presentations.
• The average number of words per slide in the top 1000 popular presentations is 24.
• Helvetica is the most popular font. Last year it was Arial.
• Social media was one of the most dominant subjects in 2010 (as it was in 2009).

For comparison, you can view SlideShare’s 2009 Zeitgeist Report here.