As the year draws to a close, we decided to take a deep look inside slideshare and come up with the ruling trends of 2008. We are calling this the SlideShare Zeitgeist 2008…this is a collection of facts & trivia that we hope you will find interesting.

1. The World’s Presentation Trends for 2008 Fun facts & trivia from SlideShare

2. Average slides per presentation…. 21

3. Longest presentation for 2008… 1162 slides

4. Average no of words per slide… 36

5. How many slides per presentation? Breakup # of Slides 31% 1 - 10 47% 10 - 30 13% 30 - 50 6% 50 - 100 0.03% > 500 0.09% 300 - 500 0.17% 200 - 300 1.25% 100 - 200

6. How many slides per presentation ? (language wise) Spanish - 21 slides Portuguese - 21 slides English - 21 slides French - 22 slides German - 25 slides Dutch - 26 slides Japanese - 25 slides Chinese - 28 slides Korean - 35 slides

7. Most Popular Events in 2008 (Top 3) Information Architecture Summit 10 Apr - 14 Apr 08 Miami, Florida, USA South by SouthWest 06 Mar - 11 Mar 08 Austin Texas, USA Web 2.0 Expo 22 Apr - 25 Apr 08 San Francisco, CA, USA Based on pageviews for event slideshows

8. Most Viewed Presentations (Top 3) Thirst from jbrenman Rip Good Times from eldon Brain Rules for Presenters from garr

9. Most Favorited Presentations (Top 3) What the F**K is Social Media? from mzkagan Brain Rules for Presenters from garr What’s next in Advt & Marketing from paulisakson

10. Read our blog for the entire Zeitgeist… Go to blog!