SlideShare Goes Free; Content Marketers Rejoice!

Pete Prestipino
by Pete Prestipino 26 Aug, 2014
SlideShare Goes Free; Content Marketers Rejoice!

Presentation-sharing platform SlideShare is making many of its professional-level features available for free. 

Starting August 20, the popular LinkedIn-owned platform began making the change for all SlideShare users to have access to premium features including analytics, profile customization and additional upload options (like video). Slideshare will be releasing one new feature every month starting in September 2014. 

SlideShare, acquired by LinkedIn in 2010 for $119 million, will be removing its paid tiers completely - once priced at $19/month and $49/month.

The analytics feature is what will likely be most appealing to Web workers and digital marketers. The former SlideShare Pro feature shows who has viewed a presentation (along with location information), how the content was discovered (search, social, direct) and other engagement metrics. 

Pete Prestipino
Pete Prestipino
Digital marketing executive with proven experience in all aspects of search engine optimization (SEO), performance-based advertising, consumer-generated/social media, email marketing, lead generation, Web design, usability, and analytics. - 20-year Internet marketing veteran, currently serving as the Digital Marketing Campaign Manager at Antenna Group (formerly Chicago Digital). - Former Editor-In-Chief of Website Magazine, and a regular speaker on Web technology digital marketing strategy - Author of several books on digital marketing Including Web 360: The Fundamentals of Web Success; Affiliate 360: The Fundamentals of Performance Marketing; Domains 360: The Fundamentals of Buying & Selling Domain Names, and SEO 360: The Fundamentals of Search Engine Optimization.