VS.
Which one is the best presentation sharing platform?
Features Compared:
Secure embeds
Keep your presentation private and yet embed it in blogs and websites you allow
PowerPoint to video
Convert your presentations to video and share them on YouTube or your good old TV
screen
Presentation Analytics
Get insights into who viewed your presentation and other statistics related to your
presentations
Value for your money
Start with a free account on authorSTREAM or choose from feature-rich premium accounts.
Compare prices with SlideShare and decide about value for yourself.
2.
Presentation Sharing options
authorSTREAM allows users to upload private or public presentations even in a free
account, unlike SlideShare (which only allows presentations to be uploaded publicly
under the free or ‘Basic’ account).
(You can see SlideShare Plans here )
authorSTREAM Free vs. SlideShare Basic
|
Sharing Option |
authorSTREAM |
SlideShare |
|
Public sharing |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Private Sharing |
Yes |
-- |
Further, in authorSTREAM premium membership accounts, there are more sharing options
available to the uploader. Uploaders can choose from one of the following options:
- Anyone with the presentation link can view the presentation after signing into authorSTREAM
- Only the uploader can view the presentation, keeping it completely private
- The uploader can allow only those users to view the presentations who have the pass
code (generated by the uploader, one for each presentation)
- Only selected people can view the presentation
3.
Secure embeds
Sometimes you want to embed your presentation in your own blog or website but prevent
anyone else from embedding it on another website. So what if you could have your
private presentations embedded on only the websites you explicitly permit? Well,
authorSTREAM allows you to do that and you can in fact allow up to 5 different websites
to embed your private presentation.
4.
Presentation Analytics
Here, SlideShare did a pretty good job but authorSTREAM still beats them feature
for feature. Get insights into who viewed your presentation and other statistics
related to your presentations.
|
Data Available |
authorSTREAM |
SlideShare |
|
Views |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Traffic source distribution |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Top search keywords |
Yes |
Yes |
|
View stats by geolocation |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Facebook and Twitter stats |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Referral URLs |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Average time spent per slide |
Yes |
-- |
|
Who viewed your presentation and till which slide |
Yes |
-- |
|
Download stats as CSV |
Yes |
-- |
5.
Showcase your presentations with multiple channels
Most presentation users create presentations on multiple topics. So why restrict
yourself to just one channel (or web page) to showcase your presentations? On authorSTREAM
you can create as many such presentation
channels as you like, each on the topic you choose.
6.
Showcase your brand, lavishly
Create branded channels (only in a premium membership account starting at $39.95
/month), complete with the look and feel you choose:
- Colors: change background color or customize the sidebar
- Background Image: use any image as background for your channel page
- Banners: put any banner image on the channel page linked to your website or blog
- Ad slot: execute HTML code to display some banner or other stuff
- Control: Allow /disallow commenting
- Social media: Add links to your accounts on Twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook Or use
predefined themes.
7.
PowerPoint to video
Love videos? We do too. Especially because most devices including your phones and
tablets now support them. So if you have spent your valuable time creating your
presentations, why not convert them to video and share them on YouTube, mobile devices
or, for that matter, any television? We know its much easier to just show them to
your grandma on her DVD player rather than trying to explain which browser to launch
on her PC, how to enter the correct URL, and finally navigate to your presentation.
That is, if she has a computer. PowerPoint to video on SlideShare? Not Possible.
8.
Present Live
Use ‘Present Live’ on authorSTREAM for your online meetings, in real time. We want
to keep it simple: you can share your presentations live and simply use your own
audio bridge..
9.
Create better presentations, faster
Would you agree that good, effective presentations are created with quality images
and videos? But to insert an image in PowerPoint, how many steps does it actually
take? Find an image in a search engine, download it to your desktop, open PowerPoint,
use the image-insert feature, locate the image on your desktop and insert it in
the slide. Another image, follow the process all over again! We thought there ought
to be a better way of doing this. So we created a small, desktop plug-in that shows as a ribbon in PowerPoint. You
can search for images on the web, without ever leaving PowerPoint - and insert them
into slides with a one-click operation. As simple as that! We did a one-up on this:
you can even search for videos on YouTube this way and insert them in slides too.
How’s that?
10.
Value for your money
Love the features authorSTREAM offers? We love our customers too. You can start
with a free account that never expires and works well even for your private presentations.
Then upgrade to one of the two premium accounts we offer, both at affordable prices.
Here’s a comparison and we leave it there for you to decide:
- authorSTREAM Pro ($2.5/month compared to SlideShare's Silver plan
at $19.95/month)
- authorSTREAM Business ($39.95/month as compared to SlideShare's
Platinum plan at $249.95/month)
authorSTREAM Free vs. SlideShare Basic
|
Feature |
authorSTREAM |
SlideShare |
|
Public uploads |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
|
Webinars (Conferencing tool) |
Without Ads |
With Ads |
|
Private uploads |
Upto 500 MB |
-- |
|
PowerPoint to video |
Yes |
-- |
|
Price |
$0 |
$0 |
authorSTREAM Pro vs. SlideShare Silver
|
Feature |
authorSTREAM |
SlideShare |
|
Unlimited Private uploads |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Analytics |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Webinars (Conferencing tool) |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Convert PPT to Video |
Yes |
-- |
|
Download presentation as Flash |
Yes |
-- |
|
Price |
$2.50/month |
$19/month |
authorSTREAM Business vs. SlideShare Platinum
|
Feature |
authorSTREAM |
SlideShare |
|
Unlimited Private Uploads |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Presentation Analytics |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Branded channels |
Yes, (5 Channels) |
Yes, (1 Channel) |
|
Ad free |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Webinars (Conferencing tool) |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Turn off commenting and Transcript |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Full Branding |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Secure embeds (Allow on selected domains) |
Yes |
-- |
|
Own branding in embeds |
Yes |
-- |
|
Private sharing with selected people |
Yes |
-- |
|
Download presentation as flash |
Yes |
-- |
|
Unlimited PowerPoint to video |
Yes |
|
|
30-day money back guarantee
|
Yes |
|
|
Price |
$39.95/month |
$249/month |

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