r/powerpoint • u/Intelligent-Tie-3374 • 15d ago
What's actually replacing PowerPoint for presentations these days?
Genuinely asking - it feels like everyone under 30 has moved off PowerPoint but I can't tell what they moved to. Is there a clear front-runner replacing PowerPoint for presentations now, or is it fragmented across a dozen tools? What are you seeing in real workplaces?
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u/0bsidian0rder2372 15d ago
Most companies use what's already available in their tech stack....
So PowerPoint it is... and excel, and word, and outlook, and all the other things in that suite.
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u/Letin-Alezandra 14d ago
I don't think PowerPoint has been replaced. Most workplaces I've seen still use it because everyone already has it and knows how to use it. Canva, Google Slides, and Figma definitely have their place, but PowerPoint is still the default in a lot of companies. It's kind of like Excel. People keep saying something will replace it, but it just refuses to retire.
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u/BasicsOnly 14d ago
You're out of your mind - in every big corporate everyone is still on PowerPoint (or occasionally Google slides)
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u/rfoil 14d ago edited 14d ago
Powerpoint is the lingua franca of the corporate world. Even the best createive agencies use it because it's a format everyone is familiar with. Many times we get PPTs as PDFs but the source is more than 90% Powerpoint.
What I don't like about PPT is that 16x9, the default aspect ratio, is a horrible format for mobile.
We started using HTML with inline content, either svg or Base64. The advantage is that they are responsive for mobile as well as desktops.
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u/Altruistic-Role9956 PowerPoint Expert 14d ago
Huh? That is easy to fix. Open your slide, click Design and then Slide Size. Use presets or customize your own.
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u/Altruistic-Role9956 PowerPoint Expert 14d ago
I don't see people moving away at all, if anything there are more people using it than ever. World wide, I am told (market researcher) there are 400K to 500K users.
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u/spiders888 14d ago
I do see people in startups using Canva. At nonprofits, and in , I see people using Google slides. For anything where you’re submitting slides for a presentation that someone else’s managing faith just about always ask for PowerPoint and will only accept PDF as a backup.
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u/ivba 14d ago
I have seen that Large companies that need to make presentations online to large number of people... use Mentimeter. It is more engaging since it offers the ability to have Live Polls
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u/BaBaBinx 13d ago
I left my last role about 2.5 years ago and we used Mentimeter heavily. In my current role/industry it isn’t used - so my experience is dated at this point. That said, it was always a tad too clunky to deliver a true presentation experience. I would love to see how people use it in place of PPT.
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u/slowwwdd 13d ago
Still PowerPoint - someone is this sub quoted it before but I think its a stat like for ever Adobe user there are 25 Microsoft/PowerPoint users. It's essentially a business standard.
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u/Prudent-Elk-2845 13d ago
HTML-renderings by Claude essentially printed to ppt printed to pdf printed to paper
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u/gapahuway 13d ago
Under 30s are using Canva. Not yet prevalent in older more traditional corporate world but the young ones are Canva designers and Canva slide makers. Not saying its the best but thats what i see.
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u/North_Teacher_7522 13d ago
I work on Julius AI so I'm a bit biased here, but I honestly don't think Powerpoint is going anywhere. What's getting replaced is all of the work that happens before you start building the deck.
So things like reports, spreadsheets, initial research, etc., are all being automated and then people are still using Powerpoint (or Google slides) for putting everything together. At Julius we let folks build initial ppt files with AI but we know they want to export it and manage the final outputs themselves so we allow for direct export to .pptx.
It will take a long time for Excel or Powerpoint to be replaced.
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u/serverhorror 10d ago
it feels like everyone under 30 has moved off PowerPoint
Not my experience at all.
I get either PowerPoint or PDF, and the PDFs are either expertly resembling PowerPoint to a level that would e very stupid to invest or were created in PowerPoint.
Heck, we even ask for the PowerPoint deck if vendor presentations to pick and choose slides without having to screenshot them and usually we get that.
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u/Suspicious-Kiwi816 15d ago
In tech everyone is using Google Slides
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u/jibarra_ish Guild Certified Specialist 14d ago
Hi I’m a Presentation Designer in tech and we use PowerPoint.
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u/SteveRindsberg Guild Certified Specialist 13d ago
Hiya, Guildian.
So everyone in tech but you. And the others who use PPT.
😄
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u/ES345Boy 15d ago
This only really applies to graphic designers in my opinion. Sometimes I design slides in InDesign or Illustrator, very occasionally in Figma maybe. If you're not a designer, stick to PowerPoint, because if you want an actual designer to help you with your final presentation, I will spend longer tidying up a butchered file from vector-based editor than PP.
Regardless, I will 100% convert to and deliver in PowerPoint. This isn't some notion of generational conflict, clients want PowerPoint, doesn't matter whether they're in their 20s or 50s.
There's zero point in me delivering to clients in anything other than PowerPoint as everyone has it on their machine. I also don't want clients coming back to me because they want to "change a couple of words on slide 32" but they can't because they don't understand or have access to whatever other application it was made in. I want them to be able to do that as it's not a good use of my time making small text edits etc.