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Product Update May 2026
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Hey there, I'm Anders from SlideHub and I'm here to give you the product update for May 2026. I have quite a few things I want to show this month. So without further ado, I'll just jump right into them. The first thing I want to talk about today is data tables and how the concepts can help you further streamline the automation of slide creation. Building various different types of slides, whether it's tombstones, user profiles, feature overviews, or anything where you want to take a standardized data structure and apply it either to single slides or multiple slides in various creative ways. To show you how this works, I am here in our Acme Logistics account. I'm on the Manager View. I go to the Company Account and I move to Automations. And one new thing here is you now have this data table concept. Even though you're not a manager, I'll still use this just to illustrate their concept. So the idea is that you can have this table of information that then uses the existing placeholder system and is actually able to combine different types of placeholders in the same table. So you can have a number of text inputs that you have here, but you can also combine it with icons and image placeholders at the same time. can also see here that you are actually able to build out the data table as a team by allowing end users to fill potential missing data points as part of this. While we're on this, I'm just quickly going to show you what the individual table looks like. So basically the idea is in this case, I have a list of client testimonials. I have a company name. I have an industry. I have a description of the solution. And then I have their respective logos, as you can see here. I'm also able to export and import these things. And I have an ability to do various different settings related to which placeholders is used, the name, and so forth. Let's dive in and see how this looks like for the end users. Alright, so I'm now on the end user side inside of PowerPoint, where I'll show you how these data tables can be used, in this case, to create an overview of relevant client testimonials. So for this purpose, I custom-made build this slide that includes the placeholder items. As you can see, it has the placeholder items built into it. It's reusing the same sort of illustrative icon here, where the icon of each company will then be placed. So the way it works is that I basically do fill and insert like any other placeholder. But now I'll see this overview where I can select the different testimonials. I can also search for stuff here if I want. I have abilities to go in and filter based on different filter types. That also means that, for example, you can have data elements that are not actually used in each slide, but they can be used just for filtering purposes. So it gives you ability to, for example, like with M&A deals, you might not want to show the country in which a deal was done on the slide, but you can still use the country as a way of filtering your information. In this case, I'll just pick these first six items here. If I want to, I can actually pick more items, and then it will just create more slides depending on the setting on each slide. So in this case, I'll create the slide here. I can change the order as I see fit, but for now, this is fine. This is just like a drag and drop thing, and then I click Continue. And then what you'll see is that the slide then gets generated. It inserts all the different items in here, fits into the placeholders and so forth. So it allows me to build cases like this, but what you can also do is that you can actually use the data table just for building individual slides for just one item in here. So you can basically reuse the same underlying data both for, let's say, a profile of a colleague and then also use the same data table for creating a team overview. In the profile, you might include multiple different data points, but in the team overview, you might only take a subset of that. So you can really combine this in various different ways to build slides in interesting ways that matches your slide needs. We are building out further extensions of this feature. We have a lot of ideas how we can make it even more powerful. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out to your customer success manager or your sales lead, and we can help you set this up and get it configured. The next thing I would like to present today is the content of what we call Send and Track and how it can be used for sharing presentations and other files with customers or internal stakeholders, whoever you want to be able to see the material. For the purpose of this demonstration, I'm just really, really quickly, with the help of fast-forward, create a post-demo presentation for a client. So the way Send and Track works is that once I have my file and directly PowerPoint, what I can do is I can go in and click the little Send symbol over here, and then I can do something like... I can then add password if I like, and then do an expiration date. I will then automatically take my active file, but I can also add files from the computer or anywhere else from Startup. I can determine whether they should be able to download the file as PDF or clean, just the way you just see it in the browser. I can then put optional information here. So when I run my contact, and then I can do a note for my colleagues. I can also assign colleagues of mine to the link so they also get the insights. So the way it works is that I click Create Link, and then the file gets prepared in the background. You can see it's already ready now. So the thing is that I now have a copy link. I can share with the client, which is the same one as you see here, or have a preview link that I can use for myself. So that is the preview link. I'll just put in my password, and then the presentation becomes available for clicking here. You can see now I'm in a small sort of mobile iPad optimized view, but the thing also works in a big browser, which would be the default if you're sending it to someone on a desktop. So you can see the file here. If you have multiple files to show, it has my contact information. So I can quickly navigate across my slides. I can use the mouse, or I can use my keyboard, and so forth. So this is the same experience the clients will see when I copy this link. It's going to be 100% the same. The difference is that when someone uses the Copy It link, we actually get some insights about what's going on on the account. So the information about what slides have been looked at, and for how long it's been stored in the system. That means when I come back to Slido, I now have this new feature of here called Shared Links, where I can go in and see the link I just created. I can go in and see the files associated with it, and I can see which slide has been looked at and for how long. Another cool thing is that I get this overview where I can see all my links that's been tracked. I can get a sense of which ones has high signal, when were the last viewed, how many slides were viewed, and so forth. You can also manage your notification settings, so you can get an email when someone clicks your link, or you can get a summary once a day or once a week, depending on your preferences. So it gives you a lot as a seller or a person who's sending a lot of material that can give you some insights on which deals are hot and where to spend your time. We hope you find this exciting. We're already using this a lot internally. Based on that, we're going to roll out a number of updates in the coming days. But if you're interested in it, just reach out to your sales or customer success lead, and we can introduce you how to set it up and start using it. The next thing I want to talk about is the improvement to our AI Text to Slide feature and how it now allows you to rebuild the slides by using the live slide in PowerPoint directly. The first new thing to notice is that now the AI functionality has been moved to the top, and you'll see that this includes both the ability to create slides and the ability to rebuild them. Let's quickly just create some slides so we have something to rebuild. Create slide about the history of basketball. And yes, I am a basketball fan. So as always, the AI Text to understand what is it supposed to do. We can tell it to search the Internet. We can use the existing content. Of course, that's not so relevant here. We'll skip Internet Search just to speed it up a bit. Alright, I can then pick a relevant layout here. This is a combination of the Slide Hub styles and the ACME ones. I'll just pick a few different ones here. Let's do this, this, this, this, and it basically generates four different takes on the same slide. If I don't want to sit and wait for them later, I can, as before, go in and do other stuff in PowerPoint, so I don't need to sit and wait. I can also start building new slides if I want while the slides are being generated in the background. See now they're coming in. Getting some stuff here. First one is done. Interesting insights about basketball. History. Another one is finishing. A little bit more high-level aspect, but a lot of the same concepts. While the other one's running, we can actually go in and now redesign the slide. So let's say I actually want to use this particular slide here. I can say instead, make three bullet point version. Now it will use this content along with it and say, ah, you already have something here, but maybe we want to generate a new slide. So you can see now it uses the active slide as the main content here. And then I can say, but also told us to change it into three bullet points. So it's actually not trying to preserve it 100%, but it uses it as a starting point. It's saying, okay, let's try to see some alternative takes here. So now you can see here. I can go in, I can see three bullet points. I can pick, you know, another structure or two. Then it will use the information about the basketball context to build the new slides in a different layout. Still using, you know, the same system, but instead of you having to copy paste text into a little field or try to do something similar, you can now have it being rebuilt sort of in the air directly. Another example I want to show is that you can go in and you can actually say, you can actually just click here, rebuild and say rebuild active slide. And then the system, you know, will automatically notice that you didn't put anything in that the purpose is to rebuild it. So in this case, it will then assume I want to keep all the same content. That's probably fine. It'll then go in and I can say, you know, I actually want like this, this line better. And maybe I also want to see take with this version here. So I can then get to generate the slides and it will then start moving those in the background. The system is still working some of the other slides, but as soon as any of the slides finalizes, they basically just get inserted into SlideHub. So you can see now this one finalized. This is the free build one version of the slide we had before. Let's see, we still have everything is done for the first row. So I can see that history. I have my free slide version of all this one got recreated here. Since I'm in preserved mode, I get the summary of potential changes in case there's anything I need to be made aware of. I also have the other version in here. So you can see that allows you to really quickly iterate on various different versions of the slide and making sure that it's on brand and sort of, you know, more rich percent. And you can combine the preserve concept where you keep the words as closely as possible. But you can also do it to kind of rewrite the content at the same time as you sort of see fit. The last one I want to talk about today is mainly relevant for those of you who manage content in a SlideHub account. It relates to a new update to the manager interface, both in terms of the user interface, but also some of the functionality in the part of the application. All right. So to demonstrate it, I'm now logged into SlideHub via the browser in this case. What I can then do to go to the manager interface, I click manage account. And the first thing that pops out, if you've seen this before, is that now we visually made the manager view and the interview view visually much more different. So you now have this high contrast approach when you are in the manager view. Another thing you'll notice if you worked a lot in SlideHub is that we move this part here from the top over to the left. This in general gives us more space to present the content and it's also more consistent with the way we structure things on the end user side. Another thing you'll notice is that the pagination area here has been updated and it's now consistent across the entire application. You also see we have made up more space here in the top and we sort of standardized the way our filterings work. So now you can click the filter here and you see all the different filters that you might know from before showing up in this easy drop down. So no more clicking show more or less filters here. Regarding filters, one thing we have also done is that you can now go in and you can save your filters. So in this case I want to have an overview of these slides managed by the manager and I only want to see the widescreen slides and I only want to see stuff that has these placeholders in it. So in this case, not the most interesting one, but what I can do if this is a really interesting one for me, I can go in and say I can save this one so that I can save this like manager placeholders, for example. And then later on, if I refresh the page, for example, what I can do is I can come into the filters here and I can save filters and I can go to manager placeholders filters and automatically that particular filter is being applied. Another thing that I found a big change is that now you have a table view of all the different assets. You can click the table here and you'll see that all of the slides in this view now show up with these smaller thumbnails and then include the category, subcategory and tags and placeholders next to it. This is the same if you go to images or icons, you'll see a similar view here. This, of course, makes it a lot quicker for you to go in and modify the different categories, subcategories. You can also create new ones through this. You can create new tags. Do like an example tag here and it will be added in. So you can fairly quickly go through and optimize tagging and validate and tagging and so forth through this view. Like the normal view, you can change the number of items in the view. Another cool thing is that your preferences in terms of the grid versus table and the number of items you show will save in your account so that it will be the same next time you come back to the system. And it's also going to be consistent across the different asset types. So it's a lot of small sort of quality of life improvements to those of you who manage the slide up accounts. We hope you'll find this helpful. And with that, we have made it to the end. Thanks so much for those of you who made it this far. I know there was a lot of updates this month. Hopefully there's going to be a lot of updates again next month. Me and the team are working hard to do a lot of extensions and improvements of some of the things you've seen today. And look forward to presenting those to you next month.