Product News & Announcements

This month’s updates are super quick as our team has been enjoying the summer by taking some well-deserved time off 🌴 We’ll be back in full-swing soon!  Integrations 👉 New placeholder slides design in our Google Slides integrationWe’ve added handy poll icons to every placeholder slide to make is much simpler to see where your Slido slides are and what type of poll you’ve added to each slide. ⚠️ Clearer notifications when using our PowerPoint integration offlineWe’ve revamped our notification screen and sidebar to make it clearer when Slido is not available for you when you work on your PowerPoint slides offline Other 🤝 Collaborators for our Basic users are now enabled Event collaborators are now available for our Basic plan users Please note that there is a limit of max. 10 people you can invite to help you with your Basic event 🎥 Remote meetings video updates in Slido AcademyWe’ve added some great new videos on improving your remote meetings setup to our Slido Academy!  Let us kno

 Integrations🔗 PowerPoint installer for enterprise clients  As an administrator, you can now install Slido for Windows (PowerPoint Add-in) using our MSI file. This is great for big organizations with many Slido users, as you can now do a bulk installation for all of them! Also, with available command line parameters, you can turn off update notifications for the end users or execute a silent installation. This gives IT admins much more control over the installation experience of Slido PowerPoint add-in.  Polls📊 New Word cloud results in Admin viewThis new Word cloud view in your admin shows the results in both a Word Cloud and a list of words grouped together, and you can see the exact same Word Cloud in your admin as your participants see on their devices or the Present view.  By grouping the same responses together, it is now much easier to delete unwanted words from your Present view in case you need to. 🎉 Confetti in Quiz leaderboardA fun little update to give your winners som

Polls Random Quiz options (BETA): You can now create quizzes faster, without searching for the incorrect options. The new magic wand button will suggest potential options for your quiz questions, so you can spend less time creating and more time playing. Available for everyone with quizzes in English.  Integrations Automatic access sharing for Google Slides integration and improvements to PowerPoint integration: People who are Editors in your Google Slides presentation will automatically get Guest access to the Slido event connected with the presentation - they just need to log in to their Slido account.  Also, the sidebar in our Google Slides integration has been completely redesigned  The PowerPoint integration has a new installer with more stable updates, new design, and Slido button appearing in PowerPoint automatically without having to launch it  Participant experience New languages, 6 digit event codes, and Present mode updates:You can now change the language of the Participan

 Collaboration  Event collaborators are now part of all our plans - including Basic planYou can now invite guest collaborators into your events and have them help you moderate the questions or manage polls and quizzes  Integrations Improvements to Google Slides and PowerPoint integrationsNew sidebar design in both integrations is now available to all users! You can decide how you want to show results of a poll right when creating it And, delete a poll directly from the sidebar in both Google Slides and PowerPoint  Polls Improvements to the Ranking Poll, Word Cloud and Quizzes Your participants can now cast their vote without having to rank all the options in a Ranking poll  Improved performance of Word Cloud polls and Quizzes in admin Participant experience New language added and improvements to participant app You can change the language of the participant view from English to Latin America Spanish for your attendees    Let us know what you think about our latest updates in the commen

We started Slido with the vision to transform how meetings and events are run around the world.In the eight years since we began, the world has changed, no more so than in 2020. With millions of workers shifting to remote work, having the right technology in place to power their work and meetings is absolutely critical.In today’s work environment, it has never been more important to connect and collaborate, no matter how, where or when we work together. We believe that the way we work has changed forever. In the years to come, much of our work will happen on video calls and virtual meetings.We realized that if we want to impact millions of lives for better and truly transform how meetings and events are run around the World, we will need a strong partner. Therefore, we are excited to join Cisco to further their vision to make the Webex experience 10x better than in-person meetings and make sure everyone’s voice is heard.While we will become part of Cisco and integrate into the Webex pl

Transforming how meetings are run around the world is what drives Slido's mission. It's also the thread woven into our Product Events where we preview new products and look at how our customers use Slido.  Check out the full recording and let us know what you think about the announcements we made. We’re here to answer any questions! Here's a look back at the Slido Product Event this week, along with an update on our direction to build the future of presentations.Slido and G Suite work togetherWith our Google Slides integration that we launched last October, presenters can very easily add interactions right as they're working on their slides. But with all the meetings happening over video these days, we wanted to take this further and tie the whole experience together with Google Meet. Our updated Chrome extension will bring Slido right into your Google Meet meeting so that you as well as your participants on your call won't have to leave anywhere to interact with Slido polls and questi

In September, we’ve crossed the milestone of one million events that have used Slido to create better interactions between speakers and their audiences since our foundation in 2012. In total, our users engaged over 45 million active participants who sent over 20 million questions into Slido and cast more than 63 million poll votes.For this, we’d like to say thank you to every one of you who put your trust in Slido and supported us on our journey.This milestone comes to us in a time of great transformation, and even greater challenges.As millions of people had to switch to remote work, online meetings have become the new normal.It had an impact on us too.From March, we’ve seen an unprecedented 200% YoY growth of customers using Slido mainly in smaller meetings, as the companies needed to stay connected with their remote teams.Now more than ever, we feel committed to keep helping you create meaningful interactions and drive important conversations in and across teams. From conferences to