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Represent 2024: A Year in Review

Jordan Turner
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December 17, 2024
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To know where you’re going, it’s important to look at where you’ve been. As you get ready to disconnect for a well-deserved break over the holidays, it’s the perfect time to celebrate your wins— big and small. Everything you’ve been working towards in 2024 will set the tone for the new year.

We’re honored that you chose us to represent your story, your ideas and your impact. Whether you’ve been with us since the beginning of the year or joined along the way, your wins have made our growth possible and your stories have helped shape our own. 

Before we head into 2025, let’s re-present what we've accomplished together this year. 

Your year was Beautiful

We’d be nowhere without our Beautiful.ai power-users. We worked smarter, and harder, together.

Here’s what you’ve achieved this year:

  • 98% increase in presentations created
  • 160% increase in AI presentations
  • Most people saved more than 40% of time by using Beautiful.ai compared to other presentation software this year

Top new features of the year

In case you missed it, here are the top three new features we shipped this year.

More generative AI

From AI-powered presenter notes, to generating new text from scratch— we added more AI features so you can supercharge your productivity.

AI-powered copywriting

We've improved and expanded the functionality of our AI text editor to help you get to a more impactful message, faster.

In addition to rewriting your text, you can now generate new text. The AI will use the text on the rest of your slide as added context to give you the most relevant results. Try prompts like "a title for my slide" or a "conclusion with key takeaways".

Easily iterate with the help of AI. Choose from a few suggestions or tweak your prompt and generate new options. Recent rewrite prompts are saved so you can quickly and easily adjust your tone as you work—helping you stay consistently true to your brand voice.

Try it out by clicking the bot icon in the text toolbar on any slide.

AI-generated presenter notes

Create presenter notes from your slides using AI, ensuring you're equipped with concise, powerful cues. Transform your slide deck into a compelling narrative with a detailed script, seamlessly crafted to engage your audience.

New AI assistance

Go from an idea to a finished deck faster with AI. Simply input a prompt, and our AI will intelligently select words to create a dynamic word cloud. Our Word Cloud Smart Slide layout engine seamlessly integrates these into your deck, ensuring a swift, sleek finish.

You can also generate a Smart Slide with relevant content from a placeholder in a single click.

Don't let an incomplete idea block your flow. Placeholder slides are the perfect way to pin an idea while you build your story arc. Simply jot down your thoughts and return to them later. With this latest addition to our generative AI toolkit, transforming that note into a beautiful slide is even easier. Click the 'Generate' button below your placeholder slide, and let AI select a Smart Slide and begin populating it with content based on your notes.

Gradient backgrounds

Create custom gradients right in Beautiful.ai to use as slide backgrounds. This can create more visual interest, and depth, to your slide which helps hold the attention of your audience. 

Pro tip: Ensure legibility by choosing whether the gradient background is treated as light, dark or color. Smart Slides will automatically adjust text to be light on dark backgrounds, dark on light backgrounds, and will avoid using color on color.

Slide status

Keep your work moving and track progress seamlessly by selecting a slide status: To Do, In Progress, On Hold, or Done.

This new feature ensures you’re always in sync with your collaborators and receive notifications whenever your slide status changes. You can customize your notification settings in the collaboration menu for each presentation to effortlessly manage your tasks from To Do to Done.

Learn more about all of our releases here.

Top 3 most popular Smart Slides 

We don’t like playing favorites, so we asked you which Smart Slides you used the most in 2024. The answer? (Drumroll, please…).

Our top three slide templates voted by our customers are 1) Photo Grid, 2) Timeline and Journey, and 3) Teams. 

1. Photo Grid

Our photo grid template is one of the most versatile templates in the bunch, so it’s no wonder it’s a crowd favorite. You might use this template to show the faces behind a team of employees, share progress on a design or project, or cover important information with a mix of bold text and engaging visuals. 

2. Timeline

A timeline is a visual representation marking all major events over a period of time. Timeline slides have many versatile uses—everything from project plans, to status updates, to “next steps” can be communicated using a timeline.

3. Teams

A team slide is a visual depiction of the members of your team. It should include photos, names, job titles, and can even include information about your team’s credentials or past experience. 

New presentation templates, made for you

We’re always adding to our library of pre-built presentation templates, and these are some of our favorites from the year.

1. Year in review

A year in review presentation helps showcase your annual summary, or recap of major events or milestones, in a more engaging way to share with clients, partners, or internal stakeholders. 

2. Agency pitch deck

Agency pitches are strategic showcases of expertise and creativity, and help you win more business for your team. 

3. Media kit

A media kit, or a press kit, acts as promotional material that provides crucial information about your company or brand to publicists or other media. 

4. Quarterly Business Review

Quarterly business reviews are crucial for evaluating progress and steering the ship in the right direction, and can be a powerful planning tool for 2025.

5. Daily Standup 

When you’re hosting a daily meeting— like a daily standup— it’s easy to get sidetracked or lost on a tangent, which defeats the purpose. A daily standup presentation helps keep everyone on track. 

Thank you for trusting us with your story this year, we can’t wait to see what you have on deck for 2025.

Jordan Turner

Jordan Turner

Jordan is a Bay Area writer, social media manager, and content strategist.

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