2.3 Billion Flash Player 9 Installs and Counting

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There are a lot of reasons so many people use Flash but one of them is that nearly everyone has it on their system. And one of the most powerful things about the platform is that the people who have it update it very quickly. Ted Patrick took a look at the download numbers and figured out that we’ve had over 2.3 billion installations of Flash Player 9 since it was released. He’s created a counter so that you can keep track of the number of installs of the player at any given time. The picture (or SWF in this case) is worth a lot of words and just goes to show how ubiquitous Flash has become.

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  • Dominic

    Brilliant, thanks.

  • Hugh McWhorter

    Hi Ted,

    any rough way of making a computation as to what this means to On2 for revenue?

    thanks for a response.

    Hugh a/k/a Sunburst at Yahoo
    Cut Bank at Villageinvestor

  • http://www.profesjonalna-reklama.pl Tomasz Gorski

    Ryan thanks for news and the link to Patrick, I know that flash is very popular but 2.3 Billion its huge!

  • http://northerndialogue.blogspot.com/ Erkko

    The number is just mind-blowing.

    Companies really have to look into how Adobe has built your upgrade system to enable this update speed. Just brilliant. A lot of companies are struggling with keeping their software up to the Internet speed.

    Ryan how do you feel, is flash the most ubiquitous platform we have available for on the Internet at the moment?

  • http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com Ryan Stewart

    Hey Erkko,

    It sounds cheesy but Flash really is the most ubiquitous platform we can develop on today. The combo of HTML/CSS might be more ubiquitous, but once you add in JavaScript you lose that ubiquity due to the ways various browsers handle it.

  • http://antalyapicture.info/ antalya picture

    The Discovery Channel must really love Flash, because they’ve also created a Flash based video game called Sharkrunners. The coolest part about this game is that it incorporates actual shark information, from those that have been tagged with a GPS receiver. (From O’Reilly). Of course, with over 2.3 billion installs of Flash Player 9, why wouldn’t they love Flash?
    http://www.riapedia.com/tags/discover_channel