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Adobe Flash Player Version Penetration

Worldwide Ubiquity of Adobe Flash Player by Version — March 2008

	Flash Player 7	Flash Player 8	Flash Player 9	Flash Player 9.0.115*
Mature Markets1	98.8%	98.5%	97.2%	61.8%
US/Canada	98.7%	98.5%	97.3%	62.1%
Europe2	98.5%	98.1%	96.5%	61.9%
Japan	99.8%	99.5%	98.0%	61.0%
Emerging Markets3	Not surveyed in this wave

Flash Player 6 was not surveyed in this wave.

*Flash Player 9 Update 3, released on 12/4/2007, introduced H.264 video and HE-AAC audio playback, multi-core support, hardware scaling of HD quality full-screen video and component caching.

 

Worldwide Ubiquity of Adobe Flash Player by Version — December 2007

	Flash Player 6	Flash Player 7	Flash Player 8	Flash Player 9
Mature Markets1	98.8%	98.8%	98.3%	95.7%
US/Canada	99.0%	99.0%	98.5%	96.8%
Europe2	98.1%	98.1%	97.6%	94.3%
Japan	99.5%	99.5%	99.3%	95.3%
Emerging Markets3	97.4%	97.3%	95.5%	93.3%

 

Worldwide Ubiquity of Adobe Flash Player by Version - September 2007

	Flash Player 6	Flash Player 7	Flash Player 8	Flash Player 9
Mature Markets1	99.1%	99.1%	98.4%	93.3%
US/Canada	99.0%	99.0%	98.5%	94.1%
Europe2	99.2%	99.2%	98.2%	93.7%
Japan	99.5%	99.5%	99.0%	91.3%
Emerging Markets3	Not surveyed in this wave

 

Worldwide Ubiquity of Adobe Flash Player by Version — June 2007

	Flash Player 6	Flash Player 7	Flash Player 8	Flash Player 9
Mature Markets1	99.3%	99.3%	98.5%	90.3%
US/Canada	99.4%	99.4%	98.7%	90.5%
Europe2	99.3%	99.1%	98.2%	90.5%
Japan	99.8%	99.8%	99.0%	89.8%
Emerging Markets3	97.7%	97.6%	94.4%	89.4%

 

Notes

1. Mature markets include US,Canada,UK,Germany,France,Japan.
2. Europe includes UK, Germany, France.
3. The Emerging markets are surveyed every other wave. They include China, S. Korea, Russia, India and Taiwan. Percentages are carried over from the previous wave when emerging markets are not surveyed.

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