Flash Industry Survey 2010 – Results Announced

Not so long ago TemplateMonster along with a number of media partners jointly conducted a Flash Industry Survey to gain feedback from our target audience.

The Flash Industry Survey used a set of crucial statements and gave more than 10,000 survey participants the choice to answer each statement according to their personal experience respecting Flash technology and its use. The respondents were asked for their professional opinions for us to determine the potential future of Flash development.

Flash Industry Survey 2010 Results Announced

Now, the results from that survey are complete. We’d like to thank those people who took part in the survey and have expressed their priceless opinions. The data collected are critical to the future of Flash technology and all the findings will be used to strengthen the workforce efficiency in this area.

For more information about the results and all the crucial stats and figures of the recently completed research, visit Flash Survey Results info page. Be sure to share this valuable info with your friends and sound off your feedback in the comments.

Written by Lilian Rigo

It all started as a joke and a bit of a challenge. But then somewhere along the line I realized that being involved in copy-writing is too good to pass up. Big love for analyzing was a certain slide to where I am now. To pick up every tidbit of info, meditate on words literariness, and then pour it all in a decent form - that is the essence of my current work being. Overall, I see the web as a Klondike of art, music, and literature... it's all there. Maybe someday, I'll brave more than just copy-writing. We'll see. on Google+.

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    • Amit

      in flash you perform a very hot work.

    • Santiago Escobar

      Its amazing to know that flash is very important to develop websites, now I believe that JavaScript pages are far away to win the battle.

    • Alexander Nikolaev

      Damn, who could have thought that almost 10% still use Flash 8 AND half of them is not planning to upgrade. this is insane

      • DMC

        Why should they? Adobe have made it a closed system and with every iteration, your previous knowledge becomes virtually worthless. as2 – as3 was the killer for a lot of designers and developers, and the docs on the adobe site are often vague, wrong, or assume you’re a programmer. Nobody can be bothered.

    • Dearqtpie

      I love my flash site. The only downfall that I can see is SEO and I look forward to seeing that become a priority in the near future.

    • http://www.ThatsGravy.com Ryan G.

      Great info and thanks for the research. It really depends on the client and targeted audience if FLASH provides the best possible solution.

    • Tom Dana

      Great information, I love the flow and feel of certain flash websites. The fact Steve Jobs blocked Flash on iPhone and iPad really bummed me out.

    • d2globalinc

      We use flash for application development, now with AIR coming to all devices – flash is still king. Make 1 app – publish to all devices. Ahhhhhhh.. This is why we used flash since Flash 3 – Make an app/site and it works and looks the same across all devices..

    • Bsvinns

      To me to like to work in Flash, but I shall support opinion about SEO, to advance them very hardly

    • Bsvinns

      While the optimum decision, if the site demands active promotion to use elements, instead of to doall site in Flash

      • http://mwlab.com.ua/ Site creation

        Flash… feeeee

    • Hsinhueichen

      I am unsing Flash CS4 and I am satisfied with this software for design of website.

    • http://www.igralka.net Flash

      It’s weird: no word above about jquery and other javascript frameworks.

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    • Ariel

      No Silex in the Flash CMS?

    • Craig Mc

      The only gripe I have hear is the inaccurate fact that Google CANT index flash , that is not true, flash can be index for SEo and have been able to be for years, google as part of the openscreen project ensured that years ago.

    • Gerard

      SEO does not have to be an issue on using flash: Google already finds and shows indexing results on text inside flash applications and there are also sophisticated techniques in using separate html pages with separate SWF files.

      Here is an example: http://www.sidlee.com/

      Notice the # in between the url.

      • http://www.thyon.com/ thyon

        Well great site, but in OTHER parts of the world, that website sucks, because everything is video based and it’s HUGE, so loading this website in South Africa would simply stutter to a halt. Developers rely too much on fast internet connections…

      • Tanshi

        I typed both site:sidlee.com and site:www.sidlee.com in google and I see no swf file indexed.

        Google indexed only your homepage, a php page where you posted some jobs and 2 pdfs… Why are you posting an example that is not relevant to your comment?

        • Gerard

          I’m not realy sure what you found, but the website URL is correct and shows the correct example on my comment.

          • Tanshi

            I’m not saying that the url is not correct, I said you didn’t post an example of how Google indexed your swf content.

            sidlee.com does not have any swfs indexed by Google.

      • djpaul1963

        Indeed Google opens the swf and crawls any text inside it. But the real problem begins when text is coming from external XML during runtime. What can you do to let Google indexing then? Except of parallel html files (which is somehow penalty for the engines as those pages never show up to the visitors) I can’t think of a decent way to accomplish that. Any ideas?

        • Gerard

          Also external XML text content is indexed by Google. Google finds the internal deeplinks that lead to the XML file portions through the SWF application(s). But if you want to be sure, you can add the text also inside the SWF so its also rendered as text by Google.

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    • dvale

      HTML & Flash, same as Mummy & Dancer………………..Mummy is interesting, Dancer is ALIVE…………..VIVA FLASH !

    • Jimmulvaney

      The following is in response to the individual results and not to any of the previous comments users have made…
      – I worry about the 48% of people who are not willing to upgrade their flash. They are going to quickly find out just how limited their work will be in the market and in this field. If I am wrong then I would suspect to see a similar problem with having to cater new technologies to older platforms.
      – I would like to see a universal version of ActionScript preferably more like AS2 and without the need of having to upgrade the software in order to use the newest version of a programming language.
      – To the 51% of users not interested in providing HTML5 based projects, it just means more money for people who do. Also, it is a new technology and any one who does anything for the web knows that even if it is short-lived it will in-fact make a big difference in the way we work.
      – As much as I hate to admit it, WYSIWYG editors probably are the most important part of a CMS because more and more people are trying to take control of their own content and a lot of solutions like to boast about the ease of use and how you don’t need to know anything about web development to do so.
      – A flashed based shopping cart just sounds like a bad solution. Not only do you have to use it to control your store’s content, but if you wanted customized modules (which you see a lot in PHP based shopping carts) you need yet another piece of proprietary software to build them.
      – To the 74% of people who feel that flash should only be used for certain industries, you are seriously mistaken. The industry should not dictate the level of design or experience that you can deliver and there are plenty of websites out there to refer to.
      – Finally that being said, 100% flash made websites really need to be rethought and determined that there are no other more efficient or flexible solutions for individual elements that compose the website. Flash elements in a well built website are fine, otherwise they can be very limiting when they are the only website solution used.

    • Jimmulvaney

      One final note, to all you developers and designers that are banking on Flash and ActionScript to out-live HTML5 or just don’t care one way or the other, if and when HTML5 explodes in the market your previous projects could suffer the same fate as Lingo when Director became obsolete. I mean fundamentally, HTML5 is supposed to have the same ‘ease of use’ as HTML and XML combined while supplying a non-proprietary form of user interaction. Something to think about.

    • Kamil34954

      Jimmulvaney: 48% people will do not upgrade from flash 8 which is 9% of all

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3TDN6MAH4762YVHOGMHNSRTQKI arvind

      HTML5 is not a rival to flash. Steve Jobs should be blamed for creating the flash hatred. Flash is best for creating cool sites and web application. When I say Flash I also talk about Flash files created using Flex (Flash builder). I will also learn HTML5(I still feel like its not ready yet), but I prefer Flash.

    • Ron

      Flash and Apple need to work out their “issues”. It is so frustrating!

    • Biyas526

      soooooooo,,niceeeeeeeeeeeeee

    • Leeinfiniti

      IMHO I believe that flash will be on it’s way to becoming obsolete within the next 5 years.

      Reasons:

      1. Steve Jobs (His decision hurt me too, but based on the next few reasons I now see why he did it)
      2. Javascript libraries like jQuery (aside from making a huge kick a** game, all animations needed to enhance any website can be done with these libraries).
      3. SEO (Yes, Google can index the text, but it doesn’t work as easily with AS2. Based on this study it looks like most of us are happier with AS2).
      4. Impossible to add the tag into your flash site(Maybe it’s just me, but I have found no way to do this when trying to add some embed code for an external video. I would have to have the video file to convert to a .flv file, but most clients don’t have that available to them so instead you have to record your screen while the video plays).

      So, for those reasons I really believe that most designers (aside from game developers) should start focusing more on Javascript libraries. We should all know flash for those clients that want a bit more complex animation, but 80% of the time more complex animation is not needed and can seem a bit classless.

      Just MHO.

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