Another quarterly report from AdMob, another major climb for Android. The Q4 2009 numbers show that AdMob (which serves mobile advertising) fed nearly twice as many Android devices in the United States as it did in the third quarter, up to 27 percent (from 14 percent in Q3). Other bullet points:
- Leading the way for Android in the U.S. in December was the Motorola Droid, with 11.3 percent of all U.S. requests. The Dream (G1) was next at 8.3 percent, followed by the Hero at 4.2 percent, the Motorola Cliq at 3.4 percent, the Magic at 3.2 percent and the Droid Eris at 2.2 percent. The Samsung Moment had 1.1 percent.
- As it stands, Android had seven of the top 10 smartphones for the final month of the year and had 36 percent of U.S. ad requests. Also making the list were the iPhone (No. 1), BlackBerry Curve 8300 (No. 5) and Palm Pre (No. 8).
- The U.S. made up 48 percent of December’s 11.5 million requests.
- Worldwide, Android made up 19 percent of ad requests.
- HTC had 11 percent of worldwide ad requests, followed by Motorola at 8 percent and Samsung at 1 percent.
Check out the full report at AdMob. (pdf link) It should be noted that Google, which owns and develops Android, is in the process of purchasing AdMob. That deal is currently awaiting FTC approval.