Empowering everyone to create.
Adobe empowers everyone, everywhere to imagine, create, and bring any digital experience to life. From creators and students to small businesses, global enterprises, and nonprofit organizations — customers choose Adobe products to ideate, collaborate, be more productive, drive business growth, and build remarkable experiences.
How we’re making an impact.
Explore all the ways Adobe is innovating, breaking boundaries, and making a difference in our local communities and across the globe.
1 billion+
monthly active users of Adobe products
50 million+
members in the Behance community
150+
Adobe Creative Campuses worldwide
90%
cost savings from documents created, signed, shared, and stored in Adobe Document Cloud compared with paper-based processes
400 billion +
PDFs opened annually
20,000+ global enterprises
rely on Adobe’s nearly two decades of customer experience domain expertise
60+
industry analyst reports named Adobe Customer Experience Orchestration products a leader in their product categories
1 trillion+
visits to US retail websites analyzed monthly by Adobe Analytics, offering the most comprehensive view of e-commerce
17 trillion+
segment evaluations per day by Adobe Experience Platform
26 years
on Fortune’s list of 100 Best Companies to Work For
$38 million+
provided in employee donations, corporate grants, and Adobe matches in the last year
210K+ hours
employee volunteered in the last year
100% of electricity consumed
by Adobe sites from renewable sources or matched with renewable electricity claims
Our approach to generative AI.
Adobe is amplifying human ingenuity with AI, helping customers enhance their creativity, increase their productivity, and deliver more personalized experiences.
Designed to unlock your potential.
AI at Adobe is designed to enhance the creativity, intelligence, and ingenuity of our users, empowering people to work faster, focus on what’s important, and accomplish more.
Developed responsibly and transparently.
We train our Firefly models on data that allows us to offer customers a solution designed to be commercially safe. Plus, through the Content Authenticity Initiative, we’re driving global industry standards for transparency.
Integrated seamlessly into your workflows.
At Adobe, AI is built into our tools and seamlessly integrated into workflows customers are already using. Our embedded AI features fuel creativity, enable greater productivity, and empower businesses to deliver personalization at scale.
Making history since 1982.
Explore key moments in Adobe history — from the debut of PostScript, the introduction of Photoshop, the invention of PDF, and the creation of the digital marketing software category to our latest transformative innovations.
1982
John Warnock and Charles Geschke found Adobe to revolutionize printing and publishing with an all-digital approach.
1985
The release of Adobe PostScript marks the first international standard for computer printing.
1987
Adobe Illustrator gives artists the precision and freedom to create digital images.
1989
Adobe makes PostScript font technology an open standard.
1990
Adobe Photoshop redefines imaging and artistic expression.
1991
Adobe Premiere transforms professional video editing.
1993
Portable Document Format (PDF) and Adobe Acrobat usher in a new era of document productivity.
1999
Adobe InDesign introduces the next generation of digital publishing.
2003
Adobe pioneers the “freemium” software model with the launch of Acrobat Reader.
2005
Flash helps shape the future of video and gaming on the web, kick-starting the interactive web.
2008
Portable Document Format (PDF) is released as an open standard.
Major acquisitions
2005
2009
2010
2012
Adobe Marketing Cloud unifies analytics, advertising, targeting, and web experience management, creating the digital marketing software category.
Adobe becomes the first major software company to transition to a subscription-based model with the announcement of Adobe Creative Cloud
2016
Adobe Sensei enables the development of AI-powered features across Adobe’s product portfolio.
2019
Adobe founds the cross-industry Content Authenticity Initiative to build trust and transparency in digital content.
Adobe Experience Platform empowers organizations to centralize and standardize customer data from any system.
Major acquisitions
2012
2015
2018
2019
2020
2021
Adobe Express brings the magic of technology from Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Acrobat, and Firefly to make content creation quick and easy for everyone.
2023
Adobe Firefly becomes the first creative generative AI model designed to be commercially safe.
2024
Adobe GenStudio reimagines enterprise content supply chains, empowering marketers to quickly plan, create, manage, activate, and measure on-brand content.
Acrobat AI Assistant transforms digital document experiences with generative AI, unlocking new value from the information inside the trillions of PDFs in the world.
Major acquisitions
2021
2025 - 2026
Adobe Acrobat Studio, the Acrobat Pro tools you love reimagined with AI. Smart workspaces, personalized AI Assistants, and standout content creation - all in one place
Adobe Brand Concierge, an AI-powered conversational solution, transforms static website browsing into personalized, brand-safe, real-time customer interactions.
Adobe CX Enterprise, an end-to-end agentic AI system, brings together AI agents, agent skills and Model Context Protocol (MCP) endpoints—with an intelligence and governance layer—to deliver reliable and auditable agentic workflows that enable highly personalized, differentiated brand experiences.
CXO Co-worker builds agentic-enabled workflows for Customer Experience Orchestration, offering business choice and control tailored to the needs of their organization.
Major acquisitions
2026
2026