Adobe fast facts.

A quick overview of our history, leadership, key stats and products.

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About us.

Adobe believes creativity empowers transformation — personally, professionally and across all industries. We not only deliver strong financial results, but we’re also driving incredible innovation, adding millions of new customers, delivering billions of experiences across screens and processing trillions of data transactions online.

Founded

December 1982 by Charles Geschke and John Warnock

Initial public offering

20 August 1986, at a split-adjusted share price of US$0.17

Corporate headquarters

San Jose, California, USA

Revenue

Fiscal 2021 revenue: US$15.79 billion

(FY ended 3 Dec. 2021)

Incorporated

October 1983 in California;

reincorporated in Delaware, May 1997

Employees

More than 26,000 worldwide

Stock symbol

ADBE (NASDAQ)

Our solutions.

Adobe Creative Cloud

We believe in creativity for all, so we give everyone the tools to discover and express their creativity through photography, design, video, animation, web and mobile user experiences and more.

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Over 90% of the world’s creative professionals use Adobe Photoshop.
Adobe Stock now offers 290+ million assets, including more than 180 million photos, 83 million vectors and illustrations, 23 million videos, 55,000 audio tracks, 4.9 million Premium assets and over 1 million free photos, vectors, videos, templates, illustrations and 3D assets.
Behance, Adobe’s online creative community, has over 29 million members. Creatives worldwide use Behance to showcase work and find inspiration.
Creative Cloud 2D and 3D design tools transform old “make, use, dispose” design processes into elegant, sustainable, circular design workflows. A digital design phase means more resources for our planet.

Adobe Document Cloud

We make it easy for people and businesses to create, edit, share, scan and sign digital documents so they can communicate and collaborate securely across devices.

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More than 300 billion PDFs were opened in Adobe products in the last year.
More than 8 billion electronic and digital signature transactions were processed through Adobe Document Cloud in the past year. The majority of Fortune 100 companies rely on Adobe Acrobat Sign for fast, secure e-signatures.
Adobe Scan is the leading scanning app on iOS and Android with more than 138 million downloads and 2 billion documents created.
Documents created, signed, shared and stored in Document Cloud drive a 90% cost savings and a 95% reduction in environmental impact compared to paper-based processes.
Every 1 million Adobe Acrobat Sign transactions save 105 million litres of water, 31,000 trees and the equivalent of taking 2,300 cars off the road for a year - plus reducing costs by more than $7.2M.

Adobe Experience Cloud

We give businesses unmatched solutions for customer journey management, data analytics, content personalisation, commerce and marketing workflows that drive long-term customer success.

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Industry analysts have named Adobe a leader in 40+ categories such as digital experience platforms, content management systems, customer analytics, CRM lead management, digital commerce, enterprise marketing software suites and more.
Adobe Experience Cloud is supported by an expansive global ecosystem of 4,000+ active solution integrator, agency, technology and marketplace partners and more than 460,000 developers and community members.
With Adobe Analytics, we analyse more than 1 trillion visits to retail websites in the U.S. (aggregated and anonymised), as well as over 100 million product SKUs in 18 product categories, to provide e-commerce and online inflation insights to businesses, policymakers and consumers.

Our leaders.

Shantanu Narayen
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Scott Belsky
Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Creative Cloud

Anil Chakravarthy
President, Digital Experience Business

Gloria Chen
Chief People Officer and Executive Vice President, Employee Experience

Dan Durn
Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President, Finance, Technology Services and Operations

Ann Lewnes
Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy & Development

Dana Rao

Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Trust Officer

David Wadhwani

President, Digital Media Business

Charles Geschke

Co-founder

John Warnock

Co-founder

Learn more about Adobe leaders

Major acquisitions.

ContentCal, 2021

Frame.io, 2021

Workfront, 2020

Allegorithmic, 2019

Marketo, 2018

Magento, 2018

Fotolia, 2015

Behance, 2012

Day Software 2010

Omniture, Inc., 2009

Macromedia, Inc., 2005

Corporate responsibility.

We believe that creativity is the catalyst for positive change. Through our efforts, we inspire creativity in people who want to make a meaningful impact in the following areas:

Creativity for All

We support increasing access to creative literacy and digital skills, tools and training for creators of all ages to empower everyone to reach their full potential.

Sustainability

We practise sustainability in everything we do, with a focus on driving Adobe product innovation that increases positive social and environmental outcomes for our customers and communities.