Adobe statistics: Creative Cloud users, employees, & more

Founded in December 1982 by Charles Geschke and John Warnock, Adobe is a tech company that specializes in software for creating and editing content, including photography, graphics, animation, illustration, and video. It is most famous for Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, and Acrobat.

Table of contents:

• The latest Adobe financial results (Q1 FY2025)
• Company information
• Adobe Creative Cloud has almost 32+ million subscribers
• Adobe Stock has 600+ million files
• Adobe Firefly has been used to generate 15 billion images
• Adobe has acquired at least 55 companies
• Use

The latest Adobe financial results (Q1 FY2025)

Revenue and earnings

Segment performance

Annual Financial Targets (FY2025)

Company information

Employee data

• Total Employees: 30,709 (as of November 29, 2024)
• Year-over-Year Growth: 2.55% increase (764 additional employees)
• Geographic Distribution: Approximately 52% in the United States, 48% international

Corporate facts

• Headquarters: San Jose, California
• Founded: 1982
• Stock Symbol: ADBE (NASDAQ)
• Total Revenue FY2024: $21.51 billion

Business segments

• Digital Media: Includes Creative Cloud and Document Cloud
• Digital Experience: Marketing and analytics solutions
• Publishing and Advertising: Legacy products and services

The information comes from Adobe’s Q1 FY2025 earnings report (released March 2025) and other official company disclosures. For the most up-to-date and detailed financial information, you can visit Adobe’s Investor Relations website at www.adobe.com/investor-relations.html, where they provide access to their SEC filings, earnings press releases, and quarterly financial documents.

Adobe Creative Cloud has almost 32+ million subscribers

Adobe Creative Cloud was launched on April 22, 2012. By March 2013, it had raked in more than half a million users, increasing to 1.4 million by the end of the year.

Since then, Adobe hasn’t released any official numbers. Using the extrapolation, as well as Adobe’s official revenue reports, we estimated that by the end of 2017, Creative Cloud had over 12 million active subscribers. This number increased to 22 million in 2021, and is between 32 and 33 million in 2025.

In recent years, Creative Cloud has gained between 2 and 3 million new subscribers every year. 

Currently, the main unknown is the new Firefly plans, where we lack precise subscriber data. We can’t determine how many people have Firefly-only subscriptions based on image generation metrics alone, as various Creative Cloud subscribers receive between 100 and 1,000 generative credits based on their specific plan.

Adobe Stock has 600+ million files

After acquiring Fotolia in 2015 and renaming it Adobe Stock, Adobe’s library of royalty-free files quickly became one of the best stock image sites and royalty-free video providers.

As of 2025, Adobe Stock offers 600+ million assets, including more than 366 million images and 214 million AI images, as well as 37 million, 85,000 music files, and over 1 million free photos, vectors, videos, templates, illustrations, and 3D assets.

Adobe Firefly has been used to generate 15 billion images

In October 2024, Adobe shared that Firefly has generated more than 13 billion images—an increase of more than 6 billion since March. Since its official release in October, Firefly has generated an additional 2 billion images, for a total of 15 billion. At 1 billion images generated a month (here, Adobe also counts Generative Fill results from Photoshop), Firefly is the most widely used generative AI model.

Adobe has acquired at least 55 companies

Over the years, Adobe has acquired at least 55 companies related to graphic design and photography. Following the hype around acquiring Figma, which quickly subsided after the companies mutually broke off the deal, Adobe hasn’t announced any other acquisition in over a year.

Use

• Adobe Photoshop is used by over 90% of the world’s creative professionals.
• Behance has over 29 million members worldwide, who use it to showcase their work and find inspiration.
• In 2021, Adobe products were used to open over 300 billion PDFs.
• Adobe Document Cloud handled 8 billion electronic and digital signature transactions in 2021.
• Adobe Scan has over 138 million downloads and 2 billion created documents.
• Digital scans, signatures, and shares through Document Cloud lead to 90% cost savings and a 95% reduction in environmental impact. One million Adobe Acrobat Sign transactions save 31,000 trees, 105 million liters of water, and emissions equal to 2,300 cars in a year. In addition, they reduce the cost by $7.2 million.

Related reading:

• List of Adobe software
• How to get Adobe Creative Cloud free trial
• The best Adobe software for photo editing
• The best Adobe software for video editing

This article was originally published in March 2022. The most recent update was in May 2025.

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Matic Broz

Matic Broz is a stock media licensing expert with over 10 years of experience using and testing creative platforms for his own creative work. He has personally licensed over 5,000 stock assets and helped 20,000+ creators choose the right subscription services through his work at Photutorial.

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