Key Adobe stats
- Adobe reported $6.62 billion in revenue for Q2 FY2026, up 13% year over year.
- Adobe's FY2026 revenue target is now $26.50 billion to $26.60 billion.
- Adobe Creative Cloud has an estimated low-to-mid 30 million subscribers, but Adobe does not disclose an official subscriber count.
- Adobe Firefly has generated at least 22 billion assets worldwide, based on Adobe's April 2025 Firefly update.
- Adobe Stock now advertises 900M+ stock images, videos, and more.
- Adobe had 31,360 employees as of November 28, 2025.
- Adobe has acquired at least 56 companies, including Semrush in 2025.
Cite as: Broz, M. (2026, June 12). Adobe statistics: Creative Cloud users, employees, & more. Photutorial. /adobe-statistics/
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, video, PDFs, marketing, and generative AI. It is most famous for Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Acrobat, and Firefly.
Table of contents:
- The latest Adobe financial results (Q2 FY2026)
- Company information
- Adobe Creative Cloud has an estimated low-to-mid 30 million subscribers
- Adobe Stock has 900M+ assets
- Adobe Firefly has generated at least 22 billion assets
- Adobe has acquired at least 56 companies
- Use
The latest Adobe financial results (Q2 FY2026)
Adobe reported record Q2 FY2026 results on June 11, 2026, for the quarter ended May 29, 2026.
Revenue and earnings
| Financial Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Total Revenue | $6.62 billion |
| GAAP Net Income | $1.71 billion |
| Non-GAAP Net Income | $2.40 billion |
| GAAP Earnings Per Share | $4.25 |
| Non-GAAP Earnings Per Share | $5.96 |
| Operating Cash Flow | $2.17 billion |
| Total Adobe ARR | $27.10 billion |
| Remaining Performance Obligations | $22.27 billion |
Customer group performance
Adobe now reports customer groups instead of the older segment framing used in many previous summaries. This is useful because it separates creative/pro marketing users from business/pro productivity users.
| Customer group | Subscription revenue | Growth |
|---|---|---|
| Total Customer Group subscription revenue | $6.39 billion | 14% year over year |
| Business Professionals & Consumers | $1.85 billion | 16% year over year |
| Creative & Marketing Professionals | $4.54 billion | 13% year over year |
FY2026 financial targets
Adobe raised its FY2026 targets after Q2.
| Metric | FY2026 target |
|---|---|
| Total revenue | $26.50 billion to $26.60 billion |
| Business Professionals & Consumers subscription revenue | $7.44 billion to $7.48 billion |
| Creative & Marketing Professionals subscription revenue | $18.21 billion to $18.27 billion |
| Total Adobe ending ARR growth | 10.2% year over year |
| GAAP EPS | $17.90 to $18.00 |
| Non-GAAP EPS | $24.35 to $24.45 |
The most important new signal is AI revenue. Adobe said its AI-first annual recurring revenue has more than tripled year over year and exceeded $500 million. That does not mean Firefly alone is a $500 million product, but it shows AI is now material enough for Adobe to call out in financial reporting.
Company information
Employee data
- Total Employees: 31,360 as of November 28, 2025
- Year-over-Year Growth: 2.12% increase from 2024
- Previous Year: 30,709 employees as of November 29, 2024
Corporate facts
- Headquarters: San Jose, California
- Founded: 1982
- Stock Symbol: ADBE (NASDAQ)
- Total Revenue FY2025: $23.77 billion
- Total Revenue FY2024: $21.51 billion
Business areas
- Creative and Marketing Professionals: Creative Cloud, Adobe Stock, Firefly, and related creative products
- Business Professionals and Consumers: Acrobat, Document Cloud, Adobe Express, and productivity tools
- Digital Experience: Marketing, analytics, personalization, and customer experience products
The information above comes from Adobe's Q2 FY2026 earnings release, Adobe's FY2025 annual reporting, and public company disclosures. For the most detailed financial information, Adobe's Investor Relations website at www.adobe.com/investor-relations.html is still the best source.
Adobe Creative Cloud has an estimated low-to-mid 30 million subscribers
Adobe Creative Cloud launched on April 22, 2012. By March 2013, it had more than half a million users, increasing to 1.4 million by the end of the year.
Since then, Adobe hasn't released official Creative Cloud subscriber counts. That is the annoying part of Adobe statistics: the most-searched number is also the one Adobe stopped reporting directly.
Based on older disclosed subscriber numbers, Adobe's subscription revenue, and the growth of Creative Cloud since 2021, the best estimate is still in the low-to-mid 30 million range. Treat that as an estimate, not an official Adobe figure.
Creative Cloud also changed shape in 2025. The old All Apps plan became Creative Cloud Pro, Adobe added Creative Cloud Standard, and Firefly credits became a much bigger part of the plan comparison.
That makes the subscriber count harder to interpret. A Creative Cloud user might now be on a single-app plan, Photography, Creative Cloud Standard, Creative Cloud Pro, a team plan, or a plan bundled with Firefly features.
Adobe Stock has 900M+ assets
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.
Adobe now advertises 900M+ stock images, videos, and more on its live Adobe Stock plans page. That is a big jump from the older 600M+ figure this article used before.
The library includes traditional stock photos, vectors, illustrations, videos, templates, music, 3D assets, and a large amount of AI-generated content. Adobe's own category counts can vary by page and region, so for public-facing copy, "900M+ assets" is currently the cleanest number to use.
Adobe Firefly has generated at least 22 billion assets
Adobe said in April 2025 that Firefly had generated more than 22 billion assets worldwide since launch.
That figure is broader than just images. Firefly now covers image generation and editing, video generation, audio workflows, vector generation, and features built into Photoshop, Illustrator, Express, Premiere Pro, and other Adobe tools.
The more useful statistic for readers is not just the total count. It is how deeply Firefly is now tied into Adobe pricing. Creative Cloud Pro includes 4,000 monthly generative credits, while new single-app and Photography subscribers generally get 25 monthly credits.
Adobe has acquired at least 56 companies
Over the years, Adobe has acquired at least 56 companies related to creative software, documents, marketing, analytics, 3D, AI, and business workflows.
The latest major acquisition is Semrush, which Adobe included in its Q2 FY2026 reporting. Adobe said total ARR exiting Q2 included approximately $480 million from Semrush.
| Company | Acquired on | Acquired for |
|---|---|---|
| Emerald City Software | March 19, 1990 | - |
| BluePoint Technologies | June 20, 1990 | - |
| LaserTools-Language Tech | June 1, 1992 | - |
| OCR Systems | June 29, 1992 | - |
| Aldus Corporation | August 31, 1994 | $438 million |
| LaserTools | September 9, 1994 | - |
| Photoshop | 1995 | - |
| Frame Technology | October 30, 1995 | $566 million |
| Ares Software | May 20, 1996 | - |
| Sandcastle | March 14, 1997 | $3.5 million |
| HyWay Ferranti | September 5, 1997 | - |
| DigiDox | September 16, 1997 | - |
| GoLive Systems | January 4, 1999 | - |
| Fotiva | December 5, 2001 | - |
| Accelio | April 15, 2002 | $72 million |
| Syntrillium Software | May 2003 | - |
| Yellow Dragon Software-Tech | November 10, 2003 | - |
| Q-Link Technologies, Inc. | May 3, 2004 | - |
| OKYZ | December 7, 2004 | - |
| Macromedia | December 3, 2005 | $3.573 billion |
| Navisware | December 16, 2005 | - |
| Trade and Technologies France | April 21, 2006 | - |
| Pixmantec | June 26, 2006 | - |
| InterAKT | September 5, 2006 | - |
| Serious Magic Inc. | October 19, 2006 | - |
| Scene7 | May 31, 2007 | - |
| Virtual Ubiquity | October 1, 2007 | - |
| YaWah | September 15, 2008 | - |
| Business Catalyst | August 31, 2009 | - |
| Omniture | September 15, 2009 | $1.8 billion |
| Day Software | July 28, 2010 | $240 million |
| Demdex | January 18, 2011 | - |
| EchoSign | July 18, 2011 | - |
| Iridas Technology | September 8, 2011 | - |
| Nitobi | October 3, 2011 | - |
| Typekit | October 3, 2011 | - |
| Auditude | November 1, 2011 | $120 million |
| Efficient Frontier Technology | November 30, 2011 | - |
| Behance Inc. | December 21, 2012 | - |
| Neolane | July 23, 2013 | $600 million |
| Satellite | July 31, 2013 | - |
| Aviary | September 22, 2014 | - |
| Fotolia | January 28, 2015 | $800 million |
| Mixamo | June 1, 2015 | - |
| Livefyre | May 10, 2016 | - |
| TubeMogul | November 10, 2016 | $540 million |
| Sayspring | April 16, 2018 | - |
| Uru | April 29, 2018 | - |
| Magento | May 21, 2018 | $1.68 billion |
| Marketo | September 20, 2018 | $4.75 billion |
| Allegorithmic | January 23, 2019 | - |
| Workfront | November 9, 2020 | $1.5 billion |
| Frame.io | October 7, 2021 | $1.275 billion |
| ContentCal | December 8, 2021 | - |
| Abstract Notebooks | December 23, 2021 | - |
| Rephrase.ai | November 2023 | - |
| Semrush | 2025 | $1.9 billion |
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 June 2026.
Matic Broz
Matic is an experienced stock media creator at Photutorial. He's dedicated to promoting proper and responsible licensing of stock photography, footage, and audio. With a Ph.D. candidacy under his belt, Matic is passionate about making the stock media world a safe and better understood place. When he's not creating, you can find Matic exploring the great outdoors, hanging out with dogs, and diving into the exciting world of AI research.
