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Acquisitions
5
Total Acquisitions
$31.2B
Disclosed Deal Value
2022
$20.0B
Attempted to acquire the dominant collaborative UI/UX design tool to address Adobe's weakness in browser-native, multiplayer design workflows after XD failed to compete.
The deal was abandoned in December 2023 after regulatory opposition from the European Commission, UK CMA, and US DOJ. Adobe paid a $1 billion breakup fee.
Left Adobe without a clear collaborative design strategy and validated Figma as a standalone competitor worth $20 billion.
2021
$1.3B
Added cloud-based video collaboration and review tools to address the growing demand for remote video production workflows.
Integrated directly into Premiere Pro and After Effects, enabling real-time video review, approval workflows, and cloud-based media management for distributed teams.
Strengthened Adobe's video editing ecosystem against competitors like DaVinci Resolve and helped retain professional video editors within the Creative Cloud platform.
2018
$4.8B
Added B2B marketing automation capabilities to compete with Salesforce and HubSpot in the marketing cloud space.
Marketo Engage became Adobe's lead management and B2B marketing platform, filling a critical gap in the Experience Cloud portfolio for demand generation and account-based marketing.
Strengthened Adobe's position in enterprise marketing, enabling it to serve both B2B and B2C use cases within a single platform.
2009
$1.8B
Entered the web analytics and digital marketing space, transforming Adobe from a creative tools company into a marketing technology platform.
Became the foundation of Adobe's Digital Experience segment. Omniture's SiteCatalyst was rebranded as Adobe Analytics and became the enterprise alternative to Google Analytics.
Digital Experience grew into a $5.86 billion segment by FY2025, fundamentally diversifying Adobe's revenue beyond creative software.
2005
$3.4B
Acquired to gain Flash, Dreamweaver, and web development tools that Adobe lacked. Eliminated Adobe's primary competitor in web design and multimedia.
Combined Adobe's print-focused tools with Macromedia's web-focused products, creating the industry's most comprehensive creative suite. Flash became ubiquitous for web video and interactive content.
Cemented Adobe's dominance across both print and digital creative workflows, though Flash was eventually discontinued in 2020.
Adobe's strategy centers on strengthening Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Creative Cloud, improving execution, and defending share against Microsoft, Salesforce, Apple.
Adobe makes money mainly through subscriptions to Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, and Experience Cloud, plus enterprise software, usage-based AI capabilities, stock assets, support, services, and legacy publishing products.
Figma (a web-based UI/UX design tool) was rapidly stealing market share from Adobe XD. Adobe panicked and offered a staggering $20 billion in 2022 to acquire and neutralize the threat.
In late 2023, Adobe officially abandoned the massive Figma acquisition after facing insurmountable pushback from UK and EU antitrust regulators, who argued the merger would create a monopoly in design software.
Yes, in its most important historical acquisition, Adobe bought its massive rival Macromedia for $3.4 billion in 2005. This eliminated Adobe's biggest competitor and gave them ownership of Flash and Dreamweaver.
Adobe acquired Marketo for $4.75 billion in 2018 to massively beef up its B2B enterprise marketing cloud, allowing it to compete directly with Salesforce and Oracle in the enterprise software space.
Yes, Adobe acquired Frame.io (a massive cloud-based video collaboration platform used by film studios) for $1.2 billion in 2021, integrating it directly into Premiere Pro to dominate the video editing market.