Adobe says it hit 1B MAUs and freemium MAUs crossed 100M in Q3, up 70%+ YoY, as it increasingly focuses on expanding its freemium AI offerings to drive revenue
Elias Schisgall /Wall Street Journal:
Adobe says it hit 1B MAUs, with freemium MAUs surpassing 100M in Q3, up 70%+ YoY, as it increasingly focuses on expanding its freemium AI offerings
Elias Schisgall /Wall Street Journal:
OpenView: by 2025's end, 79 of 500 tracked software companies, like HubSpot, Adobe, and Salesforce, adopted usage-based AI fees, more than double that of 2024
Dozens of enterprise software firms have shifted away from charging customers flat, per-user subscription fees as AI threatens their seat-based pricing model.
Adobe ramped up its ads in 2025, spending $1.4B amid AI competition and Wall Street skepticism, a significantly higher share of sales than other tech companies
Adobe Inc. ramped up its advertising in 2025, spending $1.4 billion to promote its brand in the face of steep competition …
Adobe's stock has slumped more than 45% since the end of 2023, reflecting analyst concerns over the threat of AI-driven disruption to SaaS companies
Concern that Adobe Inc. will struggle in the artificial-intelligence era has driven Wall Street analysts' view on the maker of software …
Docs: Adobe offers its network of photographers $120 for videos of people engaged in everyday actions, or ~$2.62/minute to ~$7.25/minute on average, to train AI
- OpenAI's Sora has increased competitive pressure on Adobe — Adobe has built AI models with stock library, procured media
While Adobe, Getty Images, Stability AI, and YouTube have pledged to share some generative AI profits with creators, none have shared specific payout amounts
not exactly an earth-shatting amount.” — https://techcrunch.com/... LinkedIn: Theo Priestley : On Shutterstock, the average payout for each image you have in their AI dataset is looking like $0.0078...
Ethermine, the largest Ethereum mining firm, plans to shut down its servers for miners after Ethereum's Merge and switch its mining pool to withdraw-only mode
1 big thing: Adobe is buying online design startup Figma for $20 billion … CoinDesk : Meet 8 Ethereum Developers Who Helped Make the Merge Possible Mike Truppa / The Block : Beyond The Merge: A look a...