When cross-channel marketing goes wrong, it’s bad news for businesses and consumers alike. 

As part of Adobe’s “How’s your customer experience?” ad series, “Secret Agent” conveys how all the bad guys in the world couldn’t defeat a secret agent, but a bad customer experience could.

Released: September 2016

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In the past, Adobe showed what happened when cross-channel marketing experiences went bad. In our latest spot a new situation emerges—what happens when a bad scenario is met with a great customer experience?

“Heist” is a 60-second bank-robbery spot with all the details of a summer blockbuster. It has the big shots and familiar chaos of Dog Day Afternoon. Nervous robbers, stammering bank tellers and the ever-present threat of the law. And most importantly, there's a twist: Adobe’s Experience Cloud software saves the day.

Released: March 2017

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Since 1982, Adobe has worked to democratize creativity. Over the last 30 years, they’ve built ground-breaking creative tools like Photoshop, Premier, and InDesign – and in November of 2019, they released two more innovations: Photoshop for iPad and Photoshop Camera. It was in this moment, for the first time ever, that the world’s most powerful creative tools extended beyond laptops and into the pockets of millions.

So, to celebrate this achievement, Adobe, GS&P and the entire creative community made “Creativity for all,” a 60-second ode to the democratization of creativity, set to “Pure Imagination” by Gene Wilder. The mixed-media film features icons of the digital era like Shepard Farey, Malala Yousafzai and the credit list – with well over 1,000 names – includes a thank-you to every person who has ever opened an Adobe program.

But “Creativity for all” is more than a film. It’s a rallying cry for the modern era of creation. A call to arms for creatives and creators across the world. And it’s a commitment by Adobe and Goodby Silverstein & Partners to continue working toward a world where everyone who wants to make something, can.

Released: February 2020

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Since 1982, Adobe has worked to democratize creativity. Over the last 30 years, they’ve built ground-breaking creative tools like Photoshop, Premier, and InDesign – and in November of 2019, they released two more innovations: Photoshop for iPad and Photoshop Camera. It was in this moment, for the first time ever, that the world’s most powerful creative tools extended beyond laptops and into the pockets of millions.

So, to celebrate this achievement, Adobe, GS&P and the entire creative community made “Creativity for all,” a 60-second ode to the democratization of creativity, set to “Pure Imagination” by Gene Wilder. The mixed-media film features icons of the digital era like Shepard Farey, Malala Yousafzai and the credit list – with well over 1,000 names – includes a thank-you to every person who has ever opened an Adobe program.

But “Creativity for all” is more than a film. It’s a rallying cry for the modern era of creation. A call to arms for creatives and creators across the world. And it’s a commitment by Adobe and Goodby Silverstein & Partners to continue working toward a world where everyone who wants to make something, can.

Released: February 2020

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San Francisco, Adobe

When Adobe replaced their popular creative software with the subscription-based Creative Cloud, they were launching an entirely new way of using their product.

So we decided to launch an entirely new type of customer.

Today’s creatives aren’t just one thing; they are multidisciplinary artists. We needed to show what is possible now that all Adobe’s tools are bundled together.

To win them over, we put our customers at the center of an integrated campaign, projecting their crowdsourced self-portraits onto their faces and thereby showing art and artist together.

* An online spot declared, “I Am the New Creative,” and contained embedded links that connected directly to the featured artist’s portfolio.

* Posters were distributed to featured artists.

* The website, iamthenewcreative.com, encouraged artists to submit portraits and become part of the campaign.

* Adobe donated its global social media network to showcase the New Creatives’ work to more than 16 million potential viewers online.

By putting creatives at the center, we dramatically increased visits to artists’ portfolios. Positive sentiment toward Adobe Creative Cloud increased on social media. And the creative themselves became our best and most effective ambassadors of a new way of working. 

Released: April 2014

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San Francisco, Adobe, Film, Print, Integrated, Social, Design

Creatives today do a little bit of everything, from illustration to filmmaking to web design. This film celebrates how all these different disciplines are coming together. 

In it a series of artists are shown with their work projected across their faces. Artists who appear include Joshua Davis, Dylan Roscover, Anita Fontaine, Jeremy Fish and Alejandro Chavetta. Additional artwork was also crowdsourced from Behance, an online platform that showcases photography, graphic design, illustration and fashion.

Released: September 2013

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San Francisco, Adobe, Film, Print, Integrated, Social, Design

When Adobe replaced their popular creative software with the subscription-based Creative Cloud, they were launching an entirely new way of using their product.

So we decided to launch an entirely new type of customer.

Today’s creatives aren’t just one thing; they are multidisciplinary artists. We needed to show what is possible now that all of Adobe’s tools are bundled together.

To win them over, we put our customers at the center of an integrated campaign, projecting their crowdsourced self-portraits onto their faces and thereby showing art and artist together.

* An online spot declared, “I Am the New Creative,” and contained embedded links that connected directly to the featured artist’s portfolio.

* Posters were distributed to featured artists.

* The website iamthenewcreative.com encouraged artists to submit portraits and become part of the campaign.

* Adobe donated its global social media network to showcase the New Creatives’ work to more than 16 million potential viewers online.

Released: October 2013

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San Francisco, Adobe, Film, Print, Integrated, Social, Design

If you attended the 2014 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, you saw some of the world’s most awarded and respected advertising illuminati featured in Adobe’s “New Creatives” campaign.

The print work used the faces of six of the industry’s most respected professionals as palimpsests for collaborations with up-and-coming artists within the Adobe Behance community. Each creative professional partnered with an emerging artist to conjure up a design that reflected both the professional’s most famous ad campaigns and their unique personalities. The professionals’ faces were then painted white, and the designs were projected onto them.

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If you attended the 2014 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, you saw some of the world’s most awarded and respected advertising illuminati featured in Adobe's “New Creatives” campaign.

The print work used the faces of six of the industry’s most respected professionals as palimpsests for collaborations with up-and-coming artists within the Adobe Behance community. Each creative professional partnered with an emerging artist to conjure up a design that reflected both the professional’s most famous ad campaigns and their unique personalities. The professionals’ faces were then painted white, and the designs were projected onto them.

The esteemed creatives included Jeff Benjamin (J. Walter Thompson), PJ Pereira (Pereira & O’Dell), Eric Kallman (Goodby Silverstein & Partners), Fernanda Romano (Naked), Mick Ebeling (Not Impossible Labs) and Alex Trochut. Collectively, the group has won over 110 Cannes Lions and 14 Grand Prix.

The creative partnerships include the following:

* Jeff Benjamin working with Vault49 to turn his face into the “subservient chicken” he made famous for Burger King

* Mike Ebeling also worked with Vault49 to interpret his open-source invention that allows paralyzed artists to create art through eye movement

* Eric Kallman joining Adhemas Batista to re-create Kallman’s work for Pizza Hut, Skittles and the mega-successful Old Spice campaign

* PJ Pereira and Doug Alves paying homage to Pereira’s latest book, Gods of Both Worlds (about Brazilian folklore), by projecting a traditional Brazilian deity mask

* Fernanda Romano teaming up with Yema Yema to showcase Romano’s vivacious personality through design

* Designer Alex Trochut created his own design

The ads ran in the official Cannes welcome booklet, in the Lions Daily News, on distributed posters and fliers, on out-of-home LED screens along the Promenade de la Croisette, through online social content, inside the Palais entrance and at the Adobe welcome party.

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San Francisco, Adobe, Film, Print, Integrated, Social, Design

If you attended the 2014 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, you saw some of the world’s most awarded and respected advertising illuminati featured in Adobe's “New Creatives” campaign.

The print work used the faces of six of the industry’s most respected professionals as palimpsests for collaborations with up-and-coming artists within the Adobe Behance community. Each creative professional partnered with an emerging artist to conjure up a design that reflected both the professional’s most famous ad campaigns and their unique personalities. The professionals’ faces were then painted white, and the designs were projected onto them.

The esteemed creatives included Jeff Benjamin (J. Walter Thompson), PJ Pereira (Pereira & O’Dell), Eric Kallman (Goodby Silverstein & Partners), Fernanda Romano (Naked), Mick Ebeling (Not Impossible Labs) and Alex Trochut. Collectively, the group has won over 110 Cannes Lions and 14 Grand Prix.

The creative partnerships include the following:

* Jeff Benjamin working with Vault49 to turn his face into the “subservient chicken” he made famous for Burger King

* Mike Ebeling also worked with Vault49 to interpret his open-source invention that allows paralyzed artists to create art through eye movement

* Eric Kallman joining Adhemas Batista to re-create Kallman’s work for Pizza Hut, Skittles and the mega-successful Old Spice campaign

* PJ Pereira and Doug Alves paying homage to Pereira’s latest book, Gods of Both Worlds (about Brazilian folklore), by projecting a traditional Brazilian deity mask

* Fernanda Romano teaming up with Yema Yema to showcase Romano’s vivacious personality through design

* Designer Alex Trochut created his own design

The ads ran in the official Cannes welcome booklet, in the Lions Daily News, on distributed posters and fliers, on out-of-home LED screens along the Promenade de la Croisette, through online social content, inside the Palais entrance and at the Adobe welcome party.

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San Francisco, Adobe, Film, Print, Integrated, Social, Design