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National non-profit financial education and credit counseling organization uses Adobe® Digital Marketing Suite to reach new consumers, enhance online experiences, and shape digital strategiesDETAILS

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After evaluating several digital marketing solutions, Money Management International (MMI) adopted Adobe Digital Marketing Suite solutions to gather critical insights across its online activities. Because of the solution’s rich integration and robust functionality, the organization saw virtually limitless possibilities to optimize new visitor engagement and keyword campaigns, website navigation, user experiences, content delivery strategies, and more. With Adobe solutions, MMI has accelerated reporting times from ten hours to ten minutes, helped to reduce ad spend, and increased visitors completing online counseling forms by 23% through a single test.

Discovery Communications delivers engaging online and social media content for global fans with Adobe® Digital Marketing SuiteDETAILS

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As a media company, Discovery focuses on engaging avid viewers of its programs to help attract new ones and improve ratings that drive advertising revenues. The company uses Adobe Digital Marketing Suite solutions to gain better insight and understanding into how social media affects website traffic and loyalty, a critical component to creating more buzz around its shows and, thus, increased viewership. With Adobe solutions, Discovery Communications has increased loyal visitor acquisition by as much as 121%, helped increase visitor return rates up to 140%, and accelerated the delivery of more engaging content.

Trusted resource for new and used cars uses Adobe® Digital Marketing Suite to improve insights into multichannel audience behaviors and create additional value for business partnersDETAILS

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AutoTrader.com leverages Adobe solutions to deepen insights into multichannel audience behaviors, enhance digital experiences, and expand value for business partners. With Adobe Solutions, the company increased landing page conversion by 33%, improved conversion by as much as 8%, and elevated search traffic for specific vehicles during the Super Bowl from 133% to 1,775%.

Leading personal computer manufacturer increases its U.S. Facebook fan base ten times using Adobe® Social and Multi-channel Advertising Technology from AdobeDETAILS

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In expanding its marketing strategies through social media—particularly Facebook—Acer aims to increase mindshare and market share by engaging consumers in ongoing conversations and interactions around the benefits of its newest product line. A central component of the Acer campaign was having an integrated optimization and analytics platform to measure and analyze fan behaviors and ad campaign results in real time. With Adobe solutions, Acer has increased U.S. Facebook fan base by ten times, doubled global Facebook presence, helped to increase overall social media impressions by 4,400%, drove 71% of new fans through paid media component of the campaign, achieved over 1.2 million unique visits to the page, and attained 700,000 unique visitors to the application with a 27% share rate.

Leading kiosk-based movie and game rental company uses Adobe® Digital Marketing Suite software to drive success through cross-channel, relationship marketingDETAILS

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Redbox, a fully automated rental kiosk business, needed to experiment with and continually optimize its web presence for both desktop and mobile devices. The company also needed a more holistic view of the business and wanted ways to gain an even sharper edge over competitors. Redbox engaged with the Adobe Industry Strategy Group for a Strategic Value Assessment (SVA). Equipped with intelligence from the Adobe SVA, Redbox is creating a data warehouse to better service customers and implementing Adobe Digital Marketing Suite and Adobe Web Experience Management software. The goals include enabling streamlined site search, promoting products in a more automated and data-driven way, and optimizing every website interaction. The company also aims to deliver synergistic messages and promotions across channels—e-mail, website, mobile, and potentially eventually kiosks. With Adobe, Redbox has uncovered opportunities to increase online revenues.

Iconic fashion brand leverages Adobe® Digital Marketing Suite to strengthen its online retail presence and enhance customer experiencesDETAILS

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Guess set its sights high as it approached optimizing its online properties, working towards a position as an online retail leader, and targeting online revenues of $100M annually—a figure more than double of what it previously generated. To meet this challenge, GUESS adopted Adobe Digital Marketing Suite for robust online analytics and website optimization, as well as for enhancing customer experiences. With Adobe solutions, Guess has improved shopping cart conversion by 35%, boosted customer engagement with on-site search by 300%, and increased on-site search conversion by 500%.

Global software leader uses Adobe® Digital Marketing Suite software to transform online customer experience and lift conversion rates by as much as 69%DETAILS

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Adobe.com is one of the world’s top 20 most visited sites, receiving upwards of 80 million visits per week. Adobe wanted to increase online revenue, so the worldwide software leader turned to its own topnotch Adobe Digital Marketing Suite to revamp customer experiences online and boost conversion. Adobe managers use Adobe Digital Marketing Suite to perform over 35 unique tests of content, layout, images, and offers on all web pages. Equipped with testing results, Adobe overhauled Adobe.com to deliver customized offers and richer, higher-impact content to customers. The more relevant content not only doubled click-through rates, but also amplified revenue per visit by as much as 23%. The company also doubled conversion rates by utilizing dynamic images based on customer behavior. For instance, Adobe used Adobe Digital Marketing Suite to experiment with pricing on its website in Germany and attained a 45% lift in conversions. Also, after incorporating Adobe Digital Marketing Suite into its North American web properties, the company improved conversion by 69%.

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Leader in data management solutions embraces data-driven marketing approach and drives over 40% lift in conversion with Adobe® Digital Marketing SuiteDETAILS

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NetApp recently standardized on Adobe Digital Marketing Suite to make high-valuable, actionable data easily available to its managers across teams. The rich insights gained directly impact the success of its online marketing campaigns and have led to considerable returns. For instance, NetApp worked with Adobe Consulting to observe behavior of visitors to its Desktop Virtualization landing page by experimenting with three unique layouts. In the end, NetApp implemented the third layout which displayed teaser content showing how customers saved on storage costs and achieved a 42.55% increase in conversions on its paid search landing page. With insights gained from real-time testing done with Adobe Digital Marketing Suite, NetApp also saw premium content registrations soar by 204% with no negative impact on log-in rate.

Online technology resource site uses Adobe® Digital Marketing Suite software to increase page views by 350% and ad revenues by 600%DETAILS

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TechMediaNetwork is a comprehensive ad service network with a successful online technology product review site, TopTenREVIEWS.com. TechMediaNetwork adopted Adobe Digital Marketing Suite to enhance the online experience for customers and advertisers alike. TechMediaNetwork used Adobe Digital Marketing Suite to perform tests on various page templates and layouts to increase page views. The results of the testing showed that the company needed to completely redesign its landing page and product category templates. After deploying the revamped templates, TechMediaNetwork boosted page views by 350%. With the new templates, the pros and cons were clear of placing products at the top next to an ad placement—for TechMediaNetwork that change alone resulted in a 600% increase in Google AdSense revenues.

Robert Walters uses Adobe Digital Marketing Suite for Web Experience Management, to build relationships with jobseekers and employers worldwideDETAILS

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Robert Walters specializes in permanent and contract recruitment across all industries on an international level. The leading recruitment company recently adopted Adobe Digital Marketing Suite for Web Experience Management, to strengthen its connection with jobseekers and employers worldwide. Using Adobe CQ Content Management, Adobe CQ Social Collaboration, and Adobe CRX, Robert Walters efficiently creates and publishes timely content to 40 websites in nine languages—dramatically expanding the reach and audience of its employment information, job listings, and candidate/client support. With Adobe CQ, marketers in 22 countries—who are not technically trained—can author and publish their own localized content.

Business learning platform attracts additional business by delivering and promoting more relevant and targeted training materials with Adobe® Digital Marketing SuiteDETAILS

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Athena Online needed a flexible and robust site search solution that would enable employees to search across a wide variety of training content formats and find the most relevant results very quickly. With Adobe solutions, Athena Online has increased clicks and engagement with target microsite content, enhanced search results by incorporating implicit and explicit visitor needs and successfully integrated new types of content into its search database.

Premier Inn accelerates delivery for marketing promotions and reduces reliance on outside development resources with Adobe® Digital Marketing SuiteDETAILS

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Premier Inn, a member of the Whitbread corporate family, is an award-winning hotel brand with over 600 budget hotels and more than 43,000 rooms across the United Kingdom and Ireland. Working with its primary digital development agency VML, Premier Inn has implemented the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite, including Adobe® CQ Web Content Management, Adobe® CQ Digital Asset Management, Adobe® CRX, Adobe SiteCatalyst® and Adobe Discover™ to help the company more efficiently create and update the content on its web properties while achieving maximum online marketing impact. Using Adobe, Premier Inn has now accelerated web content publishing from weeks to a single day.

Entertainment leader uses Adobe® Digital Marketing Suite to gain new insights into social media and audience behaviorsDETAILS

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With the help of Adobe solutions, NBC Universal found that if a video viewer "liked" a video, the viewer consumed more than two times more videos; the company also uncovered that if a video viewer shared a video, he or she accessed almost three times the amount of digital video and online content; NBC Universal also discovered that when viewers commented on a video, their consumption increased by approximately seven fold. The level of insight that NBC Universal is able to gather can be essential in finding better ways to help advertisers reach the best audiences.

Renowned children’s publishing, education, and media company uses Adobe® Digital Marketing Suite to help engage six million visitors on average each month and increase conversion in some cases by up to 13%DETAILS

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Scholastic, a global leader in children's education and entertainment, has services and products online that serve a specific target audience, and the company wanted to create more relevant and impactful content and offers across all of its properties to drive customer engagement, conversion, and sales. Adobe gives Scholastic managers insights into the products or services that merit further investment or others that need revamping in order to better serve customers. With Adobe solutions, Scholastic has converted on an e-mail marketing campaign by as much as 13% and helped to uncover new "wish list" opportunities for shopping carts, boosting conversion by 10%.

Leading European retail bank uses Adobe® Digital Marketing Suite to boost online conversion by up to 45% and enhance customer experiencesDETAILS

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With 96% of its customers having Internet access, ING Direct saw its online channel as its greatest opportunity to differentiate itself from the crowded financial services market, as well as capitalize on a growing mobile banking community. The company wanted to see exactly what customers were doing online and how they interacted with content, as well as find out what type of content resonated best with potential customers. Rather than relying purely on qualitative information gathered from its customer service center, the company turned to the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite to deliver rich insights into its online customer behaviors. With Adobe solutions, ING Direct has improved banner ad conversion by as much as 45%, increased prospect landing page conversion by 25%, and helped reduce call volumes to service centers by 30% for specific user segments.

Iconic music entertainment network uses Adobe® Digital Marketing Suite to gain deeper insights into complex relationships between social media and online engagementDETAILS

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With MTV's Video Music Awards--one of the biggest music events of the year--the company wanted to gain deeper insights into relationships between social activity and engagement with digital content. With Adobe solutions, MTV was able to do just that. The company was able to provide valuable insights into key relationships between social media and online behaviors, and delivered more granular, real-time insights into online visitor engagement.

Respected affordable dining experience company uses Adobe® Digital Marketing Suite to adopt a data-driven marketing approachDETAILS

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Restaurant.com aimed to bring new rigor to its marketing through continuous improvement and constant iterations of online content so the organization would always be changing, testing, progressing, and learning what worked best in the current market. The company wanted to help ensure that its decision-makers had access to the data they needed, in an accessible format—and sought an automated process for quickly building and customizing analytics reports. Leveraging the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite, Restaurant.com has increased revenues by up to 25% through a single test, increased revenues by 20% with shorter checkouts, delivered better insights and enhanced services to clients, and identified mobile optimization as a next big opportunity.

Custom apparel website, Customizo, dramatically reduces bounce rates by 95% and lifts conversion rates by 400%, in just four weeks with Adobe® Scene7®DETAILS

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Customizo leverages Scene7 dynamic media solutions and Adobe Creative Suite® Design Premium software to create a unique online apparel design platform. With Customizo’s online Design Studio, anyone—from sports teams to large businesses—can use their logos and proprietary designs to create their own apparel and accessories. In the past, when Customizo customers would upload their designs and images, they would be shown an online rendering of their garment prior to placing their order. However, once the order was placed, files often had to be altered or redrawn by the production department at Customizo to make them into print-ready files—occasionally resulting in mismatched colors, misplaced graphics, and other deviations from the user’s original designs or intent. With Adobe, Customizo has increased conversion rates by 400% in just for weeks, reduced bounce rates by 95%, increased engagement in the form of page views 340% and reduced average production workflows from one hour to under ten minutes.

Leading Internet, phone, and cable television service provider uses the Adobe® Digital Marketing Suite to enhance customer self-service and boost revenuesDETAILS

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Comcast understood how important their online channel was going to be to the overall success of the business. They wanted to help ensure they were developing positive online interactions that build strong customer relationships, enhance service, and drive revenue. The company also wanted to help relieve pressure on its call center and improve overall customer experiences by offering online self-service opportunities to customers. Comcast leverages the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite to gain a more complete picture of online and offline user interactions. With Adobe solutions, Comcast has increased conversion for bundled services by 44% and improved customer affinity for premium package offers by 18%.

Australia’s leading mobile communications company uses the Adobe® Digital Marketing Suite, and integrated technology from ExactTarget to recover lost online sales opportunitiesDETAILS

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Vodafone Australia recognized a plateau in its e-commerce channel in which sales began to slow and driving traffic to its website became more expensive. Vodafone Australia deployed the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite to better understand the reasons why this was happening and make appropriate changes to its content, messaging, and business processes to reverse the trend. With Adobe, Vodafone has seen the following results: recovered 15% of lost sales opportunities; garnered valuable insights, including 75% of follow-up e-mails were opened; helped to achieve 7% net increase in online sales through strategic programs; realized 1,700% return on strategic marketing investments.

Market leader in digital photo processing uses the Adobe Online Marketing Suite, to exceed revenue goals by more than 33% and streamlined online marketing processesDETAILS

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HP Snapfish relies on traditional paid search to generate traffic, but needed a more effective way of managing the campaigns to get away from the overwhelmingly manual processes. HP Snapfish, adopted the Adobe Online Marketing Suite to revamp its digital marketing efforts. With the Adobe solutions, HP Snapfish has exceeded revenue goals by more than 33%, increased year-over-year traffic by 37% with SEM, and gained real-time insight into customer online activities.

HeBS Digital achieves remarkable ROIs and builds award-winning websites for clients using the Adobe® Online Marketing Suite, and Adobe Creative Suite® 5 softwareDETAILS

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Profitable online strategies can be difficult to come by in hospitality, a dynamic industry where opportunities abound and many complex factors affect success. The cost of keywords has increased, yet many hotel budgets have reached a plateau. HeBS, a digital agency, focused on getting customers in the travel space real results, relies on Adobe to help achieve business results for its customers. With Adobe solutions, HeBS has increased return on ad spend by 1,500% or more, reduced cost per click by up to 67%, improved click through rates by up to 696%, and gained visibility into effective keyword selection, site design, budget planning, and forecasting.

Specialty retailer achieves 17% lift in revenue per visitor by optimizing shopping experiences and refining online strategies with the Adobe® Online Marketing SuiteDETAILS

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Within its specialized niche, Brownells faces stiff competition. Its reputation draws large numbers of would-be customers to the site, but to convert them, Brownells needs to make sure they quickly find what they're looking for. With help from the Adobe Online Marketing Suite and Adobe Consulting, Brownells has boosted revenues by 10%, increased revenue per visitor by 17% through relevant recommendations and improved revenue per visitor by 7.8% through optimized price placement.

The largest digital media company in Latin America seeks visitor data from Adobe® Online Marketing Suite to help refine its content and maximize advertising opportunitiesDETAILS

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With so much content and so many advertisers, Terra Networks needed to find ways to differentiate themselves from competitors and create additional opportunities. Terra Networks selected the Adobe Online Marketing Suite as its enterprise-level platform for capturing data interactions and putting them in context of consumer behavior, media convergence, industry trends, and advertisers' demand for ROI. Terra has reduced reporting times by 80%, enhanced the editorial team's understanding of online traffic and improved visitor engagement by 20%, and helped to manage a 205% increase in mobile traffic in 12 months.

Leading U.K. consumer technology retailer turns to Adobe® Online Marketing Suite to maximize effectiveness of its new mobile commerce channelDETAILS

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When Carphone Warehouse (CPW) decided to launch a new mobile-optimized site, it immediately turned to the Adobe Online Marketing Suite to help it measure and maximize the ROI of its mobile campaigns. With Adobe solutions, CPW has generated new revenue from mobile online sales, gained deeper insights into mobile users' behaviors on the CPW website, and enhanced mobile website functionality to meet customer needs.

Active Network grows social media audience 384% in one year using Adobe® Online Marketing SuiteDETAILS

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The Active Network needed a robust online analytics and conversion platform that optimized returns on social media campaigns, and also offered deep reporting for quickly demonstrating results. The team selected the Adobe Online Marketing Suite to transform every social media interaction into an opportunity to learn about audiences, strategically refocus marketing campaigns, and ultimately increase conversions and customer value. The Active Network has increased Facebook audience 384% in a single year, enabled rapid content development, launch, and measurement of social media campaigns, and gained visibility into revenue per Facebook fan to demonstrate program success.

Leading online sheet music provider increases overall sales by more than 25% and conversion rates by 10% with Adobe® Online Marketing SuiteDETAILS

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Musicnotes.com wanted to make it easier for customers to find the music they want and streamline the purchase process--making buying music as quick and effortless an experience as possible. To help achieve that goal, Musicnotes deployed the Adobe Online Marketing Suite to enhance site navigation, providing customers with quick, easy access to the exact music arrangements they want. With Adobe solutions, Musicnotes has boosted website traffic, achieved 5% lift in a single individual conversion test and 4% lift in RPV with optimized content and functionality.