David Wadhwani18:33
Thanks, Shantanu. Hello, everyone. AI is rewriting how the world creates and gets work done, and the audiences for creativity and productivity tools is bigger now than at any point in our history. From social creators and students to business professionals and large enterprises, the opportunity for Adobe is massive. These customers are looking for a range of products from easy-to-use creative tools to professional levels of power and precision, and are increasingly turning to conversational experiences to accelerate their work. Adobe is the only company that has the portfolio breadth to meet this broad range of creativity and productivity needs. We see this interest manifest in traffic growth, signaling demand for existing products, and accelerating demand for new AI-first experiences. The demand for these new AI experiences begins with LLM conversations and intent-based searches, and requires immediate gratification, so is best served with friction-free experiences. This shift in user behavior is playing out across business professionals and consumers, and creators and creative professionals. While we continue to attract strong traffic to adobe.com, which grew over 40% year-over-year, our traditional direct-to-paid journeys may not always fulfill visitor intent, as a growing number of new users are first looking to quickly complete their intended task as they begin their relationship with Adobe. Given products like Adobe Firefly, Express, and Acrobat AI Assistant have friction-free onboarding and significant adoption, we can now rebalance our journeys to better serve this new generation of users, rather than send them predominantly to direct-to-paid journeys. This shift will come at the cost of short-term ARR, but will accelerate user acquisition and MAU, while building the foundation for long-term growth by removing friction from user onboarding, enabling deeper user engagement, and driving stronger lifetime value. In Q2, subscription revenue for business professionals and consumers was 1.85 billion, growing 15% year-over-year. BP&C traffic grew 35% year-over-year, with MAU growing from greater than 700 million to greater than 850 million in Q2 year-over-year, with significant contributions from AI Assistant, Express creation, and PDF spaces sharing. This quarter, we introduced the Adobe productivity agent, shifting Acrobat from a static document tool to an interactive experience. The productivity agent is an AI experience built into Acrobat that draws on Adobe Acrobat's document intelligence and Adobe Express's AI first creation capabilities to help business professionals understand, create, and share information. It can turn documents into rich outputs like presentations, podcasts, and social content, support conversational PDF editing, and power the new sharing capabilities in PDF spaces. Customers get the agent through Acrobat AI plans. Users can also now share branded PDF spaces with customizable AI assistance tailored to a specific audience, whether for sales prospecting, content marketing, or research delivery. Early adopters of PDF spaces, including Vice Media, Kid Cudi, Jessica Yellin, and Mindy Weiss are using PDF spaces to move audiences from passive reading creative and marketing professionals was 4.3 creative and marketing professionals was 4.54 billion and growing 11% year-over-year. Demand for AI content creation is exploding across ideation, generation, and semantic editing, and generative creative consumption continues to show strong growth. Our strategy is to empower everyone to create from first-time creators to seasoned professionals to large enterprises seeking to scale content production. In Q2, CNCP traffic to adobe.com grew over 50% year-over-year with creative premium MAU growing from greater than 50 million to greater than 90 million. This immense volume of traffic drawn to the Adobe brand includes users seeking to purchase Creative Cloud, Photoshop, and other CC apps, and an increasing number of new users who are looking for Adobe magic to complete a creative task with a friction-free experience. Firefly premium users who convert to our paid plans are highly engaged with early indications of significant credit consumption. Firefly ARR grew approximately 50% quarter-over-quarter through Firefly apps and credit packs. We were excited to launch the Adobe Creative Agent beta in Q2. The agent is available as part of Creative Cloud and Firefly subscriptions and provides a conversation experience to achieve complex and repetitive creative tasks. Agent usage will be monetized through our existing credit consumption model. The Adobe Creative Agent is also available in Claude, ChatGPT, and soon Copilot and Gemini. Additional creators and creative professionals highlights include in Premiere, we launched a brand new color mode, a first-of-its-kind color grading experience built specifically for video editors. We continue to deepen AI capabilities across our flagship Creative Cloud applications. Photoshop added rotate object and Illustrator released turntable, both enabling subscribers to turn 2D photos and illustrations into 3D renditions they can rotate and harmonize into their work. Capabilities like these drove record AI usage within our flagship applications. Firefly continues to support third-party models, now with Claude 3.0 and Claude 3.0 Omni. Firefly ending ARR across Firefly app, Firefly credit packs, and Firefly enterprise is approaching 300 million exiting Q2. Firefly enterprise, spanning Firefly services, Adobe Firefly Foundry, and brand intelligence, is helping the world's largest brands industrialize content production with brand-safe custom models. The number of generated assets grew more than four times year-over-year, making it an AI content engine for marketing at scale. Our announced NVIDIA partnership will bring accelerated computing to Adobe Firefly Foundry for faster, higher-performing custom models across image, video, audio, vector, and 3D, plus a cloud-native 3D digital twin built on Omniverse and OpenUSD. In enterprise wins this quarter include Merck, SAP, ServiceNow, Tesco, The Coca-Cola Company, Workday, and Xfinity. In summary, demand for creativity and productivity in the AI era is dramatically increasing as evidenced by our record traffic on adobe.com. While we continue to fulfill demand for Acrobat and Creative Cloud, the early success of Firefly, Express, and Acrobat AI Assistant gives us conviction that this is the time to aggressively serve new users with a friction-free freemium journey. We're confident that driving MAU, which has an impact on ARR, is the right trade-off and will drive future business growth. I'll now turn it over to Anil.