Scaling Mobile App Growth: AI, Personalization, and Real-Time Engagement

[Music] [Brent Kostak] All right, everyone. So we're going to get started.

Wanted to, first off, thank everyone for coming today, morning after Bash. And hopefully everyone's had a great Summit experience so far. But we're really excited to talk to you guys today. We have a lot of great content, Scaling Mobile App Growth: AI, Personalization, and Real-Time Engagement. So we're really excited to be with you this morning. Just to kick off some introductions, my name is Brent Kostak, Senior Product Marketing Manager for B2C customer journeys here at Adobe. So I focus on experimentation and optimization solutions. And with me, I'm very excited, we have, Julien here from the Acrobat team. So I want to let them introduce themselves real quick. [Julien Friedland] Everybody, I'm Julien Friedland. I'm a Senior Growth Product Manager. I work on the Document Cloud app, so specifically Acrobat Reader. So we're going to dive into some engagement and retention use cases for the Reader app. And one of the most exciting parts of this presentation for us, for Adobe is, you got a lot of different clouds, business units at Adobe. We are always really appreciative of having some customer zero use cases Acrobat, Adobe Experience Cloud, Document Cloud coming together for this presentation. So we see it as a way of service to one another in terms of these products that we're driving some growth with, but also, a really great use case that we can present to our customers, of what we've learned through that experience. So as far as agenda today, we're going to cover a few topics around trends, the vision for personalized engagement, a little bit of a setup here for foundation from mobile app growth, what we see as some pillars and core values that Julien's going to get into in terms of how they've innovated Acrobat over the years. Some of the strategies through those use cases, the blueprint that you can take away for this growth initiative that we're talking about here, and then we'll summarize some key takeaways.

So the mobile landscape as we know is rapidly evolving. There's a lot of customers that are thinking about mobile as not just a channel anymore, but a way to drive innovation and think about mobile as a way to craft innovative customer journeys. We talk about this as mobile-first engagement, but it's really becoming a dominant force of differentiation in the market to stay competitive. And we see this in the next five years driving a lot of the innovations that we have across different teams. Marketing teams, product management teams, experimentation teams, coming together and really identifying the ways that they can lead, product-led growth initiatives and a lot of the scalability here for delivering personalized experiences that customers crave, that they want to keep engagement and loyalty with. So as we're thinking about the critical component of mobile, Adobe has a lot of research here. We've talked to customers. We know it's critical. We're seeing this from both the sides of consumers preferring to engage with their favorite brands on their mobile channels.

And we know that when we have personalized experiences built into these user journeys in the mobile app, it's driving a lot of the customer satisfaction. It's deepening our customer relationships. There's a lot of impact that we can see here. And a component of this is real-time engagement, right? We hear about this all the time. We know from a platform experience in some of these tools and technologies that teams are leveraging. The force here is that, we've come to a point where a lot of customers are in a position to capitalize on this now. These use cases that Julien's going to be walking through with Acrobat, I think tells the story perfectly on where the value is. But we're still seeing challenges. Marketing and product teams are met with the challenges of scaling this beyond activation. So I like this model here. This is taken from a concept of really around this PLG or Product-Led Growth motion, where you're seeing out of product engagements married to the in-product, in-app notifications and interactions from a point of the full customer journey, from acquisition, activation, engagement, and loyalty. So we know from paid media advertising, direct mail, everything is kind of, at this point of acquisition. But beyond this, what are we doing to capitalize on some of the use cases that we're going to be walking through here? How Acrobat innovated their business to identify this value gap, this area of optimization? And that's really around what key features we're thinking about, what are some motives that we can use this mobile channel for that's really driving into an engagement or customer loyalty state. And there's really innovative use cases. I just talked to a customer that we were looking at how they're thinking about mobile. And it's less about mobile as a channel, thinking about the end product engagements, but using it in a creative way. They were testing different content for different experiences from the media and entertainment side in their parks. But using content and using in-app user engagement to identify what the next park should be theme-wise. So it's a really cool loop here that you get into from what you're doing outside of your mobile app, and then using mobile as a channel to inform those user journeys.

So as marketers, we love shaping experiences, we love having this idea of what the user journey should be and how to optimize that. So one of the key takeaways today is not seeing mobile as a channel, seeing it as a tool to help guide the user journey, to inform this transformation that we are all talking about here at Summit around intelligent customer orchestration and really personalizing these experiences in a way that our mobile app is guiding ourselves and our teams and driving collaboration in the process.

Just to introduce this as well, I'm not sure if everyone here has been engaging with some of the more use cases and stories that we are driving here at Adobe. But PLG, Product-Led Growth, this is really a template that I'm really excited for Julien to walk this through for Acrobat. But Adobe has truly innovated the Acrobat business, the product itself. And there's key components to this that we'll talk about through these use cases in the story here. And it's combining user journeys, experimentation. It's identifying the ways and strategies that we can identify the value faster in-app. And this is an initiative that has been spanned across different business units. We have some really strong leaders at Adobe leading the efforts here for product-led growth within our business units. And it's a really engaging method and framework that we can take through some of the key takeaways and learnings today.

So before we get into some of these strategies and use cases, foundation for product-led growth driving some of these innovative customer journey experiences, we see these four components. And one, we just reviewed in terms of the innovations that we see for product-led growth, identifying what's happening inside of the mobile app to inform, the next best action or strategy for our users, a repeatable blueprint in strategy. Second one here and I think this is where a lot of our customers have, they've matured. They've gotten to a point where they're identifying the strategies behind audience segmentation. They're being informed from data governance and having these real-time user in-app usage and history of the users in-app, inform some of these components of a unified platform. Experimentation is a huge opportunity being a product manager here, we're talking about optimization and driving A/B testing in the tool and the apps. It's a very important piece that we'll be talking about from both optimizing decisions and then informing some of these user journeys and experiences. And then the last here is just the fact that we want to embed some of these strategies natively within these channels, right? So a single canvas...

How we're looking at this from both the authoring and workflows and how these components connect into some of these examples. So one slide here, just thinking about taking actions on some of these components. I like to think sometimes coming in from B2C customer journeys in some of our product capabilities here at Adobe, the canvas might be blank. We have a lot of product organizations, product management teams might be owning the responsibilities of what the requirements for a journey might be over the course of the customer lifecycle. If you think about a canvas being blank and different components of painting that canvas, same concept that we think about for different types of tools, from painting, where you have a fine tip, paint brush, flat brush. There's different components and tools to create something beautiful, right? Same component here for different capabilities in your mobile application. We have in-app messaging, really catering to identifying ways that we can engage in real-time in the moment, depending on what our users are doing. Driving a lot of components around in-app history, device location, real-time moments, talked about some of the customer examples of how they're defining these user journeys around what might be happening outside of the product at parks, or different branches for financial services. Content cards is a really great way to think about how you're non-intrusive engagement inside the app. So cards might be a component that you're familiar with. Again, persistent messaging, that's connected, that's consistent. And then, of course, push notifications, SMS. There's a huge innovation right now around RCS and secured protocols for health care. A lot of customers are thinking about how they're tying in and connecting some of these components across the user journey, combining push notification with some content card in the app. So these are your components. This is really the foundation of what a lot of these strategies that Julien's going to be walking through behind the scenes are being leveraged. Experimentation optimization, another core area where-- Now we're in the concept of not just having a problem with content velocity. There's a lot of components now in market that are innovating in the content space, but simple A/B testing all the way to identifying some of these AI algorithms and decisioning, and applying this automation to those concepts. So now, just not, what content is driving some engagement or interaction that's moving the needle in-app, but how are we measuring different methods to deliver that content? And that might be a ranking formula, a rules based model, might be an AI model that we're driving in from different third-party sources. There's a ton of utility here in just experimentation. And there's maturity levels and variations of how our customers are thinking about that. And the last component here is just journey path and where. Some of these examples from Acrobat, you can see that it's informing a lot of components of where they're thinking constructively across the entire customer lifecycle.

So with that these four foundational pillars, I think this is a really good concept in hopefully teeing up Julien's Acrobat story here really well. But it's exciting area. And again, I think the course of some of these components not being...

Maybe familiar with folks in the audience, but from a PLG or Product-Led Growth combined with a lot of the in-app and delivery that we're seeing as mobile being a force multiplier when you're thinking about journey-centric and customer orchestration. It's a really powerful way that we're seeing a lot of customers with Acrobat, take advantage of it. So I'm going to pass this over to Julien to walk through some of the strategies and examples with the Acrobat business. - Thank you. - Awesome.

Thank you, Brent. Everybody, it's really awesome to be here. This is actually my first Summit. So it's been really great to soak in all of the energy here. And, yeah, thank you so much for joining us. I'm going to kick off with a little video, so you can get some background on that. [Woman] The story of Adobe Acrobat started back in 1990, a time before Google, DVDs, and text messaging.

It was in this year that Adobe Co-founder Dr. John Warnock, launched the paper to digital revolution with an idea he called, The Camelot Project. This soon developed into the Portable Document Format or PDF to you and me, which officially launched on the 15th of June, 1993. Over the next 10 years, we added a ton of new features, including password encryptions in 1994, fill-in forms in 1996, and cross-document importing in 2001. Fast forward to 2011, and we changed the game for good with the introduction of our much awaited e-signature service, Adobe Sign. Although it only feels like yesterday, we hit the Cloud in 2015, allowing our users to access their PDF files whenever and wherever they pleased. In the last few years, we've really ramped up our user experience, introducing the Acrobat offerings, liquid mode for easy mobile use, and a simplified SKU lineup. Today, our online tools let the whole world convert and edit their PDFs for free. 30 years of Adobe Acrobat have flown by and we couldn't be more excited for the future.

All right. So I think it's pretty wild watching that video to think back to a time when we really only had printed documents and stacks of paper on our desks and now that's all really transformed into a digital experience. And so since then we've had over 400 billion PDFs that have been opened across Acrobat desktop, web, and mobile products. But today I know we're here to talk about mobile specifically. So just to give you a little more background around what the Acrobat Reader mobile app offers, we are a subscription-based product. We offer a free download, so you can use tools like Fill and Sign. You can read and consume PDFs, annotate, some of the more basic features. But for a premium subscription, which we offer in a month-to-month or yearly basis, you get access to tools like editing, exporting, combining, etcetera.

So let's get into some more interesting stuff here. So we're going to talk a little bit about crafting our customer activation. I know that you've probably seen some version of this slide in the last few days, but we're really going to dive a little bit deeper into what happens after we've acquired a user and they've downloaded our mobile app. How are we going to go about engaging our users, making sure that they discover value immediately once they've come into the app? How do we build habits to make sure that users are coming back over and over and continuing to find that value? Additionally, what happens when users fall off? What happens when users cancel their subscription? How can we reengage those users and bring them back? All right, so this is an example here of some activation metrics that we actually use on Acrobat Reader mobile. And the way that we go about creating these activation metrics is by putting together three different components. We look at our data, we look at our user feedback, and then we use our own product knowledge and intuition to define these metrics.

This setup aha and habit moment is really what leads to a user becoming a retained user overtime.

And so the way that we came up with these metrics is, we started with something with a North Star metric around, what does a retained user look like to us? And on Acrobat Reader mobile, that's a user who retains by month six. This is a North Star metric that we set. I'm sure this would look differently for your product or your subscription based on whatever you're offering. But once we have that North Star metric, we can see what is common about these users that is not common with the users we don't retain at this time. So we can look at, what does a successful user look like and then work our way back to the first month to see, what did those users do in the first month? Because that really tells us, well, maybe that's what led to these users becoming more of a retained user.

So in Acrobat Reader's case, users who have been active for four or more days in their first month. And so this has shown us that those users are developing a habit. And then we can take it even a step back and say, "Well, what did those users do in their first week of having a subscription?" In Acrobat Reader's case, this is users who engage with two or more tools in their first week of having a subscription.

And then from there, we have our setup moment, which is, we can't have users engaging with any of the tools that we offer if they don't even open a document. So it's really important that we focus on setting up that aha moment with document open. So this gives us a little bit of a pathway to success with our users and helping them discover value.

Okay, I know there's a lot of text on this slide, but this is an example of what an overall customer journey might look like, from the second that they subscribe or start a free trial, all the way to the end of their subscription, where they're either hopefully renewing or in this case, we might have somebody who turns off auto-renew or potentially cancels their subscription. So I just want to show you what a journey with multiple touchpoints looks like. But today, we're really going to focus on three different points in the user journey. One, onboarding and activation, which we already touched on. Two, a seasonal inflection point...

During month 2 to month 11. And then lastly, what happens when users cancel and unsubscribe? Okay, so how might we support activation during those first 30 days and work on building habits with our subscribers.

We know that we are working towards helping users discover tools in those first couple of app launches to realize the core value of the app.

All right, so an example of a setup moment. So this is an example of a test that we ran where we were running a survey to different users once they first downloaded the app. And this survey allowed us to do two things. One, it allowed us to help users surface...

Access to tools quicker. By being able to select a tool, they were able to jump right into their document and continue their workflow and realize their aha moment sooner. Additionally, we found that we were getting really high response rates to in-product surveys that were like this or asking about user intent around their profession. And these were totally new marketing insights that we had never had before. Our email marketing team has tried to ask questions like this and was not receiving the type of response rate that we were getting in-app. And so one thing I want to leave behind is that, you can really utilize the app as a learning point for using the traffic that comes into your app to learn more about your customers.

Okay, so for that aha moment, this is an example. On the left is the very first iteration of a test that we ran around promoting tool usage in our Document Viewer. And then on the right, this is actually the final version. And as you can see, it's gotten a little bit cleaner and more built into our UI here. And so our first small scale test was just a drop-down banner promoting the combined tool.

And then, after we saw success with this, we were able to work with our designers to say, "Hey, we're seeing really great engagement with this singular banner, which actually, you can run something like this in AJO, it's pretty quick to implement." Once we saw success with this lightweight test, we were able to work with our designers to actually build this into the app experience itself. And you can also see here that we have three different banners, they're hidden on the right, but we have even more tools for users to discover in their first couple of document opens. And this led to 5% increase in overall tool usage and 1% increase in our overall subscriber retention.

And we're even working with our data science teams to personalize the recommendations that we show here, so that each individual user is seeing tools that are most relevant to their use case.

All right, so when it comes to building habits, these are some examples of push notifications that we've been running in-app. And recently we reevaluated what our push notification strategy looked like because we were promoting tool usage, we had a whole lineup of push notes that were coming out in the first month of a user's journey, but we weren't quite seeing the app engagement rates that we were hoping for. And so we took it back to the basics and looked at, what is the content that we're promoting in those push notes? And one test that we ran recently, this was literally a couple of weeks ago...

That we concluded that test is focusing on the day of the week as a jumping off point to bring users back and complete their task for the week. And just by tweaking the language and the context of our push notifications, we found a lot more success and actually getting users to come back and use the app. So they set 4.5% increase in-app launches, which was a really great result there.

Okay, moving on from activation, let's talk about a seasonal success.

At Acrobat Reader mobile...

Tax season is a very exciting time for us. I know it's not probably for most other folks, but tax season is a very important part of our business. A lot of folks are engaging with all of our tools during tax season. And it wasn't-- So over the past several years, our email and acquisition team have focused really heavily on promoting Acrobat Reader during tax season. And one thing that we were actually missing was an in-app component. So we were able to acquire our users. They were coming from the App Store. They were coming in from email. But once they landed in the app, there wasn't anything that was really carrying them through that full experience. So in this case, this was in 2023 and we're still continuing this program today, but we introduced in-app messages and push notes that went along with our acquisition and email efforts.

So how might we unify messaging across our channels? We hypothesized that if we could surface tools during, for tax document management, during tax season, that we could increase our app launches by 5% and purchases by 1-2%.

And to our surprise, we had a wild success with actually promoting these tools in the app.

One big takeaway of this test was that, we were able to run over 20 different tests and be able to look at different copy, images, calls to action, as well as promote different tools. So we had this amazing playground for basically learning different things about what actually worked and didn't within the app, and what tools were users engaging with after they saw these in-app messages and push notes. We also learned that tax season is a really fantastic upsell opportunity, as you can see by the results that we reported here.

And lastly, one big takeaway was that, our users were really engaging with the Fill and Sign tool organically. And this was actually not something that our LCM team was promoting or our acquisition team was promoting. And so because we saw this uptick in users engaging with Fill and Sign in the app, we were able to pivot our strategy to actually include Fill and Sign, as part of our promotion during tax season. And so, I think having a platform, an engagement platform like AJO, really allows you to make those quick pivots that maybe you can do if you were dependent on an app release for something like this. So a great win there.

And here we just have the overall workflow of what it looks like to go from, maybe an ad or an email, to a landing page and then into the app. So we've got this full cohesive user experience.

All right, let's talk about winback.

So in this case when I say winback, we are talking about users who have canceled their subscription or let their subscription expire. Our team worked really hard over several years to be able to offer a discount to our users. This is something that requires new SKU creation, working with the App Store to make this possible. And we hypothesized that if we offered users a discounted subscription within 30 days after they cancel, that they would be more likely to renew their subscription.

And spoiler alert here, this did not work. It was a flat result.

We found that even when we offered a discount, this wasn't offsetting the benefit of users who were just coming back and purchasing at full price.

And as you can see on the left here, we utilized pretty much all of our touchpoints possible push note, in-app message. We have a dynamic paywall here. And there's also a content card that's not shown here. But we really utilize all of our channels to promote this in-app. And so what we learned through running this test was that, our users maybe aren't as price sensitive as we thought. Maybe users are only going to come back when they actually have a task that they need to complete. So this helped us realize that, maybe prompting 30% off immediately after canceling isn't maybe the right time or the right messaging.

So we took a step back and reevaluated, what is the messaging, what is the timing of this test that we're running? And so for the follow-up test, what we decided to do was focus more on the value of the tools rather than a discount or the price. And to our surprise, this actually did better than the 30% off discount. People were more responsive to our ValueFirst messaging and were more interested in coming back. We had 7% increase in purchases at full price when we promoted renewals through this in-app message and push note.

Additionally, another learning we took away was that, the further we got away from or the further time progressed after a user canceled their subscription, the more responsive they would be to this messaging. So it debunked the idea or the hypothesis we had that you should offer a discount as within 30 days of a user canceling and that it's actually could still be relevant to continue promoting resubscription later once a user might have a use case for the app again.

And lastly here, we still have a ton to learn in terms of discounts and promoting sales because there are hundreds of tests that we could probably run around testing price and testing timing, visuals, things like that. So we're really just scratching the surface with these discount and winback offers.

Okay, so to recap, these are three great takeaways from these different examples that I shared with you. One, we should leverage our in-app visits for personalization and insights that we can bring back to the rest of our marketing teams to inform, what are we going to do as our next test, or what do we do next year at this seasonal point? What tools are we going to promote next year during tax season? The other is build platform journeys during peak seasonal moments. I'm sure many of you are focused on doing things like this already. But hopefully we have, maybe a new level of inspiration to really bring those experiences into your app experience.

And then lastly, test your way to the right offer at the right time. I can't emphasize enough how much testing has really helped us drive our product growth at Adobe. And I hope that these learnings have been helpful for you today.

And I'm going to pass it back to Brent.

Thanks, Julien.

I've seen these slides multiple times, but every time I go through them, it's really cool how Acrobat has grown into an icon when we think about product growth. So just a few additional sections here we wanted to cover. Julien had mentioned some recap. But these core principles that we reviewed today, informing them into your own strategies and taking away some blueprint to understand some of these components, thinking about the use cases for Acrobat and then applying them to your own business and getting these teams aligned. So we thought about actionable next steps. What are some key takeaways? What are some values here that we can take back into and form? And the first is really what we identified upfront that value gap. So whether its form fills upfront from a mobile app first touch where you're driving some insights, you're identifying ways that users are engaging with new tools or features.

There's a lot of value and utility I think from understanding and marrying that to customer states. And I really loved how learning more and more about the product growth team from Acrobat and how they're really thoughtful in terms of qualitative and unqualitative data around their customer states and what an Engage user looks like and what that means.

Again, thinking about this alignment from LCM, Life Cycle Marketing teams campaign, email campaign teams. When I was getting into some of these concepts with Julien, it was the moment where I realized a lot of customers that we speak to, they're going through this transformation now. It might be a single channel team that's focused on mobile optimization. They've been a customer with Adobe for a long time. And they're just starting to piece together how they can start working with other teams, other channel teams, bringing the platformization if you will from what they're identifying in terms of peak season campaigns and what they're doing within each component of their product or mobile application. Tests and refinements, I've talked about experimentation. Just a show of hands, I'm curious. Who in the room runs some experiment, A/B test, familiar and close to experimentation? More than half. That's great. Yeah. It's a huge opportunity. I think that's both driving insights back to the team, but again informing a lot of the refinements to where these segments are in the journey and how we're identifying best practices and validating those decisions.

One of the really unique opportunities building product and what I've seen at Adobe is there's a ton of teams, right? We have research teams that are off doing their own quantitative analysis and qualitative research. We have user design teams that are running their own programs with customers. They're doing heat mapping. They're doing user insights. Julien's example of how, from what they had in the tailoring unique preferences to users, went back to the design team, and they said, "Look at what we're seeing in the app. Let's work together to build this and refine that and bring these teams together." And I think that's a very powerful, but yet sometimes hard thing to do within multiple different business units and how you guys are scaling your brands.

We had to have some cycle or growth loop. And I promised Julien I would make this slide valuable enough to keep it in the deck. But from a visual, I really like this concept because we're working with a lot of teams from our product side. And Acrobat is obviously one of the standout customers of ours. And they're doing this really well. But the value is really in applying the continuous cycle around some of these concepts and informing what that might look like from either reengagements, churn customers or users, how you're thinking about the scalability of where to start from foundation, onboarding or welcomed offers in terms of a first user in your mobile apps. And then defining that around to these habit loops and optimizing those baseline journeys. So when you think about going back to your teams and having some additional research of yourselves, there's a ton of information out there and a lot of innovation in the market right now around what growth loops can look like and how you apply those into your business models, whether it be subscription business, whether it be other forms of monetization. There's a lot happening in this space. And mobile is at the center of it, which is really exciting.

A little bit of use cases to take away, too. We talked a little bit about how Acrobat's defining their onboarding journeys, subscription, freemium to paid journeys. There is a lot of customers that were thinking about account creation and form submissions in the app, but applying that back to web and a lot of their anonymous traffic. And I think the component of email was really important from the Acrobat standpoint because we have a ton of brands and customers saying, "Hey, we're doing a lot of email-focused campaigns. We have a lot of, maybe click-through rates that they're measuring. They're based off conversion. They're thinking about email, but they're not always connecting it back into how that informs the activation standpoint. Maybe account creation. You're thinking about the onboarding and what that looks like from referrals and maturing into more loyalty cases. But this is a really nice maturity curve to get more into how we're seeing more and more components of what Adobe's offering to some of these maturing use cases. Order status updates, we're getting really close to a launch for iOS live activities. So if you're thinking about broadcast use cases, ways that you're informing continuous updates just on the mobile lock screen or the dynamic island in the mobile app. Huge opportunity, real estate value to take some of these concepts in new ways and delivering those experiences in-app. And then loyalty, limited time promotions, seeing retail customers get now in really creative, having some home page banner on their website, offering flash sale or discounts, but you have to get the mobile application to apply those discounts. And then right when they get some new user activation for that discount, they have that tailored to the rest of the journey and they might be offering membership discounts, credit card loans, applications, if you're in retail. So there's a lot of ways to connect that back. Advanced and third tier here is really where we are thinking about the concept of real-time triggered journeys based on business signals, events that are happening.

I mentioned the customer, the media and entertainment customer. I thought that was so cool. I'll bring it up again. But the fact that they have a ton of traffic in their mobile apps at the park, but they're also informing what that might look like from their executive and business teams to drive themes around what they might build next. And based off the trigger applications or recommendations of where they're in the park or what they're ordering, it's all bringing back the personalization aspect in terms of some of these teams that are focused on mobile.

And then, of course, loyalty and driving a lot more customer success...

Throughout the journey. So key takeaways. One more slide here for concepts.

Onboarding and activation, understanding how these user insights and real-time engagement metrics in mobile app can drive and inform the rest of your user journey. Little green boxes down here to apply to how-- We've seen so much success with the Acrobat business, aligning touchpoints, multichannel strategies here, omnichannel, thinking about how you're bringing together these teams. Show of hands, one more question. How many of you all have a lot of cohesive alignment to different channel teams? So you might be campaign manager, you might be a mobile app team. Are you seeing those connections to-- Hey, our mobile teams work in some product squad. We have user design. We have life cycle marketing, marketing ops. Do you see a lot of alignment and collaboration now or you getting into that phase within the business? Just curious if you have a lot of alignment between teams at your company.

Whoa. Okay. We'll follow-up with a presentation just on that. But we have a lot of good content. That's the great part of Adobe. We're constantly putting out content around org readiness, concepts around how you're building your teams. So think about people process, not just about technology.

I didn't expect that one. I'm glad I asked. And the final one here is, again, that if you walk away with one thing and you're on the plane ride home or the drive home, and you're like, "Oh, my gosh, I have been thinking about mobile as a channel." This is a huge greenfield opportunity to drive innovation in the business.

I think we did our job today.

Content. I promised you this. I teed myself up there on purpose, but we have a great, a lot of net new content. So this will be in the slides, the PDF slides after the presentation. You can scan some QR codes here. But the concept that we're talking about here, just for mobile, it's a part of a larger strategy within our teams. And it's reimagining what we're doing across the entire customer journey, mobile being a very dominant force that is transforming a lot of the single channel, static campaign type mindset into real-time orchestration or what we're calling intelligent journeys. And then we have two new eBooks.

Someone really inspiring on my team, help to put together the crafting customer journeys. eBook, it's awesome. It's got a ton of great benefits, customer examples in there. And then, of course, the mobile front, we put this together leading up to Summit and got a lot of great examples there, that connect back into points that we discussed throughout the presentation. So help yourselves to follow-up on the content. Guys, that's it. We really are appreciative of having a lot of folks here today. There's a survey in the app, Starbucks gift cards, headphones, opportunities. Hope you guys had a great time at Summit. And we hope to see you again very soon. But thank you so much. And let's give it up for Julien.

Awesome, awesome job from Acrobat.

[Music]

In-Person On-Demand Session

Scaling Mobile App Growth: AI, Personalization, and Real-Time Engagement - S524

Sign in
ON DEMAND

Closed captions can be accessed in the video player.

Share this page

Speakers

Featured Products

Session Resources

Sign in to download session resources

About the Session

Discover how to transform billions of mobile interactions into a strategic vision and actionable playbook for elevating personalization and engagement in the age of generative AI. Join Adobe’s Julien Friedland, Senior Growth Product Manager for Adobe Acrobat, and Brent Kostak, Senior Product Marketing Manager, to learn how product and marketing teams craft innovative customer journeys with data, AI, and real-time mobile engagement driving monetization and retention.  

In this session: 

  • Explore end-to-end user engagement strategies using mobile push, in-app messaging, content cards, dynamic paywalls, and email 
  • Identify free-to-paid user journeys with experimentation to optimize paywall discovery and conversions 
  • Learn how to boost and retain loyal customers to reduce churn and improve customer lifetime value 

Technical Level: General Audience

Track: Customer Journey Management

Presentation Style: Case/Use Study

Audience: Campaign Manager, Digital Marketer, Audience Strategist, Product Manager, Marketing Practitioner

This content is copyrighted by Adobe Inc. Any recording and posting of this content is strictly prohibited.


By accessing resources linked on this page ("Session Resources"), you agree that 1. Resources are Sample Files per our Terms of Use and 2. you will use Session Resources solely as directed by the applicable speaker.

New release

Agentic AI at Adobe

Give your teams the productivity partner and always-on insights they need to deliver true personalization at scale with Adobe Experience Platform Agent Orchestrator.