Adobe After Effects

Adobe After Effects is the industry-standard motion graphics software for creating cinematic visual effects and animations ^S1. It is used by motion designers, video editors, and animators to bring ideas to life through compositing and animation ^S1. The product is available as a paid subscription through Adobe Creative Cloud, with a free trial and a 14-day refund policy ^{S6 S2}.

• Identity: Adobe After Effects, a motion graphics and visual effects software by Adobe ^S1.
• Core purpose: To enable users to create and animate visual effects and motion graphics for video ^S1.
• Intended users: Motion designers, video editors, and animators ^S1.
• Product scope: A standalone desktop application, part of the Adobe Creative Cloud suite ^{S1 S2}.
• Positioning: Marketed as the industry-standard tool for motion graphics ^S1.
• Claimed distinction: Its industry-standard status and ability to "make any idea move" ^S1.

Adobe is changing the world through digital experiences. We help our customers create, deliver and optimize content and applications. adobe.com: an estimated 434,582,840 total monthly visits and about 212,189,701 monthly organic visits across 3,851,436 ranking keywords. Scout crawled 15 pages and measured a technical health score of 95/100.

• Total traffic (modeled): 434,582,840 monthly visits across all channels.
• Organic search traffic (estimated): 212,189,701 monthly visits from search.
• Strongest sampled ranking: 0nline photo resizer at position 1.
• Leading page in the collected evidence: https://www.adobe.com/express/feature/image/resize.
• Closest measured organic competitor: pinterest.com, appearing 4 times in the sampled first-page SERPs.
• Technical crawl: 15 pages, health score 95/100.

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Company identity and positioning

Website intelligence — Scout synthesis

Adobe.com's homepage and pricing pages are heavily templated, with content pulled from Adobe's Merch at Scale (MAS) system and AEM fragments. The evidence shows a strong focus on Creative Cloud, Acrobat, and Firefly plans, with dynamic pricing and promotional offers. Key pages include the homepage, Acrobat plans, Creative Cloud plans, and Firefly plans. The site uses structured data and personalization tokens, indicating a mature CMS-driven architecture. W1 W25 W49 W71

Total website traffic

Domain identity

Website capture

Top organic keywords

Independent Google result page

Query: 0nline photo resizer

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Prioritized website intelligence pages

Features

Pricing and plans

Integrations and supported platforms

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

Product and company updates

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

Website intelligence — Scout synthesis

Key pages identified in the catalog include:

• Homepage (adobe.com) – features Creative Cloud, Firefly, and Acrobat product cards with CTAs like 'Free trial' and 'Buy now'. W1 W5 W13 W20
• Acrobat plans page (adobe.com/acrobat/plans.html) – includes pricing tiers, feature comparisons, and a free Acrobat Reader download. W25 W33 W34
• Creative Cloud plans page (adobe.com/creativecloud/plans.html) – offers tabs for Individuals, Business, Students & Teachers, and Schools & Universities, with plan collections and feature fragments. W49 W69
• Firefly plans page (adobe.com/products/firefly/plans.html) – compares plans with generative AI, includes promotional pricing and free trial/buy now CTAs. W71 W74 W85
• Acrobat Express compare fragment (adobe.com/dc-shared/fragments/merch-cards/compare-acrobat-express-plans) – details Acrobat plan features and pricing. W95 W101

This analysis created the first position baseline at 2026-10-20T19:07:50.845Z. Movement appears after the next fresh analysis using the same location and language.

Website intelligence — Scout synthesis

No evidence in the catalog provides rank tracking data, SERP positions, or visibility trends. The catalog contains page content and structure only. W1

Sampled competitors

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Customers, testimonials, and first-party review claims

No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.

Independent review sources discovered

No links to supported independent review platforms were discovered on the collected pages.

Website intelligence — Scout synthesis

No evidence in the catalog provides competitor comparisons, market share, or competitive positioning data. The catalog contains Adobe's own page content only. W1

Backlink comparison profile

• Domain rating: 96/100
• Backlinks: 852,531,380
• Referring domains: 1,326,767
• Dofollow backlinks: 95.0%
• Dofollow referring domains: 90.0%

Collection decision

The Scout search index remains intentionally excluded from automatic Scout analysis. This Scout traffic model profile costs 5 credits (0.5 cents) and is included in the first comparison run so its usefulness can be judged before the recurring collection is finalized.

Website intelligence — Scout synthesis

No evidence in the catalog provides backlink data, referring domains, or link authority metrics. The catalog contains page content and structure only. W1

AI-assistant referral traffic

• Estimated current generative-AI referral share: 1.0%

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Site-stated AI capabilities

These are first-party product claims, not independent measurements of AI-search visibility.

Website intelligence — Scout synthesis

No evidence in the catalog provides AI visibility metrics, such as AI search engine mentions or LLM citations. The catalog contains page content and structure only. W1

Website intelligence — Collected evidence

Website evidence gaps

• integrations: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
• customers: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
• reviews: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
• changes: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
• identity: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.
• technical: no usable public page was collected; verify whether the site publishes this evidence.

Website intelligence — Scout synthesis

The catalog shows several promotional and cross-sell opportunities:

• Firefly plans page promotes a limited-time offer: 'Save on our biggest Firefly plans until Oct 21. And get unlimited generations in Firefly on select models for the first year.' W73
• Creative Cloud plans page highlights a 14-day refund policy and a promotional CTA with promo code 'CCI_50_3_IP_US'. W68 W70
• Acrobat plans page offers a free Acrobat Reader download, which can be a lead-generation tool. W33 W34
• The FAQ fragment mentions free products (Acrobat Reader, Fill & Sign, Photoshop Express, Adobe Scan) and student discounts, which can be used for audience segmentation. W121 W135

Independent reviews

Customer proof

Independent mentions

• Working Faster Without Breaking the Brand by PVC News Staff, for Adobe - ProVideo Coalition — The impact of using Motion Graphics templates for brand consistency was immediate. Load times improved by several hundred ... Effects projects just to create variations. Rendering returned to its proper role as the final step, rather than the bottleneck.
• Nickelodeon Creates Broadcast-Ready Animation with Adobe Animate CC — to the needs of modern animators, Adobe Animate CC (formerly known as Adobe Flash Professional CC) is an animation tool designed for and by artists. Nickelodeon, Viacom’s leading kids’ brand ... animators with Adobe creative apps through the company’s
• MPC creates spectacular visions by Meagan Keane - ProVideo Coalition — : As a motion design studio, we rely on Adobe tools every day. Artists use Photoshop CC at the beginning of projects when ... ’re mocking up frames, textures, and backgrounds. We use After Effects CC for compositing video material. Adobe tools are the most
• Fed up of Adobe, these designers made their own motion software / Creative Bloq — Group's Cavalry is a data-driven design and motion design tool that its maker describes as "a secret weapon for some of the world's best design studios". It has a ... Manchester set out to take on Adobe? Co-founder Adam Jenns told us about how it began,

External links were grounded in one live web search. Search snippets are leads, not independently scraped page content; rejected links remain available in Review evidence.

Not found on the collected pages: company and ownership, contact and support, security and compliance, uptime and status page. This only means Scout did not find it on the pages it read; it says nothing about the company itself.

Not established in the collected sources.

Not measurable: wayback: rate limited by archive.org, ladder stopped after 1 probe(s). A gap here means the lookup was unavailable, not that the finding is negative.

Scout — Bounded technical crawl

• Pages crawled: 15 of 15 maximum
• Technical health: 95/100
• Critical issues: 0
• Warnings: 10
• Notices: 14

Issues

Crawled pages

This is a bounded Scout crawl. Core Web Vitals and Lighthouse scores are not claimed unless a dedicated performance audit is connected.

Modeled acquisition channels

First-party connections

No first-party Search Console or Analytics numbers are shown until the site owner authorizes the corresponding Google account. Scout traffic model values above are modeled estimates, not private analytics totals.

Website intelligence — Scout synthesis

No evidence in the catalog provides Search Console or analytics data, such as clicks, impressions, or CTR. The catalog contains page content and structure only. W1

The collected pages do not mention any direct competitors. Evidence gaps include lack of detailed feature documentation, user reviews, and integration details beyond Creative Cloud. Open questions remain about system requirements, performance benchmarks, and customer support options.

This report is based on 13 collected pages from adobe.com, including product pages, pricing pages, and customer success stories. The evidence catalog includes 22 source tokens, but only 8 unique sources are cited per section. External proof search was used to verify customer case studies, but no external review profiles were scraped. Limitations include missing documentation pages and potential regional pricing variations.

• Official Websitehttps://www.adobe.com/products/aftereffects.htmlVerified
• Official Websitehttps://www.adobe.com/products/catalog.htmlVerified
• Pricing Pagehttps://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/plans.htmlVerified
• Pricing Pagehttps://www.adobe.com/at/creativecloud/plans.htmlVerified
• Pricing Pagehttps://www.adobe.com/au/creativecloud/plans.htmlVerified
• Pricing Pagehttps://www.adobe.com/cis_ru/creativecloud/plans.htmlVerified
• Pricing Pagehttps://www.adobe.com/cl/creativecloud/plans.htmlVerified
• Pricing Pagehttps://www.adobe.com/cz/creativecloud/plans.htmlVerified
• Pricing Pagehttps://www.adobe.com/dk/creativecloud/plans.htmlVerified
• Pricing Pagehttps://www.adobe.com/ec/creativecloud/plans.htmlVerified
• Pricing Pagehttps://www.adobe.com/eg_ar/creativecloud/plans.htmlVerified
• Pricing Pagehttps://www.adobe.com/eg_en/creativecloud/plans.htmlVerified
• Pricing Pagehttps://www.adobe.com/gr_el/creativecloud/plans.htmlVerified
• Articlehttps://business.adobe.com/customer-success-stories/xero-case-study.htmlVerified
• Review Sitehttps://www.creativebloq.com/reviews/after-effects-cc-6133284Verified
• Articlehttps://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2025/02/03/microsoft-viva-brand-expression-how-substance-3d-empowers-motion-designersVerified
• Articlehttps://www.provideocoalition.com/working-faster-without-breaking-the-brand/Verified
• Articlehttps://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2016/09/01/nickelodeon-creates-broadcast-ready-animation-with-adobe-animate-ccVerified
• Articlehttps://www.provideocoalition.com/mpc-creates-spectacular-visions/Verified
• Articlehttps://www.creativebloq.com/features/cavalry-2d-motion-design-softwareVerified
• Articlehttps://www.bonfirelabs.com/case-studies/case-study-adobeVerified
• Review Sitehttps://www.designity.com/blog/best-motion-graphics-softwareVerified