This year’s Adobe Summit was packed with next-level announcements.
Our forward-thinking marketing automation consultants here at MAC are excited to share our biggest takeaways from Adobe Summit 2025—especially the incredible strides Adobe is making in artificial intelligence (AI), orchestration, and partner enablement.
Read our team’s keynote insights and biggest takeaways below.
AI Agents & Experience Platform Orchestrator
Adobe introduced Adobe AI Agents, a major leap in intelligent customer experience automation. These AI-driven assistants can:
- Perform tasks across Adobe and third-party platforms
- Understand user intent and journey stages
- Scale seamlessly to handle marketing, service, and content delivery scenarios
This innovation is a big win for those of us who’ve been dreaming of unified, intelligent automation that doesn’t stop at a single tool.
At MAC, we see this as a turning point for brands looking to deliver personalized interactions in real time—without manually juggling multiple systems.
Powered by Adobe Experience Platform Orchestrator
Central to these AI Agents is the Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) Agent Orchestrator. Think of it as the “brain” that coordinates each AI Agent’s tasks, ensuring you deliver consistent, personalized campaigns across channels.
Instead of marketing teams wrestling with scattered data and multiple dashboards, AEP’s orchestration means you can:
- Automate key marketing tasks without losing human oversight
- Incorporate third-party systems for a 360° customer view
- Use data-driven insights to optimize campaign performance at scale
We’re excited about how AEP simplifies even the most complex marketing workflows. It’s poised to reduce human error, improve time-to-market, and set a new gold standard for cross-platform orchestration.
Marketo’s Role in the Broader AI-Driven Vision
Marketo is stepping into the spotlight as Adobe’s “campaign execution powerhouse.”
It’s where orchestration decisions from these AI Agents become real, living campaigns. The synergy looks like this:
- AI Orchestration: Identify leads, context, and best-touch messaging.
- Marketo Activation: Launch those orchestrated messages via email, chat, or landing pages.
- Real-Time Optimization: AI Agents monitor performance and refine the journey on the fly.
For B2B marketers in particular, this is a true game-changer. By combining Adobe’s advanced orchestration with Marketo’s campaign execution, you can create journeys that adapt to each lead’s behavior, interest, and timing.
Brand Concierge & Adobe Firefly Integration
Adobe’s next-gen Brand Concierge agent uses Adobe Firefly (Adobe’s generative AI platform) to maintain consistent brand messaging across voice, text, and image-based interactions.
This will allow you to generate on-brand visuals and copy instantly—while still adhering to compliance and style guidelines.
MAC views this as a clear nod to the future:
Brands can scale their creative output exponentially without sacrificing the unique “voice” and identity that sets them apart.
Strategic Partner Enablement at Adobe Summit 2025
Adobe emphasized how partners (like MAC) play a vital role in rolling out this AI-first vision. With EY helping to unify the partner experience, the new partner framework includes:
- Real-time partner status and certifications (launching in an overhauled Adobe Partner Directory this April)
- Overlap identification via Crossbeam to match the perfect partner to each client
- A Technology Partner Program that rewards ongoing services and implementations, not just solutions reselling
For you, this means you get better support, more specialized help, and a partner who’s hyper-aligned with Adobe’s strategic priorities.
Breakout Session Highlights: B2B AI-Powered Orchestration
AI dominated the breakouts, showing how Adobe Journey Optimizer B2B, Adobe Express, and Marketo will infuse customer interactions with real-time personalization.
A few must-mentions:
- Email Content Blocks: AI suggests the most relevant content blocks based on each lead’s behavior.
- Webinar Follow-Ups: AI identifies ideal next steps for attendees—whether it’s a 1:1 demo or targeted remarketing.
The best part is that you can orchestrate B2B campaigns that pivot on the fly, ensuring your messaging truly resonates at each stage of the funnel.
Marketo Engage: AI and Personalization Upgrades Through an Expert Lens
Marketo Engage’s newest enhancements go well beyond tactical upgrades. They are part of a broader shift toward fully orchestrated, predictive marketing.
While AI-driven features like real-time personalization and automated content creation capture attention, true competitive advantage lies in how you integrate and govern these capabilities across your entire marketing ecosystem.
Here are some big-picture things to consider:
- Unified Data Strategy: Every AI feature thrives on clean, reliable data. Real-time connectors open doors for advanced segmentation, personalized follow-ups, and precise sales hand-offs. However, if your data hygiene is lacking, these innovations can’t reach their potential.
- Experience-Led Campaigns: AI now fuels everything from email design to chatbot responses. In practice, this means marketers must define a clear message framework—one that aligns with each channel’s role in the buyer journey. We often see teams excel when they treat every interaction as part of a cohesive, context-aware conversation.
- Cross-Channel Orchestration: Embedding Adobe Experience Manager assets into Marketo is more than a convenience. It drives brand consistency and reduces approval bottlenecks. From a broader lens, it also helps unify team efforts, merging creative, data, and sales insights so personalization feels authentic rather than forced.
- Intelligent Journey Mapping: Automating campaign flows based on behavioral triggers is powerful, but success hinges on a nuanced approach. Our experts suggest conducting regular audits—both on data accuracy and creative relevance—so the AI doesn’t lose sight of brand tone or shifting market conditions.
- Human Oversight & Brand Governance: AI can produce copy, images, and even route leads automatically, but it should never operate without guardrails. Marketers must set the brand rules, define editorial standards, and conduct ongoing review. When AI runs on autopilot, mistakes in tone or compliance can slip through, eroding trust and credibility.
Despite the value of each new feature, we’ve seen organizations struggle when AI-based marketing is treated as a patchwork fix.
Instead, it pays to view these innovations as catalysts for holistic transformation—one that strengthens your data backbone, clarifies your content strategy, and amplifies your customer experience approach.
Why Marketo’s AI-First Enhancements Matter
All in all, Adobe’s 2025 Marketo updates prove the platform is evolving far beyond simple drip campaigns and basic nurtures.
For teams aiming to future-proof their marketing operations, these capabilities aren’t just “nice to have.” They’re essential.
With the competition increasingly vying for lead attention, any advantage—like instantly adjusting messaging based on real-time signals—can be the difference between a closed-won deal and a lost opportunity.
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At MAC, we’ve helped more than 1,250 businesses optimize their marketing automation strategies.
If you’re looking to tap into Marketo’s latest AI-driven features—or if you simply need help clarifying your automation roadmap—our team is here to help.
Contact us to learn more about how AI-powered automation can give your marketing the edge it needs in 2025 and beyond!
