09/19/2017

The Verge,  Shannon Liao

Since its launch last year, Adobe Spark has been an alternative, mobile-friendly solution to using Adobe’s powerful editing and creation software for free — without resorting to piracy. While Spark remains free to use, today Adobe is adding a new paid feature to help small businesses create branded media content. The feature, called Branded Stories, lets you make graphics, web pages, and video stories. You can set one consistent template or theme to be present across every piece of media....

09/19/2017

TechCrunch,  Frederic Lardinois

Adobe is launching a major update to its Spark graphic design apps today that brings paid premium features for companies and individuals that want to bring their own logo to the service as they create social media posts with Spark Posts, web pages with Spark Page and video with — you guessed it — Spark Video. “Spark is about storytelling, helping everyone communicate their ideas visually,” the company writes in today’s announcement. “And our users love how easy it is to create graphics, web pages, and videos. But we all want to tell our story in a way that is uniquely ours — injecting our own identity, look and feel, and personality into what we create.”

09/19/2017

Imaging Resource,  Jaron Schneider

As a photographer who sometimes needs to create my own banners and Facebook ads, I’m a big fan of Adobe’s Spark design tool. I’ve also used it extensively to create prototype web page layouts to help commercial clients visualize how a product launch or marketing Adobe Spark is a web-based platform for blogging and storytelling, and it got an update with "premium features," which lets you create and share branded stories in all three Spark formats: Post (for graphics), Page (for web pages), and Video (for video stories). Now instead of carrying Adobe's branding wherever it went, Spark stories can carry your own and be a better representation of you and your business. Adobe has baked in what they are calling "design intelligence," so all you need to do is add your brand ingredients to get started. Seeing it demonstrated, it does look incredibly simple.

09/19/2017

Digital Trends,  Hillary Grigonis

Adobe Spark brings the software giant’s graphics capabilities into a program that generates graphics, videos, and web pages quickly — but now Spark’s options are getting even more custom. On Tuesday, September 19, Adobe launched several premium customization options inside Spark, with branding options that automatically adjust across all of the program’s templates. Unlike the previously launched free version, a Spark subscription now gives users customization options, including removing the Adobe Spark branding from the final design.

12/01/2016

Digital Photography School,  Meredith Clark

... I have found this app to be so useful in so many different ways. Need a quick graphic advertising mini-sessions? Check. Want to combine a photo with a quote you love? Check. Need a pinable image for a blog post or article? Check. All of these examples are things that I could certainly do from scratch in Photoshop, but the ease and speed with which I can create very similar graphics with Spark Post has completely won me over. It’s the app you didn’t know you were missing!...

11/28/2016

Photofocus,  SCOTT BOURNE

Unlike many of my co-authors on Photofocus, I’m not a video Jedi and I’m not very experienced as a designer. I dabble occasionally, so it’s important for me to find tools that make video and design simple. Adobe Spark is one such tool. It makes simple videos that make a big impact. You can use it with your still pictures to create a story about a shoot, or even create a promotional video to get more clients. Spark has templates and themes to guide you, and it even includes a library of snappy music you can use for free. It resizes things automatically for different screens and it syncs from a mobile device back to your Adobe Library for access from your Adobe apps. I’ve enjoyed using it on an iPad, but it’s also a web app so you don’t have to be an Apple user to enjoy it. This app is ideal for photographers who are best at making pictures but also need to create videos and designs. It will help you create engaging videos to share and promote your work.

11/16/2016

Edutopia,  Jesse Buetow

.....Perhaps the best app for this project, however, is Adobe Spark Video. It is very simple to use and has many customizable features, and the final product is incredibly polished. The purpose of a book commercial is to sell a book, and the more polished the commercial, the better it does at that job......

11/13/2016

Business2Community,  Bria Sullivan

.....Adobe Spark is an awesome new photo-editing tool from Adobe, designed to be more approachable and easier-to-use — while still maintaining some of the robust features you’ll find in other Adobe products. Spark is a free tool with some exclusive features available to Creative Cloud members. It has a lot of those great ready-made elements like backgrounds, stock images, and social media size templates, but as an added bonus it’s also a video editor! If you’re looking to go beyond images, but you don’t want to learn another platform, stay with Adobe for your image creation and video editing needs......

11/09/2016

Peg Fitzpatrick,  Peg Fitzpatrick

.....Creating shareable, eye-catching graphics is a must for blogs to get traffic. Images can make or break a landing page, promotion, or social media post. They are the many faces and personalities of your brand, which is why it’s so important to get them right! But how, you ask, can you make them easily, quickly, all the while ensuring their effectiveness and quality? Learn some of my visual marketing powerhouse tips to design stunning images yourself.

11/02/2016

Digital Trends,  Hillary Grigonis

Adobe’s social media design tool Spark isn’t a new addition, but will see a pretty significant update – Creative Cloud subscribers will now be able to remove the Adobe branding from all the projects. The app will remain free to use with that Adobe branding in the corner of every image for non-CC users.

11/02/2016

TechCrunch,  Frederic Lardinois

Spark, Adobe’s storytelling app, is also getting a minor update. Paid Creative Cloud members will now get a couple of exclusive features. The first of those is the ability to remove all of Adobe’s branding from the app. The free version of Spark will remain available, too...

11/02/2016

CNET,  Lori Grunin

One of the most interesting developments is how Adobe decided to monetize its free Adobe Spark storytelling suite of products. First up: If you're shelling out the mucho bucks for a Creative Cloud subscription, you can now remove the branding that Adobe slaps all over your creations. In the future, there will also be new features just for CC; I wonder if integration with Adobe Analytics is on the menu.

10/19/2016

Social Media Examiner,  Lisa Larson-Kelley

Do you want to create social media videos for your business? Is your lack of video creation skills holding you back? The right apps make it easy to produce social videos by yourself in minutes. In this article, you’ll discover three tools and step-by-step tutorials to help you create stunning promotional videos...

10/15/2016

Photofocus,  Susan Kanfer

Adobe Spark Page is an amazing story-telling platform. It can be used as a travel journal to share adventures, a means to display a portfolio, or as a marketing or training tool. I am just getting my feet wet, having created a couple of on-line journals to share with friends, and am very excited by future possibilities. In a nutshell, Adobe Spark Page allows you to blend together different communication tools–photos, text, videos, links, and “glideshows,” in one presentation on a “Page”. ...

09/28/2016

Social Media Examiner,  Donna Moritz

Do you use your smartphone or tablet to post images to social media? Looking for mobile image apps to enhance your visuals? In this article, you’ll discover four mobile apps to help you create and publish outstanding social media images on the go...

09/15/2016

Free Technology for Teachers,  Richard Byrne

The World of 7 Billion is an annual video contest designed to get students to think about issues related to population growth. The contest asks middle school and high school students to produce sixty second videos about how population growth impacts one of the following three issues; climate change, ocean health, or rapid urbanization. Students' videos must also propose a sustainable solution to the issues that they choose to highlight in their videos. Submissions are due by February 23, 2017.

09/13/2016

Come on, Get 'Appy,  Jody Green

Want to step up your game? We’ve all seen print ads containing beautiful images with visually appealing text, right? A cool poster advertising a sale? A quote by someone famous or not-so-famous? Of course we have. These types of professional-looking images are everywhere! The good news is, there’s a free app for the iPad (and for the Web!) that students can use that allows them to create their own visually appealing, professional-looking images. The app is one third of of Adobe’s Spark trio: Adobe Spark Post.

09/13/2016

Mari Smith,  Mari Smith

Want to step up your game? Although there are many great tools within Facebook, a plethora of tools are available beyond the platform to improve your Facebook marketing. In this article, you’ll learn the advantage of using these tools to achieve increased visibility, reach, engagement and status as an expert.

09/08/2016

Social Media Examiner,  Lisa D. Jenkins

Looking for social media tips to step up your marketing game? Wondering what tools the pros recommend? We asked top social media experts to share the tools and tactics they’re using right now. In this article, you’ll discover 20 ways you can stay ahead of the social media marketing curve....

08/30/2016

Class Tech Tips,  Monica Burns

Providing opportunities for students to make and create is essential in 21st-century classrooms. Children of all ages should experience the joy of seeing their work shared and celebrated. Classrooms with access to a variety of different tools have plenty of tech tool options. Are you a BYOD classroom? BYOD (bring your own device) is the term for schools that allow students to use a personal device as a learning tool. Some BYOD schools have clear policies for how devices must be used in a classroom. They might even have a list of approved devices and apps. Other BYOD schools offer a large amount of flexibility for students and families...

08/30/2016

Social Media Examiner,  Michael Stelzner

Want to simplify your daily social media marketing tasks? Looking for a list of helpful apps and tools? The right apps can make a world of difference in the life of a busy social media marketer. In this article, you’ll discover 25 of the top tools and apps shared on the Social Media Marketing podcast...

08/30/2016

Blogging Bistro,  Laura Christianson

Social media has taken over the marketing landscape as platforms like Facebook cross 1.71 billion monthly active users. While reaching people on social media isn’t easy, the best way to reach more people is to change how you connect with them . At first, this was with unique and eye-catching images, but even that isn’t enough. To truly connect and engage with your audience, you need to start using videos in your social media marketing....

08/26/2016

Classy Career Girl,  Anna Runyan

Last week I shared an awesome social media calendar that will help you share the real you online. Today, I wanted to dive into the tools behind the scenes that we use at Classy Career Girl. The truth is that not all our social media posts are done in real time. There is a lot of batching that happens. I actually spend every single Wednesday as my social media day where I batch all my posts with these social media tools for the next week on all of my platforms including videos and getting Instagram posts ready to go as well....

08/22/2016

Tech Times,  Lauren Keating

Now that the summer is coming to a close, the panic may start to set in that both teachers and kids aren't quite ready to head back to school. However, getting organized and being prepared for a productive school year is easy to do after enlisting in the help from some apps. Whether it's looking for homework help, a go-to scheduling mobile planner or finding ways to integrate technology into the classroom, there are countless apps that make all of the above a possibility...

08/22/2016

Edutopia,  Monica Burns

Providing opportunities for students to make and create is essential in 21st-century classrooms. Children of all ages should experience the joy of seeing their work shared and celebrated. Classrooms with access to a variety of different tools have plenty of tech tool options. Are you a BYOD classroom? BYOD (bring your own device) is the term for schools that allow students to use a personal device as a learning tool. Some BYOD schools have clear policies for how devices must be used in a classroom. They might even have a list of approved devices and apps. Other BYOD schools offer a large amount of flexibility for students and families.

08/18/2016

NPR affiliate, Georgia Public Broadcasting,  Shana White

Wow, the beginning of a new school year. This is the start of year 12 for me in education and it has been such an eventful and rewarding ride. A new school year provides an awesome opportunity and chance for new possibilities for both teachers and students. I hope you are as excited as I am for the chance to try something new, build relationships with students, and really make this a great year of learning and growth. Many teachers are inundated with so many beginning of the year tasks and to-do lists. I challenge you to add one more items to your very long to do list: empowering your students this year through technology. Give them a little more control over their learning and become the tour guide of your content...

08/02/2016

Website Magazine,  Allison Howen

There's an app for everything, but most aren't worth the screen space. To help busy Web professionals filter out the winners from the losers, Website Magazine has curated a list of nine apps that are worthy of regular use. Learn more about these apps below...

07/28/2016

Business2Community,  Alexa Matia

For a small business owner, marketing might be the last thing on your mind. You have a business to run, after all. Depending on your business, you might have to: Check and order inventory. Schedule appointments with clients. Respond to any customer inquiries. Manage your employees. Organize your finances. And that doesn’t even begin to cover all of the responsibilities...

05/23/2016

MARKETINGLAND,  Barry Levine

Small and medium-sized businesses have more free ways to present their stories to customers, with Adobe’s recent announcement of its Spark suite of tools. They are intended for the creation of visually-based marketing material for the Web and social networks, provided as four applications. Three of them are rebranded, existing iOS apps, and one is new.

05/20/2016

ADWEEK/SOCIAL TIMES,  Brandy Shaul

Adobe officially launched its Adobe Spark platform, which is comprised of a web application and three previously released iOS companion apps. The Adobe Spark platform helps users create visual content for sharing on multiple platforms.

05/20/2016

HUFFINGTON POST

05/19/2016

FAST COMPANY,  Rose Pastore

Need to create a professional blog post, animation, or graphic for social media? Adobe has released new suite of apps called Adobe Spark that aims to simplify the creation of highly visual Internet content. The new web and iOS apps—called Spark Post, Spark Page, and Spark Video—replace Adobe's older, iOS-only apps Post, Slate, and Voice.

05/19/2016

ZDNET,  Charles McLellan

Adobe has provided free iOS apps for creating visually rich social media posts, web-based stories and animated videos for a while, in the shape of Adobe Post, Slate and Voice respectively. The creative software giant has now updated these mobile apps and integrated them with a new web app called Adobe Spark, renaming the iOS offerings Spark Post, Spark Page and Spark Video.

05/19/2016

EXTREMETECH,  David Cardinal

I’ve always been jealous of graphic designers. Their ability to transform a few photos and some text into a visually-compelling communication is both an art and a skill. There are plenty of applications around that provide the technical tools needed for great graphic design — starting with Adobe’s own Illustrator — but they are not only painful to learn, but they don’t help if you don’t have the talent to use them correctly. With the explosion of social media, effective visual communication is more important than ever. Today Adobe has unveiled Spark — one of the best attempts yet to allow people of all skill levels, and on all platforms, to create sophisticated graphic designs with only a few minutes of work.

05/19/2016

THE NEXT WEB,  Nate Swanner

Today, Adobe is introducing Spark for mobile and the Web, which it hopes will help small businesses and nonprofits create great images, websites and media for their campaigns. There are three main components to Spark: Page, Post and Video. Those tools were formerly the standalone Slate, Post and Voice; Adobe is basically branding them under Spark and giving them a bit more power under the hood.

05/19/2016

TOP TECH NEWS,  Jef Cozza

Despite the plethora of graphic design tools available to organizations, creating good visual content is often a labor-intensive process requiring many hours of work by highly trained professionals. A new suite of software by Adobe, however, is hoping to change that. The platform, called Adobe Spark, is designed to help non-professional designers create their own visual content.

05/19/2016

THE VERGE,  Lauren Goode

A few years ago, Adobe started rolling out a series of iPad-friendly apps that were supposed to make visual content creation all kinds of easy: Adobe Voice was for animated videos or presentations, Adobe Slate was more for text-driven projects, and Adobe Post was for social graphics. Now the company is bringing all three of those apps under a new name, and also introducing a web version of the software. The new Adobe Spark suite includes Adobe Spark Video (formerly Voice), Adobe Spark Page (formerly Slate), and Adobe Spark Post (which was just Post before).

05/19/2016

9TO5 MAC,  Zac Hall

Adobe has been steadily introducing free creative tools that let iPhone and iPad users tell stories through text, photos, and videos, and today that effort is coming to the web with the all-new Adobe Spark. In addition to launching the free web app, Adobe is updating a few of its existing iOS apps with new names as they now serve as companions to the web service.

05/19/2016

CREATIVE MARKET

The graphic design software space is getting more and more interesting by the minute. Today Adobe announced their new "one-stop content shop for creating and sharing visual stories". Offering simple features to create social graphics, pages, and even videos, Adobe Spark is trying to empower visual content creators — no matter their level of expertise."

05/19/2016

MACWORLD,  Jackie Dove

Where do you go when Microsoft Office and Google Docs are not enough but Adobe Creative Cloud is too much? Adobe hopes you’ll turn to Spark, a new integrated suite of storytelling web and mobile apps for creating and sharing visual content online and via social networks.

05/19/2016

TECH CRUNCH,  Sarah Perez

Adobe this morning launched a new suite of apps called Adobe Spark, which allow both web and mobile users to create and share visual content – like posts for social media, graphics, web stories, and animated videos. On mobile, the Spark collection is effectively an upgrade and rebranding of a trio of apps Adobe already operated – its Adobe Post app becomes Spark Post; Adobe Slate becomes Spark Page; and Adobe Voice becomes Spark Video.

05/19/2016

EXAMINER.COM,  Jarvis Grant

Today Adobe launched their new suite of apps for digital storytelling, Adobe Spark. Adobe Spark is a mini suite of mobile and web apps designed for publishing on social media and the web. Spark allows the user to create visual stories with text, images, audio and video quickly and at times easily. Spark is actually a re-branding of apps that were already members of their Creative Cloud. Those apps, Adobe Post, Adobe Slate, and Adobe Voice have been improved for enhanced integration as mobile apps and with other Creative Cloud apps.

05/19/2016

CNET,  Lori Grunin

A nod to its nonprofessional users, Adobe Spark merges the company's individual Adobe Post, Adobe Voice and Adobe Slate iOS apps into powerful, easy to use -- and still free -- Web-based tool for folks that need to produce visually intensive content for social sharing that Marketers call it visual storytelling. As part of the rebranding, they've been renamed Spark Post, Spark Video and Spark Page, respectively.

05/19/2016

PCMAG.COM,  Michael Muchmore

Need to tell your story online in a compelling way? Adobe Spark is the latest app I've seen that claims to make it easy to do just that. It replaces both Adobe Slate and Adobe Voice, the company's previous creative social apps. Spark consists of a Web app with three main tools—Post, Page, and Video—each with companion mobile apps. The three tools create social memes, mini websites, and narrated tutorials, respectively. In a way, Spark is an attempt to capture lightning in a bottle: Purpose-built viral memes are a tall order. But Spark can serve as a valuable tool for small businesses, bloggers, marketers, and students who want to get a message out with style.

05/19/2016

Your Nerdy Best Friend,  None

Eureka! Another game-changing graphic tool has arrived! Truthfully, Adobe Spark Post is not 100% new, but it has been rebranded and strengthened, and it’s now cool enough to share with you guys.

05/19/2016

RESOURCE MAGAZINE,  Robin de Clercq

Creating visually attractive content that cuts through today’s online clutter isn’t always the easiest thing to do, especially for those with limited time, budget or design expertise. To help out these creative minds communicate on a more profound level while still keeping it simple, Adobe announced Adobe Spark on Thursday—the latest on its list of graphical solutions.

05/19/2016

DIGITAL TRENDS,  Les Shu

Adobe is grouping its three "storytelling apps" for iOS – Post, Slate, and Voice – under a new umbrella, called Adobe Spark. The apps will remain as individual downloads, with a slight name change (Post becomes Spark Post, Slate is now Spark Page, and Voice is now Spark Video). Spark Post is also now available for the iPad, while Spark Page now supports the iPhone. Otherwise, with the exception of new snap guides, each app’s features and functionalities remain the same.

05/19/2016

THE SLANTED,  Sean Thomas

Adobe announced that the company has launched Adobe Spark, "the only integrated web and mobile solution for creating and sharing impactful visual stories, " according to the company’s announcements today. Free and designed for everyday communications, Adobe Spark empowers anyone – including small businesses, social marketers and students – to create stunning visual content that engages audiences across multiple channels and looks great on any device.

05/19/2016

EXAMINER.COM,  Majorie LaPrade

We're going to commit a journalism faux pas and switch to first person for a moment. The first time I developed a dark room photograph, I was in awe of how the seemingly blank page of paper turned from white to something of substance. It was magic to me. Writing an article, painting a canvas, or designing something with software can be just as cathartic when it's completed. However, those latter media can be more scary to produce. You need a solid idea to get started. Imagination is how you get something from nothing. Everyone knows that authors sometimes get writer's block, but so do artists.

05/19/2016

CIO TODAY,  Jef Cozza

Despite the plethora of graphic design tools available to organizations, creating good visual content is often a labor-intensive process requiring many hours of work by highly trained professionals. A new suite of software by Adobe, however, is hoping to change that. The platform, called Adobe Spark, is designed to help non-professional designers create their own visual content.

05/19/2016

SLASHGEAR,  Brittany A. Roston

Adobe has a new product aimed at the everyday user who needs something simple and wants something attractive: Adobe Spark. Part of Creative Cloud, Adobe Spark is a web app that works with a trio of Spark iOS apps for creating "social posts and graphics, " says the company, as well as animated stories and "web stories." The service is free for anyone to use.