Great summary and exactly how most of us feel.

Prediction:

A)  No response from Raul.AiBot  (85%)
B)  Cookie-cutter reply with web link that explains nothing pertinent to current situation (15%)

Very good summary of the situation and very polite and restrained.

I feel like there has been a shift somewhere at Adobe towards the contributors. Not from the mods and team directly working with us.

Somewhere higher up in the chain someone has decided we are just useless little creator ants, probably soon to be replaced by ai software completely and our experience and frustrations don't matter at all.

But we are all also clients of Adobe, we use Adobe software, we pay for subscriptions and: we recommend Adobe to clients and friends as a good place to buy stock from. A company that has the reputation of treating the community fairly.

However, this feeling of being in a win win for everyone involved system is now broken.

Random roulette rejections make no sense. Not for the buyers who are missing out on useful content, not for creators and especially not for the designers who are uploading project contents as stock to offset some of the costs of Adobesubscriptions or buying stock.

How long until the mass frustration leads to people cancelling Adobe software subscriptions? Or moving stock contracts to a mix of istock and dreamstime?

istock anyway has much better search results if sorted by newest. I was suprised to discover that a search for people/newest on Adobe leads me to isolated watermelons, croissants, spa images, simple flowers and not enough variety of  people.

Please talk to us?

What happened???

The creator community will also happily assist in any beta testing projects.

These portfolios are part of our lives and business. We rely on the money to feed our families. This is not a hobby, real costs for rent, healthcare, schools is being paid with stock income.

Please fix this very, very serious issue.

Look at what happened to Shutterstock after they "broke up" with the creator community 3 years ago.  What happened to them and their stock price??

The creator community might be millions, but we are not idiots. We put our support behind agencies that treat us well.

Adobe was probably the best of them all lately (with exceptions of smaller places like Dreamstime or walled garden agencies like stocksy)

I am beginning to think it's AI program doing the reviews now.

If you would be so kind... a little bit of professional courtesy from Adobe...

I think you're dreaming of past and dead times...

So, I accidentally uploaded two duplicates, not sure how I made that mistake but on reviewing the photos... exact same file, exact same meta, exact same filename. To my amazement, they were both approved.
I find the inconsistency the most frustrating part. There are clearly problems with the approval system.

Inconsistency is because of AI;  software program full of bugs, with tweaks - and new bugs - introduced daily.  Whatever passes by AI does end in Human Reviewer basket, but he/she most likely doesn't even check anything - just transfers live.    Human check might happen only for Illustrative Editorial because it's more sensitive

Besides inconsistency, lack of transparency ("please tell us what is going on") is the frustrating part.   What I would do is compose carefully crafted announcement, post here as well as chain email to all contributors.   It would go something like this:

Dear contributor:

Due to success of Adobe Stock Platform we are overwhelmed by amount of contributions that seems to increase daily.  This has caused review time delays. We are in the process of automating parts of our review process, that besides Technical quality is also designed to ensure unique content.  Platform is still in experimental stage;  we apologize for inconsistencies and mistakes that creep in.   We are also modifying system to provide more details about cause of rejections.   We appreciate your patience and thank you for helping our Platform with your contributions.   

How much will Adobe pay us the eternal licences for eternal use of our photos ?

But what are you talking about here? 

I have a portfolio of 500 illustrative editorials,600 vectors,500 videos,5000 photos and illustrations,all real.

And then I have about 1500 AI photos and illustrations.

Do you know how many sales I've made so far this month? 5 I repeat: 5 sales from May 1st!

if this happens to you what do you do?

you go to San Jose,California with a machine gun and start shooting everyone? 

If I were you,I'd be jumping for joy from morning till night!

Many of you are luckier than you realize!

Video verification is now normal, fast and adequate. I have no complaints about Adobe.

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The creator community might be millions, but we are not idiots. We put our support behind agencies that treat us well.
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Other good points made in this lengthy post, I cut out for clarity.  But I really like the one above.   Respect (mutual) is big thing in any relationship.   This is why I like Alamy.  Just had 3 digit sale, more than I'll make in 2 months on Adobe.  Alamy treats contributors with respect.  Reviews are fast (2-3 days at most), and fair.  Not a freebie, but I never had "quality reason" nonsense rejection.

There will always be Adobe fans and cheerleaders, no matter what.  If this situation indeed continues, there will be a drain.  But maybe this is what they want.

maybe you should start selling less so maybe you understand that these new review favor first of all those who already earn well with images,like Cobalt,because now more than ever those who already sell well with commercial images are more difficult to reach.

and I'm talking about the review,I didn't question anything else,because I also think that there are definitely things that can be improved.

okay,you don't understand,and no one pays me to sit here trying to make you see reason,so go ahead and complain about everything,without first thinking carefully about why certain choices were made.

Even if I didn't understand a word of what you are saying, I hope constant mindless cheerleading gives you some brownie points.  Good luck!

maybe you should start selling less so maybe you understand that these new review favor first of all those who already earn well with images,like Cobalt,because now more than ever those who already sell well with commercial images are more difficult to reach.

and I'm talking about the review,I didn't question anything else,because I also think that there are definitely things that can be improved.

okay,you don't understand,and no one pays me to sit here trying to make you see reason,so go ahead and complain about everything,without first thinking carefully about why certain choices were made.

I have to agree with the previous comment, you express your thoughts in quite an incoherent manner, really hard to understand what are you trying to say.

It would be great if Raul or anybody from Adobe addressed this matter.
It makes no sense to upload to Adobe with 80% rejection rate.

As mentioned in the OP, been around this game for a very long time. Back in the day of The Image Bank, Tony Stone, then Getty in it's early years getting a 10%-20% acceptance rate was standard. 10% you felt good, 20% you knew you hit a home run. My rejections are as you mention about 80% from Adobe and so frckn random it makes no sense at all. The part that is very concerning is that this has been sporadic for some time now.

I am good with 80% rejection if anyone, anybody, or corporate bot from Adobe communicates they are going in the direction of curation over volume and to expect a high rejection rate for the reason stated.

Funny how this is the communications business and Adobe fails at communication.