i haven't had an image reviewed in over a week.  i don't even mean accepted just reviewed.  my oldest is currently sitting on 16 days.  what's going on?  are they too busy developing pop-ups?

My png is 26 days old.

What is even more fun is our content ferments for a month or so only to find out your content suddenly does not meet Adobe qaulity standards, evenwith years of a proven track record.

Adobe is dropping the ball in every way lately.

It's really sad to see the demise of a once respected platform. It's almost as if the left hand does not know what the right hand is doing.

And still waiting! png image- no AI!

First images approved after 28 days.

My last vector image took just a few days to be approved.

I guess we can... until the AI people take over.

What is even more fun is our content ferments for a month or so only to find out your content suddenly does not meet Adobe qaulity standards, evenwith years of a proven track record.

Yea their reviewers are becoming ridiculously strict. Some of my latest images were rejected for technical reasons and they look fine to me. I used to have a very good acceptance rate.

My last photo was rejected because there is supposedly a similar image already in my portfolio. That is complete nonsense. I went through my port twice and I see no images that are similar to this latest submission. The latest photo is a close up of a very young tree. I do admit that I have a close up of a plant that is already in my port but these types of vegetation are completely different and look nothing like each other. For example, one has large leaves and the other has no leaves. I guess Adobe are hinting that we are only allowed to have a maximum of one plant close up in our port and no more. Never mind that there are probably thousands of different types of plants out there but we can only have a closeup of one of them. So choose carefully.

i agree on the silly rejects, esp'ly when the reason given is worthless ('something's wrong - guess what it is!")

Exactly right. I don't know why they make this a guessing game.

but the bigger problem is when entire batches are rejected (and most i submit have already accepted by S & DT)  and taking a month to review is ridiculous

When I first joined AS, about half of my photos were accepted if I recall correctly. Then later on, the reviewers seem to become less strict and they accepted just about everything I submitted. Ive been out of the stock game for a little while and now that I'm back, I see that something really weird is going on with the AS review team.

All allowing AI images to be submitted as photos did was prolong the review time for real photos as well.
My real photos have been waiting to be reviewed for 16 days now. It really sucks when you want to submit time sensitive content.
I usually submit all my images to all agencies at the same time and managing different submitting times for individual agencies is really quite the hassle - especially since Adobes review time changes all the time  -  getting longer and longer.
Will my Halloween photos be reviewed in 2 weeks or 2 months? Impossible to know when the right time to submit time sensitive photos is now. 

You complain against flooding AI images, and, in the same time, submit Ai images yourself. You set fire to the forest and complain that it burns? Modern maturity... 

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I am complaining about AI images being submitted as photos. They should never have been submitted as illustrations or photos in the first place. They are not illustrations. They are not photos. They should have gotten their own AI image category (or never have been allowed at all).

they do - they are entered as illustrations - what else could they be?  AIgen is a technique like vectors, not an image category. but more important is that they also have to be marked as AI generated illustrations, none allowed as photos

I complain about Mat claiming that Adobe does not need more reviewers, when very obviously they do and need to change something. They either need to disallow AI images, give a separate review queque to real photos or hire a hell lot of new reviewers.

i have 100 images, photo & AI, in Q for 2 weeks to  2 MONTHS! but AS won't admit the bigger problem of entire batches being rejected (as many here have reported)

they do - they are entered as illustrations - what else could they be?

Did you miss the announcement that they can now be submitted as photos? Happened maybe around 3 weeks ago....

normal photo: still sitting at 14 days

real photo png: sitting at 29 days

ai photos: around 20 ? days

ai illustration : more than 2 months

I have stopped uploading Halloween, because it will simply not arrive in time. Doing my last autumn batch this week.

Everything else is winter, but already content for spring easter. In October I will start with ai summer. In December I will upload autumn. And maybe some of the Halloween content.

Seasonal content should be online 6-9 months before the event. The long review times mess up my schedule.

However - with ai you can create content for any season at any time.

But it means I cannot strongly increase my income for the last quarter, because the content is arriving too late.

Next year I will work with a much longer review time in mind.

For seasonal content timing is absolutely crucial.

If it goes live just shortly before the event - christmas images arriving middle of November - it is simply too late for all the buyers who preplan their projects long before.

It can still pick up a few spontaneous buyers, but you will not be able to get the money you would have made if the content had arrived in May - early September.

For timeless content it does not matter, so I am increasing my output for everything that can be sold all year round.

Overall I am still very grateful for the opportunity to do ai.

But will certainly increase real photos/video shootings now that I have my first 800 ai files live.