Just thought, if you happen to have a great original concept image that has been accepted into Adobestock, at least long waiting times means no one can copy for a while!

My last uploads took 30 days to be reviewed.

Quote from: Jaggy on November 24, 2023, 22:07

Right now, my oldest is just 16 days. However, Adobe should beware ... the same image was accepted by Shutterstock next day and has already sold.

Other than that, some new material is getting accepted quickly on Adobe while other images are having to wait for weeks. Perhaps Adobe has their reasoning. If so, it would be nice of them to share it.

Is Shutterstock now "officially" accepting "ai" stuff, or was this just a regular photo? Thanks!

A "regular" photo. I don't do AI.

Going on 5 weeks now. Is this the new normal?  Not seeing the upside

Going on 5 weeks now. Is this the new normal?  Not seeing the upside

They're already accepting ~200k images per day. Are you sure you want the review process to be faster?

How do you think your image will be found when it's fighting against 100s of millions of old assets in the collection, and 200k that were approved on the same day as yours?

The issue is too low of a rejection rate, not review times.

Adobe are taking over a month to review images now or at least for me, I remember they took a few days!

yes, it's frustrating! I guess that's an indicator of the deluge of AI submissions,  either that or non-AI submissions have been given a much much lower priority on the queue

How do you think your image will be found when it's fighting against 100s of millions of old assets in the collection, and 200k that were approved on the same day as yours?

I admit it would be tough if those hundreds of millions of photos were of the same subject as yours. That's some fierce competition.

Quote from: nycshooter on November 30, 2023, 07:23

Going on 5 weeks now. Is this the new normal?  Not seeing the upside

They're already accepting ~200k images per day. Are you sure you want the review process to be faster?

How do you think your image will be found when it's fighting against 100s of millions of old assets in the collection, and 200k that were approved on the same day as yours?

The issue is too low of a rejection rate, not review times.

why do people say this stuff. There is a fresh content tab and filters. It isnt some magical luck of the draw thing. They don't need to reject more or slower, they do desperately need to trawl through all the garbage titles written in no language in particular and nonsese keywords. And allow obvious keywords that they don't. For example "pond, life" for dragonflies which at present they won't unless a pond is present in the photo. Moronic but there it is. Endless examples. That's what helps people's stuff to be found.

why do people say this stuff. There is a fresh content tab and filters. It isnt some magical luck of the draw thing.

Actually it is. Will your asset get picked up or not mostly depends on luck, especially lately.

Source: stock contributor since 2009, I spread out assets from my shoots over numerous batches over weeks, and sometimes an asset gets picked up by the search, gets a few initial downloads in the first day, and the propels it further in the search rankings. If you don't get any views/downloads in the first few days of assets being online, it's much less likely it will be picked up. And no, the asset that gets picked up is in no way shape or form superior to the ones that don't get picked up. So yeah it's luck.

Adobe has serious problems with reviews in the last 6 months, the height of laziness really, rejecting batches instead of single images, uploading 30 images individually as 30 separately 1 image batches gets passed this but is time consuming. Upload as 1 batch and Adobe reject all 30 images in one go......About time Adobe sorted this out.