I upload both photos and videos camera content and have maintained a 99% acceptance rate until today. My uploads are typically reviewed within a few weeks, or at most, within one month. I submit one picture per topic or subject each day, consistently uploading every day. I usually have 5 to 7 topics submitted at the same time, resulting in 5 to 7 photos or videos uploaded daily. So far this year, I have had only one image rejected for being similar to another.

No AI.

Congrats on the high acceptance rate! I'm wondering of the majority of your content is model-released? (And therefore has to be reviewed by a human, not a bot.)

The random reviews are affecting people with camera content and no ai as well.

Creators have long proposed that Adobe should add sensible upload limits, but instead they removed the 3k limit.

The situation is very demoralising.

If you do a search for any subject and look at newest you see all kinds of crap being accepted, including large batches with 50+ near identical files.

So why are our files declined as similar?

There is no improvement in the quality accepted and especially if I do a search for fresh people content, the quality and choice has gone down.

Nobody benefits from an algo roulette review. Least of all the customers.

I did a test with 3 boring files, one ai illustration that will never become a bestseller. Still cute and usable but a design that is hardly needed. A very simple ai photo with copy space that probably has lots of similars in the collection, but is a genre I usually don't have in my port. And one very simple camera food image.

All 3 were accepted over several days.

Will now again try with maybe 5 mixed files, including some camera stuff.

When I look at what is accepted, I would say there is a bit of a shift to the more boring B roll images with lower sales value.

Less content coming where I would say that might get bought 100 times in the first year.

Perhaps the algo prefers this content because creators usually produce files they hope will sell well. And thus declines files that are more useful.

But in the end I am just guessing.

The algo ai simply does not work and has zero intelligence in the choices it makes.

Yesterday I had my best day ever at Adobe, a buyer bought a whole video collection of 50 clips, I went from ~13000 to 7160... Pure luck

Quote from: alijaber on April 27, 2025, 01:38

Yesterday I had my best day ever at Adobe, a buyer bought a whole video collection of 50 clips, I went from ~13000 to 7160... Pure luck

And next week your account is blocked because of irregular activity 

Hehe... I don't think so, because these videos are related, and if a user has a certain type of projects, he will need them all.

now down to 5000

This month has been strong for AS, but sales slowed last week and so far this week.

Quality contributors are just going to give up. Not because they don't have a great work ethic or high quality work but because agencies are treating contributors poorly. There's just no incentive to continue with the nonsense low commissions and constant roadblocks and jumping through hoops. I've seen contributors with large quality ports on Pond5 remove their contents completely.   

Very depressing news.

Adobe has made it official that they prefer the ai spammers.

They have removed the upload limits, so you can read people boasting how they upload 20k files a week to Adobe.

At the same time they are now using a random roulette review algo that is declining files with no logic.

Also affecting many ports with no ai, who only upload camera content.

They could have implemented simple upload limits, instead prefer the spammers.

I will now focus more on camera video and camera photo and also more on other agencies.

This is certainly an opportunity for istock to win creators back.

They still have a normal human review and sensible quality control.

Customers follow the upload flows. That is how SS kept losing clients

They kept buying agencies but refused to heal their brutal break up with the creator community.

So creators who are often designers buy elsewhere.

Dreamstime has always been good to us, the only agency that paid out more to creators during the pandemic.

They also don�t randomly block accounts and their support always writes back quickly.

And now that Adobe is randomly declining content, Dreamstime has always been much better variety to offer especially for ai content.

I think many will replace buying from Adobe with a combo of istock and dreamstime.

istock has more model released people anyway and Dreamstime will have more ai selection.

Creators determine where customers buy or were they buy for their clients.

It will also affect Adobe subscriptions.

Why use the software of a company that gaskights creators and looks down on them?

Affinity photo is always there.