Quote from: danielvisuals on April 23, 2025, 00:11
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.)

Recently, many of the photos and videos I submitted did not feature any models. It's troubling to hear about the experiences others have had, and we can certainly attribute this situation to the surge of AI-generated content uploaded over the past two years.

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.

So, easter is over, all the way down I go. pos 3760

This is also the beginning of the upload chaos on adobe. If I cannot add files and grow my port I am invisible in the newest search.

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, 07:38
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 

Quote from: SimonSays on April 27, 2025, 08:37

Quote from: alijaber on April 27, 2025, 07:38
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.

pos 4740

going down fast

this is the result of not being able to upload fresh content. it will get worse if i cannot learn how to get content accepted again.

now down to 5000

I'm up to 3500 with just 54 downloads this week (and last week was pretty slow as well for me). Adobe seems to be slow for everyone currently, usually I'd need more downloads to reach that rank

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

I'm going to post in this thread again despite my previous goodbye.

Guys, just brutal ...
Adobe announced today that the high rejection rate is the new normal. The scumbags really screwed us over.
As it would be not enough the currently sales are really *removed coarse language*. What a mess.

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.   

Quote from: Andrej.S. on April 30, 2025, 22:04
I'm going to post in this thread again despite my previous goodbye.

Guys, just brutal ...
Adobe announced today that the high rejection rate is the new normal. The scumbags really screwed us over.
As it would be not enough the currently sales are really *removed coarse language*. What a mess.

Where is the announcement?

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.

I do hope this isn't a complete pivot by Adobe in the direction of autospamaiuploaders.

I had as many sales today on DT as I have had on Adobe all week and more $ - definitely not normal - both an atrocious week so far on Adobe, and a rather good day on DT.

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.

Quote from: cobalt on May 01, 2025, 07:06
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.

a) Where is this 'announcement' you are referring to?

b) Educated guess - there are very few (i.e., only a handful) that would be producing 20k+ assets per WEEK. Lol, it's very hard to create 20k assets per month, let along in a single week.

c) Still requires 'some' intelligence when uploading. If someone uploads 20k squirrels - while you might have a squirrel doing every conceivable action possible, probably very few would buy it.

d) "Spamming", surprisingly, is still a lot of work.

A bit better this week than the past two weeks where I didn't make $100. Two things more noteworthy is I just received $20.78 on a photo which was a surprise as most don't even make $1, and the other is the low rank / position. My number of weekly sales is pretty typical so not too bad yet position is low. This would suggest everyone is doing pretty well with their volume of sales?   

Quote from: Pacesetter on May 03, 2025, 03:58
A bit better this week than the past two weeks where I didn't make $100. Two things more noteworthy is I just received $20.78 on a photo which was a surprise as most don't even make $1, and the other is the low rank / position. My number of weekly sales is pretty typical so not too bad yet position is low. This would suggest everyone is doing pretty well with their volume of sales?   

I think it's a glitch. Now, I have 33 dls, 50$, Pos: 5800

Moved up a bit on ultralow sales. pos 5180

@pacesetter

Thank you for sharing your video results. Always important to remember the power of videos.

A somewhat below-average week, it has been extremely quiet since Thursday...

low sales, but moving up. pos 4950

today i had two ai videos reviewed after 30 days. one accepted, one declined for quality.

fair enough, both come from my first ai video batch in jan 2024. and a quality decline means i can reprocess, perhaps it would be enough to make it hd.

curious about the next ai videos and also camera videos now in the queue.

Thanks Cobalt for this information! 

They also did a review of 2 ai videos for me after about 33 days,2 accepted.

very long times for videos...you have any others under review for over a month?

no, the oldest is just6 days in the queue

will try to upload at least one a day.

moved up again on low sales.