I am currently facing similar rejections even though the topic of the work is different.
I tried to connect with Adobe and they said they cannot help as its the decision of reviewing department.

These rejections are only increasing and is concerning now.

AI or traditional photos/videos?

I have had one single rejected video out of hundreds submitted the last few months. It was deemed too similar to existing content in AS library.  I must say I agree with that particular decision.

Apart from that, I have yet to experience mass rejections. But, from hearing from others experiences, it could happen sooner than later.

I have the same problem. Images that are unique, and not represented in the collection in any way, are rejected as being 'similar'. It seems pretty random, to be honest, and emails to support just get 'blah, blah, blah' replies without actually addressing the issue.

Edit: Mine are traditional photos, and not AI submissions.

Quote from: kuriouskat on August 24, 2025, 08:01
I have the same problem. Images that are unique, and not represented in the collection in any way, are rejected as being 'similar'. It seems pretty random, to be honest, and emails to support just get 'blah, blah, blah' replies without actually addressing the issue.

Edit: Mine are traditional photos, and not AI submissions.

Yes, I also feel so, maybe they are automating their reviewing system through AI maybe?
The rejections are random, if some real human will view them, he will surely see the difference.

And if they are real humans, then I must say they need to update themselves.

Quote from: kuriouskat on August 24, 2025, 08:01
I have the same problem. Images that are unique, and not represented in the collection in any way, are rejected as being 'similar'. It seems pretty random, to be honest, and emails to support just get 'blah, blah, blah' replies without actually addressing the issue.

Edit: Mine are traditional photos, and not AI submissions.

I had multiple images rejected for "similar" where I was convinced that I had a really great and unique idea and upon searching in the Adobe database I found 0 images with the exact same topic.

To me it is very clear that these are some kind of AI rejections with some poor AI that just scans images for factors like "similar composition" and "similar color sheme", etc. but it cannot really properly recognize what is in the image and therefore doesn't understand whether it is really a similar image or not and a person holding a tennis ball might look the same as a person holding a green apple to it. But obviously customers searching for tennis photos will not just be satisfied with images of apples instead.

It's a faulty system that still lets through countless similar images, while at the same time rejecting unique topics. But Adobe doesn't seem to care.

AI is still far from being reliable so if that's what AS uses then it makes sense that it's making a lot of mistakes.

same for me !

... whatever they did to their review system, they make it worse and unacceptable! I`m done with it...

Wow, they again rejected a big chunk as similar, even though they are different.
Same batch has been accepted by other major player.

Quote from: kuriouskat on August 24, 2025, 08:01
I have the same problem. Images that are unique, and not represented in the collection in any way, are rejected as being 'similar'. It seems pretty random, to be honest, and emails to support just get 'blah, blah, blah' replies without actually addressing the issue.

Edit: Mine are traditional photos, and not AI submissions.

Im getting that with images even when (i) nothing of that topic/place in my collection at all and (ii) not many AS wide either.  Im not getting it for video.

My partner contributing images independently is seeing exactly the same to the extent in some batches its a 90% rejection rate (but the next one can be 90% acceptance.  Totally random)

Quote from: gnirtS on August 26, 2025, 23:28

Quote from: kuriouskat on August 24, 2025, 08:01
I have the same problem. Images that are unique, and not represented in the collection in any way, are rejected as being 'similar'. It seems pretty random, to be honest, and emails to support just get 'blah, blah, blah' replies without actually addressing the issue.

Edit: Mine are traditional photos, and not AI submissions.

Im getting that with images even when (i) nothing of that topic/place in my collection at all and (ii) not many AS wide either.  Im not getting it for video.

My partner contributing images independently is seeing exactly the same to the extent in some batches its a 90% rejection rate (but the next one can be 90% acceptance.  Totally random)

bulk rejections have been common for awhile now.  but my rejects for similar have gone down - everything is rejected for 'quality' but they dont say what

earlier they would reject an entire series because it was the same subject(eg a seabird) even though they werte action shots - in surf, varying groups, flying, etc

They've just reviewed another batch of mine.

So we have lighthouse shots, rejected for similar.
Aerial castle shots. rejected for similar.
Farming and agriculture. rejected for similar.
Scenic landscapes and lakes. rejected for similar.
Ski resort shots. rejected for similar.
Summer beach shots. rejected for similar.

Yep, 100% of all my categories uploaded rejected for "similar in our collection".

At the moment its impossible to get anything accepted and with the complete absence of any communication from Adobe of exactly what its looking for/comparing against its impossible to even guess what they want.  Although maybe a safe assumption is they dont actually want any more content. 
Total waste of time uploading or submitting any images on any topic from any part of the world currently.

And then you look at the fresh accepted content and find thousands of files similar to yours accepted....so it can go into someone elses port and not into mine.

I spend a lot of time trying to fin unfilled niches and then produce what is missing.

But I am getting unqiue content that absolutely does not exist and is useful declined on Adobe.

So what am I supposed to do??

Unique content is not acceptable, but endless duplicates are?

What happened to business logic?

They could just lower upload imits even more to fit team capacity but then inspect for quality of ip like before.

IF THE QUALITY IS FINE, DON'T DECLINE

The community is max frustrated and confused

The same thing is happening to me — my images (vectors) have been increasingly rejected since the end of August for the reason 'similar content,' whether they're AI-generated or made the traditional way. I'm really frustrated because I used to have an acceptance rate close to 100%.

I had done a bunch of work before what cobalt called "rejectiongate"...

Before that - usually I had a mininum of 70% approval, if not more like 90-95% approval rate...

So I had spent a couple months literally doing pretty much nothing by stock work (images/videos/keywording/etc)...
Had it all ready to go... submitted...

And to my shock (esp after all the work that was done), approval rate was anywhere from 10-30% (so at times 90% was getting rejected).

Not sure if is 'still' like that - but that was not really fun, so taking a short break from some of the submissions...

not for me. If you have some this is because you upload same or pratty same photo.

I have been getting quite a few "similar content in our collection" rejections at Adobe.  Today, I got one for a photo of a unique (and quite attractive)  19th century building in a particular city.   I searched in Adobe's collection, and they have zero photos of this building.

Ok, it's not a famous city, and perhaps they expect that nobody would want to buy this photo.  However, if that's their reasoning, why don't they say it accurately?  More likely, there is no clear reasoning, just some kind of fuzzy algorithm.

Quote from: Danybot on September 12, 2025, 20:41
I have been getting quite a few "similar content in our collection" rejections at Adobe.  Today, I got one for a photo of a unique (and quite attractive)  19th century building in a particular city.   I searched in Adobe's collection, and they have zero photos of this building.

Ok, it's not a famous city, and perhaps they expect that nobody would want to buy this photo.  However, if that's their reasoning, why don't they say it accurately?  More likely, there is no clear reasoning, just some kind of fuzzy algorithm.

AS is notoriously terrible in rejection 'reasoning' - mostly they say "rejected for quality - guess what is was?"

I am still seeing such similar rejections even with unique vectors. My approval rate at adobe previously stood at 95%+ but now they rejects some of the important and unique contents and this rate got to 70% now.

And fun part is that I am getting 100% acceptance on the other agencies.

Has anyone tried to connect with Adobe team regarding this?

Quote from: Artist on September 13, 2025, 09:51
I am still seeing such similar rejections even with unique vectors. My approval rate at adobe previously stood at 95%+ but now they rejects some of the important and unique contents and this rate got to 70% now.

And fun part is that I am getting 100% acceptance on the other agencies.

Has anyone tried to connect with Adobe team regarding this?

Yes, I wrote in about one unique image, that had zero similars on Adobe.

I got a generic answer about "overly repetitive or highly similar to other content already available on Adobe Stock."

I responded and pointed out that the image wasn't repetitive or similar, and that nothing from this particular location was available already.

My response was met by an exact copy and paste of the first response, so at this point I gave up trying.

Quote from: SuperPhoto on September 12, 2025, 16:28
I had done a bunch of work before what cobalt called "rejectiongate"...

Before that - usually I had a mininum of 70% approval, if not more like 90-95% approval rate...

So I had spent a couple months literally doing pretty much nothing by stock work (images/videos/keywording/etc)...
Had it all ready to go... submitted...

And to my shock (esp after all the work that was done), approval rate was anywhere from 10-30% (so at times 90% was getting rejected).

Not sure if is 'still' like that - but that was not really fun, so taking a short break from some of the submissions...

Just checked my AS acceptance rate in the 10 year its been in existence.  97%.
Just checked my AS rate for the last 2 months.  35%.

All rejections "similar in collection". Its patchy though.  Ive had a batch of 42 all approved at one point and a few days earlier a batch of a similar size where only 2 got in.

Yes, and what about those photos queued for 4, 5 or 6 months without review?

Quote from: Yakystockero on September 22, 2025, 14:27
Yes, and what about those photos queued for 4, 5 or 6 months without review?

Or more.

I deleted them and re-uploaded them three times, but they still sit in the queue forever. Newer uploads (with recent last edit dates) are processed within a few days.

I am thinking that the review system may look at the last edit date when they process them, so older edits may always go in the back of the queue. This weekend, I will try to make minor edits, save them again (to record the current last edit date) and re-upload.

I'll let you know if this works (I feel that it will).

Still have 100% acceptance rate and assets are reviewed within 2-4 days

Quote from: Zero Talent on September 22, 2025, 20:55

Quote from: Yakystockero on September 22, 2025, 14:27
Yes, and what about those photos queued for 4, 5 or 6 months without review?

Or more.

I deleted them and re-uploaded them three times, but they still sit in the queue forever. Newer uploads (with recent last edit dates) are processed within a few days.

I am thinking that the review system may look at the last edit date when they process them, so older edits may always go in the back of the queue. This weekend, I will try to make minor edits, save them again (to record the current last edit date) and re-upload.

I'll let you know if this works (I feel that it will).

Same here, longest images are waiting to be reviewed for 10 months now.

I remember that last year Mat (when he was still active) told us that it was probably a mistake and we whould just resubmit the images, but the ones waiting for 10 monhts are already resubmitted versions. It just happens to the very same images again, so resubmitting does not help. Honestly, I have simply given up on these images.