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Are These two Icons Considered Duplicates?

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
March 20, 2025
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I want to make sure I'm following Adobe Stock’s guidelines correctly regarding similar content and duplicate submissions. I have two calendar icons that feature the year “2025.” While the overall design is similar, they have different color and style.

Before I submit them, I’d like to know:

* Would these be considered duplicates and potentially flagged as spam?

* Do the differences in color and minor details make them unique enough to be accepted?

* What criteria does Adobe Stock use to determine whether similar icons are too alike?

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Correct answer Abambo

Not exactly, but if you submit more than 3 of those, they would be considered duplicates. All in all, you should submit one asset with all your variations. Nobody will buy 2 of those calendars, but they may be happy to have some choice, and that would give you a competitive edge over the hundreds of thousands of other calendars.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

The 2025 text limits its shelf-life to 12 months. That's not good for future sales.

Yours are very similar to other content in Stock. That's what you need to watch out for.

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=calendar

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

Abambo

Community Expert

And not to forget: 2025 was needed last year. Today I would buy probably 2026... But anyhow, I would delete the year and put in my dates or information...

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

Abambo

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And as you asked: the criteria is to have more than 3 assets alike. Variations in colour that the buyer can easily do themselves would also be considered duplicates. Red characters, blue characters, black characters are the same.

BTW: your numbers have quality issues.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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max_4447Author

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Thanks for the clarification , I appreciate the tip on the numbers quality too! These were just example images, but I’ll make sure to refine my actual submissions, Thanks again for the insight.

Abambo

Correct answer

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Not exactly, but if you submit more than 3 of those, they would be considered duplicates. All in all, you should submit one asset with all your variations. Nobody will buy 2 of those calendars, but they may be happy to have some choice, and that would give you a competitive edge over the hundreds of thousands of other calendars.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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