Low Approval Rate and Long Review Times – Need Feedback

Thanks everyone, My photos approved again like usual, The Solutions that worked for me:

1. Camera Settings set to max resolution.

2. Don't forced Iso to 100 manually (as usual),  just leave to Auto and if the result (iso) is far away from 100, then add better lighting source.

3. Fix Light and Colors with Lightroom (Natural, don't over do, avoid using effect like texture, clarity and dehaze). 

4. Be Different (don't too generic).

5. Do Not Mass upload (like 10 or 20 at once), if plenty assets to upload give delay random time (like next 1 hour or 2 hours) in a day. 

Note: I don't know if this is just a coincidence for me or maybe there has been a curation improvement from the Adobe team.

Cheers and Have a Good Day 🙂

Is it possible to see some of your rejected work?

Lately i've been experiencing a sudden spike in rejections - about 90% of my assets are being rejected now, compared to around 35% previously. The main reason given is "quality." What’s strange is that the rejections are happening almost instantly after I upload them, which makes me wonder if Adobe might be testing some kind of AI system to review submissions.

I’ve seen something similar happen on another platform where assets were auto-rejected for quality issues. Eventually, they switched back to human reviewers, and since then, I haven’t had any problems. I completely understand that Adobe has high standards for quality—and I fully respect that—but it’s clear that something has recently changed, and it doesn’t feel quite right.

Me also, My submission mostly accepted in others stock platform. I don't think this is quality issue but more to uniqueness, saleable, usable. If the asset was photos I think they want something fresh not too generic like New Concept of Digital Imaging. And If the asset was Video maybe they want something new and have a high demand like Infographic Video The Impact of US Import Tariff.

I don't know, It Just My own opinion, maybe right or maybe wrong.

I've slowly decreased my uploads this year given poor sales as well as really inconsistent reviews. Big waste of time when something seems completely fine but they somehow find a fault. Then you check the store and absolute slop from AI is getting pushed. Not worth the time. 

I keep getting the "unintentional shaking, empty black or white frame, compression and/or audio issues" excuse on drone videos shot in crisp 4k, no exposure problems, and no wind/stabilisation problems in the footage through the gimbal. Weirdly I get these even on a batch where the other videos shot at the same time do get approved.

I've had instances in the past where this has happened and I've contacted Adobe over it and they've admitted it was their fault and pushed the clips through after a second review, but again that's just not even worth the time anymore.

What was the rejection reason?

There is definitely something going on with the review process lately. My rejection rate went from 11% to 100% in the past week. My uploaded assets keep trickling from the "in review" to "not accepted" section one by one without any logic or reason.

Long wait times are being experienced by numerous contributors. As for your assets being accepted elsewhere, we hear that a lot. Different standards for approval most likely.