Review delays are continuing with some asset in review for over 5 months.
I now have some unreviewed assets over 5 months old. It is very hard to motivate myself to take the time and effort to make further contributions to Adobe Stock when the review times are now approaching half a year on some images. Despite the claim on their "help page" that: Assets are reviewed in the order they are received, and the wait time can vary depending on the volume of assets in the queue. I need only look at my own experience to know this is not the case. I have similar assets submitted on the same day that were reviewed in a month or two, while others took 4 months and still have 3 images, which are sitting, unreviewed, after 5+ months.
I had this extended delay happen very rarely in the past and I almost wonder if the images get assigned to someone's queue to review and they either lose track of them or leave the company and they just "sit" there. I had one image that took almost a year back in 2023. I have almost 4000 assets on Adobe with over a 99% acceptance rate and they sell 1000s of my images a year as well as many images accepted into the "free" program every year. Though the help pages say nothing abut giving prefered treatment, I would hope I at least don't fit into the category of getting sent to the back of the line, if are playing favourites. Its certainly not rocket science for Adobe to write an internal report to find assets that have gone unreviewed or been lost in the process for more than xx days.
The submission screen still says "upto 8 week delay", but at this point, 8 weeks would be a huge improvement. I have reported this with specifiecs to customer support but just get "canned" answers. Any suggestions other than going to other "stock" companies? Thanks for letting me rant....
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