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Mar 19, 2025 11:08 PM UTC
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Sudden Continuous Rejections on Adobe Stock – AI Tool Involved?

Hi everyone, For the past three days, all my submitted photos on Adobe Stock have been getting rejected. I receive rejections every hour, with 2-3 photos or sometimes even 5-10 at once, and none of my images are getting accepted. I always follow Adobe’s submission guidelines and ensure high-quality content, so this sudden wave of rejections is quite confusing. Has anyone else experienced something similar recently? Also, I’m wondering if Adobe has implemented any AI-based review tool that might be causing this? Could this be an automated system issue, or has there been a change in the review process? Any insights or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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Nancy OShea
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Community Expert
Aug 23, 2026 7:49 PM UTC
  • Good enough for Pexels is not good enough for Adobe Stock.
  • Stock customers are mainly Adobe product users. They have much higher expectations than customers at competing services.  
  • Additionally, Stock pays higher royalty rates. They are more selective about what they accept into the collection.

 

98% of quality refusals are identifiable by trained eyes. If you’re not sure why yours was refused, post one or two assets here for feedback. We need to see full-sized images, not previews. Compress to under 5 MB to satisfy this forum’s filesize limit.

 

Also, keep in mind that Reviewers are closely checking your submission from desktop displays at 100% magnification. If you’re trying to do Stock from a phone or tablet alone, you’re probably missing the bigger picture. 

 

Read through your Contributor User Guide, starting with the 4-part Photography requirements below:

https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/submit-your-content/submit-photos/photo-submission-overview.html

 

Good luck.

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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daniellei4510
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Mar 19, 2025 11:13 PM UTC

We can't be of much help without seeing a couple of the assets in questions if you want to post a couple. There have been no changes in the review process or introduction of automaticed AI that anyone is aware of.

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Mar 19, 2025 11:20 PM UTC

However, my issue seems quite unusual. For the past three days, my images have been getting rejected every minute or hour non-stop. So far, nearly 250 images have been rejected.

Previously, my images used to go through bulk review, where some would get accepted and some rejected. But this week, things have changed—every hour, I only receive rejections, with not a single acceptance. This is really frustrating and confusing

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daniellei4510
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Mar 19, 2025 11:26 PM UTC

The review process has been a little weird lately. I normally have about 5 to 8 assets reviewed per day. For the past few days, I've only been getting one or two. Same thing happened to me last month. Drip, drip, drip, and then 20+ or so reviewed in a couple of days. Difficult to say what's going on. 

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