Sudden Drop in Adobe Stock Downloads — Anyone Else Experiencing This?

Hi everyone, I'm experiencing a very similar issue right now.

My newly uploaded 3D assets are getting approved without any problems, and my account shows no warnings or restrictions. However, over the past few weeks, my downloads have completely stopped.

Even when I search using the exact specific titles and keywords of my approved assets, I can no longer find my work in the search results—even though there is very little competition for those specific terms. It feels like my entire portfolio has suddenly dropped out of the search index or been pushed to the very last pages.

For those who experienced a sudden freeze like this—did you change anything in your uploading strategy (like focusing on completely different themes), or did the search visibility eventually recover on its own?

Any advice would be much appreciated!

So, I am not alone. My sales have also dropped significantly which is a lot concerning.

Maybe they have shuffled the designs or changed their algorithm which has moved my good performing assets far back in the line. So all the efforts and portfolio exposure which was received over the years has gone.

What kind of work are you uploading, photos, videos, illustrations, AI, what percentage is AI?

It would help understand your specific case.

Weekly rank is a symptom, not a diagnosis.

Before blaming search changes or Firefly, split the decline three ways. Compare rolling 28-day downloads per 1,000 live assets, then break that number down by upload cohort and subject. If old and new cohorts fall together while the same work stays stable elsewhere, a platform-wide visibility or demand shift becomes more plausible. If older cohorts fade while recent work holds, portfolio aging or topic saturation is the likelier cause.

Daily uploads can hide this because the portfolio keeps growing while productivity per asset falls. I would compare those cohort curves before reading much into rank alone.

I've been experiencing the same thing for the past 4-5 months. It seems they're prioritizing Firefly.

It's crazy that not only are we selling less, but we're also feeding the very tool that's causing us to sell less.😡

Hola, yo también, creo que de alguna forma nos están perjudicando

Yes, I have noticed the same. I am based in the UK, and my downloads have gone very quiet to say the least.

In which country do you reside? 

Contributors in some regions have been impacted by geolocation filters, the war and other economic factors.

To what extent this may impact individual Stock sales, we have no way of knowing.

All things being equal, if you’re providing high quality, in-demand content with good keywords & titles, customers will eventually find your work in web searches. But with so much competing content, yours may not appear on page1-2 results.

It seems, that the more sales an asset makes, the more visibility it gets.

Hi, I've also just experienced this for the past two weeks, and it's a really noticeable drop in earnings. I'm also trying to figure out if this is some kind of search index bug from Adobestock, or maybe even the visibility of the account content. This really feels abnormal. How are your earnings now? Have they returned to normal?