Why was my asset rejected due to similar content?

Hi ​@Saro_art 

You need to make sure there is no other image in your portfolio that are close to the ones refused for similar. If there is absolutely no other, it might be a case that there is another file with caption similar to yours on the database in which case you amend the caption to make it more descriptive of what you are submitting.

Best wishes

Jacquelin

This is what Stock has to say about ‘Similar Content.’

• https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/similar-vs-spamming.html
• https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/similar-content-guidelines.html
• https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/help/find-similar-assets.html

Use less common metadata because the algorithm looks at those, too. To give a few examples:

• Umbrellas 2+ Million results https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=umbrellas
• Parasols 2+ Million results https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=parasols
• Sun+Shade 614K results https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=sun+shade
• Sun+screen 588K results https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=sun+screen

Reverse engineering content for Stock can be an effective way to get your content accepted. In other words, search the database for holes in inventory. Fill it with high quality content. 

Hope that helps. 

No one knows exactly how Adobe determines similarity. It seems to be both a combination of visual similarity and titles/keywords. You can try searching for images using some of the keywords from your rejected image,

Hey ​@Saro_art 

What type of content are you submitting: photos, AI content, Illustrations, Video(s)….?

Sometimes it is the keyword(s) or Title…

By submitting an image we can also help you a bit better.
Cheers

Nate

Unfortunately, there’s no way to know for sure which asset Adobe considered similar to yours. The only option is to search the collection and try to guess what they might have found similar, which you’ve already done.

When I submitted content that didn’t seem to have anything comparable and still got rejected for “similar content,” I took it as a sign they weren’t interested in that submission.

Similar content rejections have been quite common over the last six months or more. Search the forum for “similar content,” as the issue has been discussed ad nauseum. And you’ll probably see more of it going forward.