Reducing a large ai file

[FQN]

I have made a neon glow ring, lanterns and some glowing stars in Illustrator, have used gradients and blendings modes, and the file size is 85 MB which is not being accepted by Adobe Stock. On Adobe Stock there are so many files with similar neon glows, why is mine so heavy? How to reduce the size?  I have checked other similar posts in this forum too ut those don't help. 

[RALPH_L]

You would be better off asking in the AI forum.

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[Abambo]

Moving this to the Adobe Illustrator forum.

[Disposition_Dev]

can you share the file so we can take a look? it's hard to give any answers without being able to see the file.

[marliton]

Hi. You can, for example:

• Simplify paths: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/simplify_paths.html
• Rasterize complex elements.
• Disable the "Create PDF-compatible file" option in the save window.

The info on this link is print-oriented but it can give you some ideas: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/create-efficient-illustrator-files-improve.html