How long review takes?

[Dadmobile]

Hi i have created account 27 days ago on adobe stock contributor and uploaded few images but till that day it is still showing that my submissions are still under review. what i need to do to get them reviewed fast. i also upload regularly on shutterstock and they usally take 5 days to approve and since then probably i have uploaded more than 50 pictures. i am not getting this verification/review system at adove stock contributor. thanks

[Jill_C · Accepted solution]

As it says on that screenprint in the blue banner, reviews can take up to 8 weeks. Many Contributors are reporting delays of 2-3 months or even longer. There's nothing you can do to hasten the process. Be patient.

[Dadmobile]

what do you suggest should i upload all pictures because right now i was trying to implement strategy to upload few and see what's response on them and then later i do rest. since it's not working like shutter stock so should i go for all uploads?

[daniellei4510]

How many have you uploaded so far? If you are new to Adobe Stock, you most likely have a submission limit of 51 images.

[Dadmobile]

i just submitted 7 and was thinking that let's see response on them and after that i may submit more but first batch isn't approved yet even after 27 days, so what do you suggest should i upload all batch. i guess might be around 40

[Jill_C]

Upload a handful, say 4-5, each day, after carefully checking the quality and entering the titles and keywords. If your account is new, your submission limit is 51. Once you've reached that limit you won't be able to submit any more until some have been reviewed. 

[Dadmobile]

thanks a lot.

[daniellei4510]

Upload them all, then keep uploading a few assets daily. If I recall correctly, while you can only submit, say, 51 assets for review, you can still upload additional assets to have ready once a handful of assets finally get accepted/rejected. Then you can submit more for review, until you reach your limit again. Having large gaps of time before you upload new assets can potentially slow down the review process.

Am I making sense? 🙂

[farhana_0803]

Yea

[Dadmobile]

yes makes sense. thanks

[Subatheesan_K6278]

Should we upload a few assets daily under the 'New' section, or were you referring to submitting them for review on a daily basis?

[daniellei4510]

If you're new to Adobe Stock, you will probably reach your In Review limit at 51 assets max. You can continue uploading beyond that, but you won't be able to submit them for review until a handful of assets get accepted. Then you can submit more, until you again reach your limit of 51. That's assuming your limit is 51. The next tier is 501. 

[Subatheesan_K6278]

Got it, Thanks!

[Jill_C]

You can upload as many as you want to your account, then submit them in small batches.

[Abambo]

(...)right now i was trying to implement strategy to upload few and see what's response on them and then later i do rest. since it's not working like shutter stock so should i go for all uploads?

By @Dadmobile

It's a good idea to start small, wait for assets to get moderated, before uploading and submitting more assets. If you get a refusal, you can learn from that refusal and limit future refusals, by checking your assets accordingly.

[farhana_0803]

You have nothing to do. Adobe takes three to four months to save so you
have to be patient

[Nancy OShea]

Stock receives thousands of submission per week.  Review times can vary from 1 to 3 months depending on the season & how many other assets are ahead of yours in the wait queue.  Be patient & work on other projects. Everyone must wait their turn.

In the meantime, work on your Adobe Portfolio site and get familiar with your Stock Contributor User Guide. 

• https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/reasons-for-content-rejection.html
• https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/quality-and-technical-issues.html
• https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/user-guide.html/stock/contributor/help/photography-illustr...
• https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/how-to/tips-stock-image-acceptance.html

Good luck.

[Jorge Moro]

I'd love to know what changed.  I used to have images reviewed in HOURS sometimes, at most days.  Now, I've been waiting for almost six weeks. 

[Jill_C]

The Adobe Stock Moderators approve and add more than half a million assets to the database each week, which probably means that they review considerably more than that. They also seem to be prioritizing reviews of AI assets right now. Obviously, Contributors continue to submit hundreds of thousands of assets a week, because the backlog seems to remain quite high.

[Eva36887359nzz2]

I think it´s probably a result of them allowing ai images?  I supply vectors. Which for my christmas themes I have now only uploaded (and already sold) on another platform. There´s just no point in having them up after christmas. I would normally have preferred adobe. I don´t upload photos but I guess they take even longer.  (Sidenote: As a buyer of  photgraphy stock images it´s also increasingly frustrating how many low quality generated images I have to click through now. So I guess more moderation as such is not a bad idea from customer perspective.)

[Abambo]

Yes, accepting generative AI created this mess. It looks, however, as it is good business to Adobe.

[daniellei4510]

There IS a point having them up after Christmas, since Christmas comes around once a year. 🙂 

[Alan26905792ewec]

I have been waiting more than 5 months for some of mine to be reviewed.

[daniellei4510]

We've been recommending that anything over 5 months be deleted and resubmitted. That said, my older, passed-over assets were eventually reviewed.