Question About “Similar Content” Rejections – Clarification Needed

[evrim32061290gsmd]

Dear Adobe Stock Team,

I have been receiving “similar content” rejection messages for some of my submissions. However, I have thoroughly researched and could not find any similar images either in my own portfolio or on the Adobe Stock site, using related keywords and titles.

My main question is:
How can contributors proactively check if their submissions might be flagged as similar content before uploading?

Even after extensive research, I often find no existing similar content — yet the images are still rejected for this reason. Could you please clarify what specific criteria or mechanisms the review process uses to detect similarity?

I would greatly appreciate any insights or best practices on how to avoid these rejections and ensure my work aligns with your content guidelines.

Thank you very much in advance for your support.

Dear Adobe Stock Team,

I have been receiving “similar content” rejection messages for some of my submissions. However, I have thoroughly researched and could not find any similar images either in my own portfolio or on the Adobe Stock site, using related keywords and titles.

My main question is:
How can contributors proactively check if their submissions might be flagged as similar content before uploading?

Even after extensive research, I often find no existing similar content — yet the images are still rejected for this reason. Could you please clarify what specific criteria or mechanisms the review process uses to detect similarity?

I would greatly appreciate any insights or best practices on how to avoid these rejections and ensure my work aligns with your content guidelines.

Thank you very much in advance for your support.

[daniellei4510]

"Could you please clarify what specific criteria or mechanisms the review process uses to detect similarity?

I would greatly appreciate any insights or best practices on how to avoid these rejections and ensure my work aligns with your content guidelines."

We all would. Whatever the process is, it appears to be more random than accurate. And bear in mind, you are not addressing Adobe here but contributors like yourself,, many of whom are as perplexed as you are about this recent change in policy.

[RALPH_L]

We have no information as what the new refusal creteria from Adobe is.  Fact is, more and more refusals are flaged with "similar content" all we know is that it used to be based on the contributors portfolio and the overall stock database. This appears to be more stricked than before.
Another fact is, it doesn't matter because Adobe can refuse anything they want and the moderator, and they dont always judge the same, can refuse for whatever reason they want.

[Abambo]

Adobe claims that they check your submissions against all content in their database. And Adobe things that this is a correct assessment according to current Adobe communication. Nobody knows what will count as a similar asset and what not, but some of us think that the tool they use to check against the database is behaving at best erratic.