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submission review time 3 months?

Community Beginner ,
Jul 03, 2024 Jul 03, 2024

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Hi,

for months now my review time of photos keeps increasing, to date I have many images in the queue for 2 months, a few even three months, that has never happend, usually the review time was 2-3 days.

videos do still get accepted within a day.

I am a few years now around with 6k pictures (no AI) but this has never happend.

 

I know that review times are longer now, but 3 months??? it seems no new photo upload of me gets accepted lately but just hangs in the queue....

 

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Community Expert ,
Jul 03, 2024 Jul 03, 2024

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Review times have definitely increased recently. The "2 month" and "3 month" estimate shown on your contributor page is rounded up, so anything >2 months is probably reported as 3 months. I have had some images that languish at the back of the queue for months while many newer ones get approved quickly. Since there's nothing we can do to hasten the process, I suggest being patient - all will get reviewed eventually.

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 03, 2024 Jul 03, 2024

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I understand this, but the queue is getting bigger and bigger and some things e.g. produced for the Paris Olympics are still in the queue and getting useless as the Olympics will be held and the files will be still under review.

I usually sell most of my photos immediately after getting them online, so it is a matter of earning decrease as well. Also photos produced with a sommer concept will be useless soon as this summer is coming to an end and with these review times my summer pictures will be online for autumnetc. and so on.....

 

I would wish that established contributers with stables sales would be higher up the queue rather this mass produced AI stuff which obviously is the cause the the review times getting longer and longer

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Jul 03, 2024 Jul 03, 2024

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I totally agree with your comment. I've been a contributor for less time than you, but I also make sales every day, and this excessive delay is causing quite a loss. There are several photos of Paris and related to summer that have been waiting in the queue for 2 or 3 months, as well as some more recent ones that I have already lost hope of being approved in time to be useful, although they are getting good sales on sites with a faster approval process.

I was used to having my photos reviewed in a few days, but now it has become normal to wait for months and lose many sales. The only exception is the few editorial photos I send, which are reviewed in 1 or 2 days. I don't see any justification for such a big difference in the approval time between these photos.

Like you, I wish that at least regular contributors, with daily sales and frequent uploads like us, could have priority over the multitude of AI images that are mass-produced and do not reflect the creativity, effort, and uniqueness that only original photos have. This makes us, who go out in the field to photograph and sell unique images with human artistic effort, feel neglected compared to mass production images that will never be a distinguishing factor between one microstock site and another.

I really hope this approval time will drastically decrease as soon as possible.

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Community Expert ,
Jul 03, 2024 Jul 03, 2024

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"I wish that at least regular contributors, with daily sales and frequent uploads like us, could have priority over the multitude of AI images that are mass-produced"

 

I'm a regular contributor, with daily sales, and frequent uploads. I submit only AI, but I do not "mass produce." I submit 4 or 5 images per day, and I take great care in editing my assets before submission. I'm not suggesting  there are no longer contributors submitting dozens of AI garbage assets per day, but there has been signs of improvement. In fact, a few of those "mass producers" have had their accounts terminated or have simply given up as a result of too many rejections.

 

There is also the issue that some images have been stuck in the queue for months, while newer images are getting accepted. This would indicate that there are other issues involved besides mass submissions of AI images. Something appears to be in need of fixing for sure, but I don't think AI is to blame, at least not entirely or to the extent that is used to be.


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Jul 03, 2024 Jul 03, 2024

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I think the very simple solution is to reduce the submission cap on every account considerably. As a photographer, I've never needed to, or been able to, submit hundreds or thousands of assets daily. The speed of AI generation encourages mass uploading, of which I assume a high percentage are rejected. If everyone had a submission cap of say, 50 assets, the queues would diminish rapidly and everyone would enjoy quick reviews.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer

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Community Expert ,
Jul 05, 2024 Jul 05, 2024

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Did you produce for the Olympics? That will bedifficult to get through as the olympic ganes are protected and will earn you an IP refusal.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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Community Expert ,
Jul 05, 2024 Jul 05, 2024

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AI stuff is generating also stable sales.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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Community Expert ,
Jul 03, 2024 Jul 03, 2024

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Agreed! I get very suspicious when someone asks, "When will my limit of 501 assets be increased?"


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New Here ,
Jul 04, 2024 Jul 04, 2024

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Indeed, the problem is not AI itself. Some use it to optimize the creative process and innovate, tayloring images which truly add value since they're the result of a careful and creative perception. The problem is that, without prior checks, some people will simply produce images in mass and submit hundreds of files for review in a single day with the same "dedication" that a photographer, for instance, would need to capture/edit less than a dozen assets.

I agree that reducing the submission cap would be beneficial. I wouldn't even have the capacity to submit 50 photos in a single day, and it is truly concerning when users appear complaining about hitting the limit of 500 within weeks. Even so, I would prioritize the more active users, with regular sales, acceptable approval rate, or any other criteria that reflects what Adobe expects from us contributors.
May our prayers be heard lol.

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Jul 05, 2024 Jul 05, 2024

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There have been in the past reports about assets stuck in the moderation queue, and not getting forwarded to the moderators. That was easy to detect in the past. Also, the date shown is not the submission date, but the upload date. those may be very different. What counts however are the submission dates. 

 

If you have solid 3 monts in the waiting queue, I suggest that you contact Adobe contributor support. Don't contact support for anything just having turned to 3 months, as a bug in the system rounds up instead of down.

 

All thes issues were not relevant in the days where moderation was don in a week time. 

 

Good luck and let us know how it works out.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 05, 2024 Jul 05, 2024

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for more than 80% of my files the day I upload the day I send them for review as well, the rest goes next day into submission.

and yet after opening this thread not a single file was approved despite me sending files every day for moderation. it seems the queue is getting bigger and bigger and if the issues are not resolved we will end up with 6 months review time, happy days.

 

I better start producing photos for the next football worldcup in 2026

 

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Community Expert ,
Jul 05, 2024 Jul 05, 2024

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Well, that's 2 days ago. Let us know, when you start to see a moderated asset again. There are reports of slowed down moderation pace, but we do nit really know what the reason is. However, there were recently openings for submitting generative AI in vector and video assets. It may also be that for some reason the moderation team shrinked a bit. We know the effect on the traffic. the traffic goes down or up by a small amount, and that has a huge effect on the traffic jams. 🤔

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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Community Beginner ,
Jul 25, 2024 Jul 25, 2024

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this thing has taken a turn for the worse and as for now not any photo is getting moderated anymore, queue is growing and I am little motivated anymore to upload to Adobe.

 

Is this the end of Adobe Stock for photographers? Perhaps they should call it then Adobe AI Stock

 

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Community Expert ,
Jul 25, 2024 Jul 25, 2024

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I've had only 1 photograph moderated in the last 6 weeks... I have many new ones to upload/submit, but my motivation is dwindling. I'm hoping that this is a temporary issue and that moderation returns to a more reasonable time span.

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Jul 25, 2024 Jul 25, 2024

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6 weeks? Yikes. I've seen a slow-down in moderation as well that started over a week ago. In the year and a half that I've been submitting AI, a day did not go by where I didn't have at least 4 to 6 images moderated, even on weekends and holidays (although it took a couple of months before my first submissions began being moderated).

 

I finally had 4 accepted today, but only 2 before that over a 10-day period. And one of those was a rejection. It's a tad frustrating to finally have 1 image moderated over a 10-day dry spell only to have it get rejected.

 

In a way, I was thankful for the slow-down. I always want to have at least a few assets in the queue, and I was down to about 8 remaining. Uploading 2 to 3 daily over the slow period got me back up to a comfortable 30, so I can finally take a short break from editing. Editing fatigue started setting in for me a couple of months back, and I'm becoming even more discriminating about what I want to edit and submit at all.

 

As a side note, the irony is not lost on the fact that photographers feel AI is dominating the stock industry, while the onslaught of bad AI being submitted and often accepted is doing the same for people submitting quality AI.


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Jul 25, 2024 Jul 25, 2024

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I've been too busy traveling recently and hosting my grandkids for "Camp Grandma" last week to pay much attention to online trends; however, I just updated a statistic that I look at from time to time:

 

In the last 20 days, Adobe has added 8 million new assets to the database; 6.8 million of those are AI.

 

This perhaps confirms my suspicion that they've decided to put most of their Moderators to work on the AI queue and let the traditional Contributors of other types of assets wait... I suppose they have their reasons for doing so, but it sure doesn't seem equitable to all of the Contributors who have been with Adobe Stock for years... Nevertheless, my existing photographs continue to sell at a respectable rate, so I'll hang in there.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer

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Jul 28, 2024 Jul 28, 2024

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This perhaps confirms my suspicion that they've decided to put most of their Moderators to work on the AI queue and let the traditional Contributors of other types of assets wait...


By @Jill_C

It may also be that generative AI contributors are submitting more massively then those with real photographs. 

 

I'm asking why they even moderate generative AI, given all the erronous assets that we see in thedatabase, open for selling. Many of those assets are visibly faulty even at the lowest resolution thumbnails.

 

 

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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Aug 06, 2024 Aug 06, 2024

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I've been waiting longer than usual as well, and I submit only AI. I've been submitting for over a year and a half and I have never gone a day without having a handful of assets reviewed. Lately it's been a trickle, with either no images reviewed at all or only one. 

What's particularly distressing is stuff like this:

https://stock.adobe.com/search?k=Top+of+drink+tin+can+iced+submerged+in+frost+ice%2C+metal+aluminum+...

submitted by multiple "individuals" using the exact same titles and having one after another extremely flawed images accepted. This is what would happen if a bot WAS doing the moderation.


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Jul 25, 2024 Jul 25, 2024

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Thank you for sharing your experience.  I thought none else was having this problem. I also produce certain photos (I dont do AI) that are seasonable dependent, and they have been over 3 months in moderation so the opportunity window is completely gone. But some people in my area has been able to upload and got passed the review so there must be some criteria used for making some people wait and others dont. 

In any case, I can totally relate with your statement: it is difficult to continue investing in this site when in others the reviewing time takes way less time. Maybe is an AJ bot making the moderation and where are Boeing punished for not uploading of its kind hahaha.

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Jul 28, 2024 Jul 28, 2024

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In any case, I can totally relate with your statement: it is difficult to continue investing in this site when in others the reviewing time takes way less time. Maybe is an AJ bot making the moderation and where are Boeing punished for not uploading of its kind hahaha.


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There is no bot doing the moderation. And there is no punishment. Others do not accept the generative AI assets, at least when I last checked. But other stock agencies do not pay the same royalties. So even a slower moderation process stays profitable.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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Community Beginner ,
Aug 06, 2024 Aug 06, 2024

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still no improvement yet, I have assets in the queue submitted 3 and even 4 months ago.

no support from Adobe about this, no help in sight, I am a little bit gutted......

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