Wait times for upload reviews-How is it going for you

[shaky camera]

I have been waiting for quite a while now on images to be reviewed. I noticed on one of the forums that someone else had a ton of images to be reviewed and,like me, had one image accepted but the rest have not been accepted or denied.

Is the current wait time much longer than 1 month?

[photorebelle · Accepted solution]

Be patient the waiting time is about 2 months for AI images.

[shaky camera]

Ahh.Ok thanks. It's just that it said 4 weeks. If it had said 8 weeks, I would have totally understood.
Thanks

[Jill_C · Accepted solution]

4 weeks is probably the average for all asset types. My recent batch of photographs (captured with a real camera) took 19 days. We're regularly hearing reports here of AI images taking 2 months or longer.

[daniellei4510]

The influx of AI images (so it is said) has been the reason for images taking so long to review. Personally, I believe it is the influx of bad AI assets that are causing the slow down. I believe things will improve over time when people submitting such material realize that selling AI for stock isn't the get-righ-quick side hustle they've been led to believe it is. Meanwhile, I suggest that you not submit a set of images, then wait for them to be reviewed, before submitting again. Submit at least a few images (even if it's only a half dozen or fewer) on a daily basis. I'm probably over-simplifying the process Adobe uses for reviewing images, but if you wait two months for your images to be reviewed before you submit again, you lose your place "in line" as it were, and the two month waiting period starts all over again.

[shaky camera]

Thanks. Not waiting as suggested. Just submitting consistantly. 

[Abambo]

Thanks. Not waiting as suggested. Just submitting consistantly. 

By @shaky camera

You need to keep an eye on your submission limit. It's 50 assets for new contributors, so new contributors hit that limit quite fast, especially because new contributors have a tendency to upload all they can at one time.

[Abambo]

The influx of AI images (so it is said) has been the reason for images taking so long to review. Personally, I believe it is the influx of bad AI assets that are causing the slow down.

By @daniellei4510

Sure. But refusals should be mostly superfast, as moderators refuse on the first error they see, and a lot of the errors are simply easy to spot. Counting fingers, however, slows the process down.

if you wait two months for your images to be reviewed before you submit again, you lose your place "in line" as it were, and the two month waiting period starts all over again.

By @daniellei4510

You don't lose a slot, but common wisdom would be, if the waiting time does not augment, and you submit daily 5 assets, that after 2 months waiting, you will have daily moderations of 5 assets. You use your slot, when you delete and resubmit.

[daniellei4510]

I have no idea how the process actually works. We can only guess I guess. In the last three working days, I've had 19, 30, and 20 images accepted, with 1 rejection. This is extremely rare, and I can't recall ever submitting 70 images over a three day or even a two week-long period. Two weeks ago, I had a couple of days where images I submitted just three or four days prior were accepted while images that have been in the queue for over 2 months remained ignored.

I joined Adobe Stock just prior to when the whole two or more months of waiting started becoming an issue. So my first submissions were probably accepted within a couple of weeks. And that seemed like forever to me. So I feel the pain for the people who are new here and become confused and frustrated as to why things are taking so long to get jump started. But I do remain firm in my belief that the initial waiting period for new contributors will eventually shorten.

[Abambo]

In the last three working days, I've had 19, 30, and 20 images accepted, with 1 rejection. This is extremely rare, and I can't recall ever submitting 70 images over a three day or even a two week-long period.

By @daniellei4510

So your queue shortens, which is basically good news. There may be several reasons for that:

• Adobe added more moderators and they started working
• The submission was less intensive due to the summer holiday, while those were submitted.
• You climb in the contributor hierarchy and more resources get dedicated to your submissions.

[ImaRetiredTeacher]

Yes! That is what I don't understand. Why do they skip older submissions and go for newer assets. At first I thought it was a hint that the skipped images sucked, but based upon acceptances, that does not appear to be the case. I'm only concerned because my holiday assets have time constraints and quite often get ignored...

[Jill_C]

No one knows why assets are reviewed out of order... 

[ImaRetiredTeacher]

If you lose your "place in line" if you delete (as was posted above), then I may have screwed myself because I deleted a bunch in order to get my holiday assets looked at sooner.

[Jill_C]

Deleting older images doesn't move your subsequent submissions any higher up in the queue, since their submission dates won't be changed. Having said that though, there are anecdotal reports here and in the discord channel about some, but not all, AI assets getting reviewed faster and reviewed out of sequence. Just keep uploading new content steadily. They'll all get reviewed eventually.

[Abambo]

If you lose your "place in line" if you delete (as was posted above), then I may have screwed myself because I deleted a bunch in order to get my holiday assets looked at sooner.

By @ImaRetiredTeacher

Don't do that, moderators can moderate thousands of assets a day. You do not help your 20 or so submissions by deleting your 50 ones waiting in front of them.

[daniellei4510]

Things have since returned to normal for me, with 4 to 6 images accepted more or less regularly for the past few weeks. So the splurg was short lived. Frankly, if I upload, say, Easter themed assets in March and they don't get reviewed or are reviewed late, they will be there next year. Time goes by pretty quickly these days. 😉

[Abambo]

Adobe may have rescheduled resources to generative AI and then, to avoid backlogs elsewhere, again to other assets.

[ImaRetiredTeacher]

That's true Daniellei4510, but will buyers scan through far enough to get to last years images?

[daniellei4510]

I suspect they will scan until they find exactly what they are looking for. In any case, I've had Halloween images accepted that I submited as little as a week ago while I'm already submitting Christmas themed assets. And I've sold Easter themed assets long after Easter had passed. There are two things we don't know: the frame of mind or the requirements of a given buyer at any given time, and the order in which images are reviewed, Yes, it's predominately in the order in which assets are received, but there have also been exceptions.

[Jill_C]

Buyers search by keywords. They don't know, or care, about how old the images are. They are not searching specifically in your portfolio for your new stuff. However, if many contributors are uploading the same type of asset with the same keywords, the previously sold ones and newer content will be given priority in the search results.

[ImaRetiredTeacher]

Yes, what Jill said is what I was referring to, as I read it in the contributors guide. They suggest that we upload appropriate assets at the appropriate times of the year to maximize hits.

[ImaRetiredTeacher]

Hello All,

I thought I'd post an update. Ever since I made this post, my assets have been reviewed oldest first, every time! I'm liking it 😃

[Jill_C]

That's good to hear - progress !

[ImaRetiredTeacher]

Perhaps I jinxed myself! After waiting roughly 5 days with no activity and my oldest image being almost a month old, a moderator finally hit my account. They rejected an image that I had uploaded the day before and was on the fence about. What is that about? Meanwhile, my holiday pictures just sit and collect dust. It makes no sense to me. Hope all is going well for the rest of you 😃

[Abambo]

Perhaps I jinxed myself!  😃

By @ImaRetiredTeacher

They read your prior post. They just wanted to prove you (and all of us) wrong. 😂

I'm not sure, but every so often, I think, they added some random picks so that statistically everybody gets at least one asset moderated in a reasonable time.