Vector and Illustration Spam Guidelines

Vector and Illustration Spam Guidelines BEST PRACTICES FOR ADOBE STOCK

Content in the Adobe Stock collection should be high-quality, useful, and submitted using best practices. Our moderation teams will reject content that does not add to the overall value of the collection or content that is submitted using improper workflows to improve our services.

Select only the best content and ensure that all submissions offer something different. Don’t submit multiple copies of the same file with different colors or effects applied. Customers apply their own creative effects to suit their projects. Excessive uploads of similar or identical content may be perceived as spam by our moderation team and can result in your account being blocked or even permanently closed.

Best Practices

Do submit content that has a clear, viable use case for the intended audience.
Do submit assets with useful metadata in an organized fashion and over a reasonable amount of time.
Do submit work that reflects Adobe Stock's aesthetics, values, and messaging.

Example: virinaflora/Adobe Stock

Don't submit content that is overtly similar or provides no unique value to the collection.
Don't submit assets in batches larger than 1,000 files at a time.
Don't submit work that takes visual cues directly from another artists' work.

What will we accept?

Vector content accepted in Adobe Stock should provide meaningful variety and unique value. Reusing assets you have made and already uploaded to Stock is only acceptable if the assets are altered enough to provide meaningful variety and unique value so long as they remain accurately described, and relevant.

Meaningful variety can be defined as something that cannot be changed about the original file as it stands.
Unique value can be defined as having a specific applicable use case for each asset accepted that differs from similar content use cases.

We will accept vector content with up to 3 variations of similar content, including color palette, style, or composition. We will also accept up to 3 variations of sets of unique value including individual assets or small sets, medium-sized bundles, or large bundles.

Learn more about how to maximize your assets.

What will we reject as spam?

Low-quality content: Vector content will be rejected if it does not have viable use cases or if it has irrelevant themes. Viable use cases can be defined as having use in a customer workflow as-is. Relevant themes can be defined as including subjects or styles that meet content industry needs. Low-quality content can include generated content as well as content with that fails to align with Adobe brand values.

Similar content: Duplicative or highly similar content will be refused from the collection. Prioritize the customer experience - if a file cannot easily be distinguished from similar assets, it will negatively affect user experience and collection value for Adobe Stock Customers.

Inaccurate content: Inaccurate content includes content with misleading titles or keywords and includes keyword packing inaccurate content types, subjects, or themes as well as unhelpful file-numbering in titles.

Submission dumps: Large batches of content (50k+) submitted without support from an Adobe become difficult to process while ensuring that each asset meets our submission guidelines in a timely manner. This sort of workflow may hold our moderation teams up and contributors who submit in this fashion repeatedly may be blocked.

How to correct when rejected for spam

Similar content: Add variety in composition, assets, and designs before re-submitting. Learn more about maximizing your assets while providing unique value here.

Inaccurate content: Acceptable content should have accurate and helpful titles and keywords that reflect content subjects, styles, or use cases. Titles should be short and factual and presented as single sentences and keywords should be unique, descriptive, and as specific to the asset as possible. Submit content with factual, short and descriptive titles, singular use of word stems, 15-25 keywords. The Adobe Stock portal will recommend keywords based on your content or you can learn more about effective titles and keywords here.

IP infringement: Remove recognizable people, places, or brands as listed in our Known Image Restrictions.

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