Adobe Stock Trends, live
Adobe stock trends updated live from the stocks themselves: what buyers search this week, how many files already compete for each keyword, and which files sell the most. Stop guessing what to shoot.
Adobe Stock trends for the week of Oct 18, 2026: 26 buyer searches are at high demand (10× their usual volume or more), 58 are rising and 91 are new on the boards. Leading the board: christmas, thanksgiving, christmas background and halloween. The most-downloaded rankings on Adobe Stock and Pond5 were last re-collected on Oct 18, 2026.
Most searched stock keywords this week
Demand vs. supply across Shutterstock, Adobe Stock, iStock and Google · board of Oct 18, 2026
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christmas▲Shutterstock · Buyer searches · iStock · Adobe StockRising · 5.3×20.1Mfiles competing
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thanksgiving▲Shutterstock · Buyer searches · iStockHigh demand · 11.1×1.5Mfiles competing
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christmas backgroundNewShutterstock · Buyer searches · iStockHigh demand · 12.3×15.5Mfiles competing
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halloween▼Shutterstock · Buyer searches · iStockRising · 7.4×4.3Mfiles competing
See every keyword with its demand, supply, 4-week forecast and the date to upload by. 20 keywords are flagged as breakouts this week.
Best-selling files right now
The stocks' own most-downloaded rankings, mirrored position by position and re-collected every 72 hours.
Adobe Stock · Photos
collected Oct 18, 2026-
#1
Night sky with stars.
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#2
palmeras en verano en una playa de méxico
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#3
Portrait of school boy (10-11) standing with backpack in school corridor
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#4
School boy (10-11) holding drumsticks in classroom
Adobe Stock · Video
collected Oct 18, 2026-
#1
Rising Wall of Endless Smoke Steam Loop
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#2
Aerial view of İstanbul
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#3
Vertical Aerial Timelapse of the Brooklyn Bridge Pillar at Night
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#4
3D Car Model: Sports Car Driving at on a Wet Road on High Speed, Racing Through the Colorful Tunnel With Lights Reflecting Everywhere
Adobe Stock · Illustrations
collected Oct 18, 2026-
#1
Realistic shadow effect for design
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#2
arrow marker isolated png mark hand draw
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#3
Yellow stroke of paint isolated on transparent background
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#4
Black Transparent Gradient
Pond5 · Video
collected Oct 18, 2026-
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Large anonymous crowd
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#2
Flight over clouds
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#3
Growing Global Network Realistic
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#4
Lightning in Storm Clouds - 4K Thunderstorm
AI filled the stocks. Buyers did not multiply.
Generative AI made it easy to upload thousands of files a week, so the libraries exploded while the number of buyers did not. When supply grows faster than demand, the same file earns less, and uploading what everyone else uploads stops paying.
The contributors who still grow do one thing differently: they upload where demand is ahead of supply, and they get there before the peak.
- 445.2M
- photos on Adobe Stock competing for the same searches
- 26
- searches at 10× their usual demand this week
- 121K
- best-selling files tracked across 5 stocks
- 146
- weeks of buyer-demand history behind the forecast
Know what to make before you make it.
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See what buyers search this week
Keyword Trends shows each search's demand against its usual volume, merged from Shutterstock, iStock, Adobe Stock and Google into one board, by region.
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Check how crowded it is
Every keyword shows how many files already compete for it on the stock. High demand with a small library is the gap you are looking for.
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Study what already sells
The bestseller feed mirrors each stock's most-downloaded ranking position by position, with movement, new entrants and the AI vs classic split.
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Upload before the peak
A 4-week demand forecast and last year's seasonal peaks give you an 'upload by' date, so your files are live and reviewed when buyers arrive.
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Ship it with the right metadata
Turn a keyword into a brief, keyword your files from real buyer searches in about 1.3 seconds each, and push them to your agencies.
Every stock's bestsellers and every buyer search, in one place.
Bestseller feed
Adobe Stock, Shutterstock, Getty, iStock and Pond5 most-popular rankings, mirrored and re-collected every 72 hours. Search any keyword.
Keyword Trends
What buyers search now, by region and period, with demand vs usual, library size and a 12-week line for every keyword.
Opportunities
Low supply, high demand: keywords where buyers outnumber the files, ranked by how likely demand keeps growing.
Rank history
Open any file to see its rank over time on every list it appears on, when it entered, and the same file on other stocks.
Briefs
One click turns a trend into a brief: what to make, what to avoid, keywords, which stock first and the upload window.
Portfolio scan
Track your own files against the top: which of yours rank, which stall, and how they compare with what sells.
Don't take our word for it.
“Illustrations were always buried under generic tags. CyberStock rewrote 2,000 titles and I landed three featured search placements in a week.”
“Drone footage approvals used to take forever. Now metadata is perfect, rejection rate dropped from 40% to 5%, and buyers actually find my clips.”
“Freelance life means time = money. I keyword a whole catalog before lunch, export CSVs, and hand clients proof that their assets will sell.”
“I'm an animator, not a metadata nerd. This tool translates motion clips into what agencies want to see. Reviewers now rubber-stamp my uploads.”
Make what buyers want next week, not what sold last year.
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- The full Keyword Trends board, by region and period
- Every ranked file on Adobe Stock, Shutterstock, Getty, iStock and Pond5
- Low supply / high demand opportunities
- 4-week demand forecast and seasonal upload-by dates
- Briefs, rank history and your portfolio against the top
Adobe Stock trends: FAQ
What are Adobe Stock trends?
Adobe Stock trends are the subjects buyers are searching for and downloading right now. This page reads them from the stocks themselves every few hours: what buyers search on Shutterstock, iStock and Google, which keywords sit on Adobe Stock's most-downloaded files, and how many files already compete for each one.
How often is this page updated?
The live block refreshes as soon as new data is collected: buyer-search boards every 72 hours, Shutterstock demand every week, and the most-downloaded rankings every 72 hours. The date and time at the top of the board is the moment of the last refresh.
What does demand vs supply mean here?
Demand is how much buyers search a keyword compared with its usual volume (10× or more is high demand, 2× and up is rising). Supply is how many files the stock already holds for it. A keyword with high demand and a small library is where a new upload has the best chance to sell.
Why are most keywords blurred?
Four keywords are open to everyone. The full board, the forecast for the next 4 weeks, the seasonal upload-by dates and every ranked file are part of Discover inside CyberStock. Create a free account to start, and upgrade to see everything.
Which stock agencies does Discover cover?
Adobe Stock, Shutterstock, Getty Images, iStock and Pond5 rankings, plus buyer-search signals from Shutterstock, iStock and Google Trends.
How does this help me earn more?
It tells you what to make before you make it: the subjects buyers want this week, how crowded each one already is, what the files that sell look like, and when to upload so your work is live before demand peaks. Then CyberStock writes the keywords and uploads to your agencies.