What we measure, published
SincereTrend reads 10 sources every day to answer one question per subject: worth drawing, or already taken? These are the questions where that corpus says something about the market as a whole — measured, dated, and with the method stated.
Not a blog. Each study answers one question with a measurement, and if we have not measured it, it is not here.
Published studies
- How much of Adobe Stock's illustration supply is AI?Adobe labels its own generated assets, so the AI share of a subject can be reported rather than guessed. Here is what it says.Read the measurement →
- When seasonal illustration demand actually startsEvery stock guide tells you to upload seasonal work early. Almost none of them say how early, or show the measurement behind it.Read the measurement →
- Is stock illustration saturated? What the counts sayNot an opinion about the market — the actual size of the catalogue you would be uploading into, subject by subject.Read the measurement →
Where the numbers come from
Demand from Google Trends, Pinterest Trends and Reddit. Existing supply from the Adobe Stock, Shutterstock and iStock illustration catalogues, plus Etsy listing counts. AI share from Adobe's own generative-AI flag, which is the only first-party AI label any of these marketplaces publishes — so every AI figure in these studies is Adobe-only and says so.
Each study carries its own sample size and limits. What to draw next explains how the three signals are applied to a single subject, and the A-Z index is every subject we track.