cold and flu

iStock lists 111,452 illustrations for “cold and flu” as of 2026-09-02. The other tracked catalogues read 35,538 on Adobe Stock and 632 on Shutterstock. That is a 176× spread between the largest and smallest, so this phrase is stocked far more heavily on iStock than across the marketplaces evenly. For scale, that is above the median of 76,000 across the 4,009 phrases with a supply reading.

Adobe Stock flags 93% of its 35,538 illustrations for this phrase as AI-generated. That puts it in the most generated quarter of the 1,383 phrases where Adobe publishes the flag, which begins at 88%. The flag is Adobe's own declaration on the asset, not an inference of ours, and it covers Adobe's catalogue only.

In the week of 2026-08-23, Google Trends put “cold and flu” at 45% of its own 12-month peak — mid-range for its own year. That index is rescaled per phrase, so every tracked phrase reaches 100 at its own busiest week; it says where this phrase sits in its own year, not how its search volume compares with another phrase's.

Sellers who publish for this phrase also tag their files “flu”, “disease”, “cold”, “fever”, “cartoon”, “character”, and 34 more — harvested from the live listings rather than suggested, so they describe how the subject is actually being framed for buyers. The phrase sits in the health category.