What’s going on with the super aggressive elements banner? only today we had to close the banner almost 20 times!! and this is not only on the homepage, but on ITEM PAGES AND PROFILE PAGES.
It’s really disrespectful with the authors to use their item or profile page to promote something that they may not even be a part of.
Also, this campaign in the markets is bringing another set of problems: the banner isn’t clear that it’s not an offer for envato market.
Check out the amount of angry/annoyed people that are complaining about this (that leads to frustrated customers that after the bad experience, just leave without purchasing anything):
Don’t you think that you need to rethink the Envato Elements advertisement approach? How can authors compete with this kind of aggresive and unfair campaign.
There really are so many angry feedback from customers. It is scary to imagine how many of them annoyed left this place because of this banner and how much we (as authors) lost income.
Hi! Can any of the mods help us with this? @enabled@charlie4282
It is our understanding that Envato would not advertise on authors’ profile pages, nor on their items, so what’s happening? Can you @ someone from the staff who can give us a response? Because we haven’t had any luck and it’s been more than two weeks since our original post.
I have it clear for a subscription they are not going to give you something that is worth double, I directly bought it if it is for your web is an investment, in this case the great flatsome theme, I recommend it.
Thanks! We though of that, but being a market wide issue we decided to post it in the forums so, after Envato’s staff answer, all people will be able to see the response and prevent lots of authors to contact support with this same concern. We’ll re-tag the staff again to see if we have better luck @steve_lam@rosssimpson@jamesgiroux
They have started to be more aggressive now, we see 3-4 Elements banners for the moment, top banner, bottom banner, popup. We really hope that Envato will stop doing that and try to improve ThemeForest and other marketplaces.
