Well said, David.
Since I’m already here which is rare these days, I’ll say this:
The clients always trust the more expensive products. If they see a $5 tag everywhere (which AJ now actually has become - a dollar store) the BIG clients will be suspicious. Heck, any client will to a degree. Add to this some stolen music and music with copyright issues, add to this an already and still pretty confusing licensing terms table - and say bye bye to a customer. Many places to get music for cheap (even for free), faster and hassle free now. And so the “big” deals go there too.
What’s even funnier (not really, honestly) that not only it is destroying the market for literally everyone, but guys who do it actually earn nothing too. It’s kinda sad and pathetic too. Trying to get lucky selling 50 times and then earn $50? I mean you can do that with 1-2 sales… not very exciting and I don’t understand any logic behind it.
Envato is not punishing this behaviour (actually rewarding it) because it’s financially a smart move for the company, I get it. Not so good for the most authors. And even worse for everyone in the long run. It will not end well.
Before some of you may want to start blaming the Elements authors, think for a second. It is a natural progression of where the entire industry is going, you can’t fight it. And not everyone can be included on board. But understand that Elements is almost entirely driven by Envato’s decisions and the future of AudioJungle and your earnings here is still very much in each authors hands. Even too much I guess, as the ADP experiment pretty much has failed in general. But only you can decide as an author what the future will be for AJ.
Being here for quite a while now I remember the old sayings around these forums, that being an AJ author is a marathon not a sprint. Well it looks things quite have changed since then. Everyone is chasing a quick dollar now it looks.
Thoughts?