These are the organic (not paid) search stats for Audio Jungle and Elements over the last few years.
It’s clear that the introduction of Elements has cause the slow demise of Audio Jungle, which gets less than half the visitors it did in 2018.
It’s pretty much back to 2016 levels, but with far, far more content and contributors.
Elements gets 10 times the visitors Audio Jungle does.
Oh, that’s an impressive view. I know that Elements has an impact but I did not expect this huge impact.
It turns out somehow to me, that AJ doesn’t really need non-Elements authors any longer. They get no views, they get only little tiny sales.
Senseless to spend any further effort here, it seems.
The most unfair thing to me is, that the Envato leaders clearly know about these facts, but they do not communicate anything in this direction. It needs users like you, who show us the truth. That’s a shame to the Envato leadership. They know the facts, but they leave us working as if nothing has happened.
Maybe they think:“Let these stupid lemmings work. As long as they work, they do not investigate for what we’ve done with Elements.”
I think that Envato knows what the community thinks and is aware of what is discussed here within the forums. We have endlessly complained about the Elements banner that continues to plague AudioJungle. As authors on this marketplace we have made it very clear the pain we have experienced for the last couple of years due to dwindling sales but we are not getting any answers. “It is what it is” and we are heard but our pain is ignored.
We just have to suck it up and do the best we can.
I wonder what comes after subscription? Music laying around like pens and pencils everywhere for free? Oh wait…
The next step will be musicians praying and paying for their music to be used in videos
It’s just normal flow of things. The world is constantly changing and our market just moves along.
I’m sure, that 10 years ago composers, that were making music for media were very angry about the fact, that thanks to internet now their clients can simply find music on an online stock. Back then, some of them continued to work in their conventional way, and others started to sell music on stock.
Something similar is happening right now.
Subscribtions are taking the lead.
In 5 - 10 years will appear something new, and we’ll have to adapt again.
P. S. As for now, I’m glad to be part of this big and diverse community 
I would guess that eventually, a lot of people will adapt by simply leaving the platform. If you can’t join Elements and you can’t remove the Elements banner that draws customers away from your page, then there’s really not a lot of adapting that can be done aside from simply moving to a different platform.
Personally I’m not about to leave yet but I don’t think I could blame anyone who did.
Of course for someone this is really could be a better option, can’t argue with that.
But I must say, that I know a lot of Elements and AJ authors, who still have great sales on AJ in spite of everything that’s going on in the world and with the market.
And it means that it is still possible to gain a decent revenue.
Not when prices for items are at silly levels. Sales v. Revenue - a new breed of Marvel.
Interesting fact, our sales dropped in the first week of may, after then stopped until 16th may, then we started to sold higher priced items. I’m curious how we will manage this month…
