Hello. I wonder what’s going on with Elements revenue. There is a nearly 70% decrease since January. I have 195 projects inside and I say I earn an average daily income of around 10-12 dollars. Previously this was around 25 30. If it continues like this, all writers will have to do other jobs. Please find a solution to this issue.
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yes i have dropped 70% total disaster.Envato has lost its share of my revenue around 700 dollars a month,wish they would go back to the old search engine.
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Same here
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6$ thnk u
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9 dollars today after 14 years with audiojungle thats me done going back to teaching.
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9 dollars at Element’s? With 617 audio files ?
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yep many authors have had a massive drop in sales
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Another 9 dollars for today down 80% mama mia
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It is generally normal to expect that earnings in Q4 are higher than the rest of the year, especially for portfolios with a lot of holiday themed content.
You seem to have a lot of holiday content, so it is normal to experience a drop during Q1.
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This is so sad man… this is what the subscription model did…
I still find the idea of selling million of items for 30$ is disgusting, at some point this will stop but by then the entire industry will be completely broken…
Nobody in the right mind will still work to create new stuff for 1 cent…
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Hard work for 1 cent
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Marketplaces vs Elements: Which is better for higher revenue?
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Obviously Marketplace. Marketplace = Elements but you set the price. Simple. What they need to do is revive Marketplaces with stricter rules and only those items with proven quality can be uploaded. The rest can be uploaded to Elements. That way we would all have the opportunity to grow our products.
In short, Elements is for Envato, marketplaces are for authors.
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Read the 3rd quarter report of shutter stock . elements subscribers are almost the same . but only our income have fallen hard . and we have continuously uploaded new content .
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But only if buyers find you on Market. I have sold thousands of items on Elements but only 37 on Market in the past 2.5 years.
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Higher revenue per download, sure, but I make several times my market earnings on Elements. I’d have to do the math, but its definitely over 1000% higher.
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Nobody downloads 1 million items though, so it’s a bit silly to think of it like that.
Sure, buyers are getting way more value, but there’s probably more buyers overall now than there ever was on Market.
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I have found several accounts so far on other stock photo websites where someone has downloaded thousands of photos from Envato (mine and a few other authors) and are selling them as their own. It took me several weeks and lots of “paperwork” to get those accounts shutdown. Those sites refused to give me the money they earned from selling my photos illegally (I could tell from their counter there were 100s of sales a day). Who knows how many other accounts are out there doing the same. Unlimited downloads is definitely hurting some authors. I wish it was a set amount to help prevent thieves downloading entire portfolios.
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Same thing happens for WordPress plugins and themes since years. Many times asked @BenLeong if possible Envato ask a “partnership” with Google and other search engines to at least to remove those sites from their indexes. Envato could have given to us a tool to report those sites.
It would have been also of great help if a proper purchase code verification and license systems were given to authors to integrate on software to fight the illegal distribution.
Instead, DMCA is demanded to single authors that haven’t the same authority and resources that big platform like Envato and Shutterstock have.
No help was given in this direction.
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And yet Elements only exists because authors choose to partake.
“What’s that? a terrible deal where I’ll end up earning fractions of cents for licenses that used to earn me tens of dollars? Yes, please, sign me up!”
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