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Elements.envato.com has moved to unlimited subscriptions. I expect shutterstock is responding. Sucks for creators but the downward pressure on pricing will giv

Elements.envato.com has moved to unlimited subscriptions. I expect shutterstock is responding. Sucks for creators but the downward pressure on pricing will give customers more amazing content to use in marketing material.

kevingadd 6y ago
> Sucks for creators but the downward pressure on pricing will give customers more amazing content to use in marketing material. Only until new content begins to dry up because it's not profitable for creators to produce it anymore
throwstock 6y ago
Stock photographers and illustrators are already mostly from poor countries (predominantly non-EU Eastern Europe and South East Asia). Individuals working full-time earn somewhere between $600 and $2,500 monthly on average (depending on the popularity of their content). It's going to become unprofitable even for them.
mattkrause 6y ago
> will give customers more amazing content to use in marketing material. Hurray!
XCSme 6y ago
Just a random note, Elements did destroy the Envato marketplaces for authors. I was an author on CodeCanyon (until yesterday), sold an analytics script[0] and earned $65k+ over 7 years now, but since they released Elements they drive all their traffic away from the marketplaces, they no longer care about authors. Yesterday I actually deleted my product from CodeCanyon, it was pretty sad to delete an 8 year old item with 1500+ happy customers and 5 stars rating, but the way they treat authors should not be encouraged. Just one of many examples of how the authors are no longer respected on the marketplace: Imagine that you launch a paid marketing campaign for your product, you drive traffic to Envato's website on your product page and the first thing the customer sees is a prominent banner promotiong Elements where they get unlimited everything for $15/mo, when your product alone costs $99 (even though your product is not even on Elements). [0]: https://www.usertrack.net/ https://www.usertrack.net/

kevingadd 6y ago

> Sucks for creators but the downward pressure on pricing will give customers more amazing content to use in marketing material. Only until new content begins to dry up because it's not profitable for creators to produce it anymore

throwstock 6y ago

Stock photographers and illustrators are already mostly from poor countries (predominantly non-EU Eastern Europe and South East Asia). Individuals working full-time earn somewhere between $600 and $2,500 monthly on average (depending on the popularity of their content). It's going to become unprofitable even for them.

mattkrause 6y ago

> will give customers more amazing content to use in marketing material. Hurray!

XCSme 6y ago

Just a random note, Elements did destroy the Envato marketplaces for authors. I was an author on CodeCanyon (until yesterday), sold an analytics script[0] and earned $65k+ over 7 years now, but since they released Elements they drive all their traffic away from the marketplaces, they no longer care about authors. Yesterday I actually deleted my product from CodeCanyon, it was pretty sad to delete an 8 year old item with 1500+ happy customers and 5 stars rating, but the way they treat authors should not be encouraged. Just one of many examples of how the authors are no longer respected on the marketplace: Imagine that you launch a paid marketing campaign for your product, you drive traffic to Envato's website on your product page and the first thing the customer sees is a prominent banner promotiong Elements where they get unlimited everything for $15/mo, when your product alone costs $99 (even though your product is not even on Elements). [0]: https://www.usertrack.net/ https://www.usertrack.net/