[Ruth]

How Shutterstock’s Acquisition of Envato Could Change Everything
Envato — the powerhouse behind CodeCanyon, ThemeForest, and Envato Elements — has been acquired by Shutterstock. This unexpected development has stirred the Envato community, potentially signaling significant changes for plugin and theme authors who’ve exclusively relied on CodeCanyon and ThemeForest platforms for over a decade.

Join us on Wednesday, July 24th at 9 AM EST for a Q&A panel as we discuss the future of ThemeForest and CodeCanyon.

https://freemius.com/webinars/envato-acquisition/

[Scott]

I wanted the recording but couldn’t find it.

[Theresa]

[Carolyn]

nicccccceeee

[Austin]

Remember this blog post?

https://freemius.com/blog/full-site-editing-death-wordpress-themes/

[Helen]

Maybe this is why they sold Envato to Shutterstock… sales are crashing out and future of WordPress especially unsure?

https://forums.envato.com/t/sales-down-70-from-2018-to-2023-terrible-status-what-do-you-think-about-the-future/474798/1

Sales down 70% from 2018 to 2023 !!! Terrible status! What do you think about the future?

[Joe]

Wordpress market is super super super saturated and has been for years

that’s why you get half a dozen themes that are popular, people just don’t have time to try hundreds of themes and too distracted

[Terry]

easy come easy go

[Ralph]

Envato Or Why Race To the Bottom Is Dangerous?

blog post from 2014, still kinda relevant about race to the bottom and Envato monopoly. personally I always hated Envato’s confusing UI, bloated themes, updating process, and just the entire experience. customer or developer side, both are bad imo

[Sara]

They have been secretly dying for a while, according to some people.

[Terry]

how can they be dying if they are also a monopoly???

[Teresa]

Feb. 2024 post.

Envato/Themeforest Cons and Alternatives

What other brands by Envato should you avoid?

The short answer is – avoid all their brands. Do me a favor and don’t give them any chance to earn some extra $ from you. Here is a list of Envato products to be ignored:

Themeforest
Codecanyon
Videohive
Audiojungle
Graphicriver
Photodune
3docean
Envato elements
Envato studio
Envato tuts
Placeit
Milkshake
Mixkit
Reshot

Most of these products are dead anyway (or slowly dying), but I listed them here for reference.

These are somehow related and I would still not recommend buying/selling there, so just mentioning them: Creative Market, TemplateMonster, Mojo Marketplace (closed in 2023).

He recommended to just sell on your own website and build your SEO and community.

[Marilyn]

maybe this is a good thing?

[Juan]

Template Monster is not any better, I check it every so often, it still sucks. For some reason barely any useful reviews on the products, most of them have no reviews. Not much user activity or community. Old UI and lots of strange outdated template categories and stuff.

They are dropping the ball, should have improved by now imo

[Theresa]

I can build my html website in 1 our with AI and the new wordpress update is so flexible that I can buold a good website without a Pro-theme. That’s it.

[Author]

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