It was back in 2006 that Envato first launched with our very first site FlashDen. That means next week we’ll be turning 3 years old! Since web years are much like dog years, by my count that makes us pretty darn old. Given how we’ve grown, we’ve decided that this year it’s time we really kicked our celebrations up a notch. Next week for 3 days we’re going to have a massive sequence of birthday events, read on to find out what’s happening …
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Today Envato is very excited to bring you our BIGGEST competition yet! This is an awesome chance to win $3500 in cold, hard cash to spend on the ultimate creative set-up. You’ll also win up to 30 of your favourite Envato Marketplace files and a year of Tuts+ membership. And best of all it’s dead easy to enter, read on to find out how.
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Since GraphicRiver hit the web a couple of months ago there’s been one real stand out category that the team here never really planned – Business Cards. We’re now approaching almost 300 business card templates on the site and we’ve decided it’s time to get serious about the niche.
So a few days ago we quietly moved our two (vector and graphics) design templates categories and merged them into a single top level Design Templates section. The new category also has a neat little feature that we will hopefully roll out across the marketplaces, namely it displays in icons what file types are included in the sidebar. This is particularly handy when a file can be Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign or even Quark!
Because we’re so excited about the new Design Templates category really taking off, we’ve decided to run a very special double site promotion on Tuts+ to help kickstart the new section. All this week Psdtuts+ and Vectortuts+ will be running Graphic Design Week, putting up a killer line up of tutorials and articles by professionals in the industry on typography, identity design, brochure design, printing, and many more topics.
So head over and celebrate Graphic Design Week and help us make GraphicRiver the best place on the web to grab awesome Design Templates!
As of a few hours ago the Envato Marketplaces have their first quarter-million dollar author. DigitalScience broke through our top sales badge and we’ve quickly rushed out a new author badge – the Plutonium Paw 
for authors who have sold more than $250,000 worth of digital goods!
That authors can make as much as US$15,000 a month with the marketplaces is a very rewarding thing to see for everyone here at Envato. And while FlashDen authors are definitely leading the way, we’re seeing solid growth on all the marketplaces, particularly ThemeForest and VideoHive with authors on both earning in the four figures each month.
As always the team is working hard to make our marketplaces truly profitable places for the whole authoring community. We just recently passed 2000 authors with at least one sale and a total community size of over 150,000 people – a staggering number.
So here’s to many more records to smash in the coming years!
Today I’m very excited to announce that we’re taking the lid off our newest Envato Marketplace: GraphicRiver, a marketplace for premium design components like Layered Photoshop Graphics, Vector Illustrations, Icons, and Adobe Add-ons like Brushes, Patterns and Textures at very affordable prices. You could almost say it’s like having a graphic art department at your fingertips!
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