Last Updated: Oct 11, 2023.

The web is full of marketplaces where you can find designs, illustrations, videos or music. But what I like most is marketplaces combined with thousands of creative assets in combination with top talents and artists in which you can choose from huge collections, sell your own stuff, and be part of a large community of like-minded people.

Their main slogan is really promising:  Everything you need to get creative projects done, bring your ideas to life with professional digital assets, resources and services.

Envato is a leading marketplace for creative assets and contributors. Millions of people around the world choose this marketplace, studio and courses to buy files, hire freelancers, or learn the skills needed to build websites, videos, apps, graphics and more.

So, let’s explore the Envato Marketplace.

The Homepage

The Envato Market Homepage.

The Promise: They say “everything you need for your next creative project. Over 9 million digital products created by a global community of designers, photographers, developers, illustrators, and producers”.

Product Categories: 

• Web Themes & Templates: Discover thousands of easy to customize themes, templates & CMS products, made by world-class developers.
• Code: Thousands of code, scripts & plugins for every website build. Choose from ecommerce plugins, mobile app templates, PHP, Bootstrap & more for any budget, built by the world’s best developers.
• Video: 6M+ Stock Footage, Video Effects & Video Templates, Royalty free videos and templates created by video professionals from all over the world.
• Audio: Royalty free music and audio tracks from $1. Millions of tracks and sounds from our community of musicians and sound engineers.
• Graphics: fonts, logos, and presentations from $2. A huge collection of hand-reviewed graphic assets from their community of designers.
• Photos: Royalty free stock photos from $2. 
• 3D files: 3D print models and CG textures from $2. 

ThemeForest

Website Templates and Themes. Choose from over 52,600 website templates and themes. Explore items created by the global community of independent designers and developers, confident they’re hand-reviewed by the Envato team.

Categories:

• Site templates
• WordPress
• UI templates
• Template kits
• eCommerce
• Marketing
• CMS themes
• Muse templates
• Blogging
• Jamstack
• Elementor
• Hosting
• HTML
• Shopify
• Plugins
• Facebook templates
• Ghost themes
• Tumblr
• Courses
• Forums
• FREE themes

Alternatively, you can use the up left button to open a mini extension where you can refine your search by:

• Popular files
• Featured files
• Top new files
• Follow feed
• Top authors
• Top new authors
• WordPress
• HTML
• Marketing
• CMS
• eCommerce
• Muse
• UI design
• Plugins
• Courses

The ThemeForest can help you launch beautiful responsive websites with themes and templates for WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Magento, Landing pages and more.

Every week they feature an author, for example, this week is ThemePlayers and they provide a link to a portfolio webpage. ThemePlayers produces HTML5 templates, e-commerce HTML templates, portfolio templates, PSD templates, WordPress themes, and WooCommerce themes.

One sample of their work

Daycare – responsive kindergarten HTML template.

CodeCanyon

Thousands of code, scripts & plugins for every website build. 

Categories:

• PHP scripts
• WordPress
• eCommerce
• JavaScript
• CSS
• Mobile
• HTML5
• AI tools
• WP themes
• Plugins
• Mockup generator
• .NET
• Apps
• Facebook
• Skins
• Edge Animate templates

I will mention some examples:

• Airplane ad banners – $11
• dFlip – Flipbook jQuery plugin – $14
• iPanorama 360 – Virtual tour builder for WordPress – $19

There are also free code tutorials. WordPress, web development, JavaScript.

VideoHive

Royalty free videos and templates created by video professionals from all over the world.

Categories:

• After Effects
• Premiere Pro
• Apple Motion
• DaVinci Resolve
• Motion Graphics
• Stock Footage
• Add Ons
• Video Maker
• Cinema 4D Elements
• Cinema 4D Logo Stings
• Cinema 4D Openers
• Cinema 4D Titles
• Cinema 4D Video Displays
• Logo Files
• News files
• Wedding files

Additionally, there are courses to extend your knowledge like the

• 10-part video course on Adobe After Effects.

Plus, there are free video editing and shooting tutorials to help you with your projects. After Effects, video editing, motion graphics.

AudioJungle

1,909,444 tracks and sounds from our community of musicians and sound engineers.

Categories:

• Music
• Music Packs
• Music Kits
• Logos & Idents
• Sound Effects
• Video maker
• Source Files

Music Categories: 

• Ambient, children’s, cinematic
• Classical, corporate, country, western
• Drum & bass, breakbeat, electronica
• Experimental, abstract, folk
• Acoustic, funk, groove
• Hip-hop, holiday & seasonal, House, Jazz
• Percussion, Pop, Rock
• Soul, R&B
• Vocals, Voice, world beat, miscellaneous

Additionally, there are free music and sound engineering tutorials. Audio production, music mixing, How-To.

GraphicRiver

Discover 822,531 fonts, logos & presentations from $2.

Categories:

• Graphics
• Print
• Web Elements
• Add Ons
• Vectors
• Presentations
• Icons
• Fonts
• Logos
• Design Maker
• Game Assets
• Infographics
• Isolated Objects
• T-Shirts
• Textures
• ePublishing
• 3D renders, backgrounds, decorative
• Hero images, illustrations, photo templates
• Product mock-ups, miscellaneous

There are also free graphic and web design tutorials. Photoshop, graphic design, illustrator.

PhotoDune

Royalty free stock photos from $2.

Categories:

• Animals
• Architecture
• Business
• Food
• Health
• Sports
• People
• Technology
• Travel
• Video Footage
• Mockup Generator

There are free photography tutorials. Photoshop, graphic design, photography.

3D Ocean

38,110 3D print models and CG textures from $2.

Categories:

• 3D Models
• Cars
• HDRI Images
• CG Textures
• Materials & Shaders
• Base Meshes
• Scripts & Plugins
• 2D Concepts
• Animation Data
• Render Setups

There are featured models, featured creators, best-selling models, free items every week, and huge discounts very often.

Forums

A huge forum for creative artists and developers.

Categories:

• Announcements
• Authors
• Customers

Authoring on Envato

• Announcements, challenges, articles
• Rooftop, hangout, Item feedback
• Author collaboration, tips & tricks

A place to talk and interact with fellow authors and share ideas.

Project making

A department to share what you are working on and ask for feedback.

• Courses & tutorials
• Web design and development
• Graphic design, Audio
• Videography & motion graphics
• Project collaboration

Envato Customers

• Hangout, looking for, web design & development
• Graphic design, audio, video & motion, courses & tutorials

You can also refine your search by tags like WordPress, ThemeForest, item-feedback, and so much more, and by latest, top, and Envato.

Envato Author Hub

A place for creatives to grow, find inspiration and connect.

Categories:

• Author Essentials
• The Blog: latest insights, author stories, training
• Trends & Inspiration
• Announcements
• Tools & Tips
• Author Success
• LinkedIn
• YouTube
• Get started: When you license your content with Envato, you’re joining a monthly active community of almost 1 million creatives
• What to create: top new items, top search opportunities, top items, more inspiration
• Envato Reveals: Sharing top tips and insider knowledge to help you succeed as an Envato Author.
• News: audio, graphics, photos, videos, web & code
• Help Center

Envato Author – Sell Your Work

Reach over 2 Million customers while doing what you love. Become an Envato Author and sell your work with the largest online creative community.

Selling: everything that’s digital and creative, from website templates to stock footage. Code scripts, video, music, audio, website themes, design assets, stock photos, 3D models.

Your Work: Speak with your own voice! On our marketplaces you can maintain your identity, build your brand and promote your work to the community – however you like.

More ways to earn: Hit new earnings milestones to make more out of every sale. Send traffic to Envato Market and earn income for every sale. Go exclusive to earn more. Want to stay non exclusive? No problem! Get as creative as you like! We have a range of products and platforms.

Focus on quality: Becoming an Envato Author means that, like us, you care deeply about the high quality of the products you sell to our global audience.

Tools & support: forums (Join the discussion with fellow authors to get help and feedback), Help Team (Chat to our Help Team about how you can make the most of Envato), Analytics (Check your dashboard to monitor sales and best times to market), Daily insights (Stay on top of the game with helpful articles from our community).

Community support: The journey to making a living by doing what you love is not always an easy one. But you can rest assured that, from our most successful authors to the new starters, everyone will be happy to help you along the way.

Sell your work to millions of buyers on Envato Market. Top authors make over $20K per month selling digital products. Envato charges fees to buyers and authors and you set your prices.

Non-exclusive authors

Envato charges 55% to the author. For example, when an item sells for $100 the breakdown of fees is as: $20 buyer fee, $80 item price, $44 author fee, $36 net author earnings.

Exclusive authors

The author fee is between 12.5% to 37.5% of the item price. Just like the previous example when the product sells for $100 the fees are: $20 buyer fee, $80 item price, $20 author fee, $60 net author earnings

There are guides to help you along the way. Topics covered:

• Getting started (step-by-step upload process, author’s introduction, author collaboration, exclusivity policy, extended license, and more)
• Refunds (managing refunds, information)
• All about money (payment options, discounts, promotional pricing guidelines, setting prices, fee schedule, fixed buyers fees, author-driven pricing category)
• Creating content (assets, links, source files, model, property release, GPL code guidelines, item variations)
• Item insights (seasonal content submission, items they need and they don’t need, sales tips, music general acceptance)
• Quality review (common rejection reasons, held items in the review queue, item information changes, rejected items, review times, special circumstances
• Supporting your items (rating responses, comment reporting, item support settings, author vacation notice)
• Growth & Marketing (listings, profiles, item comments, ratings, item promotion guidelines, external blogs, offering items for free, audio player)
• Productivity (asset resources, free item preview templates, asset library, resources, API keys)
• ThemeForest requirements (additional images, Adobe muse submission, Drupal commerce submission, Ecwid submission, Facebook templates, Ghost themes)
• CodeCanyon requirements (Bootstrap skins, general file preparation, code, layers, extensions, WordPress, NodeJS)
• VideoHive requirements (Adobe after effects, project files, Apple motion, cinema 4D, element 3D)
• AudioJungle requirements (pastiche imitation, author resources, FAQ, general file preparation, vocals reference, loops)
• GraphicRiver requirements (add-ons, aperture preset, business card templates, ePublishing digital magazine, file packs, fonts submission)
• PhotoDUne requirements (getting started, overview of photo submissions, photo manager, upload, general policies, technical, backgrounds, textures)
• 3D Ocean requirements (3D print models, general file preparation, file packs)

Envato Power Elite Wall of Fame

These creative teams have sold more than $1 million dollars worth of items on the Envato Marketplaces.

Envato rewards the best of the best authors. And that is very important. In every company or organization, the people that sell more should be rewarded. I am using that technique from the beginning of my career and I can tell that brings total satisfaction to everyone.

Here are some examples of awards: 

• Pixfort: digital products for websites
• CreativeItem: web applications
• ReputeInfosystems: WordPress plugins
• IqonicDesign: helping developers build successful projects
• QantumThemes: exceptional themes
• Phantasma: video editing, motion graphic tools, and so much more
• XpeedStudio: aesthetically rich experiences by building websites.

Envato Tuts+

Categories: 

• Design
• Business
• Photo
• Video
• Web Design
• Code
• Music
• FAQ
• Help center

Start your learning journey: Explore free courses to learn fundamental techniques and concepts using industry-leading-software to drive your creative work and grow your career.

Learn from global creative experts: the experienced instructors have worked for companies like Apple, Ubisoft, Adobe, and other industry-leading creative brands. People like Laura Keung (brand and editorial designer), Ashlee Harrell (graphic designer), Daniel Walter Scott (adobe master), and so many more.

Choose a tutorial that’s right for you: Develop your skills and stay ahead of trends with over 15,000 tutorials.

Explore our most popular categories: 

• Adobe Photoshop
• Graphic design
• Illustration
• Presentations
• Marketing
• Management
• Equipment
• Editing & post-processing
• Types of photography
• Post-production
• Templates & presets
• WordPress
• HTML & CSS
• UX/UI Deisgn

The Envato Market is a huge marketplace for freelancers, creatives, and artists showcasing their portfolios. A place where companies can find the right talent to finish a creative project for them.

A community where designers, developers, and other creatives share ideas, collaborate and hang out.

The high-quality products and the low prices ensure satisfaction even for the most demanding individuals. You can find digital products for any website in any niche and serve your clients with professional results.

I always enjoy their files and I use them on my creative projects like: blog posts, catalogs, webinars, presentations, videos, graphics, designs, and so much more.

Moreover, the beautiful dashboard has plenty of options so you can manage your time and projects wisely.

A very well-organized company with plenty of free guides, tutorials, and everything that has to do with requirements and how to get started, divided by categories.

Free training via the Tuts+ platform, forums, the author hub, and the Eliute section with awardees will make your stay fascinating and I hope that you grow your business with them.

I am so excited to share this resource with you today.

Now, let me reveal my special bonus, but first, let me introduce myself very briefly.

I want to welcome you to my “7 IDEALS” methodology. A revolutionary system that helps small businesses and startups penetrate any market under any conditions.

I’ll be applying the first phase (7ID ZONE) of the methodology to your business at no cost.

The outcome:

• We’ll define our target market,
• Research and analyse the industry, market, and trends, connect with suppliers and merchants,
• Analyse our business itself, improve our business model, set HQ standards,
• Define our marketing mix,
• Validate our ideas by conducting tests and by interacting with the market in real-time, eliminate any risks associated with product development or sourcing, and
• Specific an ideal zone for market penetration,
• Plus, there is an extra layer of private coaching to help you become an unstoppable entrepreneur by gaining skills and momentum.

Final Words

I hope you enjoyed this review, I hope it’s valuable, and can help you better evaluate this beautiful marketplace.

If you have experience with the Envato Market either as a customer or as a seller/contributor, I would like to hear from you.

Another review has finished, here on WebMarketSupport. I’m waiting for your comments and thoughts. Till next time.