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Envato's 2021 Public Impact Statement

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Camgough:
Hi Everyone!

It's been another very eventful and challenging year for the world, including for our creative community that has continued to adapt to a rapidly changing world. We're proud of the part we've played in helping our creative community through the last 12 months. This and more is set out in our 2021 Public Impact Statement.

Here's a link to our blog post and the impact statement: https://www.envato.com/blog/public-impact-statement-2021/

Mimi the Cat:
I used to make $200 to $300 per month with Envato

Now I'm lucky to make $15 per month

I used to make similar amounts with shutterstock now I'm lucky to make $100

I used to make decent amounts with Alamy until they cut rates

I used to make a reasonable living but now I don't and finding a job at my age is next to impossible.

So now I go hungry a lot of the time and use my dwindling savings to pay the bills

Thats my impact statement  :'(

Artist:

--- Quote from: Mimi the Cat on December 20, 2021, 01:04 ---I used to make $200 to $300 per month with Envato

Now I'm lucky to make $15 per month

I used to make similar amounts with shutterstock now I'm lucky to make $100

I used to make decent amounts with Alamy until they cut rates

I used to make a reasonable living but now I don't and finding a job at my age is next to impossible.

So now I go hungry a lot of the time and use my dwindling savings to pay the bills

Thats my impact statement  :'(

--- End quote ---

Competition will grow always. You have to run, run and keep on running.
Technology will evolve and will make things easier.
Young, energetic and creative kids will adapt to new technology and will find success in short span.

The key is to keep on learning and remain in the field.

H2O:
Enveto manipulate their search engine algorithm to favour their exclusive contributors only.

I sometimes buy on this site, the search engine is completely rubbish, it more often than not throws up totally irrelevant content.

I used to have a small photographic portfolio on Enveto, which was around twenty photos, until they deemed it not worthy of their standards, which I have to say, there are stacks of photos that are completely rubbish compared with the same location pictures I had.

I also have a small portfolio of graphics on their site, but since they removed my photo portfolio, I very rarely get a payout, it used to be just about every month, many of the pictures used to sell most months along with the graphics.

I became disillusioned not only with them removing my photos but with the reviewers rejection of my graphics, they seem to employe what I can only describe as low life nutters, who have some of the weirdest and childlike avatars you could imagine, in fact one of them looks psychotic and then when you check these people out, like looking at there portfolios, they are just have a few bits of rubbish.

Enveto has nothing to be proud of and as for transparency, which they say in their Impact Statement, this is just total rubbish, transparency in what?

No transparency in the rejection process and no transparency in their search engine, no transparency in removing photos that sell.

This is not helping the creative community so this Camgough chap is just wrong, perhaps he can explain how removing photos that sell every month, is helping the creative community.

Mimi the Cat:

--- Quote from: Artist on December 20, 2021, 05:31 ---
--- Quote from: Mimi the Cat on December 20, 2021, 01:04 ---I used to make $200 to $300 per month with Envato

Now I'm lucky to make $15 per month

I used to make similar amounts with shutterstock now I'm lucky to make $100

I used to make decent amounts with Alamy until they cut rates

I used to make a reasonable living but now I don't and finding a job at my age is next to impossible.

So now I go hungry a lot of the time and use my dwindling savings to pay the bills

Thats my impact statement  :'(

--- End quote ---

Competition will grow always. You have to run, run and keep on running.
Technology will evolve and will make things easier.
Young, energetic and creative kids will adapt to new technology and will find success in short span.

The key is to keep on learning and remain in the field.

--- End quote ---

I'm sorry but I no longer believe that kool aid nonsense

I spent years looking after my elderly mother using stock income to support myself from 2012.

She died in 2020  not long after Envato effectively withdrew the bonus scheme in 2019, then shutterstock cut rates and Alamy chopped 20% off royalties.

The greed of stock agencies is now beyond the joke.

So no I don't believe this nonsense and the virtue signalling from agencies.

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