GraphicRiver – A Graphic Art Department At Your Fingertips
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!
GraphicRiver is connected to our other marketplaces (FlashDen, ThemeForest, VideoHive and AudioJungle) and the 130,000 strong community of users who buy and sell there. So your regular marketplace account works on the new site and it runs off the same interface you’re already comfortable with.
What Kinds of Items Can You Buy?
While the marketplace is only just getting started, there’s already over 350 files to sample from our industrious beta authors. Take a look at some of the amazing files you’ll find:
Tutorial9, Abduzeedo and Vandelay Review + $6000 Cash Giveaway
Normally when we launch a site you just hear from Envato – and let’s face it we love our own products! So this time we asked three independent and respected blogs – Tutorial9, Abduzeedo and Vandelay Design – to weigh in with their own unbiased review of the site. We gave each blogger access to the beta and a bit of cash to spend and they’ve kindly reviewed GraphicRiver on their own blogs.
AND we’ve asked each of the three bloggers to give away $2000 worth of free cash to spend on the marketplaces – to the first 100 valid commenters on their posts.
Read the Reviews + Grab some Free Money:
- Tutorial9 – GraphicRiver Launch & $2000 Giveaway
- Abduzeedo – GraphicRiver.net $2000 Giveaway
- Vandelay Design – GraphicRiver Launch and $2000 Giveaway
Authors Earn 40-70%
After our Feb 15th commission update, authors are elligible for between 40 and 70% of each sale. With a bit of skill, talent and enthusiasm, designers and illustrators can sign up as authors and sell either specially made items or useful bits and pieces that you’ve had lying about on your hard-drive.
What’s Next?
If you regularly follow Envato’s activities then you know we don’t really believe in things like rest breaks, sleep or just standing still. So what’s next for the Marketplaces? Well we’re working on a complete redesign of the sites, including an update to the branding. We’ve got new functionality lined up like better uploading and new licensing options. We’re also crafting up three more marketplaces for later in the year!
WOW another one! you guys are good. can’t wait.
Finally, an alternative to istock
I’m really curious about the “three more marketplaces” and hope that one of them might be for Freelance Writers, Bloggers, or Copywriters!
I do pretty well right now with writing projects from Elance and oDesk, but I’m always looking for a better way to sell my “extra” writing. If I write an article as a personal exercise, or write a pack of articles and the buyer disappears I currently sell them via Constant-Content. There are, however, lots of things lacking from the Constant-Content system.
I see a need for a system that has the expectation of quality like C-C, without the 35% rake (poker term, but I feel it’s a good analogy). If you’re thinking of launching a web content marketplace and would be interested in some free ideas from someone “in the trenches”, well you have my email.
I wish much success to GR and I’m busy preparing some files to upload – i hope you make a dent in istock’s revenues !
Oh, excellent. I will most definitely be checking this out! Nice work!
Yes! I too have been waiting for you guys to come out with Graphic River, I need an iStock alternative. Thanks for the email Collis, I can’t wait to hear your answers to the questions.
I’ll definitely be using Graphic River for some stuff at graphicdesgntwist.com
Thanks!
I do like the commission structure here, and the fact that it’s known is nice. That honors the people that do the work, and the transparency ma be something that makes you guys win.
Brilliant. This is the marketplace I have been waiting for. Thanks.
Im LOVING graphic river. Its awesome
I can see it getting very big
Wow, this is a great resource and one that I will certainly be able to use for some projects that I have coming up with redesigns of some of my websites. Thanks for the tips.