February 2009 has seen the launch of GraphicRiver, the Envato marketplace for buying and selling layered photoshop, vectors, icons and add-ons for Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. The site had been operating in a closed beta but was finally open to the full 130,000+ Envato members on 24 February. Since then the site has [...]

AETUTS Launches for Adobe After Effects

December 21st, 2008 by Collis Ta'eed in Envato News, Site Launches

Hot on the heels of the recent launch VideoHive, a marketplace for buying & selling video, Envato launches the latest member of its TUTS+ tutorials Blogs: AETUTS for Adobe After Effects. Whether you want to learn how to create breathtaking special effects, vibrant motion graphics or cinematic footage, AETUTS will be publishing plenty of [...]

Envato Network of Sites Triple Traffic

December 14th, 2008 by Collis Ta'eed in Envato News, Statistics

Its been well over 9 months since the February 08 Envato traffic update and we are extremely proud to report that the November network traffic has since tripled! Traffic across the network is now in excess of 18 million pageviews per month.
The sites continue to grow - both in terms of the [...]

VideoHive Launched

December 11th, 2008 by Collis Ta'eed in Envato News, Site Launches

With this week’s official launch of VideoHive, Envato now offers a marketplace specifically for stock footage, motion graphics and project files. VideoHive joins a network of support marketplaces that includes: FlashDen, AudioJungle and ThemeForest. With over 650+ video related assets moved out from under FlashDen, we expect this latest marketplace to rapidly grow [...]

It’s been almost a year since the ever-popular FreelanceSwitch released the How to Be a Rockstar Freelancer book and today we’re happy to announce that we’re launching a new home for a growing catalogue of ebooks and resources at Rockable Press.
Today we also welcome Naysan Naraqi, a former CNN producer and globe trekker with extensive [...]

Creattica Daily Launches

September 24th, 2008 by Collis Ta'eed in Envato News, Site Launches

Envato is happy to announce that a few days ago we quietly launched our latest line of sites via a small blog called Creattica Daily. The site is a daily updated blog of design and creative news written by Niki Brown of Design’o’blog and Collis Ta’eed, and featuring a weekly comic strip by talented illustrator [...]

ThemeForest Officially Launches

September 2nd, 2008 by Collis Ta'eed in Site Launches

Today I’m pleased to announce the official launch of Envato’s newest digital goods marketplace - ThemeForest. After a three week beta period, the site is now open to the public and we expect it to quickly grow into one of our flagships. Visit ThemeForest

Eden changes its name to Envato

August 6th, 2008 by Collis Ta'eed in Envato News

A lot has happened since this company formed two years ago and as a team we’ve grown a lot and certainly learned a lot. When we came to trademark our company name recently, we learned that a name like Eden is fraught with problems. After a long decision process, I’m happy to announce [...]

AudioJungle Launches - A New Eden Marketplace

May 28th, 2008 by Collis Ta'eed in Envato News

We’re very excited to announce the launch of AudioJungle, our latest digital goods marketplace. The site expands on FlashDen to create a truly great audio community and experience, and help push our music tracks, audio loops and sound effects library of over two and a half thousands files into new territory. Our full [...]

Rockstar Sites Switch to BuySellAds.com

April 10th, 2008 by Collis Ta'eed in Envato News

After six months running our Miiingle ad network, we are switching the Rockstar Resources sites - FreelanceSwitch, FaveUp & PSDTUTS - over to a new, fully automated ad system via BuySellAds.com. The new system means that individual advertising will be cheaper to purchase and customers can literally purchase, upload and have their adverts running [...]