[Suggestion] New Exclusive Author Percentage: 80%

freshface said
Number 1 is traffic, we need more consistent traffic. Even though the marketplace keeps growing, we don’t feel it. We are in a huge store with thousands of aisles where people only grab stuff from the few front aisles. This worked fine years ago, not anymore. Please innovate.

I continue to think that the markteplace should be “cleaned up” of very old items that does not sell. If an item is not selling since 1 year (or more, maybe depending also on the previous sales) then it should be removed. Of course the author could upload it again, but this will clean up envato from a lot of “useless” items.

for exampe, if you look at audiojungle music items, order them by date, you see songs uploaded in 2006-2007 with 0-2 sales. is this reasonable? don’t know about other marketplaces…

bosone said
I continue to think that the markteplace should be “cleaned up” of very old items that does not sell. If an item is not selling since 1 year (or more, maybe depending also on the previous sales) then it should be removed. Of course the author could upload it again, but this will clean up envato from a lot of “useless” items. for exampe, if you look at audiojungle music items, order them by date, you see songs uploaded in 2006-2007 with 0-2 sales. is this reasonable? don’t know about other marketplaces…

+1 If an item hasn’t had any sales in months, then it is probably costing Envato more to host the files then they are making from it. Also might motivate the authors to market their items a little better if they know it will get removed.

WebSmacker said

bosone said
I continue to think that the markteplace should be “cleaned up” of very old items that does not sell. If an item is not selling since 1 year (or more, maybe depending also on the previous sales) then it should be removed. Of course the author could upload it again, but this will clean up envato from a lot of “useless” items. for exampe, if you look at audiojungle music items, order them by date, you see songs uploaded in 2006-2007 with 0-2 sales. is this reasonable? don’t know about other marketplaces…

+1 If an item hasn’t had any sales in months, then it is probably costing Envato more to host the files then they are making from it. Also might motivate the authors to market their items a little better if they know it will get removed.

It’s interesting how this thread has changed it’s course a couple of times so far on these 8 pages

But, while we’re (again) at the topic of deleting the old files automatically, let me share my input on this. You say “it is probably costing Envato more to host the files then they are making from it”. I’d say that it actually would cost more to delete them, than keep them. Not exactly sure how Amazon’s hosting service works, but I’m confident claiming that it’s not charged per megabyte used. They pay for the large “chunks” of data and they use it, fill it. They pay it whether it’s used or not.
On the other hand, apart from losing potential occasional sales (1 in a year is still better than 0, isn’t it?), just think what potential customers (and new authors) will think when they come to audio jungle (after deleting the files with 0 sales) and see how this marketplace has 5000 tracks instead of 20000 it used to have? Returning visitors would be confused. New ones would be disappointed and repelled by lame offer.

What causes so many old tracks with zero sales (apart from low production quality, which is definitely present in certain amount) is a lack of good/advanced search tools. Instead of crying at the mayor to tear down buildings that nobody want’s to live in, ask for a better map first and less promotion focus on only one quart of the city. Speaking metaphorically here, but you get me, I hope

Now…what was this topic all about to begin with?

What causes so many old tracks with zero sales (apart from low production quality, which is definitely present in certain amount) is a lack of good/advanced search tools. Instead of crying at the mayor to tear down buildings that nobody want’s to live in, ask for a better map first and less promotion focus on only one quart of the city. Speaking metaphorically here, but you get me, I hope

Now…what was this topic all about to begin with?

What causes so many old tracks with zero sales (apart from low production quality, which is definitely present in certain amount) is a lack of good/advanced search tools. Instead of crying at the mayor to tear down buildings that nobody want’s to live in, ask for a better map first and less promotion focus on only one quart of the city. Speaking metaphorically here, but you get me, I hope

Well said! What else attracts regular sales here apart from New Items page and Top/”Elite” Authors pages with thousand followers? Do AJ’s “non-Elite” authors feel themselves “reachable” by an average buyer search on a regular basis?

polymuze said

What causes so many old tracks with zero sales (apart from low production quality, which is definitely present in certain amount) is a lack of good/advanced search tools. Instead of crying at the mayor to tear down buildings that nobody want’s to live in, ask for a better map first and less promotion focus on only one quart of the city. Speaking metaphorically here, but you get me, I hope

Well said! What else attracts regular sales here apart from New Items page and Top/”Elite” Authors pages with thousand followers? Do AJ’s “non-Elite” authors feel themselves “reachable” by an average buyer search on a regular basis?

The same problem exists on all the Envato marketplaces. Once the item goes off from initial exposure, the only possibility is through Weekly Popular page (works only for rare files). Search doesn’t sounds like Envato’s business strategy – this is what makes the 70% author commission meaningless. Even with a 99% commission, lack of proper search filter can present the results of nearly 0% commission.

Here’s where Envato need to take all their marketplaces as far as I am concerned (it’s a little crude and not much thought but you get the idea) -

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this will stop the desperation to be on the front page, remove all the unnecessary crap from the home page, stop focus on the all time top selling themes and put everyone on a level footing when it comes to promotion – of course this is based on an all new tag search engine that actually works – the magic comes when you get the search results – filters, display options etc.

jonathan01 said
Here’s where Envato need to take all their marketplaces as far as I am concerned (it’s a little crude and not much thought but you get the idea) –

My god. yes.

Raise the current newbie rate from 50% to 70%. Go on, you know you want to.

Blinn said
Raise the current newbie rate from 50% to 70%. Go on, you know you want to.

Haha