Elements.envato.com has moved to unlimited subscriptions. I expect shutterstock is responding.
Sucks for creators but the downward pressure on pricing will give customers more amazing content to use in marketing material.
Sucks for creators but the downward pressure on pricing will give customers more amazing content to use in marketing material.
Just one of many examples of how the authors are no longer respected on the marketplace: Imagine that you launch a paid marketing campaign for your product, you drive traffic to Envato's website on your product page and the first thing the customer sees is a prominent banner promotiong Elements where they get unlimited everything for $15/mo, when your product alone costs $99 (even though your product is not even on Elements).
Only until new content begins to dry up because it's not profitable for creators to produce it anymore
Hurray!