10k Items - Quality vs Quanity

I just noticed GraphicRiver surpassed 10k items and it being a little over a year since the first item was submitted… Congrats!

Having an item deep in the queue for the past couple days however… I’ve noticed how the average number of submissions have grown since a year ago, how things zoom off the front page and I couldn’t help but wonder about what the average rate of sales is here…

Doing a little click through by number of “Sales” and some “rough” math… I came up with these numbers:

Out of 10000 files: (again these are all estimates, give or take a couple of percentage points)

20% of the files have had ZERO sales…

35% of the files have had 1 sale…

75% of the files have had 10 or fewer sales…

and only about 13% of files have 20 or more sales, which is where I estimate that authors actually start making the money back for the item they produced…

These are numbers to worry about, in my opinion, and I’d just like to know from others and Envato itself where the future for GR is headed as far as quality control and such…

...is quality more important than having a vast amount of files to search through?

Right now, I see it more as a clip-art repository VS a place where premium graphics are purchased… and it has made me hesitant to focus on creating items for sale here…

Thoughts?

I don’t know about the math but I will agree that I have seen a big increase in the amount of clip art coming through that doesn’t even sell that well and I have been keeping an eye on the authors of these items just to see what is selling and what is not. I think the bar needs to raised a little though I do understand that one mans rubbish is another mans gold but …...

I think that in the near future the quality standards of the files here on GR will increase. Only high-quality and top-notch items will be accepted. When I joined GraphicRiver and uploaded my first file it was the 27th on the whole marketplace. My latest file was the 200th and the majority of the 200 files will be approved for sale.

On ThemeForest the standards are now higher than ever and that was because of the many files that were available for sell.

That will happen on GR too, in my opinion.

I think they should have time out on files older than a year that don’t have any sales, that way it will keep the site more relevent to what people need. After one year they get deleted.

I would have to agree that there is way too much clipart stuff, it makes searching the site harder as slot of authers have gone for quantity over quality. I don’t have time to create loads of files and hope some may sell. I have to try and think of something will sell in high volumes so the time I invested will be rewarded.

I agree!!! They should have time out on files older than a year that don’t have any sales.It´s fair enough…

And i think we should be honest with ourselves…if we are not selling some files, we just need to delete them!!! This procedure will help us to have a “clean & healty” portfolio.

I think they should have time out on files older than a year that don’t have any sales, that way it will keep the site more relevent to what people need. After one year they get deleted. I would have to agree that there is way too much clipart stuff, it makes searching the site harder as slot of authers have gone for quantity over quality. I don’t have time to create loads of files and hope some may sell. I have to try and think of something will sell in high volumes so the time I invested will be rewarded.

totally agree with you dude. Many people are just going for quantity over quality. I’m having the same thoughts as you for creating the files and so far I’ve just come near to creating a single action after my last item in january.

I agree!!! They should have time out on files older than a year that don’t have any sales.It´s fair enough… And i think we should be honest with ourselves…if we are not selling some files, we just need to delete them!!! This procedure will help us to have a “clean & healty” portfolio.

yeah, that’s what I did. It really makes sense because that way our profile would be more clean and presentable. 2 days ago I deleted two of my item since they didn’t got any sales after a month. (in total they both had 1 sales.)

This is definitely a discussion we need to have. Great points raised. I feel that the low quality of some items and the sheer volume of them is lowering the value of the marketplaces for Authors and Buyers. We should all expect and demand higher quality in ourselves and in the whole marketplace.

Well that is good to hear as I wouldn’t like to see the authors that put a lot of skilled and hard work lose out due to low standards being set and GraphicRiver being flooded with poor items.

thanks for the update