- Ukraine
- Has been a member for 1-2 years
- Sold between 5 000 and 10 000 dollars
- Referred between 10 and 49 users
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
- Exclusive Author
Which are criteria for an item to be featured by staff? I thought it is amount of sales + amount of 5 stars ratings, but looks like it is not.
- Community Superstar
- Has been a member for 2-3 years
- Sold between 50 000 and 100 000 dollars
- Item was Featured
- Author was Featured
- Author had a File in an Envato Bundle
- Contributed a Tutorial to a Tuts+ Site
- Author had a Free File of the Month
To be good?
- Bangladesh
- Sold between 10 000 and 50 000 dollars
- Has been a member for 1-2 years
- Exclusive Author
- Referred between 10 and 49 users
- Bought between 1 and 9 items
Yeah, that’s a question from me too, looking from the forum’s moderators feedback
- India
- Microlancer Beta Tester
- Beta Tester
- Has been a member for 4-5 years
- Referred between 1 and 9 users
- Helped protect Envato Marketplaces against copyright violations
Increase the chances of getting your file to be chosen as “Featured in the Files of the Week” by concentrating on a file that looks good, is useful, offers something new, or is simply better than anyone else’s file that week.
File of the Week was selected by the site manager.
- Ukraine
- Has been a member for 1-2 years
- Sold between 5 000 and 10 000 dollars
- Referred between 10 and 49 users
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
- Exclusive Author
Thanks @laranz, but what if I consider one of my plugins as that looks good, is useful and offers something new, how can I ask the site manager to review it?
- Has been a member for 3-4 years
- Attended a Community Meetup
- Repeatedly Helped protect Envato Marketplaces against copyright violations
- Bought between 50 and 99 items
- Canada
- Community Ambassador
- Beta Tester
- Contributed a Tutorial to a Tuts+ Site
- Envato Staff
Yes, Forum Mods have nothing to do with the selection of featured files. Reviewers have a whole selection of criteria for which files they choose. Quality of course would be a main contributing factor, but there’s a whole lot more that goes into it.
- Author had a File in an Envato Bundle
- Author was Featured
- Bought between 50 and 99 items
- Exclusive Author
- Has been a member for 2-3 years
- Item was Featured
- Referred between 50 and 99 users
- Sold between 50 000 and 100 000 dollars
- United Kingdom
I believe that most featured items are picked based on how unique they are in the marketplace, there are other contributing factors, quality etc.
- Ukraine
- Has been a member for 1-2 years
- Sold between 5 000 and 10 000 dollars
- Referred between 10 and 49 users
- Bought between 10 and 49 items
- Exclusive Author
Understand, but how to let them know that my plugin is unique and good 
- Sold between 250 000 and 1 000 000 dollars
- Community Moderator
- Author was Featured
- Item was Featured
- Bought between 50 and 99 items
- Referred between 1000 and 1999 users
- Has been a member for 3-4 years
- Repeatedly Helped protect Envato Marketplaces against copyright violations
straightforward said
Understand, but how to let them know that my plugin is unique and good
By submitting it for sale on the marketplaces 
every file is automatically considered, so there’s nothing extra you need to do
- Exclusive Author
- Item was Featured
- Author was Featured
- Author had a File in an Envato Bundle
- Has been a member for 4-5 years
- Sold between 100 000 and 250 000 dollars
- Repeatedly Helped protect Envato Marketplaces against copyright violations
- India
straightforward said
Understand, but how to let them know that my plugin is unique and good
Targetting to be featured is like trying to catch the exact mosquito that bite few seconds ago. Sales is better target! Sometimes mosquitoes gets trapped in hand without aiming though 
