It’s kinda crazy to think, but our little internet startup, Envato, has been on the air now for five years. We started back in 2006 as four very enthusiastic and totally green entrepreneurs with a shoestring budget and a love of the web. Fast forward five years and while we’re hopefully a little less green, we’re still incredibly passionate about Education, Marketplaces and the web! It’s been an amazing time and we’d like to share a look inside our Melbourne HQ offices, some stats about Envato and a big thank you to the community.
Behind the Scenes
With such a big milestone, we thought it might be good to give an inside glimpse into our Melbourne HQ offices and some of the people that work here. So we invited a Melbourne film crew called Compulsive to come in and shoot a 3 minute video about Envato. I hope you enjoy it!
As you may know, we also have a large remote team working around the globe on our sites. Next year we’re hoping to gather all of Envato and as much of the community as possible for an epic meetup, but in the meantime if you’re curious to see who’s who, you can check out this little video from our remote staff meetup last year in Chicago.
Some Stats
Looking back at five years of exciting and sometimes exhausting Envato work, I put together some stats about Envato from our time online so far. In five years we have:
- Published over 10,000 tutorials and articles helping people learn everything from Photoshop to Freelancing
- Hosted over 300,000 items for sale on our marketplaces from WordPress themes to Stock Photos
- Showcased over 12,000 items of inspirational design, photography and a host of other creative mediums on Creattica
- Listed over 8,000 jobs on our freelance job board
- Reviewed and rounded up over 3,000 apps on our AppStorm network
- Launched 9 marketplaces, 11 tutorial sites, 9 blogs, 18 books, 7 bundles, 4 Regular Podcasts, and more social media accounts than you can poke a stick at
- Accumulated close to 1 million RSS subscribers and twitter followers
- Signed up almost 1 million marketplace members, 90,000 Creattica members, 50,000 FreelanceSwitch members, and 40,000 Tuts+ Premium subscribers
- Served up well over 1.5 billion pageviews across all our sites since inception
Holy toledo batman!!
Thank You
I can’t say thank you enough to all of you for supporting Envato all these years. Whether you are long-time user of the Marketplaces, Tuts+, AppStorm, FreelanceSwitch or Creattica, or just a casual visitor, we’re really proud that you stop in and use our sites. If you’re one of the thousands of contributors, authors, writers, and subscribers, we’re honored and humbled that you have helped us build this company and filled these sites with such amazing content. And regardless of who you are, we hope that we can continue to provide value and service to you for many more years to come!
On behalf of the whole team, thank you all!
Collis
CEO, Chief Tea Drinker and Web Designer Who Doesn’t Get to Design Anymore
Envato
P.S. If you’re not all video’d out, you can check out this video of one of our early Envato staff
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This company is so inspiring and incredibly helpful. A toast to a continually successful 5 years to come and more
thanks for all your tuts!
Hi Guys
Love that you are an Australian company. You guys are a great inspiration for down under. We have a lot of talent to offer the world.
I hope the next five years is as successful as the previous.
Dale
Thanks guys!! I hope it’s the first 5 of many more to come!
I joined as a subscriber only a short while ago, but this is now the first place I visit when I’m looking for inspiration, tutorials news, or information. Congratulations, and keep up the great work!
Congratulations Envato!
I really cannot believe it’s been 5 years already.
It was on late 2008, while googling i saw a website full of web design/development tutorials and it change my life. its the tuts+ website. by continuously reading the articles i gained more confidence and skills to do small scale freelance web dev/design. and now its my routine when i wake up,i read the articles on the website and get inspired and get thinking of new ideas. thanks for the website and the great tutorial. i will never forget this website even if i forget google :). wishes and prayers for your future expedition… and thank you very much…
Thanks Envato, the tuts+ is the best site that I read to keep me informed.
I’m brazilians and I thought to translate several articles and videos for other brazilians.
Think about it.
Here we need sites like yours.
Congratulations Envato! All your tuts were refreshing and informative, always learned a lot from them. Thanks to all the team member and contributors of Envato.
5 years total professionalism! TY so much Envato :)
I got rickrolled.. :(
yay Envanto :D
the meet take place in early 70s? everyone is dancing to the rickroll’e ? :D
Collis & Co
congrats on all the big achievements which you & your team has achieved so far. You guys have strong potential to get more & more. Wishing you more successes in future with loads of love
Congratulations Envato, it’s pretty obvious, but you guys rock!
I initially saw this blog post on another site on the Envato network but thought it fitting to post this comment on the first Envato site I’d ever visited some 3-4 years ago. How amazing has this ride been so far? Not only does Envato cater for a new, majorly successful education model, they also have a brilliant network of blogs dedicated to popular areas of technology.
To see how Envato has grown over the last 5 years has been an amazing thing to watch and I only wish I’d been more active back then when I first discovered Envato rather than just be a viewer of the site.
Congratulations to Collis and the rest of the team that form Envato. Your company is fantastic and definitely one that I’m sure many of us would love to work for. You’re the Apple of education. Fantastic job and well done.
Whats it take to get a job at tutsplus :P
Thank you so much! You’ve provided so much great information over the years. I don’t think I frequent any other site as often as I do tuts+ and your ever expanding marketplace. Such a quality outfit!
Congrats on 5 years and here’s to many more!
congrats envato ,…..psdtuts + nettuts + [jeffrey way] & other screencasts are one of the stuff I love so much here, that helped through my work…thanks guys , hope more success to the company
Congrats, that video really motivates…. sitting in my desktop with my iMac and my MBP like a Pro !
Great Work Envato,
really without this site i wouldn’t dream to learn web design/dev,
Thank you all envato members , special thank @jeffway
What’s Envato total worth? ;)
How many traffic do you use each month?
Congrats!!!!!
NET.TUTS+ is my best friend……………..learnt a lot from here………..a pro today………………..
thanx for everything!!!
Thank you for serving great web tuts to all. Congrats .. :)
You are doing great things.
I wondered which program to HTML and PHP do you use at work?
Congratulations for amazing 5 years.
I love Nettust and Creattica.
Congrats Envato… I have used many templates form Activeden and theme forest. I really like your stuff. Thanks for the great quality you maintain.