Why such low % rates ?

Artists will join anyway, the question is whether they’ll be exclusive or not. Envato’s interest is to encourage exclusivity, therefore they must keep nonexclusive rates unattractive. So, I don’t think they gonna change it.

There’s an old saying “There is nothing scarier than the unknown”. For lots of authors that reality is true when considering going non-exclusive. Besides the fact that there are now nearly 4000 authors and over 80,000 audio files… envato hardly “needs” new authors and more music. Look at the review queue right now… I haven’t seen it this long since half a year ago. I think envato is good for music inflow…

I am not a believer in putting all your eggs in one basket. Besides, even with 50% earnings it wouldn’t be worth going exclusive for me here.

TortoiseTree said
There’s an old saying “There is nothing scarier than the unknown”. For lots of authors that reality is true when considering going non-exclusive. Besides the fact that there are now nearly 4000 authors and over 80,000 audio files… envato hardly “needs” new authors and more music. Look at the review queue right now… I haven’t seen it this long since half a year ago. I think envato is good for music inflow…

Art-of-Sound said
There’s a stock where non exclusive rates are 15% – now that’s robbery! On the other hand there are stocks that give you 50% non-exclusively. So Audiojungle’s 33% is somewhere in the middle. In any case, it’s strange that you feel robbed – you signed up for it yourself after all.

Yup, that 15% feels like robbery, but I still make more than double from each sale, compared to AJ, since the pricing of the tracks is A LOT better. I would rather see an increase in the pricing to make AJ a more premium service in the eyes of the buyers.