We are delighted to announce that Adrian Try has been hired as the new AudioJungle blog editor!

Adrian has been writing on a regular basis for AudioJungle for a while now, and we are thrilled to sign-up someone with tremendous writing expertise and a diverse knowledge of audio production.

Just take a look at some of the fantastic articles Adrian has already written for the AJ blog:

• 60 Ways to Make an Arrangement Richer
• How Musicians Should Look After Their Hearing
• 29 Music-Making Apps for Linux

But it gets even better. From Monday, June 8th, the AudioJungle blog will be growing bigger and better! We will be blogging a lot more regularly, and we have a variety of new, regular features lined-up covering a wider gamut of music, not just audio production. Most importantly of all, we will be promoting the awesome audio on our site much more as well as showcasing the fantastic authors on AudioJungle who create all the beautiful and powerful audio on our site. In fact, we already have a bunch of interviews lined-up with some of your favorite and best-selling authors on AudioJungle!

There are also a few surprises in store including an awesome new competition and announcements of new site-wide features, so be sure to subscribe to the AudioJungle blog feed to keep informed of all the latest news and events!

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Meanwhile, if there are any improvements or suggestions you would like to see or make about the AudioJungle blog or just want to discuss the kind of content you would like to see here, please feel free to leave a comment! We always enjoy hearing your constructive feedback and ideas.

Sadly Joel Falconer, the AudioJungle site manager, has moved on to focus on FreelanceSwitch.com. We’ll all miss him, and hope he comes back to visit now and then.

However, the MASSIVE silver lining is that the amazingly talented Scott Wills is now taking over the AudioJungle reins! Scott is an exceptional all-round creative, but he also composes gorgeous music and has even released his own album (available on iTunes).

Scott has already had some brilliant ideas on how to improve AudioJungle, so stay tuned for some big changes!

AudioJungle has several methods of staying up to date on the newest files and news, including the monthly newsletter, RSS feeds, and our Twitter account. Now we’ve got a new page with everything you need all in one place, including a few new features.

RSS
In addition to the existing AudioJungle feeds, there’s now an RSS feed for every category! This way, you can stay on top of the file types you care about most. Check out all the new feeds here.

Twitter
Stay up to date with the latest news, links, community happenings, and chatter on AudioJungle’s Twitter account. We’ll also showcase one great AudioJungle file every day. You can follow AudioJungle, or any one of the marketplace accounts found here.

Weekly Mailouts
There’s nothing more fun than seeing AJ’s latest and greatest files. Now there’s a weekly mailout showcasing 7 of AudioJungle’s best, including one featured file. This is in addition to the monthly newsletter, so be sure to sign up separately here.

No matter how you like to get your updates, AudioJungle has an option for you. As always, happy browsing!

The second stage of planned major search improvements is live. Right now this will only impact authors, but in the future this will help everyone search for files quickly and easily.

From now on when authors upload a file they will need to fill in a series of tags that pertain to their file. The tags have been divided up into categories to help authors pick useful tags.

During the reviewing process, reviewers may edit tags slightly so that wording remains consistent wherever possible (eg. entered tags of “puppy”, “doggy” and “hound” might be edited to consistently be “dogs”). This will make tagging more useful for search.

Please note that if your file tagging is incorrect or missing but otherwise the file is appropriate for sale, you file will still be approved. Reviewers will add or alter tags as they see fit during the review process, and you are free to update your file and refine your tags at a later date.

For now tags will only be visible on the upload and update pages. In the next stage tags will then be used in search and to navigate groups of files, which will be a massive improvement!

In order to add tags to existing files, authors will need to update their files, only filling in the Tagging fields. In order to assist reviewers in getting through any tagging updates quickly, please put “Tagging Update Only” in the reviewer notes wherever possible. This is not essential, but will definitely be helpful to the review team!

We expect a big jump in updates as authors will be adding tags to their existing files, so we ask for your patience if the queue gets temporarily longer. There will be at least a month before tagging will be used in search, so there is no need to update all existing files immediately.

If you have any troubles or questions about this new feature, please let support know, and stay tuned for stage three, where search will be supercharged with tagging!

There’s just so much great content on the Envato Marketplaces these days, closing on 20,000 different items. All those items means there’s many, many different uses for them. So we’ve been working to create ways for buyers to purchase different types of licenses for use. Having multiple licensing options means buyers can get exactly what they need, and for authors it means greater potential earnings!

To begin with we’re adding a new multiple use license that means you pay less to get more usage out of an item. Here’s how it works:

1) Buy a Standard Single Use License.
This is the same license as the old default license, to be used when you wish to purchase a file to use on a single project.

2) Buy a 10 Project License for just 3 x the cost of a Single Use License.
A 10 project license means you can use the same file over and over - up to ten times - without having to buy it again and again.

For more information on what each of these license types entails, please visit this page. If you have any queries or concerns at all, please contact support who will be happy to assist you.

Stay tuned for more useful license types in the future.

Thanks and happy shopping!

As of a few hours ago the Envato Marketplaces have their first quarter-million dollar author. DigitalScience broke through our top sales badge and we’ve quickly rushed out a new author badge - the Plutonium Paw for authors who have sold more than $250,000 worth of digital goods!

That authors can make as much as US$15,000 a month with the marketplaces is a very rewarding thing to see for everyone here at Envato. And while FlashDen authors are definitely leading the way, we’re seeing solid growth on all the marketplaces, particularly ThemeForest and VideoHive with authors on both earning in the four figures each month.

As always the team is working hard to make our marketplaces truly profitable places for the whole authoring community. We just recently passed 2000 authors with at least one sale and a total community size of over 150,000 people - a staggering number.

So here’s to many more records to smash in the coming years!

So… you’ve got a problem on the sites or perhaps you just want some advice? You know it’s not quite a support issue, and you’re wondering who you can talk to about it. Well, Envato is very happy to announce that there is now someone whose job it is to help you figure out your troubles. His name is Adrien Gardiner (but you might know him as ADG3Studios).

Adrien has been a moderator for some time now, and as such is one of the marketplaces’ most active, respected and knowledgeable members. Adrien will now also be taking on the role of community manager. He will lead the moderation team as our active forums keep growing, and will be there to answer any community related questions you may have. You can reach him via his site mail, or at adrien AT envato DOT com. You can feel free to write to him in English, French, Spanish or Russian.

We’ve been informed by support staff that there has been some confusion regarding the new “Maximum Earnings” feature for authors.

This feature is designed to allow authors to request their maximum earnings for the  month at any time during the month. This means that an author can now go to their earnings page at any time during the month of March (for example) and tick a box that ensures the sum total of their earnings for March will be sent to them automatically.

Please note that this feature is NOT intended for automatic withdrawals over multiple months. It needs to be ticked each month for the maximum withdrawal to be made and transferred to your account.  So for each month you wish to receive your maximum earnings for that month you MUST go in and tick the “All Earnings” option.

We sincerely apologize for any confusion regarding the use of this new feature and hope it’s use is now clear. If you have any questions please direct them to Support who will be happy to help.

There’s been a lot happening on the marketplaces of late, and today I wanted to touch on a few important issues and get some feedback, from you, the community.

Firstly, for those of you who don’t know me, My name is Cyan and I’m the Envato marketplace manager. That means I’m the person who’s in charge of the day to day running of the marketplaces as a whole with the help of the awesome site managers, reviewers and moderators.

Lately we’ve noticed some brilliant new author apps popping up, and some talk on the forums of files being distributed without author permissions. I want to talk a little about both of these issues. Additionally, I want to tell you about some things you should be doing to promote maximum account security.
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AudioJungle has a Twitter account! Now you can get AudioJungle news faster than ever, and see plenty of tips for getting the most out of the site along the way. If you don’t have a Twitter account, the blog will always be here and provide all the meaty details; this Twitter account is just a quick way of letting you know when there’s something new going on. That said, Twitter accounts are free and can come in handy.

If you haven’t already you can also follow our AUDIOTUTS Twitter account, where we discuss various audio and music topics and provide you with audio engineering and production tips for your favorite software.