We simply wrapped an enormous 12 months at Blankwp, and we’re excited heading into 2016. Right here’s some highlights.
Blankwp Market
Our Neighborhood
Our group grew to over 6 million folks in 2015.
In 2015 we gave our group meet-ups, contests and content material a brand new dwelling with the launch of community.blankwp.com.
We additionally launched new boards for sellers to swap ideas, insights and interact with their patrons and the Blankwp group. With 161,830 discussions kicking off, we’ve began robust.
We had 27 folks on our marketplaces surpass $1 million in gross sales, and in December we noticed the primary ever inventive sellers exceed $10 million in gross sales. 2015 was additionally the yr that the earnings flowing to our group surpassed $300 million in whole.
Our group held 25 meet-ups all over the world, together with gatherings in Atlanta, Hyderabad, Cairo, Mumbai, Bran, Sofia, Belgrade and Melbourne.
And their work discovered its solution to some impressive places and customers.
Market Content material
The overall variety of gadgets our sellers listing on Blankwp Market grew by over 2.5 million, with the grand whole surpassing 9 million. That’s a whole lot of selection!
We launched the next new classes to remain forward of the business and buyer demand:
- Hero Images
- Google Slides
- Sketch Templates
- Sketch Plugins
- Layers Child Themes
- Layers Style Kits
- Layers Extensions
- Mura Themes
- Instapage
- Pagewiz
- Exchange Add-ons
- Music Kits
- Muse Widgets
(Should you don’t know what any of these issues are but, head on over to our tutorials
We added over 1000 new WordPress Themes to our ThemeForest stock, totalling greater than 5,900.
We added over 40,000 new vectors on GraphicRiver bringing the stock as much as 200,000+. Illustrator stays a rockstar design device on the rise and our group is able to embrace this and different vector instruments, like Affinity Designer.
Creatives added over 100,000 new tracks to our audio market AudioJungle this yr. That’s greater than 330,000 audio alternatives to create tasks with.
We count on this to maintain on hovering, with podcasts an more and more widespread device for advertisers, content material creators and a favourite of customers. These reveals typically have a musical theme or background tracks, as do the large wave of movies being produced by companies, advertisers and particular person broadcasters.
After Results templates remained a scorching ticket, with greater than 7,000 new templates becoming a member of VideoHive, for a complete of over 29,000 alternatives.
Over on our Code market, Visible Composer charged previous 100,000 gross sales, making it the second yr in a row we will have fun an merchandise reaching this milestone.
And unsurprisingly, our fonts library has doubled over the previous 12 months. You don’t should be a designer to understand an excellent wanting font. Many people like to share and showcase typography that conjures up us.
Final however not least, we farewelled our Flash marketplace, ActiveDen, in response to the altering fortune of Flash within the wild. The primary of the Blankwp marketplaces, it marked the top of an period.
Blankwp Studio
It was one other massive yr for Blankwp Studio connecting handpicked inventive skills with bespoke jobs and tasks.
Studio suppliers booked over 40,000 jobs in 2015, and 4 creatives delivered over 1000 jobs every to blissful clients.
In 2015 Blankwp Studio moved past its design and improvement roots, including an enormous array of latest classes and merchandise. Studio now provide skilled providers in:
Content material & writing
- Website content
- Copywriting
- Press releases
- Product descriptions
- Proofreading and editing
- Blog and article writing
- Technical writing
- Creative writing
- Resumes and cover letters
Audio
We launched new Specific Providers for people who want high quality work in a rush. Already proving widespread, these embody:
After Results
CMS
- Express Joomla Installation
- Express Drupal Installation
- Express Magento Installation
- Express OpenCart Installation
- Express PrestaShop Installation
Graphics
- Express Logo Customization
- Express Graphic Template Customization
- Express Vector Customization
- Express Photo Customization
- Express Stationery Template Customization
The high 5 hottest forms of Studio jobs had been:
Blankwp Tuts+
Studying was scorching in 2015 and we count on our learning network to get hotter nonetheless as folks dedicate 2016 to self-improvement, new alternatives and profession improvement.
Over 280 Blankwp Tuts+ instructors served over 20 million college students in 2015 – surpassing an all time whole of over 250 million.
The preferred tutorial of 2015 was 10 Drawing Myths That Block Your Progress.
The Chinese language translation of that tutorial attracted probably the most visitors of any put up for 2015!
The preferred free course printed in 2015 was Semantic HTML: How to Structure Web Pages.
The preferred paid course for 2015 was… Functional Programming in JavaScript.
Blankwp Tuts+ printed 1,425,940 seconds of video content material — that’s over 396 hours, or 16 and a half days!
There have been four million phrases of academic content material printed. That’s greater than three instances George R.R. Martin’s Recreation of Thrones collection – mixed!
335 group translators translated over 800 tutorials into 38 languages.
We additionally launched quick programs, espresso break programs and a brand new 60 second primer collection to assist folks study on the go.
New product launches
This yr we launched two new merchandise we’re excited to see develop in 2016.
Unstock, collections of gorgeous, genuine and human imagery that doesn’t look or really feel like inventory customary.
Blankwp Video, a free app (our first ever!) to assist anybody create skilled wanting, partaking movies utilizing nothing however the pictures on their iPhone. The Subsequent Internet known as it among the best apps of 2015!
We additionally launched a beta for Blankwp Sites, a brand new site builder for small companies and busy professionals who want to start out with a completed web site. Keep tuned for an even bigger peek at this work quickly.
Inside Blankwp
Our folks achieved wonderful issues in 2015 and we’re extremely happy with them.
Our co-founders Collis and Cyan Ta’eed had been named Entrepreneurs of the Year (Providers, Southern Area) and Cyan was crowned Entrepreneur of the Year (Victoria) within the prestigious Telstra Women in Business Awards.
As an organization, we had been recognised as one of many Greatest Places to Work in Australia by BRW’s Greatest Locations to Work 2015 Examine (a list of the 50 high employers in Australia) and we made the highest crop of Cool Tech Companies awarded by Job Advisor.
We had been particularly proud to win Australia’s Coolest Company for Women, because it’s been a precedence for us to create a enterprise and work group the place variety is established order, not an aspiration.
Our legal team were singled out by their business colleagues as being true innovators, and main the cost on utilizing actual language for issues like phrases and situations of use.
We marked our ninth birthday with offers, giveaways and a wacky dance from the CEO.
And we expanded into the U.S!
It was an enormous yr, however 2016 guarantees to be much more huge. So stick round!
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