Envato

One of the world's largest creative digital asset marketplaces, now integrated into Shutterstock's global content platform

Envato, now part of Shutterstock, Inc. following its acquisition in 2024, is one of the world's largest online marketplaces for creative digital assets. Founded in Melbourne, Australia, Envato built a thriving ecosystem of platforms — most notably Envato Market (a collection of niche marketplaces including ThemeForest, CodeCanyon, and VideoHive) and Envato Elements, a subscription-based service offering unlimited downloads of millions of creative assets. The company empowers freelancers, designers, developers, and businesses with high-quality templates, themes, graphics, photos, audio, video, and more. Shutterstock completed the acquisition of Envato in mid-2024 in a deal reported at approximately $245–375 million, integrating Envato's vast creative content library and its large community of contributors and buyers into Shutterstock's global content ecosystem. Prior to the acquisition, Envato had grown organically to serve tens of millions of customers and hundreds of thousands of creative contributors worldwide, generating substantial recurring revenue through its subscription and marketplace models. Within the broader creative content and digital asset industry, Envato occupies a significant position as a go-to resource for web developers, digital marketers, video producers, and graphic designers. Its platforms compete with Adobe Stock, Canva, Shutterstock's own legacy offerings, and other creative marketplaces. The integration with Shutterstock is expected to expand the combined entity's content depth, contributor base, and global reach, reinforcing Shutterstock's position as a dominant force in the creative content market.