In the immortal words of Lilo from the Disney classicLilo & Stitch“Ohana means family. Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.”
While the original statement was directed at something akin to a genetically engineered koala (thanks Wikipedia), it’s also a phrase that could easily be adopted at Envato, given the number of family members we have working under the one roof at our Melbourne HQ…and no, that’s not including Collis and Cyan Ta’eed!
Take brothers Vasko and Daniel Jovanoski. The latter was just five months into his role as a Development Team Lead last year when he encouraged his younger brother to apply for a Service Desk Specialist position. Far from having reservations about working so close together, Vasko said it was an easy decision to make. “Daniel told me about the role and the amazing culture and people at Envato, so applying for the role was an easy call to make.”
“There’s been a lot of positives, such as being able to catch up more regularly now and spend more time with him (Daniel), whether it be going for a coffee in the morning or grabbing lunch.”
“Also beating him at table-tennis has been quite enjoyable also! Sorry, Dan… I had to…” concludes Vasko with a laugh.
Despite having a torrid time on the table tennis table with his brother, Dan likewise has been a big fan of sharing his workday with family. “As we don’t live together anymore, it’s been great grabbing a coffee in the morning and catching up. I catch-up with Vasko more now than ever before…and I’ve even received credit for helping cook at the company BBQ when it was actually Vasko who volunteered!”
“There have been zero downsides, it’s been great.”
Likewise, it’s been all positive for the McKenna family. Sam McKenna, her husband Pat and his brother Alex have ensured that Envato has always had a McKenna in the building since 2013. “Pat started it,” says Sam. “He had this amazing opportunity with an awesome team which he’d tell me all about when he got home to find me still in my freelancing-PJs!”
Pat confirms he played a strong role in getting the rest of his family in the door. “I think I may have influenced Alex and Sam by constantly telling them about how nice it is to work at Envato, and that jealousy eventually morphed into job applications”
For Alex, having a familiar face in his brother Pat as he commenced in a new Customer Experience role made the transition to a new place of work so much smoother. “At the beginning of my time at Envato, Pat and I were working in different roles but on the same team. So while learning the ropes he was an amazing resource for learning why things were the way they were and I think it really helped me get up to speed in my job much faster.”
“And now with two other McKennas here there’s always someone to talk to and get a coffee or lunch with.”
However, there are downsides. “We end up talking about work constantly, even when we’re out at parties or family gatherings,” says Pat. “It can alienate everyone else a little bit.” It’s a sentiment Alex agrees with. “It does tend to come up, but we tend to have different opinions on things though so it’s usually quite good to hear their opinions on work topics,” he says.
“I think we do talk a lot about achievements or frustrations, but I think Alex is really great at leaving work at work” counters Sam.
“Also, my Dad keeps demanding that we get him some Envato merchandise,” jumps in Pat, reflecting further on the challenges they face as a family.
“Sometimes when Pat and Sam are too lazy to come to the office they make me collect their mail and bring it home for them,” muses Alex.
“Pat and I have been mistaken for brother and sister a couple of times, which is kind of funny but also concerning,” reflects Sam.
But the very minor frustrations are made up for a whole lot of good experiences. “Ultimately, you’ve always got someone supportive to rant to when you’re having a bad day,” concludes Pat.
What does it mean to balance purposeandprofit for business in 2019?
At Envato, we strive to take a long term view of our business and focus on creating value, so while we have a healthy appreciation for the bottom line, we are also invested in building a sustainable business that creates wealth for many, not just for some.
Ultimately, we want to set Envato up with a purpose thatlasts. We see our success in our community’s success, and we want to continue to align our core company values and operations with this purpose. That’s not always easy, and we don’t always get it right, but that’s our north star.
It’s a big part of the reason why we’re proud of the record payouts we’ve delivered to our author community over these past 12 months. And it’s why we’re also equally proud of confirming the Envato Foundation’s fourth charitable partner, Indigitek, with the launch of this year’s Public Impact Statement, available below.
Both were key achievements in a year that saw the company reach a number of milestones, launch new products and still deliver on the high standards we set for ourselves as members of the wider Envato community. I’d encourage everyone to take a few minutes to look through our 2019 Public Impact statement to get a more complete picture of what we’ve done, and where we are heading.
It was this time last year when we published our inaugural Public Impact Statement to give our community better insight into our ambitions and achievements, and give everyone a chance to share ideas on how we could do better.The response was overwhelmingand provided us with plenty of food for thought, inspiration…and, of course, a decent helping of positive reinforcement!
I hope this second iteration will continue to inspire our community and prompt valuable discussions in equal measure. Thank you all for what you have contributed to Envato this year, and we look forward to what 2020 may bring!
With the prominence of video content on social media platforms and search engines continuing to grow, having a video marketing strategy for your business has never been more important. That’s why we’ve created a free video marketing guide to help you get started on your video journey, or simply have a refresher.
By 2020, video will account for 82% of all internet traffic, according to Cisco. And it’s easy to see why.
The combination of visual and audio content has long been compelling to people, as we saw with the groundbreaking inventions of film and television. Television is still, today, the most effective way to advertise, and certainly one of the most expensive. Online video can be powerful too, but is, like television, pricey when compared to banner ads, and audio ads.
As a medium, it takes more time to produce video than any other kind of online marketing. Therefore, to ensure you get the best value, a video marketing strategy is required.
Today, we’ll look at what you need to know to put a video strategy together. And we’ll provide tips to make it both robust enough and agile enough to use in the short, medium and long-term.
Step one is to articulate why you’re attempting to use video marketing as a part of your marketing mix. Setting video goals, objectives, and KPIs is fundamental to creating an efficient video marketing strategy. It will help you justify the resources you need, and allow you to clearly see how well video marketing is contributing to your broader marketing goals.
These goals may work as nothing more than inspiration for you, or may well be some of the things you want to replicate for your strategy. Whichever way you go, use the SMART technique – making things specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound – to set your goals and KPIs for each of these objectives. Do the best you can to make them both ambitious, yet realistic. But be sure to give yourself the freedom to adjust them as time goes on if they show themselves to no longer be valuable parts of your strategy, or are simply no longer achievable.
A lot of video trends are a flash in the pan, but some stick around. So, what should you do?
If you were to go all-in on every video marketing trend, you would be switching up your video stack constantly for little value in return. Trends, by definition, come and go, so include an allowance of time and resources for experimentation so that you can try trends and new ideas for size, and see if they show value before making them a permanent part of your strategy.
Here are some trends that have grown in 2019:
Live streaming
Although Facebook Live was overhyped, live streaming has proven valuable to a lot of brands. The in-the-moment nature of the format captures people’s attention by establishing a sense of urgency. Live video also feels more intimate as it’s typically more off the cuff. Most platforms that offer live streaming will also provide viewers the ability to comment live, and interact with the streamer in a unique way which can increase overall user engagement for your brand.
Longer videos
While users on social media sites like Facebook prefer short videos, YouTube viewers are watching videos that are longer. In fact, it’s something that YouTube’s algorithm is favoring, as it means people are spending longer on the platform, and can therefore be shown more ads.
Captions
For Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn, animated captions are a great way to catch the eye of users that are scrolling. As videos on these platforms autoplay on mute, these animations can provide context of what the video is about, and try and hook users in, getting them to activate the sound and watch the whole way through. You can also do this through closed captions, which you can set to be automatically activated on your videos while playing with the sound off. These provide subtitles, and need to be uploaded into each platform with your video content as a .srt file. This is also a good thing to include in all videos across platforms, as it provides a transcript that search engines like Google can crawl, picking up on keywords, and improving the chances that they’ll show up in search results.
Stories
Snapchat’s popularity has fluctuated, and Instagram’s much-hyped IGTV was a bit of a bust, but the “Stories” format continues to go from strength to strength. Viewers usually expect to see this content in and amongst that of their close friends and influencers, so it needs to feel personal and be designed to be watched alone (often with sound off). Stories can be more low-fi than the content you’d expect to see from brands within your Instagram stream, or YouTube and Facebook feeds. If done well, it’s a unique and intimate way to connect with your audience.
Each of the video channels available can be used to target a slightly different audience, and requires a certain set of formats. Once you’ve figured out the audience that you’re trying to reach, and the style of video you want to create, it’s time to look for the right platform/s to be on.
YouTube
YouTube is one of the best video platforms on the web. It can handle virtually any resolution or format you want to throw at it, including interactive 360 videos, and 4k resolution. It’s the place to upload if you’re happy to have your users be shown ads before or during your content. YouTube videos can be easily embedded on web pages. And, as YouTube is the second largest search engine on the web, succeeding on YouTube can have a big impact on your brand’s SEO.
Facebook
It’s difficult to standout on Facebook at the best of times, and with more video content than ever being uploaded to the social network, decent exposure is getting harder. As a platform it can handle virtually any length of video (under 240 minutes), offers live streaming options, and can support the regular 16:9 video aspect ratio, as well as square or vertical videos. However, it can only handle 1080p or lower resolutions. Facebook videos autoplay in people’s feeds until users activate the sound. The feed is both a blessing and a curse, as it prompts passive discovery of your content, but, being in a feed full of content, rarely results in content longer than a few seconds being watched all the way through.
Instagram
The star of the Instagram right now is its popular Stories format, which was mentioned earlier. The other option is IGTV which, after a rough launch, has broadened the formats of video it accepts (no longer exclusively vertical video). IGTV will accept up to 15 minute long videos when uploading from a mobile device, and 60 minutes when uploading from the web. Videos must be MP4 format. And they’ll now appear as autoplaying videos in people’s feeds when they’re released, and on your Instagram profile, although only the first 30 seconds will play, and then prompt users to watch the rest in the IGTV part of the app.
Twitter
Twitter is similar to Facebook in that it can handle most formats and aspect ratios. However, it will only accept videos up to 30 seconds in length. You can get around this and upload videos up to 10 minutes long if you go through the ad platform (which is free unless you want to promote the video). Twitter videos autoplay, so consider the same kinds of things we’ve mentioned previously to stop scrolling users in their tracks. As a platform, Twitter is all about immediacy, so videos that are relevant to the current conversation will perform the best.
Assuming this is your first time putting together a video marketing strategy, this will be the first time your business will be putting resources into video production, which can involve some serious investment depending on the type of content you’re wanting to create.
An efficient video workflow is important when it comes to defining what you need and estimating how long and how many resources it will take to get things created.
Now that you know your objectives, who you’re trying to reach, and what platforms you need to be on, it’s time to decide what video formats your videos will be in. Will you be creating a series of live streams, with just one person talking to the camera, and interacting with the audience? Is it an explainer video, requiring graphics, and animation? Each video format will require a different level of investment.
This chapter of Envato’s Video Marketing Guide for 2019 breaks down the different tiers of video cost from budget buster to break the bank. See what’s most appropriate for your business.
Once the planning is done, and your videos have been created and uploaded, it’s time to measure and report on their performance, to conclude how they’re contributing to your strategy.
Watch time
Platforms like Facebook, and YouTube place a lot of value on how long people watch your videos for. Pay attention to the structure of your content, and ensure you’re hooking people in efficiently at the beginning, and maintaining their attention throughout. Consider whether you need to provide them with incentives to keep watching in the future.
View count
It’s the most vain of metrics, but it still counts. The algorithms of these sites pay attention to the amount of views a video has. Optimizing your videos correctly, sharing links to them on social media, in emails, and in newsletters can drive traffic to them, and help build momentum around them early on. The earlier you can give them exposure, the better, as each platform values relevant, and popular content.
Engagement
Comments, likes, and shares indicate how your content has resonated with viewers. Reactions – good or bad – are better than no reactions at all. This doesn’t mean making your content unnecessarily extreme. But it does mean the content needs to be compelling enough to start a conversation around it.
Click-through rate
Since this is video marketing, most of your videos – regardless of where you share them – will be linking, or driving people back to your website, or product page in some way. Measuring the click-through-rate – the amount of times a user has clicked on these links – is therefore an important metric to monitor.
Conversion rate
You’ve measured your click-through-rate, now how many of those clicks converted into a sale. Whether it’s a product, or subscription you’re driving your audience to, using tools like Google Analytics, or Tableau, allows you to see where people have come to your product pages from, and how many of them made a purchase. This metric is key when calculating the direct ROI from your video content.
Formalize and refine
The most important point to make in light of all of these tips is that they make up a framework that can stay the same, or be adjusted at any time. Broadly, defining your objectives, finding your audience, determining your budget, building a process, and measuring and learning are the considerations that guide you creating your strategy. These will not change. But the specifics that come out of these broader requirements can and will. What “works” today in the rapidly changing field of video marketing, may not work tomorrow.
So, be aware of your goals, and be open to changing, and adjusting them when necessary. Don’t be afraid to apply your learnings when supported by data, and leave enough room for experimentation, especially if you’re interested in keeping up with new trends.
These 5 steps are a guide to help you realise your business’ video marketing strategy. They should set you up to identify the specifics of it, and the broader goals of it, hopefully leaving you with something robust enough to get the resources you need and see success, and agile enough to take you long into the future. Mixed with your intelligence as a marketing professional, our video marketing guide should put you on the fast track to getting your video operation up and running, and seeing success, quickly.
Your business can only grow if your client base grows. So, how do you successfully engage a loyal, satisfied customers? One of the best ways is with a great email marketing strategy and some solid, engaging content to accompany it. MailChimp is one of the best systems out there when it comes to client email communications, sowe’ve put together this list of the 10 best email marketing templates for MailChimp for 2019 to take the hard work out of creating engaging email marketing content for your prospective and existing audience. All items featured today are available with a subscription to Envato Elements.
Starting off our countdown is a versatile theme with 18 pre-built layouts and 80+ sections. Creating unique, immersive emails has never been so easy. Feature your best testimonials, introduce your team, highlight your products and put forward your best call to action to create a beautiful, modern email design using this template.
Turn your eye for fashion to this sleek template design and bring all your hottest products to the forefront of your emails. A highly interactive design allows you to include information surrounding any item on your product line, with room for individual product details and click throughs directly to your website. It’s a fashionista’s best friend.
The number 8 template on our list features a beautiful, modern design that can easily cater to any email marketing needs. This template allows businesses to promote their goods and services to clients in a super stylish way, minus the hassle.
Template number 7 on our list of Envato Elements top 10 email marketing templates for MailChimp is perfect for the creative mind wanting to showcase their products, brand or portfolio to their client base in an engaging way. Stylish features and room to provide stats and figures make this template stand out in the best possible way.
Designed specifically with writers in mind, this template features multiple text editing options with room for a portfolio feature and a “meet our team” section. Help your customers understand your business and let them connect with you and your team as you take them on a journey with this marketing email template.
Our number 5 entry has amazing, easy to use online template builder features. You can instantly edit text, easily undo or redo actions and export your template file to your desktop. It also includes graphs and charts to show off your business’s stats. The best part is, when you send it off to your customers it will look striking and immediately grab their attention.
Share your business’s best features with this email template by MaestoMail. With varying text and image fields, you can mix words with visuals to show your customers how you can make their lives a little easier with your products and services. The bright colours and bold headings are editable, but the pre-existing options definitely stand out as they are.
This fun and fancy-free template is a breath of fresh air. It screams “young and bold’ and will stand out from the competition. Link to your blog, your shop, your e-brochure or your “contact us” page and highlight the products on your “must sell” list to draw customers in.
Extensive email compatibility and super easy editing features allow any creative, designer or marketing professional to take advantage of this modern, sophisticated template. This design will empower your clients to engage with you and your products.
Number 1 on our list is James by contributor DynamicXX. The hero banner alone packs a punch and draws the eye to whatever it is you need to promote. This template is perfect for photographers to showcase their images, working in harmony with descriptive text and links to websites or galleries.
Did any stand out to you as a template you’d use to increase your client base and communicate with your current customers? If so, make sure you share this list with any friends or colleagues who may benefit from using any of these templates in their marketing efforts. Make sure you don’t miss out on upcoming video content by subscribing to the Envato YouTube channel.
It’s not often you can claim to be theliteraltextbook example of anything. But that all changed for Envato this year, following the publication of one of the key texts that Victorian secondary school students now use in their business management studies.
If you were to look at the coverKey Concepts in VCE Business Management Units 1&2, you wouldn’t necessarily expect to find Envato inside. However, according to co-author Stephen Chapman, the company was a perfect example for the “Establish a Business” unit.
The Jacaranda VCE texts for business management
“Envato’s experiences reinforce the theoretical concepts discussed in the ‘Legal and Financial Considerations’ chapter. Students are exposed to the ‘real world’ workings of a business in order for them to understand how a business operates in reality.”
The textbook examines Envato’s humble start in a Sydney-basement and the company’s subsequent journey to becoming one of Australia’s most successful tech startups, withmore than $750 million USDpaid out to its creative community during this time.
“The discussion as to Envato’s early beginnings and the financial requirements – a starting budget of $90,000 and the use of a credit card – provides a sense of realism,” continued Chapman. “The case study provides students with a clear understanding that there are different methods used to raise finance for the establishment of a business.”
“I particularly liked how the case study showed the transition to other sources of funding as the business expanded as well as the payment methods for its contributors.”
The Envato example, as found in Key Concepts in VCE Business Management Units 1&2
A recent survey conducted by publisher Jacaranda of teachers who use the textbook in their classes found that many found the case studies to be one of the key reasons the book was such a success in their classrooms. Envato was a good fit for this because, as Chapman pointed out, the company’s success story contains all the ingredients to make it not just relevant, but inspiring too.
“It’s a contemporary business that students can relate to. It contains a human aspect – Cyan and Collis’ goals and aspirations – that help create an engaging narrative, that’s highlighted by the growth and development of the business over time.”
So next time someone asks you for a textbook example of how to be flexible and responsive when establishing a business, look no further than Envato!
Music in gaming videos can set the tone, raise energy, and punctuate epic moments.Today’s list counts down the 10 best gaming music tracks in 2019.All items featured today are available with a subscription to Envato Elements.
In EDM by OlexandrIgnatov kicks us off with an explosive package of synthy shredding and hard-hitting bass.This relentless tune will serve you well as a high-intensity background track.
Dirty Game Aggressive Action Big Beat by kornevmusic combines syncopated drum patterns with distorted guitar and a punchy synthesizer to create an aggressive all-around action track.The blaring background horns and industrial attitude feel like a modern EDM take on Nine Inch Nails.
Sport Action by OlexandrIgnatov reverberates its way onto our list with its dark and infectious rhythm.The electrified, sizzling bass behind the echoing snare drum is reminiscent of the soundtrack to The Matrix – perfect for imbuing your gaming videos with a moody undercurrent.
Epic by TheStoryShop starts off like a re-imagination of The Mission Impossible soundtrack, then transitions to something more akin to Hans Zimmer’s Batman theme.The track is aptly named and ideal for dramatic introductions and buildups.
Adventure Epic Cinematic by MarbleSpace is everything you’d expect from such a title, with motivating horn blares and rolling violin phrases aplenty.Viewers will expect something appropriately (or farcically) daring when this comes on, so use it wisely.
Closer to the opposite end of the energy spectrum, we have Relaxing Piano with Nature Sounds by AllenGrey.Bathe your listeners in these sentimental layers of sunlight, babbling brooks and chirping birds if you’re looking to bring the energy down a few notches.
Evolving Valley of Emotions by matsteiner is there for you when you want your video to evoke maximum feels.Harness the tinkling bells, swelling strings and ethereal chants effectively, and by the end of your no-scope montage, there won’t be a dry eye in the house.
Suspense by TheStoryShop is positively oozing with murky dread.Throw this on your stealth or horror-oriented gaming videos and your viewers will be gleefully white-knuckling it straight to subscriberdom.
Dance Power Drift by LoopsLab wastes no time with nuance, launching straight into a pounding bass line and rapid-fire synth notes.This belligerent bass-in-your-face banger will instantly let your audience know what they’re in for on your high-intensity gaming channel.
Right from the first echoing cello note, you know you’re in for a goosebump-inducing ride with Dark Sci-Fi Trailer.Author AllenGrey has managed to compose the sonic equivalent of a villain that you hate to love.Put simply, this track is Thanos, a Xenomorph from Alien, and Cthulhu all wrapped up in one terrifyingly awesome package.
That concludes our list of the 10 best gaming music tracks for 2019.Which track would you choose for your next gaming video?Don’t forget to subscribe to the Envato YouTube channel to check out our upcoming video content specifically designed for creatives like you. To journey further down the rabbit hole of gaming video creation, check out our list of the 10 Best Video Game Sounds for 2019:
Video marketing templates are a godsend when you need to create engaging videos without blowing your budget.We’re counting down 2019’s 10 Best Video Marketing Templates for Premiere Pro.All items featured here are available with a subscription to Envato Elements. We also have a Video Marketing Guide that breaks down the process into manageable chunks. Be sure to check that out, too.
This template makes a statement with its simple and bold styling.Seven types of logo reveals and four types of animated text callouts will give you plenty to work with for a promo video or YouTube channel opener.
This pack is a bundle of five different intros, each with a unique flavor.Looking for an opener for your fashion or travel videos? Give the “Urban” option a whirl. Something with a bit more testosterone, you say? Try “Sports” on for size. Corporate, Grunge and Romantic options round out the rest of the pack.
Everyone needs animated typography at some point or another, and Neat Titles by Space-Dog fills the gap with 30 easily customizable motion graphics. Load up these MOGRTs for nitty-gritty editing in After Effects, or mainline them straight into your Essential Graphics panel in Premiere Pro for instant drag-and-drop goodness.
Take the headache out of your social media story creation with the Instagram Stories template.While this particular item is aimed at web and software developers, author IconsX also offers more than 20 other Instagram Stories templates with themes ranging from marketing and finance, to technology and education.
Don’t let the name fool you – Intro by templatesbravo is more than just a jazzy opener.A subscribe button pop-up for YouTube, follow reminder for Instagram, and outro animation make for an excellent all-in-one motion graphic pack for your channel.
This is a dashingly designed Premiere Pro template made with event organisers in mind.Hype up your conference, lecture, or board meeting with videos that are primed and ready for your guests’ mobile devices.
Vooofka serves up ultramodern elegance with Stylish Broadcast Pack.These motion graphics are edgy – literally. Just look at the angles on those lower thirds. Breathtaking.
If what you need is a polished, dynamic template for your corporate videos, Mr_Free has the goods with Collage.The smoothly animated image placeholders, text layers and transitions are sure to elicit some nods of approval and “hmm, not bad” faces at your next boardroom presentation.
Creative Process – Flat Design Concepts by Aquavitae is a collection of 15 workspace scenes which cover just about every major niche of digital marketing and development.Switch individual elements on and off, change colors, play with scale, and add in text to compose scenes that are uniquely yours.
This pack is a one-stop-shop for Instagrammers, social influencers, and digital marketers.This bundle is crammed full of enough pre-made scenes, transitions, titles, animated swipes, backgrounds and headers to keep your vertical video stories eternally fresh.
That wraps up our list of the 10 Best Video Marketing Templates for Premiere Pro.Which template engaged you the most? If you have any friends looking for easy ways to promote their products and services using video, make sure you share this list with them.
Don’t forget to subscribe to the Envato YouTube channel to check out our upcoming video content specifically designed for creatives like you and ,if your video marketing toolbox could use a few more templates, stick around and check out our list of the Top 10 Product Promo Templates for After Effects:
If you’ve just started up your own business, run your own blog or have needed to create your own website for any other reason, chances are you’ve heard of WordPress websites. Of all the open source Content Management Systems available today, WordPress is by far one of the most popular. It’s free to install and use, with the option to utilise extra paid features. Thousands upon thousands of WordPress plugins and website templates are available, so we’ve decided to narrow down our top 10 best WordPress themes of 2019 to make choosing your design elements a little bit easier. All items featured today are available with a subscription to Envato Elements.
A sleek, theme with a modern design, number 10 on the list is the perfect way for a creative design professional, freelance photographer or artist to show off their products or portfolio. It’s fully customizable with a plethora of home page layout options so that you can showcase your portfolio in precisely the way you wish.
This theme brings to mind all things natural, organic and healthy for the mind, body and soul. Showcase your organic juices, fruits, vegetables, skincare or clothing with the beautiful, fresh look this theme provides.
A highly versatile, rectangular, clean cut design makes this theme perfect for any new (or well established) business wanting to showcase their services. This modern, stylish and highly customizable theme will make creating and maintaining your website an easy feat.
With a strong focus on image display, this theme is an absolute must-have for any architecture or property management firm. Tech companies could also put this theme to good use due to the modern design and bold features. Two complete website layouts and 13 special elements allow for a super easy initial setup and further adjustments.
Designed specifically with educational institutions in mind, this theme works best when set up to showcase course material, teacher profiles and learning tools. The clean design allows students to easily navigate the entire website to avoid wasting time and becoming frustrated before they even reach the course information. Use this theme to help your company stand out in the education space.
We’re midway through our top 10 best Envato Elements WordPress themes of 2019 and our number five entry should be on your radar if you need a website to make a splash within the fashion industry. The minimalistic design of this template allows products and designer items to take centre stage and really shine. With room for product descriptions, other text and blog posts, your website will contain everything your clients could want and more.
Our number four theme just screams “photography portfolio”. With capabilities to show full screen images, an amazing square collage home screen with a sizable, pop-up cover photo and minimalistic navigational menus it’s every photographers dream. It also includes features such as a blog, an About Me section and a Contact page. Start your photography career off the right way with this amazing template.
Fantastic readability and usability partners with an attractive home page design to give users the ultimate theme for a magazine, blog or creative work in any other written format. A highly organised and easily customisable template allows users to spend their time on the important things – writing their next viral article, for example.
If you aim to sell products, our number two theme has got you covered. Specially designed to cater to online businesses and their client base, it covers all aspects of the art of selling. There’s room for product images and descriptions, reviews, blogs, promotions, an online checkout and more.
Number one on our list of Envato Elements top 10 best WordPress themes for 2019 is a luxurious theme catered towards all styles of blogs and magazines. Highly customisable and easily updated and maintained, you will love using this theme to showcase your work – and your readers will love how easy it is to navigate your site. It’s a super stylish way to make sure your work gets the attention it truly deserves.
That was our list of our top 10 best WordPress themes for 2019. Did you connect with any of them? Which one would you use to showcase your products? If you know of any friends who are looking to update their website or create a new one, make sure you share this list with them.
When creating a video, one of the most important elements is communicating your brand’s identity. And the most effective way to do that is by inserting your logo. But how it animates onto the screen can say as much about your brand as the content that follows.
Logo reveal templates make it incredibly easy to create branded animations for your videos.
Here are the 10 Best Logo Reveals for 2019.
All items featured are available with a subscription to Envato Elements.
Consider your logo the result of a misguided invention? This could be the logo reveal for you. Set in a science lab your logo is revealed as an experiment gone wrong. After it cracks through the glass in a haze of smoke, it floats to the forefront accompanied by your brand name. It’s creative and fun.
Swiss Logo by PixFlow treats the logo and background as one rubbery object. It pans around slowly showcasing the rubbery texture of the background, then eventually revealing the light-filled logo. It’s beautifully animated and very effective.
This luscious logo reveal makes a work of art of light hitting the different curved angles of your logo. With a few different color options – all of them quite shiny – this beautifully glitzy logo reveal is perfect for a fashion video or to open an exclusive event.
Epic Logo by bank508 lives up to its namesake. Showing the graphite-colored ground cracking as the camera sweeps its way towards the logo that explodes onto screen, this is a great template to introduce an action film, sports video or video game stream.
Rainbow Particles Logo Reveal by sachinjoshi is vivid and cinematic. From the get-go, it presents an atmosphere of exploding color within a shiny black setting that screams class. It’s seriously eye-catching.
Incredibly vibrant and colorful, this modern logo reveal is a short burst of excitement. Perfect to open a video, you’ll easily set a friendly and energetic tone right from its opening seconds with this one by Fanimation
This template offers more of a logo opener and it’s stunning. Featuring your logo in 3D and colored in decadent gold, floating around the screen as any titles you’d like to include appear, this item is a very glitzy way to open a video project.
Elegant Flame Logo by Visual_A is exactly what the title suggests. Showing flames on-screen that flicker out to reveal your logo, it’s a great introduction for something epic. The ultra high definition brings out the details of the animation and means it can be used in the most professional of productions. And small details like the amber floating around the screen emphasize the high quality of this template.
Architect Logo Reveal combines a minimalistic concept with cinematic execution. It presents your logo gradually being sketched out on a grid, then transitions into 3D, showing your logo pivoting into the center of the screen. It’s stunning.
Looking for a fresh, bright logo reveal pack that combines earthy textures and footage? Then get Real Logo Bundle is for you. This great value bundle provides a selection of unique eye-catching logo reveals covering fire, earth, sand, paint, ink, paper, candy and forest style themes. Perfect for grabbing attention and exciting the eye.
That wraps up our list of the 10 Best Logo Reveals for 2019. Head over to Envato Elements to browse over a million digital assets, and don’t forget to subscribe to the Envato YouTube channel if you found the video helpful!
One of the biggest Motion Design trends of this year is Fast Typography. A great example of which is Apple’s “Don’t Blink” video that dropped in late 2016, following their ‘Big Launch’ event announcing the iPhone 7, AirPods and updates to the Apple Watch, among other things.
The look and feel fit Apple’s sleek, minimal style, but also managed to cram a lot of information into two minutes in an engaging, digestible way.
Check out the top fast typography templates for 2019 in this video:
Trend Origins
The functionality behind this type of animation and design draws on the learnings of Evelyn Wood, an American educator and businessperson who popularized the term “speed reading”, as well as building the systems that encouraged it.
More and more today, however, software platforms have been offering different approaches to speed reading. You can find quite a few of these platforms and apps, with Spritz and Spreeder being some of the most popular. They usually apply a variation of a method called Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP). The basic concept is to display your text word by word, or by in small groups of words, one after the other. This way you can speed up the reading process by increasing the average rate of words-per-minute displayed on the screen.
Practical Advantages
In an era where we’re constantly overwhelmed by the amount of information being thrown at us, the popularity of templates that help deliver messages in fast, visually engaging ways has risen.
Video has thus experienced aggressive growth as an ideal medium to deliver this type of content. Which is why it’s no surprise that the world’s appetite for fast typography templates has grown.
And so today we’ll be taking a look at 12 terrific fast typography templates you can use to display information in your next video.
Similar to Stomp, in that it’s also clearly inspired by Apple’s “Don’t Blink” commercial, Rhythmic Typography shows what’s possible with some simple black and white typography, and some clever animation.
The way the text can slide from side to side becoming different words each time is genius. Even the way words can light up and fade out, almost like an elevator, shows off the power of indicating concepts rather than showing them.
Rhythmic Opener by Levmotion is fresh and eye catching. The little jolt of movement it adds really makes you look at the words on the screen. And that type of effect is also very in vogue right now.
The template also applies a sort of magnifying tile effect on top of the background image, as the project shakes. Pop a great audio track underneath and marry the jolts up with the accents of the beat, and you’ll see how easy it is to make an engaging video out of nothing more than typography and some still images.
If you liked that last template, but aren’t trying to literally shake your audience into paying attention, then consider the smooth stylings of Urban Opener // Dynamic Opener by makcinema.
This template incorporates a similar square ripple effect to the last one, but it’s a bit more subtle. In a similar vein, the animation of the typography is more on the smooth side, easing into place a little slower.
Simple and clever, this template plays with size and scale. It’s all about energy with each image drawing the eye by appearing, growing bigger or smaller, and then being replaced by another image in quick succession.
The words appear one by one. Some sit in the middle of the screen, some take up the whole screen. It’s all about variation, keeping you engaged by keeping you on your toes. You can never be too sure where to look.
This next template is very fresh, yet very accessible and I think it achieves this by being very colorful and playful in its animation. Although it’s definitely fast with a real drive to it, it’s not aggressive. In fact, there’s an element of softness to the way things animate. From the less jolty way each word lands on screen, to the way each individual letter eases into position, even the way the images drop down with a soft, blurred effect before touching the base of the frame.
This template by Qwadro is all about showing you a lot without making it feel that way.
Full of wipes and slides with ease, what really amplifies the smoothness of this template by romlam is that the background moves in sync, but in contrary motion to the text. The effect? It feels like a bigger movement than it is, and draws the eye without anything huge actually going on.
Who likes gradients? Don’t Wink – Typographic Intro by MbrEffects puts fresh white text up against beautiful, bright gradients. Sometimes they’re solid, sometimes they’re not. You can have your text in a box, or out of a box. The choice is yours. The animations are simple but pleasant. And this template overall is versatile enough that you can use it for pretty much any video.
Extremely stylish and slick, Fashion Promo by Fixit is a great choice for (would you believe it) a fashion brand. It feels modern and is best suited that kind of broad, one word at a time style of commercial. It’s fast and slick, but not alienating.
This template makes use of the full width and height of your screen, creating what feels like a fully responsive template. It could just be the images they’ve used in the demo reel, but its has a very slick, sophisticated feel to it. The glassy effect that goes over the images mid-cube transition are one example.
It’s a template that works best when being used to deliver a very concise message. It’s fast paced, restrained and very chic.
This one’s great if you want a visually exciting template. The images and footage you add to this template really play a big part in creating the vibe this demo is selling. But the shapes made in and around the text are also just as effective.
If you’re looking for something polished with a capital ‘P’, then this next one’s for you.
Relying on a mix of restraint, high color contrast, and text that literally feels like it’s dancing, Typography Opener by Motion-Bear feels ultra modern, ultra professional, and incredibly chic.
It’s something I could see a brand like Uber or Microsoft using. Or see on the TV screens at Apple’s Genius Bar and not blink. #dontblink
And that’s our list of twelve terrific fast typography templates that you can buy right now on VideoHive!
Thanks to the Envato Community for helping us put this list together. You can check out the rest of their suggestions for great fast typography templates on the Envato Forums.
Envato’s Famous 5 is back! If you’re wondering who’s been using Envato items, you’ve come to the right place! This series showcases Envato items that have been used by big name brands, influencers and celebrities.
Envato WordPress theme, Mixtape, by Select-themes has been used on an iconic music influencer’s website. Available to download from Themeforest, this theme purpose-designedfor recording artists, bands and festivalsprovides a starting point for any music-related website. It’s fully customisable, with no coding knowledge required, so it’s easy to use and highly versatile.
CodeCanyon author themepunch has had huge success with Slider Revolution, an innovative, responsive WordPress Slider Plugin that has been used by numerous recording artists.
One of the world’s leading tech brands used Audio Jungle track Drumstep Rock by RockLab in an advertisement for one of their products in Taiwan. The unusual rock track would pair well with any high-intensity video and is also available in the Drumstep Rock Pack, which provides three additional variations on the original track.
MotionFlowMedia’s Animated Letters & Numbers with Motion Elements, which can be found on VideoHive, was used in a Christmas video for massive soft drink manufacturer. The videotemplate is customisable to your project and easy to use with drag and drop functionality. You’ll also find a video tutorial included with your purchase so you can pepper your project with text that’s a little bit special.
Finally, Quantum HUD Infographic, by Pixflow can be found on a television series exclusive to CBS. Available to download on Envato Elements, our subscription-based library full of thousands of digital assets, the After Effects template pack includes 350 items, from infographics to 3D objects and warning displays.
Items We Used
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