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Envato Market Affiliate Program

Envato · Digital creative assets market — individual item purchases (themes, templates, code, video, audio, graphics)

current Last verified 2026-09-23

Program overview

Program name
Envato Market Affiliate Program
VerifiedS2S3
Brand
Envato
VerifiedS1

Envato is the public brand. The current Affiliate Program Terms define "Envato, we, us or our" as Shutterstock, Inc., which may also be identified as the Advertiser within Impact.

Operator entity
Shutterstock, Inc.
VerifiedS1

Current contractual operator of the Envato Affiliate Program, per the current Affiliate Program Terms. Do not substitute historical Envato corporate entities. Envato is the brand only.

Program launch date
Not established from the reviewed sources.
Not established
Vertical
Digital creative assets market — individual item purchases (themes, templates, code, video, audio, graphics)
VerifiedS3

Envato Market is documented as referring customers to individual digital assets. Distinct from Envato Elements subscription activity and Placeit design-tool activity.

Target market
Not established from the reviewed sources.
Not established
Languages supported
Not established from the reviewed sources.
Not established

Publisher access

Approval model
review / approval required; applications submitted through Impact and manually reviewed by the Envato Partnerships team
VerifiedS1S2S3

Automatic acceptance is not established.

Eligibility criteria
application through Impact; affiliate information must be accurate; affiliate must be at least 18 years old; Envato assessment may include ownership/rights to affiliate website, website quality and website compliance
VerifiedS1

Website criteria are formulated as "may include". This must not be converted into a universal website requirement.

Geographic eligibility
documented negative boundary: persons located in U.S.-sanctioned countries and persons on the U.S. Treasury Department SDN list are excluded; other laws and regulations may restrict the relationship
Partially verifiedS1

The evidence establishes a documented negative eligibility boundary, not a complete positive global eligibility statement.

Website traffic requirements
Not established from the reviewed sources.
Not established

No numerical minimum traffic requirement is established. A universal website requirement is also not established.

Content requirements
website quality and website compliance may form part of the assessment
Partially verifiedS1

No universal numerical content threshold is established.

KYC requirements
Not established from the reviewed sources.
Not established

Universal application-stage government-ID KYC is not established. S1 states that affiliate information must be accurate and, where applicable, may include government-issued ID, tax details and business-registration details. Payment-stage tax documentation is a separate verified finding and must not be collapsed with KYC.

Commissions

Commission model
commission on qualifying Market referral transactions; headline commission currently presented as 30% of the referred customer's initial spend
VerifiedS4

The current Affiliate Program Terms state that each Offer contains its own commission and successful-referral conditions. Where Offer Terms control the actual earning conditions, OFFER_LEVEL must be preserved.

Current commission rate
30% of the referred customer's initial spend (current public Market headline)
VerifiedS4

Documentary qualification formulations across S4, S5 and S6 are preserved separately in Important context and must not be broadened into one universal rule.

Rate structures
property-specific / Offer-specific; the current Affiliate Program Terms state that each Offer contains the applicable commission percentage and successful-referral conditions
VerifiedProgram & networkS1

Market economic scope remains Market-bounded. Do not extend to Elements or Placeit.

Recurring commission
Not established from the reviewed sources.
Not established

No recurring commission is established for the Market Program.

Commission cap
Not established from the reviewed sources.
Not established

Universal earnings cap is not established. Do not encode "uncapped".

Validation period
Not established from the reviewed sources.
Not established

Refund / reversal mechanics are documented and are not equivalent to a fixed validation period.

Tiered offers
Not established from the reviewed sources.
Not established

Universal tiered commission architecture is not established. Market / Elements / Placeit rates are not commission tiers — they belong to different property Programs.

Tracking

Cookie duration
90 days (general Market cookie period)
VerifiedS1

The applicable cookie period may be described in the applicable Offer Terms. This is the general period established by S1. Do not synthesize with Elements / Placeit into a 60–90 day range.

Cookie type
Not established from the reviewed sources.
Not established

Cookies and similar technologies are used for tracking. Technical cookie type is not established.

Cross-device tracking
Not established from the reviewed sources.
Not established
SubID
Not established from the reviewed sources.
Not established
Postback
Not established from the reviewed sources.
Not established
Affiliate API
Not established from the reviewed sources.
Not established
Deeplinking
each selected Offer has a unique referral link generated through the Impact account
VerifiedProgram & networkS1S9

Unique referral-link generation is documented. Universal unrestricted deeplinking is not established. Do not convert one into the other. A current technical Market source also documents Impact "Create a Link" usage in a bounded Market context.

Attribution

Attribution window
90 days (general Market period)
VerifiedS1

Applicable Offer Terms may govern. Do not synthesize with Elements / Placeit into a 60–90 day range.

Attribution model
FIRST CLICK — if a person clicks one affiliate's referral link and later another affiliate's referral link, the first link clicked counts; multiple Envato Affiliates are not paid for the same transaction
VerifiedS1

First-click is expressly established by Envato's current contractual Terms. Do not describe first-click as a generic Impact rule.

Payments

Minimum payout threshold
Not established from the reviewed sources.
Not established

Envato Author payment thresholds must not be inherited. Author payout threshold ≠ Affiliate payout threshold.

Payment schedule
Not established from the reviewed sources.
Not established

A complete Envato-specific affiliate payment schedule is not established. Do not inherit author payment dates or generic Impact payment dates.

Payment methods
payments are made through payment options provided by Impact
Partially verifiedProgram & networkS1

A complete Envato-specific list of payment methods is not established. Do not inherit author-specific payout methods.

Payout currencies
payment is made in the affiliate's nominated currency through Impact; Envato disclaims responsibility for currency conversion
VerifiedProgram & networkS1

The complete list of supported currencies is not established.

Hold period
Not established from the reviewed sources.
Not established

A routine generic hold period is not established. Conditional withholding rights (tax/documentation, suspension/breach) must not be encoded as a routine hold period.

Promotional and channel restrictions

Paid search
restricted: prohibition on use of Envato trademarks, variants or misspellings in specified search/PPC contexts; bidding on protected identifying terms without consent; outranking or outbidding Envato on relevant Envato ad keywords; direct PPC linking from search engines to Envato sites; use of Envato sites as display URLs in the prohibited PPC context
VerifiedS1

Do not simplify to "paid search prohibited". The documented rule is more specific.

Brand bidding
restricted: trademark, variation, misspelling and protected identifying-term restrictions apply
VerifiedS1
Email
unsolicited email / messaging constituting spam is prohibited
VerifiedS1

Universal email marketing permission is not established.

Social
current Terms require compliance with applicable third-party services, including social-networking services
VerifiedS1

A universal organic-social permission is not established.

Coupon affiliates
Not established from the reviewed sources.
Not established
Cashback
Not established from the reviewed sources.
Not established
Sub-affiliation
Not established from the reviewed sources.
Not established
Toolbar / browser extensions
Not established from the reviewed sources.
Not established

Terms and restrictions

Program agreement
current Envato Affiliate Program Terms govern participation in the umbrella Envato Affiliate Program; participation in property-specific Offers is under applicable Offer Terms incorporated into the Affiliate Terms
VerifiedS1

Terms last revised 2026-08-11.

Unilateral changes
Envato may change Offer Terms, the Affiliate Program, approved tags/text/graphics, and the Affiliate Program Terms; reasonable prior notice will be provided under the documented circumstances, including materially adverse changes
VerifiedS1

Do not encode an unqualified "may change without notice".

Termination
Envato may suspend Offers or terminate affiliate participation under the documented conditions; the affiliate may terminate participation in one or more Offers or the Affiliate Program
VerifiedS1

The Offer-level / Program-level distinction is preserved and must not be flattened into one generic statement.

Network / Platform Relationship

Impact.com affiliation type — not established Verified Program & network

Impact is the documented platform through which the Envato affiliate architecture is operated (application, affiliate account, Offer availability, referral-link generation, earnings information, payment administration). Shutterstock, Inc. / Envato defines and governs the contractual Affiliate Program and applicable program / Offer rules. Governance is mixed. affiliation_type is not established: the frozen evidence does not authorize inference of DIRECT_HOSTED from application / account / payment infrastructure alone. Canonical Network slug: impact. Generic Impact capabilities must not be inherited.

S1S2S3

Important context

Material boundaries preserved from the canonical factual record.

Institutional boundaries

  • Brand vs operator: Envato is the public brand; the current Affiliate Program Terms define "Envato, we, us or our" as Shutterstock, Inc., which may also be identified as the Advertiser within Impact.
  • Common contractual umbrella: the current Affiliate Program Terms establish one Envato Affiliate Program, within which approved Envato Affiliates may participate in various Offers. Each Offer may contain its own promotion type, successful-referral conditions, commission percentage, referral link, Offer Terms and applicable cookie period.
  • Property-specific Affiliate Program identities: current official Envato documentation explicitly states that Envato currently has three different Affiliate Programs — Envato Elements, Envato Market and Placeit — each managed and run on Impact. Current Market documentation independently describes the Envato Market Affiliate Program and separately identifies Elements and Placeit as affiliate programs.
  • Program / Offer terminology: both layers are preserved. The legal Terms establish the contractual umbrella and the Offer structure; the product-facing documentation identifies the property-specific Programs.
  • Automatic participation in all three property Programs after umbrella approval: not established.
  • Universal identical Offer terms across Market, Elements and Placeit: not established.

Market commission wording differences

  • S4: 30% commission of the referred customer's initial spend.
  • S5: commission on the first purchase made by each new customer arriving through the affiliate link; the resulting earnings are described as Referral Income (Market-specific).
  • S6: 30% of the person's first credit or purchase in the documented new-user referral scenario (Market-specific; may contain legacy mechanics or terminology).
  • The 30% headline is verified. The documentary qualification formulations are preserved separately and must not be silently harmonized into one broader rule.

Additional verified legal findings

  • Governing law: State of New York.
  • Arbitration: individual binding arbitration under the documented framework; place of arbitration is the State and County of New York; language is English; class-action waiver documented.
  • Self-referral commission is not paid.
  • Fraudulent referrals may be deducted; fraud may result in payment rejection, termination and/or recovery of funds.
  • Refunds and reversals invalidate the associated successful transaction; corresponding funds must be returned through Impact.
  • Cookie stuffing is prohibited.
  • Domain forwarding through affiliate links is prohibited.
  • Tracking may fail where cookies are refused or cleared; Envato may be unable to track the referral and may not pay referral earnings for the activity.

Author / Affiliate payment separation

Affiliate Earnings and Author Earnings are separate payout architectures. Author-specific facts — author minimum payout threshold, author payment dates, author payment methods, author payout-account rules — must not populate Affiliate Program fields. No cross-inheritance between Author and Affiliate payout mechanics is authorized.

Sources

AffiliateAct verifies Program information against documented sources and preserves uncertainty where evidence is incomplete or conflicting. Read the methodology.