The Envato Elements Content Bonus Program

The Envato Elements Content Bonus Program described on this page ended on 31 July 2022. Content Bonus earnings relating to July 2022 were paid to Authors in September 2022.

Summary: This article explains how the Envato Elements Content Bonus Program worked, including eligibility criteria and how it was calculated.

Eligibility for the Content Bonus
Eligibility Example
Calculation Method
Viewing Content Bonus Earnings
Receiving My Bonus

Eligibility for the Content Bonus

When this program was active, each Envato Elements Author was automatically considered for a content bonus payment. This is one of several ways in which Authors can be rewarded for contributing great content to Envato Elements.

Authors must have met the minimum activity requirements for at least one item type to be eligible.

The minimum activity requirements were:

Eligibility Example

BlazinAudio is an Elements music author.  BlazinAudio publishes 1-2 tracks in February, March, May and June as shown below:

As a music author, BlazinAudio needs to have at least 3 music tracks published within the past 90 days to be eligible for the content bonus. The content bonus is calculated daily and eligibility is checked daily as part of that calculation.  BlazinAudio’s eligibility is therefore:

• Not Eligible on each day leading up to 25 March - up to this day BlazinAudio only has a maximum of 1 item published.
• Eligible for each day between 25 March and 1 May - on each day during this period BlazinAudio has at least 3 music tracks published in the 90 days prior.
• Not Eligible on each day from 2 May to 24 May - the track published on 1 February is now over 90 days old and only 2 tracks remain published when looking back 90 days for each day between 2 May and 24 May. 
• Eligible on each day from 25 May to 23 August - on each day there are 3 tracks published in the prior 90 days.
• Not Eligible on each day from 24 August - on each day there are a maximum of 2 tracks published in the prior 90 days.

BlazinAudio’s eligibility profile is shown in the diagram below with periods of bonus eligibility shown in green:

The content bonus is calculated each day with eligibility determined each day.  Each daily calculation is added together and displayed as a single Content Bonus figure for the earnings month.  The content bonus for BlazinAudio is therefore calculated as follows:

• January and February Earnings Month - No content bonus as BlazinAudio is not eligible on any day in these months
• March Earnings Month - Content Bonus is paid for 7 of the 31 days in March
• April Earnings Month - Content Bonus is paid for the full month as BlazinAudio is eligible on each day in April
• May earnings month - Content Bonus is paid for 8 out of 31 days in May
• June and July Earnings Month - Content Bonus is paid for the full month
• August Earnings Month - Content Bonus is paid for 23 out of 31 days in August
• September and later months - No Content Bonus

Note that eligibility is based on the day items are published in Elements rather than the date items are submitted by an Author.

Calculation Method

Eligible authors share in the content bonus made available each month. Eligibility is checked on a daily basis. The content bonus payment is proportionate to content earnings and depends on the bonus program amount available each month.

Viewing Content Bonus Earnings

The Envato Author Dashboard incorporates analytics data that will help you to better understand your Envato Elements income.

The Envato Author Dashboard provides detailed earnings data on your top performing items. This lets you see item earnings and content bonus earnings for up to 100 of your top items. You can view this data for the last 7, 30, 90 and 365 day periods. 

You can access the Envato Author dashboard here.

For more information on the dashboard features, please read the article on Managing Your Sales at Envato.

Receiving My Bonus

Bonus payments appear on the monthly earnings report and are paid along with ordinary content earnings.