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Autodesk Acquires CreativeMarket

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This is great news for the CreativeMarket team! I feel like CreativeMarket.com is the only marketplace that is actually giving Envato's marketplaces (Themeforest, Graphic River, Code Canyon, etc.) a run for their money -- compettition wise. The quality is really great on both services, and I like that there is good competition between the two on products. I can't wait to see how Autodesk and CreativeMarket mesh together. Congrats CreativeMarket! :)

Thanks! We've got more goodness on the roadmap and still working towards the best marketplace possible.

CreativeMarket was a site/service I thought I would never need to use, and so couldn't judge how well they would do. I eventually let my early credit expire.

But then I needed a background, and a some textures, and so on. I came back across their site, and it was so slick and well done, I had to restrain myself from hunting down for other things to buy as well.

It's a fantastic idea with wonderful execution that can change even a skeptic's mind - congrats to the team!

Wow, thanks Sean. That really means a lot to hear.

Wow, congrats! I totally love Creative Market. I've bought so many photo effects, textures and patterns there over the past few years my accountant actually laughed at me last week when I had my taxes done considering "Creative Market" is a top-level category for my business expenses now. Really high-quality stuff and a great experience.

Well thank you very much for the support.

Used the site recently and had a great experience. Hope they continue to grow and add new content!

I wrote about this trend last week. Building/acquiring communities around a product. I gave 15 examples to this, and this acquisition would be a perfect 16th example. https://medium.com/strategy-tactics/4dd173a83565

nice list; i think HighCharts (javascript plotting library would fit nicely on it); Apparently for H/C, the community (as evidenced by the busy help forums) is an essential component of their value--the source code is available for anyone to read/study/re-use and the license for individual developer use is free.

I have really enjoyed CreativeMarket - I got in on an AppSumo bundle and stuck around for all the free goodies and high quality themes. I'm not really sure where CM fits in Autodesk's massive portfolio, perhaps they have plans for a similar product in the 3D market.

Does this mean that Creative Market will start to offer 3D / product designs? Is an integrated route to market for industrial designers embedded into the AutoCAD family on the road map?

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