Four years ago today, on January 17, 2018, we launched the Sketchfab Store in beta to help our community members monetize their work with our platform. Ever since we’ve been fortunate enough to see our seller base grow by thousands and marketplace earnings doubled every year since the inception!
To celebrate our amazing creator community and continue our annual tradition of thanking sellers for working with us, we will be waiving our commissions for four days. That means that all sellers on the Sketchfab Store will be earning 100% on sales from 12 AM EST on January 17 until 11:59 PM on January 20th.
Over the last year, we’ve continued our rapid growth. Sketchfab joined the Epic Games family, which has allowed us to increase our seller commissions to 88%, bringing creator revenue share to an industry high and allowing every seller to earn more from each sale. As outlined in our year in review blog post, over the course of 2021 we paid out over $1 million in seller commissions and doubled the amount of sales over the previous year. What’s more, an impressive 80% of our sellers have made at least one sale.
To date, over 100,000 buyers have shopped on the Sketchfab Store to enhance their creative projects with our sellers’ 3D assets. We have seen a growing number of buyers returning to the Store time and again—proof of the buyer loyalty that we’ve been striving to achieve since the inception of the store.
I’m also excited to share that Sketchfab’s download API is now integrated into over 100 applications and creation tools, allowing buyers to access and use their store purchases directly from their software of choice. And Sketchfab’s automatic glTF and USDZ file conversion powers the creative projects of those who use engines such as Unreal Engine or Unity.
In the infographic below, we share some data highlights from 2021 to give you more insights into what is in high demand in the marketplace and where we believe the trends are headed in the future.
In the upcoming year we are aiming to build a great new set of features for our seller community and double down on some of our existing marketing initiatives to drive more eyes to the Sketchfab Store’s vast library of high-quality 3D content.
If you are not yet a seller, we invite you to join today. Let’s continue building the place to buy 3D models together.
About the author
avtandil
Head of the Sketchfab Store
