I’ve been disappointed in ETSY insofar that ETSY has done little, or better “NOTHING”  to make Art and all it’s subcategories  more prominent on their site especially the front page. I thought maybe it was due to art not being a big thing on ETSY and not so many are listed, but now I am reading this article that outlines some of the facts on how much art is actually listed on ETSY. Far more then some other categories that get much more visibility on ETSY and the Frontpage. So why I have to ask is ETSY so anti art?

Hers is an excerpt from this article. You can read the full article by clicking on this link

EXCERPT: “here are 31 categories on the Etsy home page. What I am going to do now is list
some of the categories that are within the sub-category of art. I am listing them by the
number of items listed On Etsy. I am comparing how they would rank in size
compared to the 31 categories listed on the Etsy front page. (The list was hard to
compile a click at a time, so it may be slightly off, I may have missed 1, but it is pretty
close)

5th = Handmade Prints 124,000 items
6th = Painting 113,000
8th = Photography 106,000
9th = Illustration 60,000
12th = Mixed Media 51,000
16th = Drawing 39,000
18th =Collage 31,00

POINT 4 : The term for ALL THINGS HANDMADE doesn’t really refer to Paintings,” END OF EXCERPT

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