- Yep. For those of you that don't
know, Redbubble is a website where independent artists and creators can upload their own artwork
and slogans to merchandise on products like T-shirts and
then sell them to customers. In the industry, we call this a
print-on-demand marketplace. And so whether you're an
artist looking to sell products on Redbubble and want
to check out the product and print quality and
see what it'll be like before you sell your art
and designs on there, or whether you're a customer
wanting to make sure it's worth buying from them
before you spend your money, this video should hopefully help you. I've ordered samples of
T-shirts, stickers, a mug, a notepad, and even a bathmat to review. I'll also be unboxing them, so that you can see what the
packaging is like as well. But first, if you are
a long-time subscriber, you have probably noticed that something about
this video is different, because you see, as my
longtime subscribers also know, there are two things in life
that always make me smile. The first thing is anytime
somebody takes a moment out of their very busy day
to give my videos a like and subscribe, because seriously, every time you do that,
it genuinely supports me. So thank you so much for everyone that takes a moment to do so. But the second thing that
makes me smile is dogs, especially my five little
month pup Starbuck, a Swedish Vallhund. And so since this video
is a bit more casual, before the comments flood in, yes, since this is a more casual video I decided instead of wearing a
fancy dress shirt or a dress, that I would wear my favorite-ever
print-on-demand T-shirt that I have ever bought, which is this one here
featuring Swedish Vallhunds, because yes, I myself don't just sell
print-on-demand products, I also buy cool products
that I see others making and selling, too. And so I decided to use
this video as an excuse to go through Redbubble's
top-selling designs and all of my favorites of them. So hopefully, by seeing
these top-selling designs, if you're an artist, you
might become inspired to create your own
top-selling designs, too. So let's start out by
reviewing Redbubble's T-shirts. To choose my T-shirts
to review for the video, I sorted them to show which
ones were the best selling, and I picked my personal
favorites from there. I decided to review two
different types of designs. Firstly, I ordered one that features a cool,
colorful print to review, because it's a lot more difficult
to print a colorful print than a simple black-and-white design. I thought the design was really cute. The artist has actually taken
the public domain artwork, "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" and done a fun, retro spin on it. Now, as I see it, as someone
who runs a T-shirt business, I can tell you that it is much harder to print high-quality colorful designs, and so as not every designer has such bright and bold designs, they might also be interested
in seeing the printing quality of a more simple design,
which is why I've also ordered this popular text-based T-shirt here, and we're going to check
that one out as well. All right, let's unwrap the T-shirts. They came in this nifty
recyclable packaging featuring cool art. I tried to rip off as
many shipping stickers as I could for you all. As you'll see, while I'm not a big fan of
Redbubble's T-shirts themselves, I am a fan of the Redbubble
buying experience, customer service, and
overall brand and image. As my subscribers know, I
create and sell T-shirts using a print-on-demand
service called Printful, and the T-shirts just come in
a standard shipping package, unlike Redbubble, which put lots of effort into creating this cool
brand and buying experience. They even included some
original art, which was neat. The shirts themselves were
also neatly wrapped and folded, which was a nice touch. But yes, that is the packaging. And now onto the actual
T-shirts themselves. Let's start out by reviewing the cool,
colorful T-shirt first. So I'm gonna be frank with you all. This is not a good print at all. When I look at the picture, I
see really bright, bold pink, and when I see this, I
see a very muted pink. I also see a lot of
bleeding between the lines, which, to be fair, the original design did
have that as part of it, but not to this extent. The design is cracking, and the color of the wave looks terrible. So this is overall a blurry, dark print. Now, I do have to note that the reason why it
might not be a good print could be because the original artist did not upload a high-quality print file, but I suspect that's
not gonna be the case, because this is one of
the top-selling T-shirts on Redbubble, so at this point,
I suspect that the artist would have definitely swapped it out with a high-quality print file if they didn't have that already because I know a lot of
people are interested in this. This here, the shirt is, I
believe, the Gildan 5000, which is a heavy, rough cotton. This is what customers get
by default with Redbubble if they just order the
standard unisex T-shirt, and they can order a more
high-quality premium T-shirt which would get them
the Bella + Canvas 3001, but most customers don't bother. They just buy the cheapest T-shirt because that's the one
that Redbubble promotes, and this is what they get. So, yeah, sadly, I'm not
a fan of this at all. So I wasn't that impressed
by the colorful print, but remember, I also
bought this T-shirt here featuring a simple
white text-based design. How does this one hold up
compared to the other one? All right, so it's probably
not actually any better in terms of print quality,
but what I will say is that because of the fact that it's just simple, bold white text, the fact that the quality of
the print isn't that great and that it's not as
white as you would like, doesn't really matter as much. Most customers are gonna
be fine receiving this because it doesn't have the
same level of color depth, and so you can't tell that
the colors are not printed as well as they should. So I think for most people, they'd be perfectly fine receiving this and perfectly fine selling this. So that is my review of the T-shirts. On to reviewing the mug. But before I do, if you're watching this and
you'd like to learn even more about how you can open up your
own print-on-demand store, you should be sure to
download my free ebook, "The 6 Steps that 6-Figure
Online Stores Follow to Make Over $10,000 a Month," and you'll find a link
to download my free ebook in the video description below. But anyway, onto reviewing the mug. Now, here's the thing about mugs, right? Oftentimes, a great-looking T-shirt design will also look really good
when printed onto mugs as well, which is why in my e-commerce business, I offer my T-shirt designs as mugs, too, so that customers can then go and buy them as a matching set. And so if you're an artist or creator and you're selling your designs
on Redbubble as T-shirts, you should also consider
selling it on mugs as well. But yeah, when I came to
order a mug for this video, I was admittedly quite picky, because as my longtime
subscribers will know, I am kind of a collector of fun mugs. So I went through all
the best-selling mugs until I discovered one artist
that creates these really cool yet really weird and
slightly disturbing designs. I can't really describe the creepiness, but it just kind of puts me on
edge a little, and I love it. So I went through the rest of his art and decided that I didn't
have enough Christmas mugs, so I bought this one here
to review for the video. So once again, one of Redbubble's
biggest strengths and pros as a company and store is how awesome their
packaging and branding is. I love the fun little FRAGILE notices on the sides of the box. It was very cool. It also featured original
art inside the box, too. The mug itself was very well packaged. The cardboard holder it was in was enough to keep the mug safe from being shipped all
the way to New Zealand. It was just a standard white mug itself, nothing fancy about it, but
it did arrive perfectly, no chips or anything like that. So then, what do I think about the actual print
quality of the image? So I will say that the
printing colors for the mug have definitely come out a lot closer to the original picture. The edges are definitely blurry, so this is not a great print, but a lot of people
would be absolutely fine to receive this, especially if
they think that the art on it is really cool and really unique. But if I compare it to the
print-on-demand provider that I personally use, and my subscribers know
that I use Printful... this is a mug that they created... the colors are a lot more vibrant, and the edges are sharp,
so compared to Printful, this is nowhere near as good
but definitely a superior print in terms of colors
compared to the T-shirt. Okay, then. So let's
review Redbubble stickers. This is one of Redbubble's
top-selling products overall and biggest moneymakers
for artists and creators, and that's because Redbubble's stickers have a high profit margin and they give you a 25%
discount if you're a customer and you buy four or more at
once, encouraging upsells, which makes artists and
creators even more money. And Redbubble did successfully
upsell me, actually, because in addition to purchasing this top-selling sticker to review, I also purchased this sticker
here and two of this sticker and both the transparent and
the non-transparent versions. The three non-transparent
stickers I ordered came in a FedEx postal slip. I suspect that if I opened
it up, that I'd find the original Redbubble-branded
shipping package inside, which I did. Once again, the packaging
was really cool and unique, creating a fun, quirky buyer experience. The stickers themselves were printed on their own sticker sheets. Something that was super weird, though, was my transparent sticker
came in its own package. This felt very strange, considering a big part
of Redbubble's brand is that they try to be as
environmentally friendly as possible, and having
a whole separate package for one three-inch
sticker felt unnecessary, but the actual packaging itself was nifty. So the packaging, again, super cool. But what about the print quality
of the stickers themselves? All right, guys. I'm
gonna be honest with you. I love the stickers, and they're so much better
than the T-shirts and the mug, and that really shouldn't be a surprise because of the fact that Redbubble is fast becoming a destination website for buying cool, niche, nifty stickers. There's a reason on my customers buy multiple of these at once. So the lines are a lot
sharper than the T-shirts and the mug were. They're still not the best
print quality I've ever seen... Printful would print a better sticker... but this is fine. What I'm not as big of a fan of is that the colors are still dark. Now, you can see it with
this one particularly because the tongue on the dog is way darker of a shade of red than what the picture would
have led you to believe. Now, that could, again, be because the artist did not
upload an optimized picture for printing, but again, I suspect it's most
likely a printing issue, because this here is one of
the most popular stickers on the website, and the colors of this, when I see it in person... I'm not sure it'll show up on camera... but in person, the colors
are definitely darker. So it's probably more of a printing issue. What I will say, though, is
that while I have no intention of wearing my T-shirts out in public, I have every intention of
showing off these stickers. So another top-selling
item on Redbubble is, believe it or not, notebooks. At first, I was surprised by this, but really, how many places online can you buy quirky
niche-specific notebooks? And so there are some
really cool ones on here. I absolutely love this one. It is a replica of a notebook that the main character
from an anime I watch, "My Hero Academia,"
carries around with him. But I did not buy it, because honestly, this is probably copyright infringement. Not that the creators of the anime are probably watching Redbubble and going to take it off the
website, if I'm being honest. But regardless, I decided to instead go with
this cute little notebook here, since I love what it stands for. So let's unbox it. Just like the stickers, it
came in a FedEx package, but once that was removed, the cool Redbubble packaging was inside. The actual notebook itself
was just a standard notebook. It had a colorful front page
and a dark cardboard back. I had also chosen the pages to be lined. So the notebook and packaging
itself was nice quality. But what about the quality
of the picture print? I am so much more impressed
with the notebook as well, just like with the stickers. So it is a shame that the
picture is still darker than we would like it to be and not as bright and
bold as you would get from something like, say, Printful, but the lines are sharp and this picture isn't the
easiest picture to print because it actually features
a lot of distressed elements, and those distressed
elements are coming through when I see it in person. I know it's probably not
showing up on camera, but in person you can see
the distressed elements, which is great. So very clearly, Redbubble is not the best at printing high quality T-shirts, but they are quite specialized and unique in the fact that you can
get really cool stationary from them, featuring really
niche designs like this that you can't really get anywhere else. But yes, my friends, we are not done, for you see, right now,
I do not have a bathmat. Yes, I have been using a
towel for a bathmat for years. And so I decided that it
is time to change that, because while Redbubble does indeed sell standard, boring
print-on-demand items like T-shirts and mugs, they also sell
quirky, strange items like bathmats. And so, as you can probably tell by now, I myself am a Japanese art fangirl, and so I went ahead and
bought myself one of these. Okay, so this was probably admittedly my favorite of the Redbubble packages. I absolutely love the cool art that they have on the shipping slip, so the packaging gets a
big thumbs-up from me. However, as we've seen
Redbubble is definitely mixed with its print quality. While the T-shirts mug were disappointing, I was very happy with the
stationary that I received and I intend to actually use it. So then, which camp will
the bathmat fall into? So here's the deal, guys. I'm in the middle of filming this video, and it just occurred to me
that reviewing this bathmat is actually gonna be really difficult, because here's the thing. I sell T-shirts and I sell
mugs and I sell stationary, so I could compare the
quality of the items that I'm able to sell with Printful to the items that Redbubble is selling. But I can't do that with a bathmat because I don't sell bathmats. So I'm instead gonna have to review this from the perspective as a customer. As a customer, I will say, I am again disappointed in the colors. So it's difficult for
it to show up on camera. What I will say is, in person, the background color looks really white, but it's not supposed to be white. It's supposed to be a yellowy color, and you do not see that at all. And the quality of the
bathmat is terrible. It feels like this is gonna
absorb no water at all. So overall, the bathmat, disappointing. But what I will say is that
even though those issues exist, whoever drew this picture, your art is so cool and so awesome that I'm gonna use it anyway. So yes, since my last review, my thoughts on Redbubble's
T-shirts have not changed much. Compared to more expensive
print-on-demand websites and services, the quality of
the prints is just not as good, but just like I said in my last review, because the T-shirts are so cheap and the buying experience is so funky, a lot of customers will
be less picky than me and probably be happy with them anyway. So if you do wish to
sell your art and designs on the website, it's just
good to keep that in mind. The mug itself was
acceptable, if not good, and the stationary was a standout. I genuinely can't think of
anywhere else on the internet where you can find so
many cool, niche stickers, notebooks, and stationary, so I'm sure customers will keep going back to Redbubble to buy more of
this and not their bathmats. So, did my video help you? If it did, please hit Subscribe and click that little notification bell, so that you don't miss
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