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Kickstarter - King of Crowdfunding

KICKSTARTER The King of Crowdfunding Since the platform's start in April 2009, almost 50,000 projects have sought funding on Kickstarter. As of April 2012, the total amount of money pledged to Kickstarter projects was more than $200 million. TOTAL PLEDGES BY CATEGORY in million U.S. dollars Film & Video 60 Music 38 Design 29 Games 20 Art 11 Publishing 11 Technology 10 Theater Food Comics Other 10 20 30 40 50 60 The most successful project to date is a connected e-paper watch called Pebble. With 9 days to go, the project had already gathered almost $10 million in pledges, crushing its initial funding goal of $100,000. MILESTONE PROJECTS The first project Apr '09 New York Makes a Book (Book funded and created by the crowd) Funding goal $3,000 Money raised $3,329 Number of Backers 110 The first project to exceed $1 million in pledges Feb '12 Elevation Dock (Solid Aluminum iPhone Dock) Money raised $1,464,706 Funding goal $75,000 Number of Backers 12,521 The most funded project ongoing Pebble (E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android) Number of Backers Funding goal $100,000 Money raised $9,818,635 as of May 9th 64,176 In 2011, 27,086 projects were launched on Kickstarter and 11,836 were completed succesfully. LAUNCHED PROJECTS SUCCESSFUL PROJECTS 2010 3,910 11,130 2011 11,836 27,086 The site had 30.59 million visitors who pledged a total of $99.34 million. DOLLARS PLEDGED TOTAL VISITORS 2010 $27.6m 2011 8.3m $99.3m 30.6m The average pledge per visitor was $3.25 in 2011, down from $3.33 in 2010. 46% of all projects completed in 2011 reached their funding goal. creative statista Sources: Kickstarter, New York Times The Statistics Portal

Kickstarter - King of Crowdfunding

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