As of January 2024, the success rate of fully funding a project on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter was 41.15 percent. In other words, more than four out of ten projects on Kickstarter were successfully funded, while roughly six out of ten projects were unsuccessful.
Kickstarter
Kickstarter is an American-based crowdfunding platform that was created in 2009 and has reportedly received pledges worth approximately 7.8 billion U.S. dollars as of January 2024. The company focuses on creative projects and functions on a reward-based system, where backers of a project are promised a little something in return for their financial contribution, such as personalized merchandise, invitations to events, public acknowledgement or updates regarding the project’s development. Kickstarter also applies one of two types of reward-based crowdfunding, namely 'All-or-Nothing' support, where project initiators set a funding goal and receive the donations only if the goal is reached, as opposed to 'Keep-it-All,' the funding model used by other platforms, where the money raised is kept regardless of whether it meets the funding goal.
Which are Kickstarter's most popular projects?
As of January 2024, the most popular category of projects featured on Kickstarter was games, with roughly 2.36 billion U.S. dollars pledged. Design projects were the second most funded, followed by technology and film & video. One of the most funded games as of January 2024 was Exploding Kittens, a card game designed by Elan Lee, Shane Small and comic creator Matthew Inman, a.k.a. The Oatmeal. Their initial funding goal was only 10,000 U.S. dollars, which was reached within eight minutes. Exploding Kittens received over 8.7 million U.S. dollars in pledges from more than 200,0000 backers in less than a month, making it one of the most successful Kickstarter campaigns of all time.
Percentage of successfully funded Kickstarter projects as of January 2024
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Kickstarter. (January 29, 2024). Percentage of successfully funded Kickstarter projects as of January 2024 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved July 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/235405/kickstarter-project-funding-success-rate/
Kickstarter. "Percentage of successfully funded Kickstarter projects as of January 2024." Chart. January 29, 2024. Statista. Accessed July 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/235405/kickstarter-project-funding-success-rate/
Kickstarter. (2024). Percentage of successfully funded Kickstarter projects as of January 2024. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: July 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/235405/kickstarter-project-funding-success-rate/
Kickstarter. "Percentage of Successfully Funded Kickstarter Projects as of January 2024." Statista, Statista Inc., 29 Jan 2024, https://www.statista.com/statistics/235405/kickstarter-project-funding-success-rate/
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Percentage of successfully funded Kickstarter projects as of January 2024 [Graph], Kickstarter, January 29, 2024. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/235405/kickstarter-project-funding-success-rate/