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In 2019, successful tabletop campaigns earned $67,350 on average. In 2023, that number appears to have fallen to $45,982. Last year, Kickstarter says it dropped to just $41,400.
But to all the naysayers, nonbelievers, and doubters, Kickstarter might now present this: stats from 2012, which show that the crowd-funding platform raised an impressive $274.4 million last year.
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It would be a long while before I pulled out my credit card again, but by the time another project interested me late last year, Kickstarter had become a hot hub for indie video game projects ...
Kickstarter saw more money pledged and more people pledging money than ever last year, with 3 million backers putting up $480 million dollars in 2013. About 89 percent of that money was given to ...
I say this because I’m an unashamed Kickstarter junkie. In the last year alone, I’ve backed five projects to the tune of $700, which is a lot of money when you’re an impoverished blogger. Do ...
In the year since Kickstarter reported its numbers, the company helped raise a total of $119.6M for successfully-funded projects.
The crowdfunding site is currently funding more art than the National Endowment for the Arts. It's not as shocking as you might think.
In 2014 Kickstarter projects raised a total of $529 million. That’s a rate of $1,000 per minute, a significant increase over 2013 in which Kickstarter raised $480 million.
Crowdfunding website Kickstarter today announced that it has passed $1 billion in pledges since launching in April 2009, with more than half of that billion coming in the last year alone. Poppy co ...
Kickstarter’s post-pandemic decline in earnings for tabletop creators slowed considerably in 2024. Meanwhile, video game projects surged on the platform.