...only 859 million collected, but still impressive (http://www.gamespot.com/articles/kickstarter-reaches-1-billion-in-pledges-games-are-the-biggest-category-overall/1100-6418063/).
...and a special Kickstarter stats page: https://www.kickstarter.com/1billion
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Below are some of the most interesting data points from Kickstarter's $1 billion milestone.
- More than half of the $1 billion was pledged in the past 12 months.
- Backers come from 224 countries and territories, and all seven continents.
- US backers gave the most with $663,316,496 in total contributions to date.
- 1,689,979 people have backed more than one project.
- 15,932 people have backed more than 50 projects.
- March 13, 2013 was Kickstarter's biggest day on record when 54,187 people pledged $4,029,585.45 to 1,985 projects.
- On the day Kickstarter launched (April 28, 2009), 40 people pledged $1,084 to seven projects.