Kickstarter -- $1 billion pledged

Started by steve58, March 03, 2014, 11:51:40 AM

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...only 859 million collected, but still impressive.

...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.
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