As of January 2024, the category of games was the most successful category in terms of funded projects on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter. As of that time, more than 40,000 projects in the games category had managed to raise their pledged amount of funding. The music category followed, with more than 34,900 projects successfully funded. At the same time, the journalism category only reported 1,497 successful projects, making it the category with the least number of successfully funded projects.
Number of successfully funded projects on Kickstarter as of January 2024, by project category
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