This statistic shows the amount of dollars pledged for project funding on Kickstarter as of January 2, 2019, sorted by project category. The most-funded category was games with 946.21 million U.S. dollars pledged by project backers, while the least funded category was dance with 14.04 million U.S. dollars pledged. The category technology raised a total of 789.11 million U.S. dollars, the third-largest amount of pledge money.
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Kickstarter: amount of funding pledged by project category 2019
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Amount of funding pledged for projects on Kickstarter.com as of January 2019, by project category (in million U.S. dollars)
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This statistic shows the amount of dollars pledged for project funding on Kickstarter as of January 2, 2019, sorted by project category. The most-funded category was games with 946.21 million U.S. dollars pledged by project backers, while the least funded category was dance with 14.04 million U.S. dollars pledged. The category technology raised a total of 789.11 million U.S. dollars, the third-largest amount of pledge money.
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This statistic shows the amount of dollars pledged for project funding on Kickstarter as of January 2, 2019, sorted by project category. The most-funded category was games with 946.21 million U.S. dollars pledged by project backers, while the least funded category was dance with 14.04 million U.S. dollars pledged. The category technology raised a total of 789.11 million U.S. dollars, the third-largest amount of pledge money.
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- Every Kickstarter project must be fully funded before its time expires or no money changes hands. A project on Kickstarter is counted as successful when the funding goal has been reached within the time limit.
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- Survey time period
- January 2, 2019
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- Supplementary notes
- Every Kickstarter project must be fully funded before its time expires or no money changes hands. A project on Kickstarter is counted as successful when the funding goal has been reached within the time limit.
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