This statistic shows the amount of dollars pledged for project funding on Kickstarter as of October 2, 2019, sorted by project category. The most-funded category was games with 1.11 billion U.S. dollars pledged by project backers, while the least funded category was dance with 14.5 million U.S. dollars pledged. The category technology raised a total of 867 million U.S. dollars, the third-largest amount of pledge money.
Amount of funding pledged for projects on Kickstarter.com as of October 2019, by project category
(in million U.S. dollars)
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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Kickstarter. (October 1, 2019). Amount of funding pledged for projects on Kickstarter.com as of October 2019, by project category (in million U.S. dollars) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved August 05, 2020, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/222455/amount-of-dollars-pledged-per-category-on-kickstarter/
Kickstarter. "Amount of funding pledged for projects on Kickstarter.com as of October 2019, by project category (in million U.S. dollars)." Chart. October 1, 2019. Statista. Accessed August 05, 2020. https://www.statista.com/statistics/222455/amount-of-dollars-pledged-per-category-on-kickstarter/
Kickstarter. (2019). Amount of funding pledged for projects on Kickstarter.com as of October 2019, by project category (in million U.S. dollars). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: August 05, 2020. https://www.statista.com/statistics/222455/amount-of-dollars-pledged-per-category-on-kickstarter/
Kickstarter. "Amount of Funding Pledged for Projects on Kickstarter.Com as of October 2019, by Project Category (in Million U.S. Dollars)." Statista, Statista Inc., 1 Oct 2019, https://www.statista.com/statistics/222455/amount-of-dollars-pledged-per-category-on-kickstarter/
Kickstarter, Amount of funding pledged for projects on Kickstarter.com as of October 2019, by project category (in million U.S. dollars) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/222455/amount-of-dollars-pledged-per-category-on-kickstarter/ (last visited August 05, 2020)
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