Kickstarter project funding success rate as of April 2019
Percentage of successfully funded Kickstarter projects as of April 2019
This statistic shows the share of successfully funded projects on Kickstarter. As of April 2, 2019, the success rate of fully funding a project on the crowdfunding website was 36.84 percent. Overall, over 4.2 billion U.S. dollars have gone into successfully launched projects.
Kickstarter - additional information
Although the concept of crowdfunding is not new per se, having been previously used in history, the rise of the internet has allowed for unprecedented global outreach when pursuing crowd-supported financing. As of 2017, there are hundreds of platforms that allow individuals or companies to reach out to their peers, some of them allowing for a large range of purposes and others catering to highly specialized niches, such as charity, scientific experiments, social impact, gaming, real estate or startups. The three most popular platforms are currently Kickstarter, GoFundMe and Indiegogo.
Kickstarter is an American-based crowdfunding platform which was created in 2009 and has reportedly received pledges worth more than 4.20 billion U.S. dollars.
The company focuses on creative projects and functions on a reward-based system, where backers of a project are promised a little something in return for their financial contribution, such as personalized merchandise, invitations to events, public acknowledgement or updates regarding the project’s development. Kickstarter also applies one of two types of reward-base crowdfunding, namely 'All-or-Nothing' support, where project initiators set a funding goal and receive the donations only if the goal is reached, as opposed to 'Keep-it-All,' the funding model used by other platforms, where the money raised is kept regardless of whether or not it meets the funding goal.
As of January 2019, the most popular category of projects featured on Kickstarter is games, with some 995.42 million U.S. dollars pledged, followed by design, technology, film & video, and music. One of the most funded games so far is Exploding Kittens, a card game designed by Elan Lee, Shane Small and comic creator Matthew Inman, a.k.a. The Oatmeal. Their initial funding goal was only 10 thousand U.S. dollars, which was reached within eight minutes. Exploding Kittens received over 8.7 million U.S. dollars in pledges from more than 200 thousand backers in less than a month, making it one of the most successful Kickstarter campaigns of all time.
Percentage of successfully funded Kickstarter projects as of April 2019
Source
More information
Statistics on "Kickstarter"
Discover Statista
Need help with using Statista for your research?
Tutorials and first steps
Further Content: Statistics, Studies, and Topic Pages
Statistics
- Number of Kickstarter.com project backers in 2012, per category
- Distribution of Kickstarter pledge amounts in 2011
- Kickstarter: daily amount of funding pledged as of 3rd quarter 2014
- Kickstarter: amount of funding pledged by country as of March 2014
- Kickstarter: annual amount of funding pledged 2010-2014
- Kickstarter: amount of funding pledged as of 3rd quarter 2014
- Top Kickstarter projects sorted by funding as of March 2015
- Successfully crowdfunded projects on Kickstarter 2010-2014
- Kickstarter: amount of funding pledged per film category 2009-2013
- Project launches on Kickstarter based on amount raised on first day 2011-2015
- Duration of micromanaging campaigns by type of platform Spain 2014
- Percentage of platforms crowdfunding by way of financing Spain 2014
- Volume of crowdfunding transactions based on donations Spain 2013-2015
- Participation in crowdfunding 2014, by generation
- Number of crowdfunding campaigns in Russia 2017-2018
- UK: leading crowd funding brands on YouTube 2019
- Total number of crowdfunding campaigns completed in the UK 2014-2016
- Crowdfunding investor number in South Korea 2016-2017
- Leading crowdfunding platforms based on campaigns completed and funded in Spain 2016
- Non-financial support from reward-based crowdfunding funders in the UK 2014
Statistics on "Kickstarter"
Related topics
About Statista
