Kickstarter. Understanding Kickstarter. Funding Creativity With Kickstarter [Video] $2 Million for ‘Veronica Mars’ Breaks Kickstarter Records, Gets Greenlight. Here’s a Hollywood success story sure to kickstart a crowd of copycats: The “Veronica Mars” movie is getting made, thanks to a Kickstarter campaign that within hours of launching Wednesday became the fastest and largest capital raise in the short history of crowdfunding movies.
The project that’s been kicking around since the show ended its three-year run in 2007 streaked past $2 million in pledges before 6 p.m., smashing previous Kickstarter records and easily clearing the bar that Warner Bros. set to commit to a summer production start. Backed by creator Rob Thomas, star Kristen Bell and other castmembers, the “Veronica Mars” movie sailed past $1 million just four hours and 24 minutes after its Wednesday morning launch, making the TV cult favorite the first film project to come anywhere near that milestone.
And it never slowed down on its way to $2 million; anything thereafter will translate into production-quality gravy, Thomas said in his message on the Kickstarter site. Kickstarter’s best of 2012: 2.2M backers, $319M raised, 18K projects funded. Kickstarter released its “best of” list for 2012, and the numbers are impressive: 2.24 million people funded at least one project and pledged a total of $319 million.
That’s more than $600 per minute over the course of the year, with 18,109 projects successfully funded. The crowdsourced funding platform remained true to its artistic roots. Despite many well-known gadget Kickstarter campaigns like the Ouya gaming console, which raised $8.6 million, the biggest categories included games at $83 million raised, followed by film and video, design, then music, with technology coming in fifth place with $29 million. Blockbuster Effects. When a new project launches, the first thing its creators do (if they hope to be successful) is promote it to their friends and fans.
This starts a ripple effect of promotion and backing that often accelerates if the project is picked up by a well-read blog or online community. This is how the majority of audiences are introduced to projects. As we've grown, we've heard people worry that it will be harder and harder to fund projects as the total number of projects grows. They wonder: Do more projects mean greater competition for the same dollars? Kickstarter Shares The Effects Of Its Blockbuster Season. February was a big month for Kickstarter.
Not only did they have a number of record-breaking projects, but they were shoved into the mainstream consciousness with a flood of traditional news coverage. But there was always the question of whether these thousands of pledges would have any lasting effect on the site. Could such a rush of attention actually have negative effects, increasing competition and bringing in more projects than the site’s population of donors can handle? Fortunately, that doesn’t seem to have been the case. The site’s big month appears to have made a lasting increase in both projects, users, and funding. 24 Hours. There are crazy days and then there are days like yesterday.
Kickstarter has experienced some frantic hours but nothing like what happened in the 24-hour span between Wednesday at 6:54pm and Thursday at 6:44pm. Kickstarter gets its third $1M project in the span of two weeks with Order of the Stick. Million Dollar Book Proves Kickstarter Model, Now Authors Just Need The Reach. Kickstumbler: Kickstarter meets StumbleUpon. 22 February '12, 01:43pm Follow We’re big fans of Kickstarter here at The Next Web and have highlighted our fair share of interesting projects that are coming out of the community which helps crowdsource ideas into reality.
But if you’ve ever tried to navigate Kickstarter, you probably know how hard it can be to find interesting projects unless you know exactly what you’re looking for, or unless they’ve already hit the site’s front page. Now, as Fred Wilson points out, thanks to Anthony Volodkin, the New York-based founder of music site Hype Machine, you can literally stumble your way through all of the Kickstarter projects you have the time to find. Kickstumbler is basically StumbleUpon meets Kickstarter. 7 Of The Best Tech Innovations on Kickstarter. We’re big fans of Kickstarter here on The Next Web.
In fact, we’ve covered tons of project searching for funding in the past, including SkyLight and The Prop. Kickstarter’s success is a true testiment to the widespread talent that exists throughout the world, and it democratizes the entire invention process by letting consumers decide what is worth hitting the market. While the site is filled with projects ranging from Typefaces and films to books and board games, I find most of my favorites end up being gadgets. The Crowdfunding Rockstars. 15 Steps for a Successful Kickstarter Project » GMSarli Games. On Twitter, Gareth M.
Skarka (@GMSkarka) asked me for some advice about a Kickstarter project he’s planning, so I shared these lessons I learned from the e20 System project. This advice is largely oriented toward game design projects (since that’s my experience), but most of this should apply to any Kickstarter project: Phase I: Preparation (1) Create a detailed outline for the final product; you won’t necessarily be sharing all these details at the beginning, but it will give you enough information that you will be able to answer questions and give potential backers a firm idea of where the project is headed.
More importantly, this will help you decide what parts of the project (if any) are negotiable and open to input and feedback from backers. Insider access and input are the most important things you’re selling to your backers, so give this very careful thought. . (3) Calculate a comprehensive budget, including fair payment for freelancers (yourself included!) See how that works? How a Kickstarter Proposal For an Underground Park Raised $100,000 In One Week. An unused subterranean space under Delancey Street in New York might someday look like this rendering by RAAD Studio.
Kickstarter is playing a key role in the initiative of two entrepreneurs who are seeking both online and off-line momentum for their project to emulate New York City's popular High Line Project underground. Dan Barasch, who has worked on social innovation at PopTech, Google, UNICEF, and the 9/11 Survivors' Fund, as well as within city government, and James Ramsey, the owner and founder of RAAD Studio, a NYC design practice, and a former NASA engineer, have proposed turning an unused trolley terminal beneath Delancey Street on New York City's Lower East Side into an underground park. A large piece of their plan is a technology developed by Ramsey that would direct sunlight below ground via fiber optic cables, allowing plants and trees to grow in the underground space, which the backers are nicknaming the LowLine or Delancey Underground. Crowdfunding.