{"id":52753,"date":"2014-01-08T03:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=52753"},"modified":"2014-01-08T03:01:30","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T11:01:30","slug":"people-pledge-900-every-minute-on-kickstarter","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/people-pledge-900-every-minute-on-kickstarter","title":{"rendered":"Last Year People Pledged an Average of $900 Every Minute on Kickstarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 11px 33px; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3760\/11844442543_15d3d5336d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"186\" \/>In 2013, three million people pledged a combined $480 million to crowdfunding projects on Kickstarter.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>That works out to more than $1.3 million per day or over $900 per minute for the entire year.<\/p>\n<p>Those three million people are diverse: they come from well over 200 different countries and territories and all seven continents, giving Kickstarter an unprecedented global reach in terms of crowdfunding.<\/p>\n<p>According to the crowdfunding platform, 800,000 of those three million (27%) backed multiple projects, while 3% backed 10 or more. A crazy 975 people backed a whopping 100 or more campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>Kickstarter says that 20,000 projects were successfully funded last year. It failed to mention how many were created in total though, so we don&#8217;t have a success rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2013, three million people pledged a combined $480 million to crowdfunding projects on Kickstarter. That works out to more than $1.3 million per day or over $900 per minute for the entire year. Those three million people are diverse: they come from well over 200 different countries and territories and all seven continents, giving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55555,"featured_media":52755,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-52753","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/52753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/55555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/52753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/52755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52753"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=52753"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=52753"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=52753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}