Kickstarter passes 100,000 launched projects, 44% funded successfully thanks to $535m in crowdsourcing

Posted by : Brij Bhushan Tuesday, 28 May 2013

Crowdsourcing site Kickstarter on Tuesday revealed it has passed a new milestone: over 100,000 launched projects today. Of those, the company founded just over four years ago in 2009 revealed 43.96 percent have been funded succesfully.

Kickstarter users have so far pledged $630 million, of which $535 million was actually accepted by projects that hit their funding goal. That leaves just $95 million dollars that were either pledged unsuccessfully ($68 million to be exact) or pledged for projects that are still live ($27 million is currently up for grabs).

It’s official! Over 100K projects have launched on Kickstarter. Can’t wait to see what comes next! kickstarter.com/help/stats

— Kickstarter (@kickstarter) May 28, 2013

The latest figures are as follows:

As you can see, film and video is the most popular category, in terms of total dollars, though it is closely followed by games. Rounding out the top five are design, music, and technology.

In terms of successful dollars, however, the first two categories are swapped. Film and video currently has the highest number of live projects while games hast the largest amount of live dollars.

Yet the success rate list shows that less popular categories mean more projects that are funded. The top five are: dance (70.92 percent), theatre (64.38 percent), music (54.70 percent), art (48.82 percent), and comics (48.03 percent).

You can check out the stats for yourself here. You should be warned, however, that the “Successfully Funded Projects” and “Unsuccessfully Funded Projects” don’t add up to the total for the simple reason that there are still projects that are currently live. Unsurprisingly, data on those isn’t available since it is constantly changing.

More to follow.