Marvel at Kickstarter's cultural contribution in their review of 2012

Date
9 January 2013

The inexorable rise and rise of Kickstarter was one of the defining creative stories of last year and if any of you still needed convincing as to the crowdfunding behemoth’s significance, this look back on 2012 should drive the point home. The numbers are staggering in themselves – 2.2 million people from 177 different countries pledging $319 million to help realise 18,100 projects – and Kickstarter is rightly proud of their increasing reach. But perhaps more interesting is the amazing away of projects which have come to fruition in this way – from films and computer games to a municipal font, a banana piano and a pizza museum. And then there’s the cultural milestones, such as the fact that 10 per cent of the films at Sundance started life as Kickstarter gleams in their creators’ eyes.

The purity of the platform and its commitment to increasing the amount of creativity in the world is admirable, and their review of 2012 is a fine looking thing too. Well worth a few minutes of your day.

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Kickstarter: Review 2012

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Kickstarter: Review 2012

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Kickstarter: Review 2012

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Rob Alderson

Rob joined It’s Nice That as Online Editor in July 2011 before becoming Editor-in-Chief and working across all editorial projects including itsnicethat.com, Printed Pages, Here and Nicer Tuesdays. Rob left It’s Nice That in June 2015.

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