Kickstarter: 100 facts (in figures) about the first 100,000 projects

It happened a few days ago. Inspiring and impressive photo project Falklands / Malvinas: One War, all Wars was the one hundred thousandth Kickstarter project that successfully collected the stated amount. Using a resource that did not exist 7 years ago, the photographer Adriana Groisman and 282 sponsors, “backers,” brought another idea closer to being a reality.

For 6 years and almost 10 months - since Kickstarter was launched - a lot has changed, but a lot has remained the same. It still takes considerable courage to take a chance and try to create something completely new. But today, creativity is encouraged as never before. To mark this important milestone, we selected 100 facts, which are measured in numbers and related to the first 100,000 successful projects on Kickstarter. This list reflects some of the best and brightest qualities inherent in this crowdfunding community, as well as the spirit of creativity that fills it with life:

1. The number of projects on Kickstarter that have successfully collected the stated amount since the start of the project on April 28, 2009 to February 7, 2016: 100,000
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2. The number of categories and subcategories, which included all these projects - from architecture to magazines: 165

3. The period for which the first 100 projects on Kickstarter successfully collected the required amount: 121 days

4. The period for which the last 100 projects on KIckstarter successfully collected the required amount: 3 days

5. The number of creative individuals who launched the 100,000 projects: 86,101

6. The number of "creators" who launched more than one successful project on Kickstarter: 8 539

7. The greatest number of successful projects launched by one person: 94

8. The number of projects that collected the planned amount and started by Kickstarter employees working in the company today: 40

9. Percentage of successful “creators” on Kickstarter who acted as “backers” in other Kickstarter projects: 70.58%

10. The number of "creators" who donated more money to other Kickstarter projects than they managed to collect on their own projects: 803

11. Maximum number of countries whose citizens supported one project: 169

12. The average distance between the location in which the creators of the project and its “backers” are located: 3,729 km

13. The number of sponsors who supported the first 100 000 projects: 9 088 422

14. The total number of updates of successful projects that the creators have offered the sponsors: 1 037 723

15. Maximum number of updates for one project: 301

16. The number of successful projects in the category Music, the largest by number of projects section Kickstarter ^ 22 133

17. Number of albums, compositions or performers nominated for the Grammy Award - from rhythm and blues to Latin jazz: 15 (four of them are participating in the competition - good luck!)

18. The number of creators of projects that have already received Grammy for their projects on Kickstarter: 4

19. The highest line of the hit parade of Billboard 200, on which the album, successfully sponsored by Kickstarter: 7

20. Approximate length of a DNA fragment - if you deploy a molecule - to which a musical composition was recorded for the first time in history (the scientific art project Music of the Spheres): 6.22 x 10-8 m

21. The frequency of the sound made by the most lonely whale on the planet, who became the main character of the documentary: 52 Hz

22. Number of badges in the Emoji Dick book - the first emoji book that the Library of Congress acquired: 1,339

23. The number of live oysters in the colony, which the creators of one of the projects are going to restore in an area of ​​100 acres on an oyster reef in New York Bay by 2030: 1,000,000,000

24. The total length of the reinforcement used to create the sculptural composition Living Sea Sculpture, designed to become a haven for corals in the Caribbean underwater museum: 69 meters

25. The approximate number of sculptural projects - from the installation of the Tree, created by Aye Waywey in the London Royal Academy of Arts to a complete reconstruction of the appearance of the Driptosaurus: 586

26. The number of sculptures - out of 586 - which were created specifically for the art festival Burning Man: 12.8%

27. The number of white books with blank pages used by the artist Wafa Bilal to create an installation that is intended to draw attention to the destroyed library of the University of Baghdad: 1 000

28. The number of people included in the Baghdad hacker space FIKRA - a project of the Global Entrepreneurship and Maker Space Initiative: 5,300

29. The number of sponsors who helped the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh to open seven creative sites, “makerspeysov” for children: 585

30. The number of students conducting experiments in a project to launch ultra-miniature satellites (about the size of a table tennis ball) to a height of 30.5 km: 3,200

31. The number of layers of various materials inside Neil Armstrong's spacesuit (Apollo 11) stored in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: 21

32. The approximate age of eight meteorites, which are fragments of the asteroid Vesta, is the oldest exhibit in the Mini Museum collection (project by Hans Fex): 4,500,000,000 years

33. Estimated speed of the LightSail spacecraft, proposed in the project of The Planetary Society, which studies the possibility of creating a spacecraft under a solar sail: more than 240,000 km / h

34. Weight Light Phone, a credit card-sized cell phone that is designed to reduce your dependence on gadgets: 38.5 g

35. Number of years separating the release of the last Canadian comic about superheroine Nelvan and the launch of the project on Kickstarter on its “resurrection”: 67

36. Number of comic books, events, online comics, anthologies and novels in comics successfully launched on Kickstarter - from the jubilee compilation of works by Tom Thumorrou This Modern World to the doctoral dissertation of Veronica Burns “Theoretical Solid State Chemistry in Comics”: 3 521

37. Approximate number of shots in the film Cheatin 'by Bill Plimpton, the only living animator now, who personally draws each frame in his works: 40,000

38. Number of wedding ceremonies held in the “one-off” church on the Lower East Side (Manhattan area): 136

39. Number of weddings played between the creator of a successful project and one of its sponsors: 1

40. The number of songs that contain the word "love" - ​​this result gives a multimedia project Tahir Hemfill Hip-Hop Word Count, a database of lyrics written in the style of "rap" and "hip-hop" from 1979 to the present day: 48 414

41. The number of people who supported the fundraising for the Marina Abramovich Institute (MAI) - for this, the founder of the MAI hugged each of them: 1,359

42. Number of projects in which the image of the heart is somehow present: 1,334

43. Number of projects in which the image of the brain (mind) is somehow present: 758

44. The number of neurons in the brain of the first digital organism - OpenWorm was developed to accelerate brain research and the development of computational neuroscience: 302

45. The number of fonts created in the framework of projects on Kickstarter - from Aerial Bold, the size of which allows you to create inscriptions visible on aerial photography, to a font created on the basis of Sigmund Freud's manuscripts: 71

46. ​​Percentage of critics endorsed by the Rotten Tomatoes resource who positively evaluated The Babadook psychological horror: 98%

47. The number of public gardens and gardens created in the framework of special projects: 48

48. The number of "publicly available" fruit trees to be planted by Endless Orchard activists in California: 200

49. The area of ​​the endangered rainforest, where microphones powered by solar energy were installed, designed to track illegal logging and poaching activities (the Rainforest Connection project): 4,874 square meters. km

50. The number of American classes for children aged 3 to 9 who have access to interactive solutions that increase literacy (LeVar Burton and Reading Rainbow project): 10,000

51. Age of Siberian actinobacteria, photographed by Rachel Sassman for the project "The oldest living creatures in the world": 400-600 thousand years

52. Age of competitors in the film Gold Balls, an exciting documentary about the annual American tennis championship for the elderly: 80-94 years

53. The number of strangers who were able to communicate thanks to the project Portals, a global network of transport containers, painted in golden color and equipped with modern audio-video equipment, creating the effect of presence: 10 000

54. The number of (estimated) unexploded mines in the territory of Afghanistan, for the control of which Mine Kafon was created, a mechanical sapper capable of moving due to the effects of wind: 5-7 million

55. Number of Kickstarter projects that became part of the collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art (hint: look for Mine Kafon, Makey Makey, Ototo and BRCK!): 4

56. The weight of the “cannon” shooting breakfast cereals is the central exhibit of the BOOM! Exhibition held by the Food and Drink Museum: 1,451 kg

57. The height of the musical installation Got the Power: Minnesota, created by Bayete Ross Smith and consisting of 80 vintage boomboxes: 4.57 m

58. The number of people around the world who, thanks to the Little Sun Charge device designed by Olafur Eliasson, will be able to access electricity: 1,100,000,000

59. The number of people who independently made spectrometers using the recommendations prepared by the project Public Labs - the device allows you to analyze the degree of environmental pollution: 7 417

60. The number of people who supported the hypnotic light and music experiment Kaki King The Neck is the Bridge to the Body: 910

61. Timing of the footage filmed for the creation of the documentary Flex Is Kings, telling about the modern urban dance movement Flexing: 275 hours

62. The number of successful film projects Kickstarter, nominated for an Oscar: 11

63. Number of films shot with the support of sponsors on Kickstarter, who won an Oscar: 1

64. The number of successful projects whose creators were called Oscar: 16

65. The number of garbage trucks belonging to the public services of Austin, who participated in the choreographic production (project Trash Dance): 16

66. The number of viewers of the first in the history of the 23-hour broadcast of the ballet World Ballet Day Live, which was attended by ballet troupes from the USA, Canada, Great Britain, Russia and Australia: 307 393

67. The number of minutes of “pure performing adrenaline” in the experimental theater and dance performance Star Crap Method, set by Larissa Velez-Jackson: more than 480

68. The number of 5-star Amazon reviews for the card game Cards Again Humanity: 28,986

69. The time of existence of a "temporary" restaurant, the project of which was launched by chef John Fraser, owner of stars from MIchelin: 9 months

70. The number of successful KIckstarter projects from the total number of innovations included in the annual list of TIME magazine “25 best inventions of the year” from 2013 to 2015: 20%

71. The area of ​​the Cool Water art project, Hot Island, created by artist Molly Dilworth and located in Times Square, is considered one of the largest art projects ever in Manhattan: more than 4,600 square meters. m

72. The number of people from the theater company We Players participating in the performance Hamlet on Alcatraz - is the only artistic community on Alcatraz Island: 50

73. The number of projects, one way or another connected with the work of Shakespeare: 274

74. Number of Cthulhu-related projects: 170

75. Number of projects related to both Shakespeare and Cthulhu: 1

76. The number of masks illustrating creatures from the book of Jorge Luis Borges "The book of fictional creatures" (project of the American artist Kest Schwarzmann): 197

77. The temperature in the kiln for ceramics, used when drawing the image of a sea monster on traditional blue willow-patterned dinner plates (Calamityware project - scenes of cataclysms on classical porcelain): 1500 degrees

78. Time spent by artists in a workshop aboard a freighter that crossed the Pacific Ocean - from Vancouver to Shanghai (Access Gallery project): 23 days

79. The number of successful projects launched on Kickstarter by Canadians - from the book of outstanding poetess Shane Koichan A Bruise on Light, to a computer game for the "survivors" The Long Dark: 2,633

80. The number of successfully implemented on Kickstarter games that you can play right now on the gaming platform Steam: 150

81. The total area of ​​18 real-life cities for which an 8-bit map a la "video games from the 1980s" was created: almost 9,700 square meters. km

82. The number of RPGs created with the help of Kickstarter - from cowboy steampunk adventure to rebel robots who captured the terraformed Mars: 981

83. Approximate weight of the robot with a height of 4.5 meters with the possibility of placing two people inside - a duel of two giant robots will take place as part of the MegaBots project: just over 5600 kg

84. The number of replacements of the word “negro” to the word “robot” in the book “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Robotic Edition, a satirical remix of the classic Mark Twain book - the project is a protest against censoring reprints: 219

85. The number of words excluded from (or not included in) the basic dictionaries of the English language, which the Wordnik resource is going to find and place online: 1,000,000

86. The number of words that The Noun Project has visualized and classified, and then combined into a library of simple to understand icons that everyone can use: 150,000

87. The number of endangered languages, whose alphabets it was decided to preserve, using them as an ornament for carving: 26

88. The number of "mysterious letters" sent to "good people" - artists Lenka Clayton and Michael Crowe are going to send handwritten messages to everyone living on Earth: 2,132

89. Approximate number of people on Earth, to whom Lenka and Michael have yet to write a letter: 7,400,345,312

90. The number of successful projects in the World Music category - from compilation of tracks, authors inspired by the singing of endangered South American birds to the compilation of musical compositions downloaded from the memory of the phones of Sahara residents: 761

91. Number of idle payphones used in the art project Pay Phone Revival Project (East Austin): 15

92. The number of bee families that beekeepers lose annually - according to the community of The Beez Kneez, which launched the Revive the Hive project, which is intended to be a “hub” for beekeepers and bicycles honey enthusiasts: 30-40%

93. The number of murders in the District of Columbia in 2014, according to the report of the experimental online resource Homicide Watch DC, dedicated to criminal justice - the project aims to change the approach to the investigation of crimes: 92

94. The number of works of Chilean poet and Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda, who were considered lost - were found and prepared for printing. Copper Canyon Press: 20

95. The number of years in the life of Maya Angelou, a poetess, a member of the civil rights movement and the holder of the presidential Medal of Freedom, to which the first documentary film is dedicated: 86

96. The approximate number of creative works and cultural artifacts that have been preserved, restored or updated - from the masterpieces of the composer Joaquin Orellano to President Lincoln's sofa: 128

97. The number of successful film projects that can be viewed on iTunes right now - from the documentary film Our Nixon, created on the basis of personal film archives of three advisers to the American president, to the vampire horror of Da Sweet Blood of Jesus Spike Lee: 277

98. The length of the video ordered by the British Council on the classification of films. The plot: white paint drying on the walls of a certain room. Purpose: stimulation of public dialogue on censorship: 607 minutes

99. The number of requests for information by American citizens referring to the Free Information Act of 1966 (FOIA). All requests were sent to more than a thousand government agencies using the FOIA Machine unique online project: 2117

100. The number of creators of projects that enjoy creative freedom, allowing to realize new ideas with the help of the community of sponsors, and who continue to build around themselves a world full of inspiration, diversity and creativity: 100%

* Just in case, here are the words of the multimedia artist and creator of the Hip-Hop Word Count project Tahir Hemfill: “All figures are approximate, because these are data.”


Source: The First 100,000 Funded Kickstarter Projects in 100 Numbers