Through Kickstarter has collected more than $ 1 billion Bashny.Net

Today, March 3, 2014 the amount of funds collected for projects through kraudfandingovy site Kickstarter, exceeded one billion dollars from 5,708,578 people in 224 countries .

The site continues to grow rapidly: more than half of this billion occurred in the last 12 months. Schematically, the size of donations per month is shown in the diagram, from April 2009 to February 2014.





Kickstarter has also published statistics for all countries.



Russia: 15,183 buyers, $ 3,347,742
Ukraine 2250 buyers, $ 371,389
Kazakhstan: 363 buyer $ 60,590
Belarus: 0 (Statistics somehow absent, although users have exactly Kickstarter)

Well, have become the most active buyers in the US ($ 663 million), the UK ($ 54 million) and Canada ($ 45 million).

1, 7 million people, or 29, 6% of users have financed more than one project, and 15,932 activist financed more than 50 projects. "Repeat customer" provided $ 619 million of the total investment billion. 86% money collected went to the actual financing of projects, and the rest were in bad projects, which had to return the funds. Although the number of failed projects (74 047) actually exceeds the number of successful (57,128).

Interestingly, the most money donate on Wednesdays.



Of days in the month the most happy - the 13th day of the month. The absolute record was set March 13, 2013: More than $ 4 million from 54,187 people.

Anti-record - the first day of the site April 28, 2009: $ 1,084 from 40 people.

Source: habrahabr.ru/post/214513/