Kickstarter Stats
This page is updated at least once a day with the raw data behind Kickstarter. Metrics include funding success rates, dollars pledged, and trends of successfully and unsuccessfully funded projects. Statistics are available for the site overall as well as each of the 13 project categories. Check out our blog for more on Kickstarter’s data.
| Category |
Launched Projects |
Total Dollars |
Successful Dollars |
Unsuccessful Dollars |
Live Dollars |
Live Projects |
Success Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | 99,732 |
$ 626 M
|
$ 529 M
|
$ 67 M
|
$ 29 M
|
4,347 |
43.95 %
|
| Film & Video | 26,289 |
$ 138.67 M
|
$ 112.09 M
|
$ 19.32 M
|
$ 7.25 M
|
951 |
40.01 %
|
| Games | 5,395 |
$ 133.61 M
|
$ 117.59 M
|
$ 10.44 M
|
$ 5.58 M
|
374 |
34.59 %
|
| Design | 4,134 |
$ 81.02 M
|
$ 69.14 M
|
$ 8.19 M
|
$ 3.68 M
|
246 |
38.63 %
|
| Music | 22,285 |
$ 77.47 M
|
$ 68.80 M
|
$ 6.43 M
|
$ 2.24 M
|
817 |
54.70 %
|
| Technology | 2,328 |
$ 60.55 M
|
$ 49.35 M
|
$ 6.29 M
|
$ 4.92 M
|
175 |
34.28 %
|
| Publishing | 11,551 |
$ 29.52 M
|
$ 24.16 M
|
$ 4.43 M
|
$ 934.77 K
|
567 |
31.45 %
|
| Art | 9,036 |
$ 23.65 M
|
$ 19.60 M
|
$ 3.03 M
|
$ 1.02 M
|
368 |
48.79 %
|
| Food | 3,650 |
$ 20.91 M
|
$ 16.87 M
|
$ 3.25 M
|
$ 796.84 K
|
199 |
40.71 %
|
| Comics | 2,576 |
$ 16.79 M
|
$ 14.36 M
|
$ 1.19 M
|
$ 1.24 M
|
124 |
47.92 %
|
| Theater | 4,620 |
$ 16.00 M
|
$ 13.99 M
|
$ 1.35 M
|
$ 652.67 K
|
171 |
64.33 %
|
| Fashion | 3,384 |
$ 15.88 M
|
$ 13.08 M
|
$ 1.95 M
|
$ 852.88 K
|
188 |
28.72 %
|
| Photography | 3,151 |
$ 7.87 M
|
$ 6.47 M
|
$ 1.20 M
|
$ 206.01 K
|
124 |
36.64 %
|
| Dance | 1,333 |
$ 4.05 M
|
$ 3.66 M
|
$ 271.81 K
|
$ 125.11 K
|
43 |
70.85 %
|
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Most successfully funded projects raise less than $10,000, but a growing number have reached six and even seven figures. Currently funding projects that have reached their goals are not included in this chart — only projects whose funding is complete.
| Category | Successfully Funded Projects |
Less than
$1,000 Raised |
$ 1,000
to
$9,999 Raised |
$ 10,000
to
$19,999 Raised |
$ 20,000
to
$99,999 Raised |
$ 100 K
to
$999,999 Raised |
$ 1 M
Raised |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | 41,925 | 4,891 | 27,594 | 5,232 | 3,604 | 572 | 32 |
| Music | 11,744 | 1,210 | 8,771 | 1,284 | 462 | 16 | 1 |
| Film & Video | 10,137 | 1,041 | 6,263 | 1,553 | 1,177 | 102 | 1 |
| Art | 4,229 | 817 | 2,963 | 319 | 126 | 4 | 0 |
| Publishing | 3,455 | 565 | 2,300 | 368 | 209 | 13 | 0 |
| Theater | 2,862 | 403 | 2,167 | 204 | 85 | 3 | 0 |
| Games | 1,737 | 98 | 725 | 316 | 428 | 151 | 19 |
| Design | 1,502 | 112 | 562 | 278 | 410 | 137 | 3 |
| Food | 1,405 | 71 | 753 | 346 | 228 | 7 | 0 |
| Comics | 1,175 | 172 | 733 | 150 | 103 | 16 | 1 |
| Photography | 1,109 | 180 | 739 | 133 | 57 | 0 | 0 |
| Fashion | 918 | 101 | 564 | 129 | 105 | 18 | 1 |
| Dance | 914 | 79 | 771 | 51 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| Technology | 738 | 42 | 283 | 101 | 201 | 105 | 6 |
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Funding on Kickstarter is all-or-nothing in more ways than one. While 11% of projects finished having never received a single pledge, 81% of projects that raised more than 20% of their goal were successfully funded.
| Category | Unsuccessfully Funded Projects |
0% Funded |
1% to 20% Funded |
21% to 40% Funded |
41% to 60% Funded |
61% to 80% Funded |
81% to 99% Funded |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | 53,460 | 10,332 | 33,423 | 6,308 | 2,319 | 761 | 317 |
| Film & Video | 15,201 | 3,300 | 9,619 | 1,541 | 509 | 165 | 67 |
| Music | 9,724 | 2,291 | 5,506 | 1,293 | 452 | 139 | 43 |
| Publishing | 7,529 | 1,741 | 4,715 | 699 | 270 | 71 | 33 |
| Art | 4,439 | 872 | 2,659 | 578 | 228 | 71 | 31 |
| Games | 3,284 | 258 | 2,379 | 368 | 176 | 65 | 38 |
| Design | 2,386 | 176 | 1,563 | 400 | 169 | 50 | 28 |
| Fashion | 2,278 | 461 | 1,400 | 292 | 62 | 44 | 19 |
| Food | 2,046 | 158 | 1,477 | 250 | 112 | 41 | 8 |
| Photography | 1,918 | 400 | 1,149 | 251 | 77 | 30 | 11 |
| Theater | 1,587 | 310 | 942 | 215 | 85 | 23 | 12 |
| Technology | 1,415 | 145 | 985 | 168 | 72 | 26 | 19 |
| Comics | 1,277 | 152 | 814 | 200 | 75 | 30 | 6 |
| Dance | 376 | 68 | 215 | 53 | 32 | 6 | 2 |
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