Crowdfunding hit the mainstream in 2014, with over 22,000 projects being listed on Kickstarter alone.
The company today touted in it’s year in review that $529 millions dollars were pledged to projects in 2014, with over $1,000 a minute being committed by its users.
In Kickstarter’s 2014 by the numbers, the company revealed that Film & Video along with Music were the two most successfully funded categories and those with the most dollars pledged were naturally the technology category at $125 million and design at $96.5 million.
The top projects of 2014 included Bring Back Reading Rainbow, Coolest Cooler and Kingdom Come: Deliverance.
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