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-----From groundbreaking projects to inspiring stories, 2012 was a year of many memorable moments on Kickstarter. To celebrate the year that was, our team put together this look back at some of our favorite projects and moments. We hope you enjoy! ----- Let's begin with some numbers In 2012 2,241,475 people pledged a total of $319,786,629 and successfully funded 18,109 projects Backers pledged $606.76 per minute to projects in 2012 ----- Of the 2.2 million people who backed a project in 2012 570,672 people backed two or more projects 50,047 people backed ten or more projects 452 people backed 100 or more projects ----- People in 177 countries backed a project in 2012 That's 90% of the countries in the world ----- Of Kickstarter's 13 creative categories Music had the most funded projects with 5,067 Games had the most money pledged at $83 million Art, Film, Music, Publishing, and Theater each had more than 1,000 funded projects ----- 17 projects raised $1 million+ in 2012 |
10% of the films at Sundance are Kickstarter-funded
19 films selected; four win top prizes (http://www.kickstarter.com/pages/Sundance2012?ref=yir2012)
FUBAR hits the New York Times Best Sellers List (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1607639297/fubar-2-empir...)
The Kickstarter Popsicle Little Bee Pops celebrates backers with a new flavor (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/730155451/little-bee-pop...)
Incident in New Baghdad nominated for an Oscar Second Kickstarter-funded film to be nominated (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1941167757/incident-in-n...)
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February
Double Fine Adventure (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doublefine/double-fine-a... ) kicks off a huge year for games
Games in 2012: 561,574 backers $83,144,565 pledged 2,796 projects
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March
Backers make Chattanooga the first US city with its own font Font integrated into bike lanes, billboards, and even the public library, then released online for free (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chatype/chatype-a-typefa...)
Stanford teaches Kickstarter for class credit (Our Kickstarter School is still free) (http://www.kickstarter.com/pages/storyviz?ref=yir2012)
A Kickstarter-funded bus stop in Georgia Athens artist spices up the morning commute (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1016187241/the-love-shac...)
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April
Google Maps integrates images from DIY mapping project (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1775485688/balloon-mappi...)
Dark Sky app predicts the weather (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jackadam/dark-sky-hyperl...)
Air Quality Egg makes fighting pollution awesome (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/edborden/air-quality-egg...)
Kickstarter turns three (http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/happy-3rd-birthday-kickstart...)
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May
Classical music goes open source Musopen and Open Goldberg Variations release recordings to the public domain (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Musopen/record-and-relea...) (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/293573191/open-goldberg-...)
Cards Against Humanity tops the Amazon charts Friends make irreverent card game, sell 100,000+ copies, ruin family gatherings forever (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/maxtemkin/cards-against-...)
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June
A Kickstarter-funded opera premieres at the Kennedy Center 188 backers help produce Paola Prestini’s Oceanic Verses (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/MexicoSings/oceanic-vers...)
MaKey MaKey inspires the world’s first banana piano One project, infinite possibilities (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joylabs/makey-makey-an-i...)
Open source geiger counters measure radiation levels in Japan (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/seanbonner/safecast-x-ki...)
Musician writes songs for backers, including his grandma The cutest thing we saw all year (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2031742392/he-said-she-s...)
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July
Kentucky sixth-graders send a camera to space (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scifres/the-edge-and-bac...)
Design firm Final Frontier develops a civilian space suit (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/872281861/final-frontier...)
Publisher's Weekly calls Kickstarter the #2 publisher of graphic novels (http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/co...)
Kickstarter gets parodied The New Yorker, The Daily Show, Portlandia, McSweeney's, The Onion, Funny or Die, and others make us laugh (http://www.newyorker.com/humor/issuecartoons/2012/07/30/cart...) (http://www.kick-stopper.com/) (http://www.ifc.com/portlandia/videos/portlandia-kickstarter) (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/welcome-to-the-official-k...) (http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/70f7ef3d34/bar-refaeli-s-se...)
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August
T-Rex wins Olympic gold Boxer Claressa Shields, subject of the doc T-Rex, triumphs in London (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zcdc/t-rex/posts/286163)
87 projects go to Burning Man Art cars, bathroom beacons, laser lights, oh my! (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/search?term=burning+man)
Kickstarter-funded journalists cover the world (http://www.kickstarter.com/pages/journalism?ref=yir2012)
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September
Amanda Palmer debuts in the Billboard Top Ten Thanks 24,883 backers with a block party (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/amandapalmer/amanda-palm...)
The world's first pizza museum Philadelphians pay tribute to the glory that is pizza (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2023690459/pizza-brain-t...)
Kindergarten class launches experiments into space (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1569698176/1000-student-...)
XOXO Fest explores the creative universe Kickstarter-funded festival unites artists, creators, and technologists (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/waxpancake/xoxo-festival...)
Projects transform public spaces The Lowline, Kulturpark, and Logan Parklet create new urban environments (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/855802805/lowline-an-und...) (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1353197694/kulturpark?re...) (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/122241678/lets-build-the...)
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October
The first hackerspace opens in Baghdad (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bilal/baghdad-community-...)
Kickstarter opens to UK creators Picade first to launch, Chime Pavilion first to succeed (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pimoroni/picade-the-arca...) (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/georginanaishmsa/the-chi...)
Photography exhibition travels across Afghanistan (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/52943134/streets-of-afgh...)
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November
OpenROV sends underwater robots around the world (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openrov/openrov-the-open...)
Atlanta's first squirrel census Turns out, there are even more squirrels than we thought (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jamiewashere/inman-park-...)
Windowfarms grow in the American Museum of Natural History (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/windowfarms/learn-to-gro...)
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December
63 Kickstarter-funded films (http://www.kickstarter.com/pages/filmsintheaters?ref=yir2012) open in theaters
The first marriage proposal via Kickstarter project (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1042570429/the-last-door...)
The Griz Coat (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hansr/griz-coat?ref=yir2...) makes bear hugs even better (Aaron's dancing skills not included)