10% of this year's Sundance selections raised money on Kickstarter

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December 10th 2011

10% of this year's Sundance selections raised money on Kickstarter

Reblogged from fred-wilson|217 notes |# Comments

whitneymcn:

This is mindblowing from a wide variety of perspectives, so I’ll just pick one:

Remember when Kickstarter hit 1MM backers a couple of months ago, and it was pointed by (first by @garychou, I believe) that the money pledged by Kickstarter backers was approaching 65% of the NEA’s annual budget?

Well consider this: the Sundance Institute itself received NEA grants totaling $180,000 in 2011. The 14 Kickstarter-supported films appearing at Sundance received more than $370,000 from Kickstarter backers in 2011.

It’s not an apples-to-anything comparison, but it’s incredible nonetheless.

(Source: david)

Posted at 3:40pm and tagged with: crowdsourcing, media,.

Emergent Futures Tumblelog

10% of this year's Sundance selections raised money on Kickstarter

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