Kickstarter
Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform that enables creators to raise funds for creative projects by presenting campaigns to the public and collecting pledges from backers.
It operates on an all-or-nothing funding model where funds are collected only if a project reaches its goal, supports reward-based campaigns without equity, and provides tools such as pre-launch pages, reward tiers with add-ons, backer surveys, and late pledges.
According to our data, Kickstarter is the second most popular crowdfunding technology on the web.
It has 31.1% of the crowdfunding market share and is detected on 0.03% of all websites.
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📊 Rankings and Market Share
- Crowdfunding
- Rank: 2
- Market share: 31.1%
🏆 Kickstarter Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Crowdfunding category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Crowdfunding category.
⚡ Sites Using Kickstarter
We have data on 1,151 websites that use Kickstarter crowdfunding technology. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using Kickstarter is ixbt.com.
📈 Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use Kickstarter:
- are located in the United States
- have content in English
- use the .com domain extension
- fall into the Games category.
Most of the sites using Kickstarter are from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Vietnam.
- United States 53.9%
- United Kingdom 7.2%
- Vietnam 7.1%
- Germany 3.6%
- France 2.8%
- Australia 2.4%
- Canada 2.4%
- Japan 1.6%
- Netherlands 1.6%
- Other 17.4%
Most Kickstarter users speak English or Vietnamese.
- English 86.3%
- Vietnamese 5.7%
- German 1.5%
- French 1.5%
- Spanish 1%
- Italian 0.6%
- Japanese 0.6%
- Chinese 0.6%
- Russian 0.4%
- Other 1.8%
Kickstarter crowdfunding technology is especially popular on .com and .net top-level domains.
- .com 72.3%
- .net 5.5%
- .org 4.2%
- .co.uk 2%
- .vn 1.3%
- .io 1.2%
- .de 1.1%
- .co 0.9%
- .com.vn 0.7%
- Other 10.8%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing Kickstarter include games, online shopping, and blogs and wiki.
- Games 20%
- Online Shopping 15.5%
- Blogs/Wiki 15.1%
- Entertainment 8.6%
- Marketing/Merchandising 7.3%
- Business 4.9%
- Software/Hardware 4.9%
- Forum/Bulletin Boards 3.7%
- Internet Services 2.9%
- Other 17.1%
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💬 Frequently Asked Questions
Where is Kickstarter from?
Kickstarter is from New York, United States.
Which country uses Kickstarter the most?
The majority of Kickstarter users are from the United States.
Who uses Kickstarter?
According to our data, Kickstarter is used on over a thousand sites, including such established ones as ixbt.com,
solitaired.com, and
creative.com.
How does Kickstarter compare to its competitors?
Kickstarter is one of the most popular crowdfunding technologies, second only to 
HelloAsso.
What are the alternatives to Kickstarter?
Alternatives and possible competitors to Kickstarter may include 
GoFundMe, Indiegogo, and
Crowd Supply.
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,817,728 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.