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 most popular crowdfunding technology on the web.
It has 34.8% of the crowdfunding market share and is detected on 0.03% of all websites.
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📊 Rankings and Market Share
- Crowdfunding
- Rank: 1
- Market share: 34.8%
🏆 Kickstarter Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Crowdfunding category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Canada in the Crowdfunding category.
⚡ Sites Using Kickstarter
We have data on 1,068 websites that use Kickstarter crowdfunding technology. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using Kickstarter is solitaired.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, Vietnam, and the United Kingdom.
- United States 47.2%
- Vietnam 9.9%
- United Kingdom 7.7%
- Germany 4.8%
- France 3.8%
- Canada 2.8%
- Australia 1.7%
- Philippines 1.7%
- Netherlands 1.6%
- Other 18.8%
Most Kickstarter users speak English or Vietnamese.
- English 82.8%
- Vietnamese 8.8%
- French 1.6%
- German 1.5%
- Spanish 1.2%
- Chinese 0.7%
- Italian 0.6%
- Japanese 0.6%
- Russian 0.5%
- Other 1.7%
Kickstarter crowdfunding technology is especially popular on .com and .net top-level domains.
- .com 71.3%
- .net 5.5%
- .org 4.4%
- .co.uk 2%
- .vn 1.6%
- .de 1.3%
- .io 1.1%
- .com.vn 0.9%
- .co 0.7%
- Other 11.2%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing Kickstarter include games, blogs and wiki, and online shopping.
- Games 18.5%
- Blogs/Wiki 16.9%
- Online Shopping 14.8%
- Marketing/Merchandising 7.4%
- Business 6.2%
- Entertainment 6.2%
- Software/Hardware 4.9%
- Forum/Bulletin Boards 3.7%
- Humor/Comics 2.9%
- Other 18.5%
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💬 Frequently Asked Questions
Where is Kickstarter's headquarters?
Kickstarter is located in 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 solitaired.com,
gameloft.com, and
tecno-mobile.com.
How does Kickstarter compare to the competition?
Kickstarter is the most popular crowdfunding technology on the market, surpassing all others.
What are the alternatives to Kickstarter?
Alternatives and possible competitors to Kickstarter may include Indiegogo,
GoFundMe, 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 3,527,342 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.