Kickstarter?s Big 2012: $320 Million Pledged by 2.24 Million Backers, 18K Successfully Funded Projects

It's been clear that crowdfunding has had a big moment over the past twelve months, but new stats released today by creative project investment platform Kickstarter showed just how huge 2012 really was indie projects getting money from the larger public. Over the course of 2012, Kickstarter says that a total of 2,241,475 people pledged a total of $319.7 million to projects on its platform -- that's a boost of 221 percent from 2011.

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