Kickstarter
Today, crowdfunding is largely identical to Kickstarter. It is the largest crowdfunding platform there. The Kickstarter campaign has raised more than the US $ 2w. It hosts 95,000 successful projects, has a total of 9.7million supporters – supports multiple campaigns.
More than 100 (132 actually) has broken the $ 1 million mark. A further 2355 campaign has raised more than the US $ 100k. You can visit Samit Patel to get more details about Kickstarter and Indiegogo.
Goliath offers 15 categories of crowdfunding campaigns. Film and video, music, and publishing the most popular categories (you will find most campaigns are enrolled in one of these), but it was a game, technology, and design category that really excites supporters.
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These last three are the least funded in the site (for the record, Wednesday afternoon is the time when most supporters put their hands in their pockets). Kickstarter gets a fair bit of coverage from the media and bloggers.
Indiegogo
Initially focused exclusively on independent films (hence the name) Indiegogo start accepting projects from each category year after its launch. Established to provide more opportunity for supporters of Kickstarter, Indiegogo is usually considered a less stringent platform.
It is available in more than 200 countries and provides more categories (24 vs Kickstarter 15). It also provides support control over whether they want to keep (all or nothing) or flexible (creator gets whatever amount they collect) model.