Kickstarter users pledged $529 million across 22,000 projects in 2014

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by Sindy Cator on January 5, 2015 at 6:40 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

Crowdfunding hit the mainstream in 2014, with over 22,000 projects being listed on Kickstarter alone. The company today touted in it’s year in review that $529 millions dollars were pledged to projects in 2014, with over $1,000 a minute being committed by its users. In Kickstarter’s 2014 by the numbers, the company revealed that Film & Video along with Music were the two most successfully funded categories and those with the most dollars pledged were naturally the technology category at $125 million and design at $96.5 million. The top projects of 2014 included Bring Back Reading Rainbow, Coolest Cooler and Kingdom Come: Deliverance. ➤…