I think it's important to realise that Indiegogo allows "raise money to send X to college/hospital” and other such campaigns. For hardware projects, Kickstarter also insists on a working prototype, which Indiegogo does not.
Insights we discovered when we scraped and analyzed all of Indiegogo’s campaigns
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Re: Insights we discovered when we scraped and analyzed all of Indiegogo’s campaigns
#32The reason I only back kickstarter projects is that I don't like that you pay inmidiatly with igg. Don't know if there is any data on funded projects that delivered or failed to deliver but my guess igg will do worse in this respect as well
Re: Insights we discovered when we scraped and analyzed all of Indiegogo’s campaigns
#33Why did Ubuntu choose Indiegogo over Kickstarter?
Re: Insights we discovered when we scraped and analyzed all of Indiegogo’s campaigns
#34Why did Ubuntu choose Indiegogo over Kickstarter?
Kickstarter does not allow product design campaigns that don't have any physical products and also no rewards in mass quantities. Indiegogo is less strict.
From: http://www.kickstarter.com/help/guidelines
>>> Projects cannot offer rewards in bulk quantities (more than 10). >>> No product simulations or photorealistic renderings
Technical drawings, CAD designs, sketches, and other parts of the design process are awesome and encouraged. Photorealistic renderings and simulations that could be mistaken for finished products or real events, however, are not allowed. <<<
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#35Is there any reason that the ultimate price for these services won't approach $0? They're not actually providing promotion, right? That seems like the only real value they could really provide.
I find out about 90% of these things from the kickstarter website or emails saying my friends invested. So I would say for the projects I funded, I would have never given them money if they weren't on kickstarter.
Well, then maybe it can work. Maybe they'll just lower their cut.
Re: Insights we discovered when we scraped and analyzed all of Indiegogo’s campaigns
#36Hard to really evaluate the info without the time factor. KickStarter is massively popular, but I wonder how much of total haul is attributable to activity before IndieGoGo came along (I believe KS started first). It would have also been interesting to compare historical figures to activity in the past calendar year, overall trends (eg timeline to when KS got to 6X IGG) vs per categories, etc.
Indiegogo started in 2008 and Kickstarter was launched in 2009. Also, we saw from the live dollar amounts that Kickstarter was quickly expanding it's lead.
Wow, interesting to learn that Indiegogo actually launched first. Kickstarter's bigger brand stamp made it seem otherwise.
Re: Insights we discovered when we scraped and analyzed all of Indiegogo’s campaigns
#37I tried my (wild) numbers here: http://designagame.eu/2013/09/fermi-estimates-crowd-funding/