Filmmaker and comedian David Cross premiered his new movie at Sundance, but didn’t like any of the distribution deals offered by major studios, so he decided to give the film directly… Read more »
Reddit has launched a crowdfunding platform for its members called Redditmade — another in a series of bets that Reddit has made on the power of its community, something traditional media… Read more »
Canadian journalist Jesse Brown decided he needed to get paid for his podcast or give it up, so he asked his listeners for help by setting up a crowdfunding campaign through… Read more »
British blogger Brown Moses, also known as Eliot Higgins, has become a leading source of fact-checked information about military activity in Syria and elsewhere, despite having no journalistic training. And now… Read more »
The backlash to the acquisition of Oculus VR by Facebook — from backers who had helped finance the startup on Kickstarter — says a lot about the personal and emotional connection… Read more »
The founders of Inkshares don’t think the traditional publishing industry is broken, just antiquated and inefficient — and they think marrying crowdfunding and the kinds of services publishers used to offer… Read more »
Wattpad, which has built a social network for aspiring authors that allows them to build a fan base around their writing, has launched a crowdfunding feature to make it easier for… Read more »
While everyone is trying to figure out a way to monetize online content via paywalls, John Battelle of Federated Media wonders whether a “group buying” approach would work better by giving… Read more »
ProPublica, which just hit its fundraising goal for a Kickstarter project aimed at investigating the rise in internships in the U.S., says there are a few key strategies for producing a… Read more »
When the NPR show Planet Money wanted to put together a project about the economic life-cycle of a T-shirt, Kickstarter seemed like the natural approach — and it showed how much… Read more »