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TEXT-ONLY VERSION FOR MOBILE BROWSERS &C; ----- From groundbreaking projects to inspiring stories, 2012 was a year of many memorable moments on Kickstarter.

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  January 10% of the films at Sundance are Kickstarter-funded 19 films selected; four win top prizes (http://www.kickstarter.com/pages/Sundance2012?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/pages/Sundance2012?ref=yir2012) FUBAR hits the New York Times Best Sellers List (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1607639297/fubar-2-empire-of-the-rising-dead?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1607639297/fubar-2-empir...) The Kickstarter Popsicle Little Bee Pops celebrates backers with a new flavor (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/730155451/little-bee-pops/posts/160739?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/730155451/little-bee-pop...) Incident in New Baghdad nominated for an Oscar Second Kickstarter-funded film to be nominated (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1941167757/incident-in-new-baghdad-oscar-qualifying-la-releas?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1941167757/incident-in-n...) ----- February Double Fine Adventure (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doublefine/double-fine-adventure?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doublefine/double-fine-a... ) kicks off a huge year for games Games in 2012: 561,574 backers $83,144,565 pledged 2,796 projects ----- March Backers make Chattanooga the first US city with its own font Font integrated into bike lanes, billboards, and even the public library, then released online for free (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chatype/chatype-a-typeface-for-chattanooga-tennessee?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/chatype/chatype-a-typefa...) Stanford teaches Kickstarter for class credit (Our Kickstarter School is still free) (http://www.kickstarter.com/pages/storyviz?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/pages/storyviz?ref=yir2012) A Kickstarter-funded bus stop in Georgia Athens artist spices up the morning commute (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1016187241/the-love-shack-bus-stop?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1016187241/the-love-shac...) ----- April Google Maps integrates images from DIY mapping project (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1775485688/balloon-mapping-kits?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1775485688/balloon-mappi...) Dark Sky app predicts the weather (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jackadam/dark-sky-hyperlocal-weather-prediction-and-visuali?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jackadam/dark-sky-hyperl...) Air Quality Egg makes fighting pollution awesome (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/edborden/air-quality-egg?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/edborden/air-quality-egg...) Kickstarter turns three (http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/happy-3rd-birthday-kickstarter?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/happy-3rd-birthday-kickstart...) ----- May Classical music goes open source Musopen and Open Goldberg Variations release recordings to the public domain (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Musopen/record-and-release-free-music-without-copyrights?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/Musopen/record-and-relea...) (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/293573191/open-goldberg-variations-setting-bach-free?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/293573191/open-goldberg-...) Cards Against Humanity tops the Amazon charts Friends make irreverent card game, sell 100,000+ copies, ruin family gatherings forever (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/maxtemkin/cards-against-humanity?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/maxtemkin/cards-against-...) ----- June A Kickstarter-funded opera premieres at the Kennedy Center 188 backers help produce Paola Prestini’s Oceanic Verses (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/MexicoSings/oceanic-verses-an-opera?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/MexicoSings/oceanic-vers...) MaKey MaKey inspires the world’s first banana piano One project, infinite possibilities (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joylabs/makey-makey-an-invention-kit-for-everyone?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joylabs/makey-makey-an-i...) Open source geiger counters measure radiation levels in Japan (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/seanbonner/safecast-x-kickstarter-geiger-counter?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/seanbonner/safecast-x-ki...) Musician writes songs for backers, including his grandma The cutest thing we saw all year (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2031742392/he-said-she-said-thats-what-she-said/posts/239704?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2031742392/he-said-she-s...) ----- July Kentucky sixth-graders send a camera to space (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scifres/the-edge-and-back?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scifres/the-edge-and-bac...) Design firm Final Frontier develops a civilian space suit (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/872281861/final-frontier-designs-3g-space-suit?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/872281861/final-frontier...) Publisher's Weekly calls Kickstarter the #2 publisher of graphic novels (http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/52925-is-kickstarter-the-2-graphic-novel-publisher.html http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/co...) Kickstarter gets parodied The New Yorker, The Daily Show, Portlandia, McSweeney's, The Onion, Funny or Die, and others make us laugh (http://www.newyorker.com/humor/issuecartoons/2012/07/30/cartoons_20120723#slide=17 http://www.newyorker.com/humor/issuecartoons/2012/07/30/cart...) (http://www.kick-stopper.com/ http://www.kick-stopper.com/) (http://www.ifc.com/portlandia/videos/portlandia-kickstarter http://www.ifc.com/portlandia/videos/portlandia-kickstarter) (http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/welcome-to-the-official-kickstarter-page-for-greece http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/welcome-to-the-official-k...) (http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/70f7ef3d34/bar-refaeli-s-sex-tape-kickstarter http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/70f7ef3d34/bar-refaeli-s-se...) ----- August T-Rex wins Olympic gold Boxer Claressa Shields, subject of the doc T-Rex, triumphs in London (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zcdc/t-rex/posts/286163 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zcdc/t-rex/posts/286163) 87 projects go to Burning Man Art cars, bathroom beacons, laser lights, oh my! (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/search?term=burning+man http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/search?term=burning+man) Kickstarter-funded journalists cover the world (http://www.kickstarter.com/pages/journalism?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/pages/journalism?ref=yir2012) ----- September Amanda Palmer debuts in the Billboard Top Ten Thanks 24,883 backers with a block party (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/amandapalmer/amanda-palmer-the-new-record-art-book-and-tour?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/amandapalmer/amanda-palm...) The world's first pizza museum Philadelphians pay tribute to the glory that is pizza (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2023690459/pizza-brain-the-worlds-first-pizza-museum-and-rest?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2023690459/pizza-brain-t...) Kindergarten class launches experiments into space (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1569698176/1000-student-projects-to-the-edge-of-space?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1569698176/1000-student-...) XOXO Fest explores the creative universe Kickstarter-funded festival unites artists, creators, and technologists (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/waxpancake/xoxo-festival?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/waxpancake/xoxo-festival...) Projects transform public spaces The Lowline, Kulturpark, and Logan Parklet create new urban environments (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/855802805/lowline-an-underground-park-on-nycs-lower-east-sid?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/855802805/lowline-an-und...) (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1353197694/kulturpark?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1353197694/kulturpark?re...) (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/122241678/lets-build-the-logan-parklet?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/122241678/lets-build-the...) ----- October The first hackerspace opens in Baghdad (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bilal/baghdad-community-hackerspace-workshops?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bilal/baghdad-community-...) Kickstarter opens to UK creators Picade first to launch, Chime Pavilion first to succeed (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pimoroni/picade-the-arcade-cabinet-kit-for-your-raspberry-p?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pimoroni/picade-the-arca...) (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/georginanaishmsa/the-chime-pavillion?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/georginanaishmsa/the-chi...) Photography exhibition travels across Afghanistan (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/52943134/streets-of-afghanistan-exhibition-hits-the-streets?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/52943134/streets-of-afgh...) ----- November OpenROV sends underwater robots around the world (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openrov/openrov-the-open-source-underwater-robot?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openrov/openrov-the-open...) Atlanta's first squirrel census Turns out, there are even more squirrels than we thought (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jamiewashere/inman-park-squirrel-census?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jamiewashere/inman-park-...) Windowfarms grow in the American Museum of Natural History (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/windowfarms/learn-to-grow-and-share-with-new-windowfarms?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/windowfarms/learn-to-gro...) ----- December 63 Kickstarter-funded films (http://www.kickstarter.com/pages/filmsintheaters?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/pages/filmsintheaters?ref=yir2012) open in theaters The first marriage proposal via Kickstarter project (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1042570429/the-last-door-episodic-horror-adventure/posts/366903?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1042570429/the-last-door...) The Griz Coat (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hansr/griz-coat?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hansr/griz-coat?ref=yir2...) makes bear hugs even better (Aaron's dancing skills not included)
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    2012: The Stats Total pledged $319,786,629 +221% from 2011 Total collected $274,391,721 +238% from 2011 Total backers 2,241,475 +134% from 2011 Pageviews 709 million +279% from 2011 Unique visitors 86 million +252% from 2011 ----- Category Launched Successful Pledged Pledges Art 3,783 1,837 $10,477,939 155,782 Comics 1,170 542 $9,242,233 177,070 Dance 512 381 $1,773,304 23,807 Design 1,882 759 $50,124,041 536,469 Fashion 1,659 434 $6,317,799 83,067 Film & Video 9,600 3,891 $57,951,876 647,361 Food 1,828 688 $11,117,486 138,204 Games 2,796 911 $83,144,565 1,378,143 Music 9,086 5,067 $34,953,600 522,441 Photography 1,197 427 $3,283,635 46,550 Publishing 5,634 1,666 $15,311,251 262,738 Technology 831 312 $29,003,932 270,912 Theater 1,787 1,194 $7,084,968 95,225 ----- Thank you! Thanks to everyone for making 2012 an unforgettable year. Here's to an amazing 2013! Love, Team Kickstarter Perry, Yancey, Charles, Lance, Cassie, Fred, Andrew, Brett, Cindy, Daniella, Cedric, Samuel, Kendel, Mike, Justin, Meaghan, Tieg, Elisabeth, Jed, Jared, Cooper, Nicole, Aaron, Zack, Stephanie, Aurora, Callan, Jessica, Alex, Chris, Andrew, Dan, Brandon, Tomasz, Katherine, Bridget, Erik, Emily, Shannon, Niina, Bethany, Ian, Luke, Michal, Aaron, Eli, Chris, Leland, Michael, Ellen, Shayne & Jake (http://www.kickstarter.com/team?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/team?ref=yir2012) P.S.: We're hiring! (http://www.kickstarter.com/jobs?ref=yir2012 http://www.kickstarter.com/jobs?ref=yir2012)