Long Story Short 2023: Join Kickstarter’s Annual Celebration of Short Films in March

Launch a short film campaign and join a cohort of boundary-pushing, rabble-rousing, future-dreaming filmmakers doing the same. There’s no better place to launch a short film than on Kickstarter. And there’s no better time for shorts on Kickstarter than in spring. That’s because March 2023 sees the return of Long Story Short, Kickstarter’s...

Sep 2022

Announcing Kickstarter's New CEO, Everette Taylor

I’m incredibly excited to announce that Everette Taylor has joined us as Kickstarter’s new CEO. Over the past few months, I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know Everette and can’t wait to see the positive impact he’ll have on Kickstarter’s future. His combination of product and marketing chops, innate leadership skills, and deep connection with culture...

Sep 2022

Notes From Our Second Community Advisory Council Meeting: Protocol Discussion and What’s Next for Product

Several times each year, the creators we’ve brought together in our Community Advisory Council meet with members of the Kickstarter team, bringing their expertise and insights to guide our work. They are an incredible group of passionate community advocates from across creative disciplines. Building on the enthusiasm, ideas, and feedback from our first...

Sep 2022

Meet the Kickstarter Games Outreach Team

There’s no question that games are at the very heart of what we do at Kickstarter. Since our launch in 2009, Kickstarter has become the home for the largest, most engaged games community in the crowdfunding industry, with nearly $2B pledged to 70,000 projects in our Games category since 2009. Beyond these impressive numbers, the inspiring work that...

Aug 2022

Kickstarter Never Tolerates Abusive Behavior; This New Feature Makes it Easier for Creators to Take Action

Hello, Kickstarter Community. My name is Elana, and I’m Kickstarter’s VP of Product and Design. Today I’m writing to tell you about a new feature we’ve launched that builds on other recent improvements we’ve made to the platform as part of our commitment to keep creators and backers safe.Creators will sometimes report to us that they’ve experienced...

Aug 2022

Ready to Make Magic? Announcing Witchstarter 2022, Our First Open Call for Magic & Divination Projects

Hi everyone, my name is Meredith, and I’m a member of Kickstarter’s Outreach team. For the last four years, I’ve run our Music department as well as Magic & Divination, a community devoted to supporting creators making projects that directly or thematically deal with magic, witchcraft, and the occult. I’m incredibly excited to announce that this...

Aug 2022

Reporting Back from the First Meeting of the Kickstarter Community Advisory Council

Earlier this month, I was honored to host the inaugural meeting of Kickstarter’s Community Advisory Council with members Ivan Askwith, Annette Azan, Ellia Bisker, Stefanie Black, Kat Calamia, Jose Cardona, Thomas Negovan, Tony Patrick, Philip Reed, George Rohac, Philomena Schwab, and Philip Winter. It was an inspiring conversation full of frank feedback,...

Jul 2022

Two Important Updates: Pinned Comments and Alt Text on Kickstarter

Hello from Kickstarter’s Product team! I’m happy to let you know about two updates we’ve launched to make Kickstarter better for both creators and backers.Pinned CommentsFirst is the ability to pin comments. Up until now, creators were able to pin their project update posts to the top of their project page, but they didn’t have the ability to pin comments....

Jul 2022

Welcome to the Members of Kickstarter’s Community Advisory Council

Kickstarter’s Community Advisory Council: Ivan Askwith, Annette Azan, Ellia Bisker, Stefanie Black, Kat Calamia, Jose Cardona, Thomas Negovan, Tony Patrick, Philip Reed, George Rohac, Philomena Schwab, and Philip Winter Hi, I’m Kimm and I lead the team at Kickstarter that works directly with creators and backers to help them have a successful...

Jun 2022

We Fixed an Issue with How Limited Rewards Work on Kickstarter

I’m excited to let you know about a fix we’ve deployed to improve the experience of backing Limited rewards on Kickstarter. This update will reduce frustration for creators who offer rewards in a Limited tier, and will make it easier and clearer for backers who want to back those rewards.Problem: Prior to this release, when a creator launched a large...

Jun 2022