nickellis
05-29-2012, 08:26 PM
Hey guys,
Been talking a lot with my girlfriend about Amanda Palmer and new ways of producing creative content. My girlfriend is in her final year of a fashion design degree and is focussing on non-traditional methods of funding design.
Amanda Palmer has just raised over a million dollars on Kickstarter.
I put together some back-of-the-envelope calculations about her Kickstarter project. These are really, really reductive, but I thought they might be of interest, especially as Kickstarter style funding seems to be being used a lot by comics people.
Back of envelope calculations:
Amanda Palmer has 300K followers on Twitter. Total audience possibly 2 million (Neil Gaiman's followers minus people who aren't interested in her, plus people who like her but don't follow her online - very rough).
21K of those people have pledged $1 million.
21K = roughly 1% of 2million. 21K = roughly 7% of 300K.
On average, per person, they have pledged roughly $47 each.
Please note: my maths is terrible. And again, this is reductive, but interesting.
N
PS - I also think it's very interesting that her entry point is $1 (you get a download of the new album). The highest rate is around the $5 (download + PDF) - $25 (download + PDF + CD) marks. It goes up to over $10K.
PPS - I originally pledged $5, then upped it to $100 after seeing some of her stuff for the art book, in an email for the release of one of the songs.
PPPS - She works really, really hard to both engage this audience, and give stuff to them. Like I said, the calculations are reductive.
Been talking a lot with my girlfriend about Amanda Palmer and new ways of producing creative content. My girlfriend is in her final year of a fashion design degree and is focussing on non-traditional methods of funding design.
Amanda Palmer has just raised over a million dollars on Kickstarter.
I put together some back-of-the-envelope calculations about her Kickstarter project. These are really, really reductive, but I thought they might be of interest, especially as Kickstarter style funding seems to be being used a lot by comics people.
Back of envelope calculations:
Amanda Palmer has 300K followers on Twitter. Total audience possibly 2 million (Neil Gaiman's followers minus people who aren't interested in her, plus people who like her but don't follow her online - very rough).
21K of those people have pledged $1 million.
21K = roughly 1% of 2million. 21K = roughly 7% of 300K.
On average, per person, they have pledged roughly $47 each.
Please note: my maths is terrible. And again, this is reductive, but interesting.
N
PS - I also think it's very interesting that her entry point is $1 (you get a download of the new album). The highest rate is around the $5 (download + PDF) - $25 (download + PDF + CD) marks. It goes up to over $10K.
PPS - I originally pledged $5, then upped it to $100 after seeing some of her stuff for the art book, in an email for the release of one of the songs.
PPPS - She works really, really hard to both engage this audience, and give stuff to them. Like I said, the calculations are reductive.