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Australian Researcher Takes To Pozible To Study Gaming Culture

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An Australian researcher has taken to crowdfunding site Pozible to accept donations in an effort to create a “cultural cache,” a virtual repository of first-hand accounts and experiences directly from gamers. The PlayCache will be an evolving online archive to record, analyse and report on the digital game play habits of Australian gamers: from YouTube… Read More

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Drug dealer’s Family raises $20,000 via crowdfunding site Pozible

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A FORMER Sydney luxury car dealer turned heroin trafficker who was once on death row has secured his transfer home after 20 years in foreign jails by using Facebook and crowdfunding site Pozible. Martin Garnett, 45, secured the $19,287 target he needed to transfer from a prison in Indiana to NSW on Sunday afternoon. His… Read More

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Pozible announces private crowd funding

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A new service has come to crowd-funding site Pozible, allowing you to select exactly who you want to be able to see a campaign. You might be wondering what could possibly be the good of that? As it turns out, plenty. The new “Private” mode isn’t really designed for crowd funding start-ups necessarily. As the… Read More

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Fans putting money where their heart is

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Musicians are used to numbers that measure their success, from their position on the charts to a gig’s attendance figure. But for some the most important number now is the amount they have raised for their next project through crowdfunding. Using the internet to put a modern spin on the traditional concept of patronage, crowdfunding… Read More

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Why Crowdfunding sites won’t take off in Singapore

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When Melbourne-based crowdfunding site Pozible launched in 2010, they were already already chasing the tail of the largest crowdfunding site, Kickstarter, based in New York City, USA. Yet in Australia, founders Rick Chen and Alan Crabbe were the first to introduce the idea of having the masses pledge sums of money towards creative projects via their website…. Read More

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Crowdfunding site Pozible gives West Australian business a boost

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MORE than 170 WA projects have been listed on crowdfunding site Pozible since its inception in 2010, founder Alan Crabbe said. And West Australians have enjoyed more luck than the rest of the country, with 56 per cent of projects listed reaching their funding target, compared with an Australia-wide average of 52 per cent. Crowdfunding… Read More

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Pozible gives rise to Australian crowdfunding

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Inside an enterprising Melbourne city co-working office on Bourke Street, the Australian crowdfunding platform Pozible is preparing for DocWeek, a live documentary crowdfunding event in Adelaide. The world first pitch is planned to coincide with the release of Pozible’s mobile platform — both initiatives form part of the team’s 2013 strategy. Alan Crabbe, Pozible co-director and founder, says they’re… Read More

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Band Eskimo Joe Sets Crowdfunding Record

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Eskimo Joe have completed the most successful crowdfunding exercise by an Australian artist through the Pozible website. In November of last year the band announced they were seeking $40,000 to pay for the independent recording of their sixth album, having parted ways with their label. As of the close of their campaign at noon today, they raised… Read More

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Sundance: 17 Films, 6 Awards, Crowdfunded by Kickstarter

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No industry is changing as rapidly as the film industry, and the burst of creativity engendered by crowdfunding is helping to accelerate that change. The film industry is still largely dominated by the large studios, the agents and of course the “talent,” but something incredible is taking place with the advent of crowdfunding. Recently reviewing… Read More

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Lights, camera, crowdfunding: how films are made Pozible

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Is crowdfunding beginning to mature as a viable platform for screen finance in Australia? The web platforms that enable anyone to fundraise for projects took off last year and will grow even more in 2013. The best-known US example, Kickstarter, has received pledges of more than $100 million for screen projects since April 2009. The… Read More

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Resolution Independent Turns to Crowd Funding for ‘Wynter Dark’

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The Aussie entertainment outfit plans to turn the NYC-set post-apocalyptic new ice age project into a movie and produce an interactive tablet graphic novel. LONDON – Australian entertainment company Resolution Independent is turning to crowd funding to bankroll the roll out across tablets and e-readers of its graphic novel Wynter Dark, a post-apocalyptic new ice age… Read More

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Band Eskimo Joe need $40,000 from fans to make album

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CHART-toppers Eskimo Joe are asking fans to fund the making of their new album. The Australian band, whose Black Fingernails Red Wine album sold over 300,000 copies in 2006, are seeking $40,000 to cover recording costs. The trio amicably extricated themselves from their major record label Warner Music and are the biggest local act to align… Read More

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Crowdfunding a capital way to find cash

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GOT a bright business idea but not the start-up cash? It’s the reason so many worthwhile – and many more not-so-worthwhile – businesses never get off the ground. But that’s all changing with crowdfunding. Budding entrepreneurs are increasingly turning to websites such as Australian-based Pozible and US-based Kickstarter and Indiegogo to find capital. Crowdfunding, or… Read More

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Pozible Pitch Sessions to Take Place During DocWeek in 2013

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Submissions Now Open ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA–(Marketwire – Nov 8, 2012) – Documentary Week (DocWeek) have invited Pozible, Australia’s only crowdfunding platform, to create a Pozible Pitch during DocWeek to help filmmakers raise funds for their work. Pozible was developed 2 years ago to showcase creative projects and has been successfully raising funds for artists, filmmakers, designers,… Read More

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