Tagged: indiegogo

April 21, 2014 @ 9:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Disney and crowdfunding platform Indiegogo are working together as part of a contest for “game changing ideas to help your community”. Disney’s Million Dollar Arm and Indiegogo are collaborating to recognize individuals who are making a difference in their local communities through the “Change The… Read More

April 21, 2014 @ 9:02 am By JD Alois  |  

Calling all Filmmakers! Are you preparing your next Indiegogo film campaign? Receive the inside scoop about how to set it up for success! We’re hosting an Indiegogo Lab to share best practices around a campaign’s perks, pitch, and promotion. Our Campaign Specialists have reviewed and… Read More

April 20, 2014 @ 6:04 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Sharing a story about one of its successful crowdfunding campaigns, Indiegogo recently connected with with Kyson, Joanna and Stephanie of Bamboo Lota to provide a special insight for future campaigners. Now Bamboo Lota was not a high profile, big dollar campaign but certainly a project… Read More

April 20, 2014 @ 1:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Gosnell Movie crowdfunding on Indiegogo, that caused some controversy as allegations of censorship arose as the film moved from Kickstarter to Indiegogo, has now passed the $1 million mark charting a course to their $2.1 million goal.  Over 11,000 backers have contributed to the… Read More

April 19, 2014 @ 2:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Hoping to change crowdfunding as we know it, a new Vancouver-based platform Dana.io is ready to take on the industry leaders Kickstarter and Indiegogo.  Dana.io is a crowdfunding website that charges entirely by donations and consider its practice to be “gifting forward” or “unconditional gifting.”… Read More

April 19, 2014 @ 12:30 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

CrowdFund Productions, a Colorado based crowdfunding and event management company, recently completed its research titled “Crowdfunding for Wearable Technology.” The industry, which includes activity tracking, health monitoring devices, smart textile, virtual reality hardware, wearable computers and hands-free communicators, already has reached billions of dollars in… Read More

April 18, 2014 @ 8:57 am By JD Alois  |  

The Healbe GoBe closed this week on Indiegogo raising $1,084,556 from supporters.  The crowdfunding campaign or “scampaign” as it had been referred to became a hot topic of conversation as question quickly arose as to the reality of the technology the GoBe claimed to possess…. Read More

April 16, 2014 @ 8:12 am By JD Alois  |  

I don’t know anyone who enjoys going to the dentist.  And for anyone that had to endure the oral torture of wearing braces – I understand your pain. Well crowdfunding is acting as a catalyst for thousands of industries.  Every day old business models are… Read More

April 15, 2014 @ 5:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

Back in June of 2013, Kuli Kuli did a rewards based crowdfunding round on Indiegogo where the small company raised $53,000 to help fund their superfood snack made of Moringa.  Known as “The Miracle Tree”, the founders claim that the Moringa Oleifera tree may be… Read More

April 12, 2014 @ 12:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

This week on the United Kingdom’s crowdfunding programme, CrowdBoxTV, will present a diverse group of projects encompassing technology, art, fashion, science, film and more. Airing every Sunday at 5pm on Sky, Freeview and Freesat, CrowdBoxTV looks at what’s hot in crowdfunding across the globe. Famous… Read More

April 12, 2014 @ 9:18 am By JD Alois  |  

Sharknado is a made for TV movie that took the film world by “storm” airing on SyFy in July of 2013.  The sheer audacious nature of the plot of this now classic B horror film quickly became social fodder and iconic camp. Any producer that… Read More

April 9, 2014 @ 1:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

Posted up on Refinery29, an independent fashion and style site, Danae Ringelmann, co-founder of global crowdfunding platform Indiegogo is recognized as one of the 5 “Powerhouse Women Paying it Forward”. Ringelmann is recognized as being on the first to understand the power of crowdsourcing by… Read More

April 7, 2014 @ 9:37 am By JD Alois  |  

Yancey Strickler, Kickstarter CEO and Co-founder, has jumped into the scrum regarding the allegations of censorship pertaining to a movie now crowdfunding on Indiegogo.  In a tweet from his personal account, Strickler shares the acceptance letter to the Gosnell Movie creators:     @GosnellMovie@BreitbartNews This… Read More

March 28, 2014 @ 9:58 am By Charles Luzar  |  

It seems everyone has an opinion on Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus VR and what it means for crowdfunding. That was the topic of conversation on Bloomberg Television’s “Market Makers.” Yesterday the program hosted New York University Stern School of Business Professor Anindya Ghose and a… Read More

March 25, 2014 @ 12:48 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Felix Kjellberg is better known by the name of PewDiePie, and he is one of a handful of wildly successful gamers that have used YouTube as a means of building a following. Actually, that may be putting it a bit lightly. He has the most subscribers… Read More

March 24, 2014 @ 10:55 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Indiegogo was all over SXSW this year as evidenced in part by our recent breakdown of Indiegogo campaigns represented at this year’s festival. Indiegogo has now also released an album of pictures from their time in Austin. The photos are below. For the full Facebook… Read More

March 24, 2014 @ 8:33 am By JD Alois  |  

Running an effective crowdfunding campaign is a ton of work.  Not only must you have 30% committed up front but a successful campaign takes weeks, if not months, of planning.  Once a campaign launches you have to be on every day promoting, communicating and dealing… Read More

March 24, 2014 @ 7:47 am By JD Alois  |  

As more hardware comes to market through crowdfunding, we are seeing innovative companies look beyond funding and use campaigns to sharpen product focus, run tests on their marketing and pricing, negotiate better deals with their manufactures, and much more. Join hosts, Roy Bahat, Head of… Read More

March 21, 2014 @ 11:58 am By Charles Luzar  |  

We reported on the GoBe last week as the campaign was crossing $300,000 on Indiegogo. The campaign seeks to fund a new activity tracker that promises some really slick functionality, including the ability to read calories burned during exercise based on glucose levels in our cells…. Read More

March 20, 2014 @ 1:16 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

“I screwed up. I take full responsibility, and it is all my fault.” Not the most inspiring pitch for an Indiegogo campaign for Norilana Books. The company is behind on royalty payments to authors, and the story behind it is really quite sad. From the campaign… Read More