(2018-07-13) How Amanda Palmer Is Raising Even More Funding Than She Did On Kickstarter

How Amanda Palmer Is Raising Even More Funding Than She Did on Kickstarter

moved onto a new platform where she's found even more funding for her career: Patreon

In three years, 20,600 patrons have funded her to the tune of more than $1.58 million

Since her Patreon launched on March 3, 2015, Palmer has used the revenue to make 56 things including two LPs, four EPs, six webcasts, plus original and cover songs, videos, podcasts, and performance art. Many of these are exclusive to her patrons

The company is on track to double the number of patrons supporting members (from 1 million to 2 million) and annual amount paid out to members (from $150 million to over $300 million) from 2017 to 2018

Palmer and her team pointed out that pulling in nearly $1.6 million doesn't mean Palmer takes home piles of money. They said the media missed the distinction between net and gross last time around.

there are other approaches. Singer-songwriter Mike Doughty's Patreon has a deeply different feel than Palmer's: he writes one song a week for his patrons. It "is exactly the job I want,"

"[It is the ethos of] not selling it out, putting on shows in basements, forming your own label, and fuck the man," she says. "I have found it so bewildering bands feel all this shame around crowdfunding, this system is punk as fuck."