The Kickstarter Fulfillment Report

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According to the latest Kickstarter Fulfillment Report, 9% of all projects fail to deliver rewards, failure rates are consistent across all categories, projects raising less than a thousand dollars fail the most and not all failures are considered bad.

The core question behind the professor’s research was whether a creator delivered rewards as promised — not whether the creative work was actually made. For example, if a creator successfully finished a film funded through Kickstarter but backers didn’t get a copy of their DVD, the project was counted as “failed.”
  • 9% of Kickstarter projects failed to deliver rewards
  • 8% of dollars pledged went to failed projects
  • 7% of backers failed to receive their chosen reward
  • 65% of backers agreed or strongly agreed with the statement that “the reward was delivered on time”
 
That's pretty impressive actually, all things considered. I honestly expected the numbers to be higher for failure rates. I'd be interested in general investment opportunities failure rates, even though it would be hard to compare.
 
charold said:
That's pretty impressive actually, all things considered. I honestly expected the numbers to be higher for failure rates. I'd be interested in general investment opportunities failure rates, even though it would be hard to compare.
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If you are careful with what you back, you will get what you pay for. Or at least I have. I haven't had a project fail on me yet. They have almost all been late, but I have gotten everything.
 
Once of my buddies just received an iPhone 5 case he backed a few years ago. And the case was terribly made, didn't fit well, and offered close to zero protection. But hey at least they delivered it :p
 
Shmee said:
If you are careful with what you back, you will get what you pay for. Or at least I have. I haven't had a project fail on me yet. They have almost all been late, but I have gotten everything.
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That's been my experience. A couple of shockingly prompt ones. Most have issues with shipping logistics, and reasonable delays equivalent to traditional product launches for their market.
 
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