Kickstarter in France and Germany
On the 13th of May, Kickstarter officially launched in Germany. In just eight days, the service will officially launch in France.
I went back to my data and looked out some numbers on the historical Kickstarter performance for creators from these countries. If anything, it paints an interesting "before" picture to compare to once we get to the "after" period.
Bear in mind that before Kickstarter is available in a specific country, a series of complex hoops had to be jumped through in order to put a project on the platform. A couple of points to keep in mind:
- There are a number of projects that are mislabelled on Kickstarter and listed as American or Canadian while the company developing the project is indeed from another country. Like when (French developer) Ankama went through its Canadian subsidiary for this project (so it doesn't appear as French in my data):