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Top 100 Crowdfunding Sites in the United States, Europe, Asia, South America, Africa and other Global Markets in 2015

3 Apr

Seeking New Crowdfunding Sites on a Worldwide Basis to Be Ranked for the Upcoming June 2015 Top Crowdfunding Sites in the United States and the Rest of the World

 By Robert Hoskins

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United States – We are currently updating our List of the Top 100 Crowdfunding Sites for 2015 in the United States, Europe, Asia, South America, Africa and other global markets.  

Clicking on the website traffic links below will take readers to one of the most insightful resources of information that details each website’s traffic ranking; the number of unique visitors per month; the average time spent on each site per visit; and the number of pages viewed per each visit.

Of more interest to crowdfunding campaign managers will be the precise ratio of social media, content marketing, search engine marketing, email marketing and display advertising that is being utilized by each crowdfunding site’s marketing campaigns to drive readers and investors to their crowdfunding profiles.

GoFundMe vs Kickstarter SimilarWeb Stats

GoFundMe vs Kickstarter SimilarWeb Stats

Even though these numbers reflect the aggregation of all of a given portal’s crowdfunding campaigns marketing efforts, they offer direct evidence of what is working and what is not.  Note the difference on how much social media and display advertising is being used by the Top 10 Crowdfunding Sites compared the lower 90 crowdfunding sites. 

This information can be used by crowdfunding sites as well as their crowdfunders to get a thorough understanding on how to plan future marketing campaigns that will have a higher than average success rate.

Want to know how GoFundMe just bypassed Kickstarter as the #1 crowdfunding platform on the planet? Click on the links below and use the comparison tool to show side-by-side comparisons of SEO keywords, link referrals, and social media usage. See the bottom of the page for more crowdfunding marketing tips.

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Rank © Front Page PR   Global Rank
#1 (2014: #2) www.gofundme.com    1,318
#2 (2014: #1) www.kickstarter.com    1,373
#3 (2014: #3) www.angel.co    2,010
#4 (2014: #6) www.indiegogo.com    2,277
#5 (2014: #4) www.lendingclub.com    7,545
#6 (2014: #9) www.justgiving.com    8,558
#7 (2014: #8) www.youcaring.com   13,563
#8 (2014: #12) www.kiva.org     15,111
#9 (2014: #23) www.ulule.com   16,099
#10 (2014: #15) www.donorschoose.org    21,617
#11 (2014: #17) www.pledgemusic.com   24,461
#12 (2014: #13) www.crowdrise.com   26,906
#13 (2014: #18) www.tilt.com    29,512
#14 (2014: #10) www.giveforward.com    32,576
#15 (2014: #38) www.crowdcube.com    34,262
#16 (2014: #5) www.fundingcircle.com    34,307
#17 (2014: #14) www.razoo.com    44,329
#18 (2014: #16) www.fundly.com    48,132
#19 (2014: #36) www.pozible.com   48,898
#20 (2014: #19) www.firstgiving.com    58,401
#21 (2014: #20) www.fundrazr.com    64,163
#22 (2014: #27) www.circleup.com   68,095
#23 (2014: #25) www.fundable.com   73,430
#24 (2014: #new) www.kickante.com.br    75,510
#25 (2014: #26) www.crowdfunder.com    77,551
#26 (2014: #34) www.equitynet.com   88,181
#27 (2014: #new) www.zeczec.com   90,296
#28 (2014: #35) www.gogetfunding.com   97,023
#29 (2014: #29) www.fundrise.com 112,206
#30 (2014: #55) www.fundedbyme.com 116,409
#31 (2014: #new) www.experiment.com 133,573
#32 (2014: #22) www.realtymogul.com 134,519
#33 (2014: #61) www.geldvoorelkaar.nl 146,963
#34 (2014: #new) www.onevest.com 149,343
#35 (2014: #24) www.rockethub.com 149,430
#36 (2014: #33) www.wefunder.com 169,021
#37 (2014: #32) www.offbeatr.com 174,673
#38 (2014: #30) www.seedinvest.com 184,226
#39 (2014: #37) www.slated.com 210,555
#40 (2014: #new) www.patchofland.com 220,267
#41 (2014: #43) www.givezooks.com 234,356
#42 (2014: #58) www.pledgie.com 241,865
#43 (2014: #new) www.microventures.com  241,967
#44 (2014: #28) www.fundanything.com 248,200
#45 (2014: #46) www.ourcrowd.com 248,635
#46 (2014: #44) www.pave.com 268,856
#47 (2014: #68) www.growvc.com 285,285
#48 (2014: #62) www.ppl.com.pt 297,874
#49 (2014: #48) www.dragoninnovation.com 306,056
#50 (2014: #54) hwww.seedandspark.com 319,789
#51 (2014: #47) www.pubslush.com 336,465
#52 (2014: #41) www.opportunity.org 354,764
#53 (2014: #45) www.peerform.com 376,044
#54 (2014: #60) www.bolstr.com 388,543
#55 (2014: #new) www.investx.com 403,141
#56 (2014: #11) www.uinvest.com.ua 417,925
#57 (2014: #new) www.plumfund.com  421,110
#58 (2014: #40) www.fundraise.com 433,539
#59 (2014: #new) www.earlyshares.com 442,508
#60 (2014: #new) www.barnraiser.us 482,296
#61 (2014: #new) www.flashfunders.com 485,226
#62 (2014: #new) www.trucrowd.com 485,665
#63 (2014: #57) www.piggybackr.com 518,504
#64 (2014: #67) www.symbid.com 558,247
#65 (2014: #new) www.crowdstreet.com 704,602
#66 (2014: #39) www.assetavenue.com 742,849
#67 (2014: #51) www.microgiving.com 834,667
#68 (2014: #new) pitchfunder.asufoundation.org 861,826
#69 (2014: #77) www.artistshare.com 928,003
#70 (2014: #new) www.nextseed.com 992,563
#71 (2014: #76) www.appsfunder.com 1,047,453
#72 (2014: #42) www.assob.com.au 1,049,032
#73 (2014: #79) www.foodstart.com 1,080,478
#74 (2014: #new) www.loquidity.com  1,087,691
#75 (2014: #70) www.faithlauncher.com 1,089,032
#76 (2014: #80) www.solarmosaic.com 1,108,499
#77 (2014: #new) www.crowdfundingpays.com 1,256,560
#78 (2014: #new) www.dreamfunded.com 1,267,585
#79 (2014: #82) www.propellr.com 1,350,583
#80 (2014: #75) www.pledgecents.com 1,363,715
#81 (2014: #new) www.massventure.com 1,388,521
#82 (2014: #new) www.crowd2fund.com 1,494,834
#83 (2014: #96) www.ipledg.com 1,567,232
#84 (2014: #new) www.texasenetworks.com 1,721,280
#85 (2014: #63) www.icrowd.com 1,769,510
#86 (2014: #65) www.banktothefuture.com 1,836,932
#87 (2014: #new) www.acquirerealestate.com 2,169,205
#88 (2014: #056) www.sterlingfunder.com 2,533,134
#89 (2014: #new) www.realtywealth.com 2,647,893
#90 (2014: #85) www.massivemov.com 2,826,166
#91 (2014: #89) www.venturehealth.com 3,931,192
New www.offerboard.com 4,112,781
#92 (2014: #31) www.rockthepost.com 4,505,534
#93 (2014: #84) www.funderhut.com 5,182,841
#94 (2014: #83) www.fundafeast.com 5,325,919
#95 (2014: #71) www.crowdit.com 5,535,187
#96 (2014: #88) www.crowdhelps.com 5,892,083
#97 (2014: #95) www.crowdfundingbank.com 6,503,461
#98 (2014: #98) www.startacure.com 8,281,014
#99 (2014: #78) www.cMEcompete.com 9,332,644
#100 (2014: #87) www.endlesscrowds.com 12,934,557

Source: Feb 2015 SimilarWeb Website Statistics

Crowdfunding PR’s goal is simple. We want to make it possible for crowdfunders to shop for  crowdfunding platforms in a similar manner to the way media planners/buyers used to analyze ABC and BPA audit statements to buy advertisements in the business-to-business trade publication industry, where important media buying decisions were based on straight mathematics, not popularity or random guessing.

For example, would you rather run a crowdfunding campaign on a site where visitors are looking at 2-3 pages in around 3 minute’s time or a site where buyers are spending 6 to 11 minutes reviewing 6 to 10 pages?

This is the difference between shoppers who are visiting a site to see a particular crowdfunding campaign based on a marketing campaign versus people who are visiting a site to explore and actually shop around to find good deals to buy or invest their money.

This is why launching a campaign on Kickstarter or GoFundMe does not guarantee success. While GoFundMe or Kickstarter may be the largest sites in the world, people are only spending enough time to shop through more than 2 to 3 crowdfunding profiles before they exit. While other sites like Razoo.com, DonorsChoose.org, and FundingCircle.com have visitors that stay more than 6 to 11 minutes and view 6 to 10 pages.

When researching, planning and executing successful marketing programs for both crowdfunding platforms as well as their individual crowdfunding customer profiles, it is extremely important to see what is driving the most traffic to any given crowdfunding site.  Success is usually determined not only by what site the crowdfunding campaign is being hosted on, but also the marketing programs being harnessed to drive potential donors/investors to a specific crowdfunding profile.

Clicking on each link above will allow media planners/buyers to understand what role direct traffic (content marketing), search engines (SEO, PPC Advertising), social media (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Reddit, Quora), email marketing and display advertising (Google Display, Outbrain, AppNexus) are having on the success of crowdfunding campaigns.

For example, when planning a social media strategy, one of the most popular questions we get asked is – what social media networks are driving the most visitor traffic? Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Quora, Reddit, YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram? The links above will make this answer crystal clear.

Not satisfied with your position on the list? Front Page PR’s team of crowdfunding PR, social media and marketing experts can help crowdfunding sites and crowdfunding campaigns plan the perfect mix of integrated marketing programs to significantly improve the amount of website traffic being driven to any given fundraising campaign or crowdfunding platform.

Feel free to call (512) 627-6622 with questions or request help to improve your website statistics before June.

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Top 10 Crowdfunding Industry Predictions for 2014

30 Dec

Crowdfunding PR, Social Media and Marketing’s Top 10  Technology Trends and Business Developments that Might Develop During 2014

Top 10 Crowdfunding Predictions for 2014

Top 10 Crowdfunding Predictions for 2014

By Robert Hoskins

  1. Utilizing Social Graphs – Implementing social graphing application programming interfaces (APIs) for crowdfunding platforms will make it easy to see friends of friends who are investing in crowdfunding campaigns due to popular social media networks such as Facebook, Google+, Linkedin, Meetup, Pinterest, Twitter, YouTube and others.  Data mining and big data services will become very sophisticated services for the crowdfunding industry.  Once these services get started it will be very hard for fraudulent companies to succeed because they will vetted by millions of investors working together to form a policing crowd.
  2. Predicting the Success of Crowdfunding Campaigns – Investment professionals will develop crowdfunding campaign evaluation systems that break down campaigns into easy to evaluate modules similar to the way the crowd of fantasy football gurus rate individual players based on their performance.  Utilizing a crowd to rate crowdfunding deals by various categories will make it easy and simple for large numbers of non-investment professionals to vet deals together.
  3. Growing an Industry of Crowdfunding Service Providers (CSPs) – In order to help 229 million new investors vet deals together, the crowdfunding industry is going to spawn a tremendous amount of new CSPs that will help novice and accredited investors examine equity investment deals to determine potential success or failure. To date our database includes CSPs that provide white label crowdfunding platforms, payment processing, SEC compliance, digital signatures, legal documents, intellectual property (IP), valuation calculators, investment scoring, due diligence, social trust, business planning, marketing, PR and social media and marketing companies.
  4. Rising Stars of Crowdfunding Content – The demand for crowdfunding TV programs will grow exponentially to provide content similar to the Shark Tank, but without the bite.  Whereas reality TV shows currently feature drama that bashes unprepared entrepreneurs, the American public will be drawn to programming that educates startups on how to launch successful crowdfunding campaigns, build vertical business-to-business crowdfunding platforms as well as how to vet and invest in Crowdfunding equity investment opportunities.
  5. Creating Economic Development Centers – For the past 10 years banks have denied small businesses access to startup capital. In a town of 50,000 families, equity crowdfunding will allow each family to invest up to $2,000 per year into local businesses the community needs and wants.  This will create an investment pool of $100 million dollars each year that will not only create lots of jobs, but allow everyone in the community to encourage, steer and participate in the prosperity of the community.  Investing locally as a crowd will make it easy to vet and assess cooperative crowdfunding deals for the social good of the community.
  6. Transforming Rural America into Corporations – Access to large pools of investment capital will allow crowdfunding to turn kitchen tables everywhere into the board rooms of tomorrow.  Outside of the top 300 largest cities in the United States, rural towns and cities will suddenly have access millions of micro venture capitalists and hobby investors. Local investors will be able to crowdfund movie theaters, bowling alleys, restaurants, well-known franchises, and other types of in-demand businesses that will become economic development engines.
  7. Increasing Success via Target Marketing – Do crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo stand a chance against large media companies such as Condé Nast, Hearst, IDC, Meredith, Reeds, Time Inc., Ziff Davis, etc.?  Right now the practice of target marketing via crowdfunding platforms is non-existent.  Well-established publishing and ecommerce centers are perfectly positioned to launch business-to-business crowdfunding platforms that will make fundraising easier for crowdfunding campaign managers that want to launch highly targeted advertising, email, PR and social media campaigns to make their crowdfunding campaigns very successful.  This will significantly improve the success rate of traditional crowdfunding platforms and allow them to outperform the current market leaders Kickstarter and Indiegogo.
  8. Reducing Risk for Venture Capitalists – Hobby investing will become a national past time and VCs will not have to risk giving seed money, thus the quality of their deal flow should improve dramatically. Instead of risking several million dollars to provide seed startup capital, VCs will be able to sit back and wait to see what products/services the crowd is willing to support with their hard-earned dollars, and as a result they should be able to use crowdfunding as a very good measurement of future marketplace demand.
  9. Growing a Crop of Hobby Investors – When Title III crowdfunding becomes legal 97% more Americans will be able to invest up to $2,000 per year in equity crowdfunding opportunities.  If every family in the U.S. investments just 1% of their annual income in local crowdfunding deals it will provide over $300 billion per year to help small businesses get off the ground.  It will dwarf by a significant magnitude the environment that was prevalent during 1990s when venture capital extremely easy raise by simply drawing up a business plan on a napkin. Shopping crowdfunding campaigns will become a national past time.
  10. Legalizing Title III Equity Crowdfunding – Title III Crowdfunding should become legal by June 2014.  Not a new topic, but one worth revisiting on a state-by-state basis as each state passes their own local laws regarding crowdfunding due to the fact that the SEC has been very slow in adopting the mandates that were passed by the U.S. Congress and the President Obama in April of 2012 when the JOBS Act was signed into law.  Crowdfunding is so important that Georgia, Kansas, Michigan and North Carolina have bypassed the SEC and implemented their own crowdfunding legislation.
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