On the surface Kickstarter and Patreon may look the same, but they are quite different. Maybe a Google Trends graph will help: https://trends.google.com/trends/

On the surface Kickstarter and Patreon may look the same, but they are quite different. Maybe a Google Trends graph will help: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=kickstarter,patreon https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=kickstar... Patreon has a slow and steady growth rate, while Kickstarter grew quite rapidly gaining a lot of press from big campaigns brining in huge amounts of money all at once(where Kickstarter got a huge influx of cash each time a 30-day campaign completed). For Patreon, people are more hesitant to sign-up for a subscription type expense. After a popular creator starts a Patreon and gets that initial boost, the growth rate for them is quite linear. A large Patreon campaign of $60K/month nets Patreon $3,000 while a large Kickstarter campaign of $3M nets Kickstarter $150,000.