2025 examined creators all over the place. Financial uncertainty in addition to rising manufacturing and delivery prices made launching and fulfilling a crowdfunding marketing campaign tougher than ever.
Nonetheless, creators pushed ahead, collaborated, and located alternative within the fray. And on BackerKit, many launched their largest, boldest tasks but.
That momentum carried throughout the whole platform and helped produce a few of the largest moments and milestones at BackerKit that formed the 12 months.
BackerKit’s Greatest Moments & Milestones of 2025
- We hosted record-breaking creators, campaigns, and class development. Topping lists and setting traits throughout Movies, Plushies, Graphic Novels, TTRPGs, and extra.
- We noticed the exponential development of BackerKit Collab-Funding. Collab-Funding campaigns grew 3x and Collab-Funding pledge-volume grew 7x year-over-year. Plus, we achieved 100% funding for all 2025 Topia tasks.
- We shipped impactful instruments constructed for the crowdfunding professional. BackerKit Tariff Supervisor, Pre-Launch Reservation, Viewers Intelligence, Patreon Integration, and a lot extra.
- We raised $3M+ by our Wefunder marketing campaign due to you, our neighborhood of creators and backers. Hundreds of buyers backed us and our imaginative and prescient for the way forward for crowdfunding constructed for the artistic professional.
- We even hit new milestones behind the scenes at BackerKit. Our folks and platform are setting new business requirements for crowdfunding success.
Report-breaking creators, campaigns, and class development
Chart-Topping Creators Who Had Their Greatest Campaigns Ever
🎬 Nail Home by RocketJump turned the #1 Most-funded Crowdfunded Movie of 2025 and #1 Most-funded Crowdfunded Motion Movie of all time, elevating over $1 million from over 10,000 backers
🐉 Weighted Wonders – Weighted & Warmable Dragon Plush by Roamin’ Bison Workshop turned the #1 Most-funded Crowdfunded Plushie marketing campaign throughout all platforms, elevating over $1.2 million from over 8,000 backers
🐊 The Dungeon Crawler Carl: Crocodile Graphic Novel by Vault Comics is now the #5 Most-funded crowdfunding Comics/Graphic Novel of all time.
Class Progress: TTRPG Highlight
2025 turned out to be the most important 12 months but for TTRPGs on BackerKit.
- 5e and Indie TTRPGs are thriving on BackerKit: We discovered that BackerKit TTRPG creators are elevating 2x extra funds on common in comparison with different platforms. Sure, double.
- 3 of the High 10 Crowdfunded TTRPGs of 2025 launched on BackerKit, and every have been $1M+ tasks: Monte Prepare dinner’s Cypher and Magnus Archives, and World’s Largest Dungeon by World’s Largest RPGs.
- TTRPGs are shifting to BackerKit. Our RPG tasks grew 12x in 3 years, and 50% of our RPG creators launched their finest mission on BackerKit – like Motion Fiction’s $260K 5e TTRPG Monsters of Murka Trilogy that raised 3x greater than their final. Join the webinar right here >>
- TTRPG Collab-Funding took off: Our collaborative crowdfunding mannequin is rising quick and TTRPG creators are main the way in which like Mothership Month and Mausritter Month, each high-funding occasions constructing fandom on BackerKit.
Learn the way BackerKit helps creators stage up their TTRPG.
New Collab-Funding Occasion – Unlocked: BackerKit Vacation Market
🎁 The primary-ever BackerKit Vacation Market moved practically $800,000 from over 10,000 buyers to indie creators, serving to creators safe some further end-of-year funding.
The Exponential Progress of BackerKit Collab-Funding
Collaboration was a defining theme of 2025.
In 2023, we had only one Collab-Funding occasion: Pintopia – the pioneering Topia that launched this new method of crowdfunding.
Over simply 2 brief years, we’ve helped host 30+ Collab-Funding occasions – each Topias and Group-Collabs – by which over 200,000 backers have participated.
In 2025 alone, we grew Collab-Funding by 64% 12 months over 12 months and achieved 100% funding for all Topia tasks which collectively raised over $4M.
Creators who take part in a Topia will not be solely extra prone to fund, however they’re additionally extra prone to launch their finest tasks on BackerKit. We discovered that of our Topia creators:
- 33% had their finest mission ever by Topia 2025
- 58% had their finest mission ever on BackerKit
- 50% of Pintopia 2025 tasks have already launched one other mission
What’s subsequent?
- Pintopia 2026 – Poised to be our largest Topia but! 200+ enamel pin, plushie, and ita bag tasks launching subsequent week on Jan twenty second. Don’t miss out – comply with the Topia web page for updates.
- Zinetopia 2026 – BackerKit’s small-format TTRPG crowdfunding Group-Collab occasion celebrating Zine Month operating February 2–27, 2026.
See all our previous, present, and future Collab-Funding occasions right here, and be taught extra about Collab-Funding right here.
BackerKit has at all times centered on delivering highly effective, sensible instruments in-built shut collaboration with creators. Since 2012, when it was simply Maxwell and I as founders, our crew has labored side-by-side with creators to construct a crowdfunding platform that evolves with their wants.
Right here’s what we shipped collectively in 2025:
Tariff Supervisor
When tariffs and international prices spiked in April, creators wanted readability—quick. We responded by launching BackerKit Tariff Supervisor.
Obtainable for each BackerKit Crowdfunding and Pledge Supervisor, this function lets creators clearly talk tariff charges and apply them as a separate checkout line merchandise. It was constructed with direct enter from 500+ creators who responded to our Tariff Survey, making certain speedy, real-world impression.
Pre-Launch Reservation
Greater launches result in larger campaigns. In summer time 2025, we launched BackerKit Pre-Launch Reservation—a brand new solution to activate high-intent followers earlier than launch day.
Early outcomes:
- $210K+ collected in pre-launch reservation income
- 80% conversion charge from reservations to pledges
- Almost $2M in pledge income from reservers
Creators noticed:
- Larger-quality, high-intent backers
- Stronger Day 1 momentum and social proof
- Extra predictable launches
- Much less wasted spend on low-intent leads
Creators who paired reservations with clear incentives and sufficient pre-launch runway noticed the strongest outcomes. To additional improve your marketing campaign, we now have additionally launched a number of new options, which you’ll be able to discover right here.
Viewers Intelligence
Earlier than you may rally your followers, that you must perceive them.
BackerKit Viewers Intelligence provides creators x-ray imaginative and prescient into their marketing campaign’s engagement journey—monitoring how guests change into followers, and followers change into backers.
Creators can:
- Establish conversion drop-offs and friction factors
- Optimize actions at every stage of the funnel
- Monitor viewers development throughout campaigns
- See their fan development compound over time
For additional updates on new BackerKit options designed that can assist you develop and activate your viewers, together with the crowdfunding calculator and simplified delivery, you may be taught extra right here.
Patreon Integration
In 2025, we launched our BackerKit Patreon Integration, the first Patreon-to-crowdfunding integration of its form.
Patreon creators can now seamlessly flip their present viewers into crowdfunding backers with unique rewards and focused pledge ranges—making crowdfunding sooner, simpler, and simpler.
This integration helped Freddie Wong (Co-founder of RocketJump and Dungeons & Daddies)—the #7 Patreon Podcast Creator—energy his marketing campaign previous $1M, making it the most-funded crowdfunded movie of 2025 and #1 most-funded crowdfunded motion movie of all time.
Raised $3M+ to Fund the Way forward for Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding isn’t what it was once—and we imagine it may be higher.
That perception is why we constructed a pledge supervisor within the first place. It’s why we constructed a crowdfunding platform. And it’s why, in 2025, we crowdfunded BackerKit itself.
In our imaginative and prescient, crowdfunding is how and the place creators can:
- Construct fandoms
- Collaborate with different creators
- Go professional, keep professional, and continue to grow
We’re excited to proceed this journey alongside our neighborhood. Our crew is grateful for the help of over 4,000 buyers—a lot of whom are creators and backers inside our neighborhood—who share our imaginative and prescient that crowdfunding must evolve and belief us to steer that change.
BackerKit Milestones Behind the Scenes
Our folks and our platform are setting the business benchmarks for creator success and buyer satisfaction. Right here’s a peek behind the scenes:
- Our Efficiency Advertising crew manages crowdfunding adverts for creators and in 2025 helped elevate over $20M in funds throughout a few of the largest crowdfunding campaigns of the 12 months.
- BackerKit Belief & Security reviewed 1,300 tasks, with BackerKit main the business with a 99.79% achievement success charge—finest within the business.
- Our Success & Help crew dealt with 47,000+ backer tickets with a 94%+ happiness rating, serving to creators take one other load off their plates.
- BackerKit Pledge Supervisor Professional helped fulfill 3,300 tasks and shipped 1.4M+ packages.
Expertise BackerKit at this time. Join a free creator account and be a part of the various creators who’re making the change and hitting file success on BackerKit.
Trying Forward Into 2026
2026 is already shaping as much as be even larger. Maintain a glance out for our largest Pintopia launching subsequent week and Zinetopia launching in February. We’re additionally excited for Dragonsteel’s new launch Hoid’s Storybook assortment by Brandon Sanderson, extra creator lead Collab-Funding tasks up forward Mega Dungeon Month, Outdated-Faculty Necessities, and a lot extra!
And be a part of us on Feb 4th to speak store about 2026 Crowdfunding Methods That Work: How Motion Fiction Tripled Funding. Our professional panel will share the technique strikes and pivots behind their wildly profitable Monsters of Murka Trilogy, Motion Fiction’s highest funded marketing campaign to this point that raised 3x greater than their final.
Thanks to each creator and backer who made 2025 what it was. Right here’s to constructing the way forward for crowdfunding—collectively. Glad New Yr ✨
— Rosanna & Maxwell
P.S. 2026 functions are open for Pocketopia and Printopia. Join even in the event you’re however don’t have a mission thought out—we’d love to listen to what you’ve gotten cooking up!
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