Hey, old media middlemen: No industry is safe. Kickstarter’s coming for YOU.
The headline comes from Andy Baio in the comment thread from Yancy Strickler’s news that two Kickstarter projects hit $1m within 4 hours of each other.
There are crazy days and then there are days like yesterday. Kickstarter has experienced some frantic hours but nothing like what happened in the 24-hour span between Wednesday at 6:54pm and Thursday at 6:44pm. Two million-dollar projects, a major political speech involving Kickstarter, an amazing band launching a project for a comeback 20 years in the making… the list goes on.
The list does go on. And on. And somewhere on that long list, written between the lines, is the sentiment of Baio’s comment.
The internets have already robbed the media barons of their marketing and distribution monopolies. Finance was the last wall of defence, a moat of money that was too thick and deep to bridge. No longer. Kickstarter is Daniel Plainview—and he’s drinking his milkshake.
