Sometimes a product comes along that you know you don’t exactly need, but the way it’s made and the skill with which it’s presented makes you buy it all the same. That might go some way towards explaining what happened with the Kickstarter campaign run by our guest on Crowd Scene today. Noam Bar Yohai – a London-based product designer – created a set of refillable, magnetic felt-tip pens and made such a fun campaign video that it made his product irresistible to thousands of people. Noam set a goal of £7,000 in order to bring his product – called Magnetips – to life. After five weeks on Kickstarter the total amount raised stood at a whopping £260,000. He then took the project to Indiegogo and carried on raising money there, this time in US dollars. In total, his crowdfunding efforts for this one simple product have brought in an impressive $425,000 from 7,000 backers. Find the notes for this episode on crowdsceneshow.com

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Creating crowdfunding magnetism! Product designer raises over $400,000 on Kickstarter AND Indiegogo

In this episode we’re talking with Ivan Mactaggart, the producer of the hotly-anticipated movie “Loving Vincent” to find out more about its unique production and how exactly it got funded. Have you ever looked at a painting and wondered what would happen if it came to life? What would the portraits say if they could tell their story? That’s what the Oscar-winning creators of “Loving Vincent” had in mind when they decided to make a film about Vincent Van Gogh. This is no ordinary film though – the team behind it are creating the world’s first feature film where every single frame is an oil painting. Having already secured a grant for the movie, the team turned to Kickstarter to raise enough to begin production. In 24 days they raised £53,000 – about $75,000 – from 800 backers. Check out crowdsceneshow.com for the show notes.

Best Animated Oscar Winner? Ivan Mactaggart on “Loving Vincent” & the Future of Crowdfunding Films

This is part 2 of our conversation with filmmaker and crowdfunder Denny Tedesco. Denny has a direct link to some of the greatest pop music ever recorded. Throughout the 50s and 60s, a group of session musicians in Los Angeles – known as The Wrecking Crew – became the go-to musicians for producers and musicians including Elvis Presley, Ella Fitzgerald, the Beach Boys and dozens (if not hundreds) of others. Their phenomenal contribution to pop music was largely uncredited by record labels who may have been too embarrassed to put the same names on so many records. At the centre of The Wrecking Crew was guitarist Tommy Tedesco and in this episode we’re talking with his son Denny who directed and produced an incredible documentary that tells the whole story. Denny released his documentary – also titled “The Wrecking Crew” – back in 2008 and it did fantastically well in film festivals around the world. But to release the film to wider audience he needed to raise enough money to pay the licensing fees for the 120 classic songs featured in the film. Even after receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, he was still short. So Denny turned to Kickstarter in 2013 to raise a further quarter of a million dollars to cover the rest of the fees. Happily, more than 4,000 music-loving backers shared his vision…

Part 2: Elvis, The Beach Boys and The Wrecking Crew: Denny Tedesco shares his Kickstarter story

Our guest on this edition of Crowd Scene has a direct link to some of the greatest pop music ever recorded. Throughout the 50s and 60s, a group of session musicians in Los Angeles – known as The Wrecking Crew – became the go-to musicians for producers and musicians including Elvis Presley, Ella Fitzgerald, the Beach Boys and dozens (if not hundreds) of others. Their phenomenal contribution to pop music was largely uncredited by record labels who may have been too embarrassed to put the same names on so many records. At the centre of The Wrecking Crew was guitarist Tommy Tedesco and in this episode we’re talking with his son Denny who directed and produced an incredible documentary that tells the whole story. Denny released his documentary – also titled “The Wrecking Crew” – back in 2008 and it did fantastically well in film festivals around the world. But to release the film to wider audience he needed to raise enough money to pay the licensing fees for the 120 classic songs featured in the film. Even after receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, he was still short. So Denny turned to Kickstarter in 2013 to raise a further quarter of a million dollars to cover the rest of the fees. Happily, more than 4,000 music-loving backers shared his vision…

Part 1: Elvis, The Beach Boys and The Wrecking Crew: Denny Tedesco shares his Kickstarter story

We're off on our summer vacations here, but we have some more great shows lined up for August, including conversations with Ivan McTaggart, the producer of the forthcoming movie 'Loving Vincent' – as well as Noam Bar Yohai, creative extraordinaire, who leveraged the trend for adult colouring books and raised a small fortune on Kickstarter. Check back soon for these inspiring guests and many more.

Mini Episode: A Short Summer Break – We’re Back in August with More Crowdfunding Success Stories!

In this episode we are talking about edible cutlery and huge Kickstarter success with crowdfunder Sarah Munir. ‘Edible’ and ‘Cutlery’ are two words that don’t normally go together and yet this is a remarkable idea that may play a significant role in reducing toxic, plastic waste. In India alone, it’s estimated that 120 billion pieces of disposable plastic cutlery are thrown away each year. So, the invention of edible, biodegradable cutlery provides an alternative that’s good for everyone. Our guest on Crowd Scene today is Sarah Munir, the US representative of the Indian team behind edible cutlery, which recently hit the big time with this idea on Kickstarter. The edible cutlery product is called “Bakeys” – which is a reference to the production technique. Sarah launched the Kickstarter campaign for Bakeys two months ago with a goal of $20,000. 30 days later, she had raised close to $300,000 and her campaign was backed by 9,293 people (including Pete). We find out how she did it and – perhaps more importantly – how it’s possible to eat soup with an edible spoon. Show notes are on crowdsceneshow.com. Please spend a minute to track us down on iTunes and leave us a nice review. Mike will warmly shake you by the hand as a sign of appreciation to each and every reviewer. The Crowd Scene theme music is by Kim Boekbinder. Special thanks also to Jim Fowler. Additional music by Jukedeck – create your own at jukedeck.com

Eat Your Spoon! How the genius idea of edible cutlery attracted nearly 10,000 backers on Kickstarter

Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared is a YouTube phenomenon. Created in the vein of innocent children’s programming, over the course of each short episode, the action always descends into mind-bending, hilarious terror. The nightmarish combination of puppets, sing-along tunes and raw meat has helped them notch up 100 million views and 900,000 subscribers on YouTube. Our guest on Crowd Scene today is Ben Lole, a London-based creative producer who is part of the core team behind Don’t Hug Me, I’m Scared. Ben’s here to explain how on earth this ever get made… In 2014, after making two episodes on their own, the team turned to Kickstarter in order to raise enough money to create four more. In 29 days they raised £105,000 – that’s about $150,000 for you Americans – from 3,500 backers. In the news we talk about ARKYD – a $1.5m Kickstarter campaign that just refunded its 17,000 backers three years after raising enough money to put a telescope in space. As always, please help us out by writing a friendly review of this show on iTunes. In return for each review, Mike will personally come to your house and perform a scene-for-scene re-enactment of the movie ‘Titanic’. Show notes on crowdsceneshow.com

100 Million Views and Counting: ‘Don’t Hug Me, I’m Scared’ producer shares Kickstarter success story

We're talking about comic book Kickstarter success in this episode of Crowd Scene. The world of graphic novels is a fascinating scene for budding entrepreneurs and storytellers. Certainly the massive success of Marvel Comic adaptations into blockbuster films has demonstrated the mainstream appeal for comic books. In this episode we get some insights into what it takes to create and crowdfund an original comic book as we speak to writer Ryan O'Sullivan and editor Neil Gibson about their work Turncoat and their recent, and very successful campaign on Kickstarter. As always, if you leave a positive review for us on iTunes, Mike will buy you a round of drinks and serenade you with songs from his album.

How to crowdfund a graphic novel: Kickstarter success with the creators of comic book Turncoat

On the show today we’re talking to Rob Loukotka. Rob is an artist in Chicago who also happens to be a huge fan of the Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoons. He decided to bring these interests together by illustrating a poster containing every single product from the Acme Corporation! If you’ve seen the cartoon, you’ll remember that Acme was the fictional company from which The Coyote bought things like dynamite, bombs, a giant magnet and a whole host of other paraphernalia, all of which was supposed to help him catch the Road Runner. It turned out that Rob wasn’t the only one with fond memories of the cartoon, because more than 3,000 people backed his Kickstarter campaign to create the poster and even though his goal was a modest $3,000, he ended up raising $105,000 in a campaign that ended on Christmas Eve. We also discuss Cory Feldman's adventure into crowdfunding in this week's news. Links to that – and everything else – are on our website crowdsceneshow.com. Check it out immediately. As always, leave a nice review for the show on iTunes and Mike will buy drinks for you and your friends all night long.

Coyote & Roadrunner Inspire Rocket-Powered Kickstarter Success: Designer Shares Crowdfunding advice

Today we’re talking to a guest about whom we know very little and we’ll be talking about an organisation about which we know even less. The Mysterious Package Company is an organization that tells stories using the postal service as its medium. If you sign up, you’ll receive a variety of intriguing, bizarre and sometimes shocking artefacts through the post which, like pieces of a puzzle, together form a fascinating story. Our guest is Timothy Sullivan whose title is “Architect to the Curator” at the Mysterious Package Company. The Mysterious Package Company began in 2012 and in 2015 ran a Kickstarter campaign in an effort to raise $20,000 for a new project of theirs called “The Century Beast”. In just a month, over 1,300 backers helped them raise more than $420,000. With a campaign page that has now been largely redacted by the company (!), our only hope of finding about more about this mysterious enterprise is by talking to our guest on the show today... If you enjoy this show, please leave us a great review on iTunes, it really helps Mike sleep at night.

Mysteries Made To Delight: The Mysterious Package Company Crowdfunds a Conundrum on Kickstarter

Our guest in this episode is Charlotte Eriksson, also known as The Glass Child. Charlotte is a musician in her twenties, a singer/songwriter originally from Sweden, and now based in Berlin. Her passions are music and writing and she says she wanted to “create a life for myself that I could be proud of.” She started her own publishing company “Broken Glass Records” to distribute her albums. And she’s also an author, independently publishing three books. You can find her on Twitter and Tumblr where she has an enormous following of dedicated fans. In addition to her crowdfunding campaign, we talk about how she continues to survive and thrive as an independent artist. Charlotte has written and released five EPs and is currently crowdfunding her third full length album over on PledgeMusic. We find out how Charlotte has achieved so much in her life already and how and why she uses crowdfunding. We are also joined by crowdfunding expert Chris Day. If you enjoy this episode, please leave a positive review on iTunes. Mike will express his gratitude by giving you an enormous hug, even if all you wanted was a handshake. Show notes, as ever, are on CrowdSceneShow.com - please visit this site immediately.

Finding Yourself Through Music: The Glass Child Shares Her Crowdfunding Secrets

This is part 2 of the Good Spread interview. Plus we have more of Chris Day's weird world of crowdfunding. In this episode we’re joined once more from Nashville, Tennessee by Alex Cox and Mark Slagle, co-founders of Good Spread Peanut Butter. Back in 2011 they were inspired to help address malnutrition in developing countries – and their solution was unusual. But as we hear from Alex and Mark, it hasn’t all been plain sailing – or smooth spreading – they’ve had their fair share of crunchy bits along the way… Be sure to check out part 1 of this interview on iTunes

Part 2: Best Friends Fight World Hunger with Crowdfunding & Peanut Butter

In this episode we’re joined from Nashville, Tennessee by Alex Cox and Mark Slagle, co-founders of Good Spread Peanut Butter. Back in 2011 they were inspired to help address malnutrition in developing countries – and their solution was unusual. But as we hear from Alex and Mark, it hasn’t all been plain sailing – or smooth spreading – they’ve had their fair share of crunchy bits along the way... They launched a crowdfunding campaign to get their business off the ground. And for every sale of their own peanut butter, they gave an equivalent amount of life- saving therapeutic food to a malnourished child. Alex and Mark set out to raise $65,000 on Indiegogo and by the end of the campaign, 599 backers took the total up to about $70,000. So, let’s find out how they did it. We are also joined in this episode by acclaimed crowdfunding expert Chris Day. As ever, please leave us a positive review on iTunes if you enjoy the show. If you do, Mike will personally bake you a homemade lasagna. Delicious!

Part 1: Winnebagos & Peanut Butter: Two Best Friends Share Crowdfunding Advice & Fight World Hunger

Our guests in this show are Erik Baker and Lauren Wells Baker – a husband and wife team who have launched a project called Stickybones. It’s a posable model for stop-motion animators that’s currently kicking up a storm on Indiegogo. Erik and Lauren were looking for $85,000 to make Stickybones a reality and, with five weeks still to run on their campaign, they had already raised $216,000 when we spoke with them. They share some awesome crowdfunding advice and words of wisdom. We're also joined by "crowdfunding expert" Chris Day who challenges us to find the 'odd campaign out' amongst four unlikely-sounding, but mostly real, crowdfunding campaigns. If you enjoy this show, please leave a review on iTunes. If you do, Mike will buy you a beer and laugh at all your jokes.

Get Animated With Stickybones! Crowdfunding Advice And Indiegogo Success

More top-notch crowdfunding advice in this episode of Crowd Scene. Mike and Pete are joined by Gerado Cid, an entrepreneur and designer who – by cunningly weaving together the world's 214 subway systems, 791 lines and 11,924 stations – has created a stunning map that has taken Kickstarter by storm. The idea was inspired by a 1959 map created by the Architect Constant Nieuwenhuys. He called his idea 'New Babylon', an imaginary borderless system the size of the entire planet were people can travel without restrictions. Gerado and his team have revised this idea to create a map that represents human mobility. In addition, this new format show features "crowdfunding expert" Chris Day who offers up some truly original ideas for wearable tech. Mike also cajoles Pete into reading the news. As always, if you enjoy this show, please write a kind review on iTunes and/or send us actual cash through the post.

Take the Subway Anywhere! Crowdfunding Advice with World Metro Map, Plus News & Weird Wearable Tech

Crowd Scene is a podcast about successful crowdfunding campaigns and the people who make them happen. Each episode features a fun, inspirational interview that captures the highs and lows of developing a concept and sharing it with the world. We interview film directors, game designers, artists, inventors, songwriters and creative entrepreneurs to find out what it took for them to find success on platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Ideal for listeners looking for compelling true life stories of people pursuing their passion projects, fans of the Tim Ferriss podcast and Startup, as well as practical advice about running your own crowdfunding campaign. Hosted by Michael Ogden and Peter Dean. More info at crowdsceneshow.com

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