Found this on the We Are Listening Blog and really liked it. April’s pitch is probably pretty familiar to you if you’ve been keeping your eye on the work that Jill Sobule has done innovating around funding her records. What I like is that April has been able to take advantage of a platform explicity built around Kevin Kelly’s 1,000 true fans theory. That platform is Kickstarter.
At Bandwith we’re always looking for new data sources that indicate fandom and there is a pretty rich data stream that would run out of Kickstarter. We’ll be keeping tabs on April and as we mature our own product on Kickstarter.
