• Home
  • Contact
  • FAQs
    • What is Webcomics.com?
    • Member Benefits
    • How To Post an Article or News Item
    • How to Post a Webcomic on the List
    • How to Post a Comic
    • Terms of Service
  • Forums
  • WebComics List
  • Benefits
    • Print Vendors: Get multiple quotes
    • Banner stand: Discount
    • Consultation discount
    • “How To Make Webcomics” book: discount
    • “Webcomics Handbook”: discount
    • ALL benefits
  • My Account
    • Welcome
    • What is Webcomics.com?
    • My Subscription
    • Join us!
  • Account
  • Membership List
Twitter Email RSS

Webcomics.com

How To Make WebComics

WebComic Handbook

‹ Patreon Pro Tip — Setting Links to Expire Shipping Update — USPS Rate Hike and Holiday ... ›

Kickstarter Launches Patreon Competitor — Drip

Kickstarter has announced Drip — a Patreon-like crowdfunding platform for ongoing creator support.

From the press release:

In recent years, we’ve seen the growing validation of subscriptions for serial online content creators — podcasters, YouTubers, bloggers — using tools like Flattr, Patreon, and Steady. It’s been great to see organizations build tools like these — the world is far from having too many tools for creators. But there remain large groups of artists and creators who don’t see subscriptions as fitting their creative practices. Our goal with the new Drip is to change that.

A key mandate for the design of Drip has been creator independence. The work and relationships that creators build online should belong to them. They shouldn’t feel stuck to a platform because those things aren’t easy to move. With that in mind, creators will be able to export their data and content, and we’ll even help creators securely transfer subscription and payments information to other subscription platforms. We believe creator independence means not being locked into a platform by design.

Launching a Drip is simple. Describe what you do. Think about what you can offer subscribers: things like access to your work, latest releases, IRL experiences, or something as simple as behind-the-scenes access and updates on your works-in-progress. Human-to-human stuff. Fans, friends, and new audiences can now subscribe to support your work on an ongoing basis — not just project-to-project.

Every Drip begins with a founding membership period to help creators build momentum. The founding membership period is a way for creators to entice their fans, friends, and new audiences to jump in and build up their base of support. (This is not all-or-nothing like Kickstarter, but it does build on our experience that a strong call to action is essential.) Creators can offer their founding members special rewards or status for jumping in early. We know creators will be really creative with how they think of founding memberships, and we’re excited to see how it’s put to use.

From The Verge:

Drip hopes to differentiate itself with its “founding member” approach. The other big difference is that Drip also aims to be more creator friendly, allowing creators to easily port subscribers to other crowdfunding platforms with this model. Focusing on building a product that can easily be transferred to a competitor may seem like an odd choice, but Kickstarter has a unique set of incentives. In 2015, it reincorporated a Public Benefit Corporation, or PBC. It vowed to never go public or sell the company, and it committed to putting the well-being of creators and employees above traditional metrics like revenue growth or profitability.

What you need to know…

The content you are trying to access is only available to members.

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
by Brad Guigar on November 16, 2017
Posted In: Crowdfunding
Comments available to logged in users only.


Recent comments

  • Jaycee Knight on ComicLab Ep 171 — NFTs for webcomics?
  • Jaycee Knight on ComicLab Ep 171 — NFTs for webcomics?
  • Shadowmark Productions on NFTs
  • Jaycee Knight on ComicLab Ep 170 — Craptastic to Fantastic
  • fleen on NFTs

Search




Webcomics.com Poll

I design my comic specifically for smartphones and digital tablets.

View Results

Loading ... Loading ...
  • Polls Archive

Categories

  • Archive Dive
  • Articles
    • Advertising
    • Art
    • Business
    • Community
    • Conventions
    • Creativity
    • Crowdfunding
    • Digital publishing
    • Image prep
    • Lettering
    • Marketing / Social Media
    • Merchandise
    • Print publishing
    • Tech
    • Web site
      • Web Site Design
    • Writing
  • ComicLab
  • Edited and Ready
  • Events
  • Guest
  • Hot Seat critiques
  • Information
  • Interviews
  • Livestream Chat
  • Mail Bag
  • Member Benefits
  • Promos
  • Site News
  • Studios
  • Surviving Creativity
  • To-Do List
  • Uncategorized
  • Video
  • Webcomics Confidential
  • Webcomics Weekly
  • Webcomics.com Poll

Tags

AdSense advertising Comic Easel comments composition contract copyright creativity exercise credit cards Crowdfunding digital lettering digital publishing Facebook Google Analytics holiday Humor IP KDP Kickstarter Kindle legal lettering line weight Longform comics Manga Studio merchandise NCS panels Patreon Promotion PulsePoint readers revenue SEO shipping social media Square taxes trademark Twitter typography Web design word balloons WordPress writing

Special Features

Just now, in the forum…

  • Is the concept of a frequency of updates outdated now?
  • Should I pull my comic rom Webtoons?
  • Patreon: upfront charging or not?
  • Longform webcomics
  • Quantity time vs quality time on social media

Recent Posts

  • ‘Ringo Awards nominations
  • A new strategy for the much-maligned calendar
  • Kickstarter — Free market research
  • How to lay out a comicbook page
  • ComicLab Ep 171 — NFTs for webcomics?

Recent Replies

  • Brad Guigar on Is the concept of a frequency of updates outdated now?
  • Bryceart on Should I pull my comic rom Webtoons?
  • Brad Guigar on Should I pull my comic rom Webtoons?
  • MynameizJR on Should I pull my comic rom Webtoons?
  • MynameizJR on Longform webcomics

Recent Topics

  • Is the concept of a frequency of updates outdated now? by MynameizJR
  • Should I pull my comic rom Webtoons? by Bryceart
  • Patreon: upfront charging or not? by Jaycee Knight
  • Longform webcomics by MynameizJR
  • Quantity time vs quality time on social media by MrMcCloud

Recent Comments

  • Jaycee Knight on ComicLab Ep 171 — NFTs for webcomics?
  • Jaycee Knight on ComicLab Ep 171 — NFTs for webcomics?
  • Shadowmark Productions on NFTs
  • Jaycee Knight on ComicLab Ep 170 — Craptastic to Fantastic
  • fleen on NFTs
  • My Subscription
  • Contact
  • Store
  • Terms of Service
  • Account
  • Membership List

©2007-2021 Webcomics.com | Powered by WordPress with ComicPress | Subscribe: RSS | Back to Top ↑