TRUSTED SERVICE PROVIDERS
Creators often rely on a constellation of service providers to launch products on Kickstarter. Agencies, production studios, consultants, and freelancers fill critical skill gaps with experience and know-how that spans essential expertise areas.
Finding the right partners is both mission-critical and challenging. Many companies claim to be crowdfunding experts, but only a few live up to that promise. We built this resource to help filter the signal from the noise. We hope it will be a useful starting point for your search for partners.
SELECTION CRITERIA
Trusted by creators and experts in our network. These service providers have strong track records of delivering a positive impact, and engaging with creators honestly, transparently, and respectfully. It's important to note that past results are indicators, not guarantees, of future performance.
STARTING POINT
This resource is just a starting point for your search. It is not a comprehensive list, so make sure to do some additional research, especially if you're working on a niche product. Only you'll be able to assess which service providers are a good fit for your specific needs, so do your homework and due diligence.
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Blazon is a full-service agency that offers an integrated approach to launching products. They provide end-to-end services, and are able to assist clients from crowdfunding launch strategy and execution, through to scaling on e-commerce.
Their expertise spans the domains of PR, marketing and digital advertising. They value sustainable and direct to consumer brands.
🇬🇧 Based in London, UK
Success Stories
Other Services Offered
- Crowdfunding strategy
- Content development
- Digital marketing
- Media relations
Informal is a network of independent freelancers that come together to augment a creator's existing team or form an external studio that is customized to a creator's needs.
Their members can assist creators at all stages of their campaign, from campaign strategy to branding, creative development, digital marketing, and PR; They can also assist beyond the campaign, with product design, development, and manufacturing, and fulfillment, warehousing, and logistics.
🇺🇸 Based in Brooklyn, USA
Success Stories
Other Services Offered
- Crowdfunding strategy
- Content development
- Digital marketing
- Media relations
Nuuk has helped hundreds of Kickstarter campaigns to launch successfully, while also winning international awards for their work. Their services span from pre-launch to post-campaign, and their primary areas of expertise are pre-launch community build-up and post-campaign growth of e-commerce business.
They have a flexible engagement model that enables them to be as hands-on or hands-off as their clients require. When working with big teams, they often consult with in-house teams on how to execute, while when engaging small teams, they usually take a more hands-on approach.
🇬🇧 Based in Machester, UK
🏷 Special offer available
Paved With Gold helps creators build loyal communities and develop stand out brands. They understand what it takes to succeed on Kickstarter and beyond, from identifying a project's core audience and how to reach them, to developing a compelling project page and creating a foundation for your longer-term business growth.
They have experience working with established and up-and-coming brands and serve as mentors to respected organizations such as Design Council, Central Research Laboratories, and Creative Scotland.
🇬🇧 Based in London, UK
Success Stories
Services Offered
- Crowdfunding strategy
- Community engagement
- Creative development
Rainfactory partners closely with growing brands to help them launch new products. They have deep expertise from having led numerous successful crowdfunded product releases.
They are able to take on all of the responsibilities of a marketing department – managing the strategy, design, web development, email, and advertising for their clients' crowdfunding campaigns.
🇺🇸 Based in San Francisco, USA
Russell Marketing is a launch marketing agency that has extensive experience in the crowdfunding space. They use a proprietary, data-driven Five-Step Launch System to help entrepreneurs validate their idea and secure launch success.
Their team works with creators during the pre-launch, live campaign, and post-funding phases, bringing to bear their deep expertise in digital advertising, email marketing, communications, and design.
🇺🇸 Based in Brooklyn, USA
Sidekick has helped numerous startups, businesses, and creative studios launch projects on Kickstarter. They provide a wide range of services, from market research and funding simulations to copywriting and video & photo production, and everything in between.
They take a flexible and collaborative approach to engage with clients. It all starts with a deep dive to understand each client's needs and priorities. They have a selective client roster, working primarily with design-conscious creators.
🇫🇷 Based in Paris, France
Success Stories
Other Services Offered
- Video & photo production
- Copywriting
- Art direction
YG is a boutique crowdfundiung agency that helps creators succesfully launch products on platforms like Kickstarter. They provide a wide variety of services and a flexible model that enables creators to customize the engagement to their projects' needs.
Their high-performance tools and thoughtful experts can help creators maximize the impact of their efforts from the pre-campaign marketing phase to the end of the funding period.
🇨🇳 Based in Shanghai, China
ONLINE ADVERTISING AGENCIES
Backercamp helps creators scale their projects using online advertising campaigns powered by proprietary technologies and supported by dedicated teams of experts.
They are focused on establishing partnerships that last beyond a single campaign and building creator relationships that span multiple product launches and expand into e-commerce. Due to the nature of their engagement model, they work with very few campaigns at a time.
🇪🇸 Based in Barcelona, Spain
Success Stories
Other Services Offered
- Crowdfunding strategy
- Online advertising
BackerKit Marketing helps creators reach qualified backers on Facebook using proven ad technologies, a deep well of data, and extensive marketing expertise. They offer creators real-time data on pledges, ad spend, and rates-of-return and assign dedicated Marketing Account Managers to help creators interpret results and share insights into performance.
They employ a performance-based compensation model. Commissions are paid only on pledges that are directly attributable to BackerKit's efforts. They have a unique engagement model that is quite selective but requires no upfront payment.
🇺🇸 Based in San Francisco, USA
Jellop helps creators maximize their fundraising on Kickstarter by reaching new audiences using high-precision advertising on Facebook and Google. Their proprietary analytics software is the secret sauce that powers their optimizations and has helped establish them as a leader in online advertising for crowdfunding space.
They use a performance-based compensation model and offer a creator-friendly cancel-anytime policy. They usually only work with creators during their live campaign.
🇮🇱 🇺🇸 Based in Tel Aviv, Israel and Los Altos, USA
Success Stories
Services Offered
- Online advertising
Green Inbox enables creators to maximize their campaigns' funding potential and bottom line by leveraging advanced software tools. They focus exclusively on Facebook advertising.
They take a very transparent approach to engage with creators and use a performance-based compensation model. They've been behind many successful product launch campaigns on Kickstarter.
🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 Based in Canada, USA & Israel
🏷Special offer available
Success Stories
Services Offered
- Online advertising
- Crowdfunding strategy
COMMS AGENCIES & CONSULTANCIES
Gallium Ventures is an award-winning boutique consultancy with deep expertise in how to launch products using crowdfunding. They provide strategy-led creative PR, marketing, and product development services to global companies and up-and-coming startups.
Their approach to partnering with clients involves deep engagements, where they, in essence, become a part of their clients' team.
🇬🇧 Based in London, UK
Success Stories
Services Offered
- Media & Influencer relations
- Crowdfunding strategy
- Digital marketing
- Project management
Proper Propaganda works with creators to craft stories that get noticed by media and generate editorial coverage that builds community and drives the bottom line. They have supported numerous high-profile design and technology campaigns on Kickstarter.
Their innovative pricing model prioritizes output as opposed to time. It aligns their team's compensation to the impact and coverage they generate.
🇨🇦 Based in Montreal, Canada
🏷 Special offer available
Success Stories
Services Offered
- Media & Influencer relations
- Copywriting
PLEDGE MANAGERS
BackerKit is the original pledge management platform that has expanded to become a swiss army knife for crowdfunding creators. They continue to have the most sophisticated offerings for handling pledges, managing orders, and community support.
In recent years, they've been developing tools to help creators raise more funds. These include support for add-ons and pre-orders, a growing backer newsletter, a community engagement tool called Launch, and a new online advertising program.
🇺🇸 Based in San Francisco, USA
🏷 Special offer available
Success Stories
Services Offered
- Pledge manager
- Community engagement
- Online advertising
- Product discovery
VIDEO PRODUCTION STUDIOS
Friends ‘n Allies is a boutique creative agency specializing in bold, playful videos for growing brands. They bring to life products through stories that are creatively ambitious, irreverent, polished, and compelling. They have worked on numerous Kickstarter campaign videos and other types of product launches.
They have a small core team that draws on a network of experienced producers, videographers, photographers, and sound designers.
🇺🇸 Based in Oakland, USA
🏷 Special offer available
Launch Light Films produces compelling crowdfunding project videos that help creators run successful campaigns. They have worked on some of the most highly funded hardware projects on Kickstarter, including Mendi, Revols, and Vue.
To consistently deliver high caliber creative work, coupled with outstanding personalized service, they only take on a few clients at a time.
🇺🇸 Based in Atlanta, USA
🏷 Special offer available
Success Stories
Services Offered
- Video production
- Photo production
Lemonlight is a creative content studio that specializes in producing high-quality videos that are compelling and affordable. They've developed a streamlined process that guides clients from creative brainstorming through post-production.
They have experience working with crowdfunding creators from different industries. With offices in over 30 cities across the US, they can collaborate with creators throughout the country.
🇺🇸 Based in Los Angeles, USA
🏷 Special offer available
PRODUCT DISCOVERY
Gadget Flow is a powerful product discovery platform used by millions of people to stay up to date with the latest tech and gear and to find innovative new products on platforms like Kickstarter.
They are committed to getting great products in front of the right people. They even offer advanced product exploration tools that leverage AR and VR to bring products to life through their iOS and Android apps.
🇺🇸 Based in Uniondale, USA
🏷 Special offer available
Success Stories
Services Offered
- Product discovery
- Crowdfunding strategy
- Media and influencer relations
- Digital marketing
DIGITAL MARKETING SERVICES & TOOLS
BackerKit Launch is designed to help creators get the most value from their email list. It provides crowdfunding-specific audience insights, conversion tracking, and functionality that enable creators to get pledge commitments before a campaign launches.
Launch is especially powerful for serial crowdfunding creators. It taps into their historical data to uncover insights and helps them manage communications with their audience from across multiple campaigns.
🇺🇸 Based in San Francisco, USA
Success Stories
Kickbooster enables creators to develop and manage backer referral programs. They make it easy to create incentives for backers to spread the word about a project, track referred pledges, and calculate and manage commissions.
They also make it simple to create affiliate marketing programs. Creators can even tap into the Kickbooster Marketplace, where they can leverage Kickbooster's existing network of affiliates to promote their project.
🇨🇦 Based in Winnipeg, Canada
Success Stories
Services Offered
- Backer referral programs
- Affiliate marketing programs
- Product discovery
