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About
Patreon is an online crowdfunding platform that allows creatives to receive regular funds from users for completed works or on a monthly basis.
History
Patreon[1] was launched in May 2013, by musician Jack Conte as a means to receive regular payments from fans of his YouTube videos. By February 2014, nearly half of Patreon artists created YouTube videos.
Traffic
As of November 2014, Patreon.com has a global rank of 5,371 and a United States rank of 2,147 on the traffic analytics site Alexa.[2]