Future of work: Crowd-funded creative careers

Dimitra Petrakaki, Krysta Moysidou, Hong Yu Liu and Becci Newton

This research explores the experience of employment through crowdfunding, how the platform affects creatives’ relationships with their supporters, and the creative process. It was developed through 29 in-depth, qualitative interviews with creatives, mainly musicians but some visual artists too, who use Patreon. 

This toolkit looks at the phenomenon of crowdfunding and how it differs to the gig economy, crowdfunding trends and common platforms in the creative industries, case studies from creatives, key messages around job quality for crowd-funded creatives and implications for educationalists, policy, platforms and the creatives themselves.  A designed toolkit and text-only version is available to download.