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Our 2020 roadmap for a extra linked international group: new currencies and extra

Throughout the globe, inventive persons are making superb issues. They’re scrappy and ingenious. They use all means potential to create, collaborate, and share their work with the communities they love. The web has enabled an explosion of creativity the place each creator, irrespective of the place they’re, will be seen and heard, and the place audiences all around the world can get pleasure from their work.

Patreon is already a world group of creators and patrons. We’re proud to serve greater than 150Ok creators from over 180 international locations, with patrons from actually each nation on the planet! Greater than 40% of creators and patrons on Patreon are primarily based outdoors of the US, and most creators have patrons from international locations outdoors their very own.

For instance, Hainbach, an experimental musician and composer primarily based in Germany, has patrons from 36 completely different international locations who get pleasure from his music, love studying about his strategies, and typically even get the chance to take part in his compositions.

“I discover that my patrons come from all around the world. It is a new phenomenon you could allow your favourite artists this on to do what they love, and turn into an extremely essential a part of that journey. Seeing creations come to life and artists thrive is an extremely rewarding feeling.” — Hainbach

Euros (€), British Kilos (£), new cost strategies and languages

To raised help our international group, Patreon is increasing to create extra alternatives for all creators to have direct relationships with followers anyplace on the planet. We’re beginning with Europe, the place we have already got a really sturdy creator and patron group. To get the occasion began, we’re opening an workplace in Berlin to function a homebase for constructing relationships with inventive communities throughout Europe. That is along with places of work in Porto, Portugal and Dublin, Eire the place we have already got members of our engineering, buyer help and belief and security groups positioned.

Supporting a world group means enabling extra currencies and cost strategies to make it simpler for followers to help creators. Beginning at present, new creators who launch on Patreon will be capable of value their tiers and be paid in both Euros (€), British Kilos (£), or US {Dollars} ($). Study extra right here.

That is simply step one. Throughout the subsequent few months, creators already on Patreon will be capable of settle for these new currencies, too. By this summer season, we’ll add extra cost strategies together with direct debit. We’ve already added transport to Canada, Australia, the UK, and Germany with our Merch for Membership, with extra international locations coming this yr.

And to make Patreon extra inclusive and user-friendly to creators and patrons all over the place, this yr we’ll be engaged on language localization. You’ll hear extra about this towards the tip of 2020.

Wonderful European creators

To rejoice our rising group, we’re highlighting a handful of our European creators — some which were on Patreon for years and others which are newly launched!

Einstürzende Neubauten: German experimental music group which has been making their distinctive music for greater than 30 years

Berlin Meals Tales: Freelance journalist uncovering and sharing the most effective meals of Berlin

Sara Faber: An impartial artist and illustrator who runs her personal illustration enterprise

Judith Holofernes: Singer, guitarist, songwriter, writer and the previous lead singer of the German pop-group Wir sind Helden

Straightforward German: An ongoing instructional language sequence from the streets of Berlin

Rival: Pianist, digital music producer, and performer who’s been producing music in some kind or one other for many of his life

Lioba Brueckner: Painter who’s been capable of stop her day job and create full-time, providing prints and tutorials by way of Patreon

We confidently see a future the place each creator can join instantly with their followers anyplace on the planet, and we’re past proud to be constructing in the direction of it. It would take a while, however we imagine in constructing a ladder to the moon, one rung at a time.