85+ Patreon Statistics 2023 (Users, Revenue & Traffic)

One of the reasons video content publishers and other content creators can earn a living these days is because of the Patreon platform. Now everyone is familiar with at least one YouTube Patreon creator.

And now that Patreon is a well-known membership site, it is profitable for both creators and itself.

Since its beginnings in 2013, the company has grown to become one of the largest platforms. However, as per Patreon’s CPO, the company does not really want to be one that is only known for its first eight years but also for the following eight.

What will the future of Patreon look like in 2023 and beyond? What do the Patreon Statistics say?

In this article, we will discuss some significant statistics about Patreon and its creator data points regarding users and revenue.

So without wasting time, let’s understand the Patreon Platform.

Source: Graphtreon, Patreon, TechCrunch, Clubhouse statistics, Semrush, CNBC, Craft.

Patreon General Statistics

1. Patreon creators make $100M+ a month.
2. Patreon has 8 million+ monthly active patrons.
3. Currently, there are 224,396 active creators on Patreon.
4. More than 224,396 creators have at least one Patreon.
5. Over 6 million people support Patreon. Within the last three years, 4 million of these followers have signed up.
6. As per the Forbes reports, the Patreon creator membership platform is around $4 billion Enterprise.
7. The approximate number of monthly unique visitors is 9,831,577.
8. The total amount of money raised by Patreon is $412.1 million.
9. Approximately $3.5 billion has been earned by creators on Patreon.
10. Videos and podcasts have the most creators, according to data provided by Graphtreon.
11. In the last 3 years, more than 50 percent of the 6 million Patreons that Patreon hosts on its website have signed up. Currently, it receives more than 6 million active supporters every month.
12. Videos are preferred by 38% of Patreon creators. 
13. Graphtreon data revealed that Patreon’s estimated monthly payout is $25,497,511, excluding hidden earnings..
14. In the initial weeks of the pandemic, more than 30,000 creators registered.
15. Google Trends indicates that in 2021, involvement in Patreon has decreased slightly. 
16. The end of June 2020 saw a value of 90 for the search term “Patreon,” but the end of June 2021 saw a value of 67.
17. As of the Jan 2023 update this year, Patreon ranks 422nd globally among websites. (Similarweb)
18. Crunchbase reports that over the course of eight rounds, Patreon was able to secure $413.3 million in funding.
19. According to a blog post, Jack Conte, CEO of Patreon, shared over 200,000 creators will have earned over $3.5 billion in total by the end of December 2021.
20. Employees of Patreon are thought to earn an average annual salary of $149622.
21. Four businesses have been purchased by Patreon.
22. 80 percent of Patreon creators are independent contractors.
23. Daily Patreon promotion by creators can increase their earnings by up to 75%.

Patreon Creator Statistics

24. There are more than 222,938 creators on Patreon as of Feb 2023.
25. According to Graphtreon, 222,898 (Feb 2023) of the total Patreon have at least one Patreon account.
26. Over 2,000 Patreons provide financial support to 0.3% of Patreon creators.
27. Crafts and DIY are the least popular non-adult content categories, accounting for less than 0.3% of all creatives discovered.
28. Adult content is present on approximately 23% of Patreon pages, representing more than 50,000 creatives. Another 5.5% of the platform’s creatives create written content.
29. Video content creators earn the most money, with an estimated $6 million in revenue. Podcast creative types generate slightly more than half of the revenue, $3.5 million.
30. Monthly revenue for games is $1.75 million, followed by adult games at $1.6 million, music and songs at $1.2 million, and writing at $1 million. The remaining categories generate less than $1 million per month.
31. Over the last few years, the overall number of users has increased steadily. In 2017, the platform had 2 million supporters, which increased to 3 million and then 4 million in 2018 and 2019.
32. Since the past two years, Patreon has increased 37.31% of new creators (175,020).

Here is an increase in the number of creators over the years

Year	Number of Creator
Feb 2016	25300
Feb 2017	50500
Feb 2018	98400
Feb 2019	135000
Feb 2020	13800
Feb 2021	195000
Feb 2022	250,000+
Feb 2023	222,898

Patreon Popular Creators and Earnings

33. According to data and information, Patreon creators earn more than $2 billion. Since 2019, the platform’s overall creator earnings have increased by twofold.
34. In September 2021, Patreon creators got paid an overall $23.64 million. Monthly profits have increased by 23.18% in the last year (approx $19.19 million in September 2020).
35. Among all Patreon creators, only 697 (0.33% of the total) receive funding from more than 2,000 supporters.
36. Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast, a series of podcasts, is the most popular creator on Patreon. The show has more than 68,000 patrons.
37. According to the number of Patreons, 7 out of the most popular 10 Patreon creators publish podcasts.

Here are the top 10 Creators on Patreon with a total number of Patreon and monthly earnings. (September 2023)

(Source: Graphtreon)

Rank	Creator	Number of Patreons	Monthly Earnings
1	Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast	68,102	$189K – $475K
2	Chapo Trap House	42,599	$180K
3	True Crime Obsessed	41,374	$115K – $289K
4	Ilja Jusupov aka x4fab	40,590	$44,460
5	Dungeons and Daddies	37,799	$105K – $264K
6	Worlds Beyond Number	33,534	$64K – $256K
7	the yard	30,954	$202,416
8	Not Another D&D Podcast	29,528	$82K – $206K
9	DankPods	28,450	$28,962
10	Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell	28,086	$24K – $262K

38. On Patreon, Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast enjoys the most support.
39. With 33,534 patrons, Worlds Beyond Number is the most popular game on Patreon at the moment.
40. With more than 19,000 patrons, MxR is in the top spot in the adult video category on Patreon.
41. Ilja Jusupov, aka x4fab, is in the most supported video category with 40,590 patrons.
42. DarkCookie is the most popular Adult Game, with around 25,695 patrons.

Patreon Creator Category

43. Around half of the creators on Patreon make their content within the video, music, podcast, and gaming categories.
44. There are more than 1,00,000 creators that produce content with such categories.
45. The most in-demand category is video content, which accounts for 25.88% of all Patreon accounts with 54,582 creators.

The following is a detailed number of creators by content type:

(Source: Graphtreon)

Category	Number of Creators	Total Percentage covered
Video	55,582	25.88%
Podcasts	16,152	7.66%
Music	15,530	7.36%
Games	13,688	6.49%
Writing	10,997	5.21%
Adult Video	8,803	4.17%
Comics	6,812	3.23%
Adult Games	4,642	2.20%
Adult Photography	2,375	1.12%
Adult Cosplay	1,378	0..65%
Cosplay	1,004	0.49%

46. Video creators earn the most profit on Patreon as a group. Estimated monthly video content revenue totals $6.37 million.
47. Podcasts represent the most profitable in terms of revenue per creator. Podcasters receive 14.80% of all monthly payments despite making up only 7.66% of Patreon creators.

The following table breaks down total monthly creator profits by category:

(Source: Graphtreon)

Category	Monthly Payouts	Total Percentage covered
Video	$5.71 million	26.84%
Podcasts	$3.54 million	14.80%
Adult Games	$2.05 million	7.39%
Games	$1.82 million	7.70%
Music	$1.03 million	4.95%
Adult Comics	$993K	4.30%
Writing	$987K	2.81%
Adult painting	$960K	0.39%
Adult Video	$716K	0.19%
Drawing and painting	$541K	0.10%

Patreon Revenue Statistics

48. Patreon generates revenue by taking a share of all creator income earned by the platform. Depending on the service plan selected by the purchaser, Patreon takes nearly 5% and 12% of the creator’s income (plus an online payment fee).
49. Patreon generates $80 million in annual revenues if the average cutting is 8% of total earnings.
50. In 2022, Patreon generated a yearly income of $50.0 million to $75.0 million.

Here’s data with Patreon revenue estimates since 2017:

(Source: TechCrunch, Patreon)

Year	Annual revenue
2017	$12-15 million
2018	$30 million
2019	$50 million
2020	$80 million
2021	$160 million

51. Patreon has a $4 billion post-money valuation as of its funding round. Patreon’s valuation has grown 26.95 times in the past 5 years, from $148.38 million in 2016.
52. Patreon generates revenue by charging a fee of 5% to 12% on earnings received by content providers on the platform, with an average payout of 8.5%.
53. The yearly value of financial support received by platform creators exceeds $1 billion.
54. Over 60% of Patreon’s funding has come from the last two rounds of funding, Series E and Series F.
55.  Patreon employees earn a median salary of $135,000.

Patreon Web Traffic Statistics:

56. According to SimilarWeb, in August 2023, the total number of visits Patreon got was 108.5 million.
57. Over the last three months, Patreon.com’s global ranking has increased to 422.
58.  The bounce rate for Patreon is 54.54%. (SimilarWeb 2023)
59. Total visits for Aug 2023 was 108.5 Million as per the data from  SimilarWeb.

Let’s have a look at the overall data for total visits for the last 3 months.

Month	Total Visits
May 2023	101.1 Million
June 2023	478.2 K
July 2023	108.5 Million

60. In Jan 2023, the United States was the top country that was sending desktop traffic to Patreon.com with 27.91%.
61. 63% of Patreon’s traffic came from desktop computers, with 37% coming from mobile devices.
62. A total of 103,570,865 gadgets were connected to the traffic in May 2021, of which 64,649,006 were desktop computers, and 38,921,859 were mobile.
63.  In the past 30 days, 513,479 people have downloaded the app.
64. In May 2022, Patreon had 124,424 paid customers and 5,499,065 organic traffic attempts. The range of organic visitors increased to 5,611,378, while the number of paid visitors increased to 189,651 later that month.
65. There was an increase in the number of devices overall in the month of June 2021, which resulted in new figures of 66,556,182 desktop computers and 470,000 mobiles.
66. According to Patreon statistics, 29.3% of contributors and customers access the website on desktop computers. That indicates that the majority of users, or 70.7%, access the website through mobile devices.
67. Patreon is sending desktop traffic to over 561 different websites from several categories.

Let’s discover each category below.

Category	Distribution
File sharing and Hosting	26.40%
Video Games, Consoles and Accessories	24.93%
Search Engines	18.68%
Streaming and Online TV	8.66%
Social Media Networks	5.71%
Other	15.62%

Patreon.com Top Marketing Channels

The top traffic source to Patreon.com is Direct traffic, with 57.90% of desktop visits in Jan 2023. But social media ranks 2nd when it comes to driving traffic, with 21.37% of traffic.

68. The most underutilized channel is Paid search. 

Following is the complete distribution of traffic driving on various marketing channels.

Marketing Channel Distribution	Percent of Traffic
Direct	57.90%
Referrals	9.95%
Organic Search	10.54%
Paid Search	0.13%
Social	20.11%
Mail	1.29%
Display	0.07%

69. According to the data from SimilarWeb, most of the social media traffic comes from YouTube. 
70. Following YouTube, Twitter, and Pinterest drives the traffic and mostly through the desktop.
71. According to the Patreon data, 50% of fans are video creators, and over 30% of them are musicians.

Following is the detailed guide to the social network distribution that drives most traffic.

(Source: SimilarWeb)

Social Network Channel	Distribution
YouTube	65.56%
Twitter	15.57%
Pinterest	6.08%
Reddit	3.67%
Instagram	2.28%
Others	6.84%

72. The Patreon Instagram channel has over 164.87k followers, while Twitter has around 1,181,567,929 followers.
73. YouTube accounts for 50% and 30%, respectively, of the fans of musicians and video makers on Patreon.
74. DeviantArt provides 21% of the supporters for visual artists, while Twitter attracts 18% of the audience for game developers.
75. While this is happening, Facebook is where most of the listeners for writers and podcasters come from.
76. By contrast, only 7% of the money Patreon creators receive comes from subscriptions on other platforms.
77. Actually, 8% of them choose to work alone and delegate various tasks, such as handling customer interactions, to non-creators.
78. It’s odd that visual artists are the ones who tend to handle everything by themselves. Actually, a staggering 94% of them do.

Patreon.com Audience Demographics

Audience composition can reveal a site’s current market share across various audiences.

Let’s have a look at Patreon.com Demographics.

79. Most of the visitors come from the US with 28.87%, followed by the UK with 5.97%.

(Source: SimilarWeb)

Country	Percentage of visitors
USA	28.87%
UK	5.97%
Germany	4.65%
Canada	4.06%
France	2.93%
Others	53.51%

Patreon.com Age Distribution

80. Most of the Patreon users are between the ages of 18 to 24 years.

Following is the detailed guide to the age distribution of Patreon.com users.

Age	Distribution
18-24 years	33.30%
25-34 years	31.59%
35-44 years	16.42%
45-54 years	9.50%
55-64 years	5.57%
65+	3.63%

Patreon User Gender Distribution

81. As per the latest data from SimilarWeb, among the complete audiences, Patreon.com’s audience is 76.56% male, and 23.56% are female.

Covid-19 and State of Patreon in 2023

82. Customers increased the amounts they were giving to their favorite creators during the COVID-19 pandemic to help them through this difficult time. 
83. The average amount of money that creators raised increased by 60% in March 2020.
84. The number of creators joining Patreon increased by 30,000 in the first few weeks of March 2020.
85. More than 50,000 new creators joined the platform by the end of March.

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Final Thoughts: Patreon Statistics 2023

Considering all the features that Patreon is preparing to roll out in 2023, it would be interesting to review these statistics in a year.

The membership platform has processed more monthly payments than ever in recent years, thanks to strong user growth.

Fortunately, Patreon is active in a lot of areas. It commands a high level of brand recall and fills a market niche that it invented.

Will it keep providing its users with fantastic earnings to encourage them to stay?

Share your thoughts in the comment section below.