«Crowdfunding campaign for Lisbon's Mayor nearing end» is the title of the article in Crowdsourcing.org, the reference news hub about crowdsourcing and crowdfunding.
By using crowdfunding to finance a video, Antonio Costa's campaign became the first political crowdfunding campaign in Europe.
The full article is available at crowdsourcing.org's website.
Impulso Positivo magazine published, in its May-June 2013 edition, an article about PPL and BES Crowdfunding.
The interview to Pedro Pires addresses topics such as project follow-up by the platform and an analysis to the submitted projects and its authors.
The full article is available in the following link (only in Portuguese).
Two of the PPL projects currently active were showcased in RTP África show Bem-vindos.
Francisca presented Medicina Mais Perto: Moçambique and explained why the Students Board of the Lisbon Medical School dediced to use crowdfunding.
Lyan talked about his first album, Eu Acredito, and the musical influences in his work.
Both shared their experiences, including the most effective communication approaches and the other activities they did during the crowdfunding campaign.
Portuguese economic newspaper "O Jornal Económico" writes about crowdfunding and how it can jumpstart small businesses, following the example of PPL's Vem aí a Troika card game.
The full article is available in the newspaper website (only in Portuguese).
The recently created ECO 123 Magazine is an independent, quarterly, trilingual publication, dedicated to the dissemination of information about the economy and ecology in Portugal, the EU and the world.
In its first edition, ECO 123 talked with Pedro Domingos and published an article about crowdfunding and PPL. Other crowdfunding projects that fit in the magazine's scope will also be published in the following editions.
The article and video can be watched in ECO123 website.
Article about crowdfunding in Jornal de Negócios (daily economics newspaper), with an interview to Pedro Domingos.
"This solution enables an initial market test and allows seed-capital raising to ventures that can resort, afterwards, to tradicional financing sources".
The subject of this week's edition of Falar Global, a SIC Notícias TV series about technology, was crowdfunding and entrepreneurship.
You can watch or review the article, which includes two PPL success stories (Frankie Chavez and Vem aí a Troika) and also a longer interview with Prof. Pedro Oliveira, from Catolica-Lisbon.
Public radio broadcaster Antena 3 will dig in Portuguese crowdfunding universe through a series of articles about specific PPL music cases.
The first work in the series is about The Poppers and it's available in Antena 3's website.
Crowdfunding started in Portugal about one and a half years ago and the cultural area is the most popular. Artist Frankie Chavez asked for financial support to the internet crowd and raised five thousand euros for his next album. With the crisis settled, is this the future?
Article in cultural section of weekly newspaper SOL about crowdfunding, PPL and Frankie Chavez case.
2012 edition of EXIT magazine, promoted by Dianova association, includes an interview to Pedro Domingos which touches topics such as:
The full digital edition can be read here or at Dianova's website.
TV program "Nosso Tempo", from public broadcaster RTP1, made an excellent work about PPL and two of "its" projects: The Poppers e Gomas Nutrally.
The full on-demand piece is available here, starting at 20 minutes.
Program Este Sábado, from Antena 1 (Portuguese public radio broadcast), made a story about PPL and crowdfunding.
Includes interviews with project owner of Música em Pó and Track Student, in addition to Yoann Nesme and Pedro Domingos.
The 13 minutes program is available on demand here (in Portuguese only).
Program Fala Portugal, from TV Record Europa, produced a report about crowdfunding.
Besides presenting and explaining the concept, it includes three different projects crowfinanced in PPL: TrackStudent, X.TO and Patagónia Luso Expedition.
You can view the whole story here (in Portuguese only).
«Crowdfunding strengthens in austerity period» is the title of public television's clip, shown in today's news.
PPL and its recent financed project, Primitive Reason, are mentioned in the clip, which is available in the RTP website.
Radio program The World released a story about crowdfunding in Portugal.
Interview to PPL's Paulo Silva Pereira and composer Luis Tinoco, who recently completed the funding for his latest work through PPL.
Journalist Monica Campbell mentions that "While Kickstarter made crowdfunding mainstream in the US, it’s still new to Portugal. That’s because artists here are used to institutional funding". However, with Europe’s economic crisis dragging on, "key arts supporters, including the culture ministry, dissolved. Major foundations and commissioners retreated".
Check one of the possible solutions in the complete story.
