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Till date how many ICOs have failed? A few ICO consults claim that the failure rate of ICOs is 0 which is quite unconvincing

It sounds more like a joke.
Because most ICO projects are now in a state of failure.

Indeed. More than 50% of ICOs seem to fail. DEFINE: Failure in ICO

Yes 50% failed, but there is other 50%, and this means that we have a lot of good ideas, and without ICOs we will not be able to develop crypto industry.

I can suggest Ambit Mining ICO, this is one of the most attractive projects this month.

What? 50% fail?
More like ICO projects 99% fail eventually!

I think the success or failure of an ico is in the developer, because there are also some successful projects with just airdrop, there are also projects that only reach soft cap but they can succeed. There are many ico available today, they are all competing to get the attention and interest of the investors. But I doubt, because the average of ico only thinking about money and business alone, without thinking of the goals and products they had planned in the whitepapers.

I have always seeing people saying this about ICO but no one has been able to cite any platform that review ICO rigorously before coming to conclusion that most ICO fail. however, in term of failure, are you talking about ICO that successfully reach the hardcap but  could not continue with the roadmap after some weeks to months or you are basically consider ICO that does not reach the milestone and decide not to continue the project as failed ICO because if any one going tell us or give us any percentile failure they need to give us the statistics on how they arrive at that figure.

Every project and ICO dev should say that they will not fail because this is a part of their propaganda, but the truth is there is a really great chance that it will fail. There are a lot of ICOs that does not even meet their softcap, and there are also some ICOs that reached it but until now has not listed their coins in exchanges.

ICO is a scammy distribution model.  Keep your money away from ICO's and you will be fine.

I think the money, the ICOs want to collect is more than that the investors have, and the ICOs investors are a minority compared to those of the Stock Market. It's normal, that not all of them can be successful. The failure percentage of either 50% or 99% plays no role.
It is too much and the impact will eventually influence Ethereums price, if not the price of all cryptocurrencies.
I think we can't avoid it.

I agree! I think we should also define here what we mean by failure. Some ICOs don't make it to the release because they scam people. For the team who wanted money it is not a failure, but we could say that generally it is, since the aim to develop the project is not accomplished. Other kinds of ICOs (and I don't think there are many of those) simply don't raise enough funding. Then we come to ICOs that made it to their first exchange websites. A part of them fails soon afterwards, because people wait a bit for the price to rise and then sell everything. We can say that other ICOs are successful, but there are two ways of succeeding left: when the project's aim is accomplished and when it is not accomplished, but the token's/coin's price is high.

Actually its not counted. There are many ICO ongoing. But nowadays maximum ICO getting failed. That's failure main reason is, market down. People unconvincing in this market. They can't get loss their money. Even, they don't agree to already established altcoin. Many projects getting a huge loss.

Yeah, I think that a failure is an option when it comes to new ICOs. But there is a successful one as well. For example, Coinnup (https://ico.coinnup.com) is now one of the top ICOs on the market. They are doing well.

There is no other most significant cause other than poor promotions and offers.
In the promotion of course must involve experienced people and the right offer according to the needs of many people today.

There has been a lot of ICOs where the price of the sold tokens have dropped so much and adoption has been so low they can be considered to be fails. And that's the ultimate risk of ICO investing, either your project turning out to be a scam or does not go as high as you think it will.

The failure rate imo is probably around 80%. Most ICOs don't even reach the top 200 tokens.

If anyone tries to sell you the idea that ICOs have zero failure rate, they must be high.