There are few literary mediums that Julian Fellowes has not dabbled in.

Mr. Fellowes, the creator of the hit historical British melodrama “Downton Abbey,” has worked on screenplays, stage plays, novels and a children’s book. He wrote the book for “School of Rock,” a raucous new Broadway musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber adapted from the 2003 Richard Linklater movie, and he is working on his new NBC series “The Gilded Age,” set in New York in late 19^th century.

Now, for his next project, “Belgravia,” Mr. Fellowes is marrying an old narrative form – the serialized novel, in the tradition of Charles Dickens’s “The Pickwick Papers” – with the latest digital delivery system: an app.

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In the past, we’ve called them The Big 3.

They hold the distinction of being, as far as we can discern, the only crowdfunding campaigns to raise more than a million euros in seed money for news startups in the history of journalism.

Editors of the Dutch, German and Spanish news startups spoke within a couple days of each other this spring to talk about what worked and led their campaigns to such a potent reaction.

For obvious reasons, we wrote about each of them. Here are some of the things all three crowdfunding campaigns had in common.

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