DeviantArt was originally launched on August 7, 2000, by Scott Jarkoff, Matt Stephens, Angelo Sotira and others, as part of a larger network of music-related websites called the Dmusic Network. As the site grew, members in general became known as artists and submissions as arts. History Creation Original logoĭeviantArt started as a site connected with people who took computer applications and modified them to their own tastes, or who posted the applications from the original designs. On February 23, 2017, the company announced it was being acquired by Israeli web company Wix.com in a $36 million deal.
Several years later, in 2017, the site had more than 25 million members and more than 250 million submissions. In 2011, it was the thirteenth largest social network with about 3.8 million weekly visits. In 2010, DeviantArt users were submitting about 1.4 million favorites and about 1.5 million comments daily. DeviantArt had about 36 million visitors annually by 2008. is headquartered in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California.
DeviantArt (historically stylized as deviantART) is an online art community that features artwork, videography and photography, launched on Augby Angelo Sotira, Scott Jarkoff, and Matthew Stephens among others.ĭeviantArt, Inc.