 Logo used since 2019 | |
| Type of business | Subsidiary |
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Type of site |
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| Available in | English |
| Founded | August 7, 2000 |
| Area served | Worldwide |
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| Parent | Wix.com |
| URL | deviantart |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | August 7, 2000 |
| Current status | Active |
DeviantArt, historically stylized as deviantART, is an American online art community that features artwork, videography, and photography, launched on August 7, 2000, by Angelo Sotira, Scott Jarkoff, and Matthew Stephens among others.
DeviantArt, Inc. is headquartered in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California.[1] DeviantArt had about 36 million visitors annually by 2008.[2] In 2010, DeviantArt users were submitting about 1.4 million favorites and about 1.5 million comments daily.[3] In 2011, it was the thirteenth largest social network with about 3.8 million weekly visits.[4] Several years later, in 2017, the site had more than 25 million members and more than 250 million submissions.[5] In February 2017, the website was acquired by Israeli software company Wix.com in a $36 million deal.[6]
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- ^ "DeviantArt attracts almost 40m visitors online yearly". Siteanalytics.compete.com. Archived from the original on November 10, 2011. Retrieved September 9, 2011.
- ^ "DeviantArt 10th Birthday Bash at House of Blues – Angelo Sotira's Closing Speech PT 2". YouTube. Archived from the original on June 11, 2014.
- ^ Matt Rosoff (July 27, 2011). "These 19 Social Networks Are Bigger Than Google+". Businessinsider.com. Retrieved September 9, 2011.
- ^ "DeviantArt - Career Page". deviantart.jobs. Archived from the original on October 26, 2020. Retrieved September 9, 2020.
- ^ Lunden, Ingrid (February 23, 2017). "Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 23, 2017.