An American online art community called DeviantArt was founded on August 7, 2000, by people including Angelo Sotira, Scott Jarkoff, and Matthew Stephens. It features artwork, cinematography, and photography.
The headquarters of DeviantArt, Inc. is located in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California. By 2008, DeviantArt received roughly 36 million visitors annually.
Users of DeviantArt added over 1.4 million favourites and 1.5 million comments every day in 2010. With roughly 3.8 million weekly visitors, it was the thirteenth-largest social network in 2011.
The website has more than 25 million subscribers and more than 250 million submissions a few years later, in 2017.
Who is DeviantArt owned by?
On February 23, 2017, the business declared that Wix.com had agreed to pay $36 million to acquire DeviantArt. When DeviantArt first launched, it was a community of users who either submitted modified versions of existing computer programs or created their own programs from scratch.
As the website expanded, users as a whole started to be known as artists and submissions as works of art. Scott Jarkoff, Matt Stephens, Angelo Sotira, and others first introduced DeviantArt on August 7, 2000, as a component of the Dmusic Network, a wider collection of music-related websites.
After its introduction, the site prospered largely as a result of its distinctive offering and the contributions of its core membership and a group of volunteers, but it wasn’t until around eight months later, in 2001, that it was formally incorporated.