Sotira entrusted all public aspects of the project to Scott Jarkoff as an engineer and visionary to launch the early program. ĭeviantArt was loosely inspired by projects like Winamp facelift,, ,, and, all application skin-based websites. The site flourished largely because of its unique offering and the contributions of its core member base and a team of volunteers after its launch, but was officially incorporated in 2001 about eight months after launch. 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. 1.4 Contests for companies and academiaĭeviantArt 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 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 American online art community that features artwork, videography and photography, launched on Augby Angelo Sotira, Scott Jarkoff, and Matthew Stephens among others.įella, a small, devil-esque robotic character, is/was the official mascot of the website.
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