DeviantArt

Also known as DA, deviantart.com, www.deviantart.com

DeviantArt, formerly styled as deviantART and thus abbreviated as dA, is an American online community that features artwork, videography, photography, and literature, launched on August 7, 2000, by Mathew Stephens, Scott Jarkoff and Angelo Sotira, among others.

Key facts

Website.name: DeviantArt
Website.logo: DeviantArt Logo.svg
Website.logo_caption: Logo used since 2014
Website.screenshot: CreativecommonsDeviations.jpg
Website.company_type: Subsidiary
Website.language: English
Website.area_served: Worldwide
Website.parent: Wix.com
Website.commercial: Yes
Website.registration: Optional
Website.current_status: Active
Website.ipv6: No

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

15 sections

Contents

History
Creation
Copyright and licensing issues
Contests for companies and academia
Litigation
Website
Versions
Eclipse (Version 9)
Live events
deviantART Summit
deviantART World Tour
"Birthday Bashes" and deviantMEET
See also
References
External links

DeviantArt is headquartered in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles, California. DeviantArt had about 36 million visitors annually by 2008. In 2010, DeviantArt users were submitting about 1.4 million favorites and about 1.5 million comments daily. In 2011, it was the thirteenth largest social network with about 3.8 million weekly visits. Several years later, in 2017, the site had more than 25 million members and more than 250 million submissions. In 2025, it reached a new milestone with 100 million registered users.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “DeviantArt” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.