deviantART.com Reaches the 10 Year Mark, Will Release Secret Application

HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- DeviantART is celebrating its 10th year online by throwing a huge Birthday Bash at the House of Blues in Hollywood on Saturday, August 7th, 2010.  DeviantART.com is the longest-running social network on the Internet under continuous management.  With over 67 million daily pageviews, 1.5 million daily comments, and more than 100,000 works of art submitted every day, deviantART ranks as a top 125 website internationally measured by traffic.  

Co-founder and CEO Angelo Sotira will be announcing and launching a new application on deviantART at the Birthday Bash as part of a continuing and unbroken record of providing visual artists the most complete and active social network worldwide.  Teasers for this innovative and inspiring tool have been running on the site for weeks and anticipation is running hot.  http://news.deviantart.com/article/122602/

"I can't believe ten years have gone by, but it's even more amazing to me what we've built in that time," said Sotira.  "More people look at art on deviantART in two weeks than the combined annual visitors to the top 100 museums in the world.  As a cultural force, there has never been a single aggregation and collection of over 14 million living and communicating artists in the history of the world.  But, at the same time, the success of the network rests entirely with the one-to-one communication between the people who are here and using this platform to learn, grow, and support each other in the arts and in the practice of making beauty."

Tickets for the Birthday Bash are available at the House of Blues starting at 2:30 PM on Saturday or through LiveNation.com. The event features live art tutorials, convention-style Q&A panels with art professionals, hands-on interaction with the new application, and music and dancing until midnight. Additional details are available here: http://www.deviantart.com/10thbirthday

About deviantART:

DeviantART was created to entertain, inspire, and empower the artist in all of us. Founded in August 2000, deviantART is the largest social network for artists and art enthusiasts. A platform that allows emerging and established artists to exhibit, promote, and sell their works, deviantART offers a vibrant community that receives over 100,000 daily uploads of original art, ranging from traditional works to digital art, film, literature, and beyond.

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