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Canva unveils “Love Your Work” brand campaign, while facing backlash for massive price hike

September 15, 2024September 18, 2024 GaryPageau Canva

Canva, the popular visual communication platform, launched its “Love Your Work” brand campaign to reflect the company’s increasing focus on the workplace and spark a dialogue around workplace culture. This comes with a brand-new strategic platform for the company. The campaign, which will runs through Oct. 31, captures the magic of how Canva empowers people to feel pride in their... Read More

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HP, Canva announce design and printing partnership

May 29, 2024June 2, 2024 GaryPageau Canva, HP

HP Inc. announced a strategic multi-year global partnership with Canva, the visual communication platform, to connect HP Print Service Providers (PSPs) and the worldwide Canva community, enabling anyone creating content on the Canva platform to design and print within a fully integrated system seamlessly. This multi-year deal will enable Canva users “to design anything and print anywhere,” according to a... Read More

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Watershed, Canva announce agreement to reduce supply chain emissions

May 23, 2024May 30, 2024 GaryPageau Canva, Watershed

Watershed, the enterprise sustainability platform, and Canva announced a Virtual Power Purchase Agreement (VPPA) to reduce Canva’s scope 3 emissions. The program is co-funded by the largest Canva Print suppliers, including RPI Print, Taylor, Blooming Color, Brook & Whittle, and Digital on Demand, and will build a network of new community solar projects in Illinois while reducing the emissions of these suppliers. The network of solar projects... Read More

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Canva unveils new workplace products at Canva Create

May 23, 2024May 30, 2024 GaryPageau Canva

At its first international Canva Create event in Los Angeles last week, debuted the platform’s biggest overhaul in a decade, alongside a range of new workplace products and services poised to redefine the way millions of people work. “We are excited to introduce a revamped Canva experience and a suite of new products to empower every organisation to design,” said Melanie Perkins,... Read More

Acquisitions

Canva acquires Affinity platform for $1 billion

March 26, 2024March 29, 2024 GaryPageau Affinity, Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo, Canva, Serif Software

Canva, the world’s only all-in-one visual communication platform, today announced the acquisition of Affinity, the award-winning creative software suite for professional photo editing, illustration, graphic design and page layout, from Serif, a Nottingham, England, software company founded in 1987. Affinity marks Canva’s latest Europe-based acquisition, joining Flourish (2022), Kaleido (2021), Smartmockups (2021), Pexels (2019) and Pixabay (2019). Canva opened its first European HQ in 2023, based in London. Affinity’s tools... Read More

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Canva launches music library in partnership with Warner Music Group, Merlin, and a dozen others

November 9, 2023November 12, 2023 GaryPageau Canva, Merlin, Warner Music

Canva is making it easy for its Pro and Education customers to access a new library of music clips featuring some of the world’s biggest artists. By doing so, the company is enabling its community of millions to create more engaging content by incorporating their favorite songs into their design work. For the first time, Canva is providing access to... Read More

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Canva unveils global developers platform

June 15, 2023June 22, 2023 GaryPageau Canva

Canva introduced its new Canva Developers Platform, which includes a set of APIs and development tools, at the company’s first developer conference, Canva Extend in San Francisco. Canva also announced a $50 million Canva Developers Innovation Fund to support app developers. Canva unveiled a multitude of ways for developers to build on the platform and released the Canva Apps SDK... Read More

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Canva introduces The Visual Economy Report

April 18, 2023April 21, 2023 GaryPageau Canva

Canva released The Visual Economy Report featuring actionable data from 1,600 global business leaders. The company claims the report “provides the most comprehensive view into how global business leaders are approaching visual communication principles internally and externally to run more efficient teams, build stronger audience engagement, and fuel greater economic returns on their business.” Among the top findings of The Visual Economy... Read More

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PhotoShelter integrates with Canva

December 13, 2022December 19, 2022 GaryPageau Canva, Photoshelter

PhotoShelter announced an integration where the PhotoShelter for Brands digital asset management platform now integrates with Canva. Whether you’re working on a desktop or on the Canva mobile app, users can now browse, search, and select visual content from the PhotoShelter for Brands library right within the Canva platform. The company says the integration is well-suited for remote teams working... Read More

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Famous appoints Aaron Day as CEO, Laura Haines as CPO

October 26, 2021October 28, 2021 GaryPageau Canva, Famous

Famous, the company empowering users to create and sell anything online, announced the appointment of industry veteran Aaron Day as CEO. Previously, Day was the global partnership lead at Canva where he focused on integrating its core technology into the world’s leading eCommerce platforms, solidifying Canva as one of the fastest-growing software companies to date. In the past, he also held... Read More

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Australian graphics startup Canva now valued at $40 billion

September 14, 2021September 19, 2021 GaryPageau Canva

Canva announced a USD $40 billion valuation after a USD $200 million funding round led by T. Rowe Price and joined by new and existing strategic investors, including Franklin Templeton, Sequoia Capital Global Equities, Bessemer Venture Partners, Greenoaks Capital, Dragoneer Investments, Blackbird, Felicis, and AirTree Ventures. “Visual communication has emerged as a universal need for teams of every size across... Read More

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European online print marketplace HelloPrint adds Canva integration

September 6, 2021September 7, 2021 GaryPageau Canva, HelloPrint

European online print marketplace Helloprint announced a strategic partnership with visual communication platform provider Canva, where users can access Canva’s thousands of print templates and content library and print the designs directly via the Helloprint platform. We believe that integrating Canva’s powerful design solution and content library on our European platform is a true game-changer for us as a company... Read More

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Smartpress partners with Canva

August 13, 2021August 20, 2021 GaryPageau Canva, Smartpress

Online printer Smartpress.com has partnered with Canva to provide thousands of print templates and content libraries directly from Smartpress’ website. Smartpress is a premium online printer for creative agencies, graphic designers, nonprofits, and marketing professionals across the United States and Canada. “We strive to provide our customers with world-class customer service and the best possible online buying experience,” said Matt Chapman,... Read More

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Kornit Digital partners with Canva for global on-demand production

July 21, 2021July 27, 2021 GaryPageau Canva, Kornit

Digital textile printing company Kornit Digital partnered with online visual communications and design platform Canva as one of Canva’s first certified integration partners, empowering Canva to help leading print service providers, brands, and organizations add the Canva design tool to their e-commerce websites. Kornit will also manage and route all orders through Kornit’sglobal fulfillment network. Canva’s online visual communications platform... Read More