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Flexible work, uninterrupted: How Canva Offline keeps productivity moving in the Philippines

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MANILA – For many Filipinos today, work can happen anywhere. A presentation might begin at home, get refined in a café, and be finalized between meetings later in the day. As working professionals increasingly embrace flexible work arrangements, productivity is no longer defined by where people work, but by their ability to keep work moving wherever they are.

This shift has made flexibility essential. Filipinos need tools that adapt to the realities of modern work, allowing them to stay productive while on the go. In a world where ideas can happen anytime, creativity and momentum should not be limited by location or connectivity.

This is the idea behind Canva Offline. Designed for today’s increasingly mobile workforce, the feature allows users to continue creating and editing even when connectivity is unavailable. By making essential design tools accessible offline, Canva helps ensure that work can continue uninterrupted, empowering users to stay productive and focused. Once connectivity is restored, changes automatically sync, allowing work to continue seamlessly without losing progress.

For content creator and brand designer Kredbylle Timbang, flexibility is not just a preference. It is essential to run her business.

Based in Bataan, Kred works with clients remotely, develops brand identities, creates content, and manages multiple creative projects throughout the day. Like many Filipino entrepreneurs building businesses online, she has learned to navigate the challenges that come with remote work while ensuring she consistently delivers quality outputs on time.

One of those challenges is something many Filipinos know all too well: unexpected power interruptions.

“Canva is the focal point of everything that I do,” she shared. “Power interruption is prominent here, and they often disrupt my focus and creative flow while designing.”

Before Canva Offline became available, losing connectivity often meant putting work on hold entirely. Progress stopped until power or internet service returned, creating unnecessary delays and disrupting momentum.

For someone managing client deadlines and projects, those interruptions could easily affect productivity. Today, Canva Offline has become an important part of how Kred works.

“It really is a lifesaver to be able to edit offline when the power goes out unexpectedly,” she said. “Even without power and internet, I can continue editing without disruption. I’ve made it a habit to save my projects offline so I can keep working and make sure I deliver quality outputs to clients on time.”

Rather than worrying about interruptions, she can focus her energy on growing her business, serving clients, and staying creative. Her experience reflects a broader reality for many Filipinos today.

As more Filipinos embrace flexible work arrangements, side hustles, online businesses, and freelance careers, productivity increasingly depends on tools that can keep work moving. For students, entrepreneurs, and creators like Kred, the ability to continue working offline provides something increasingly valuable: continuity. It allows them to stay focused on deadlines, serve clients, and bring ideas to life without losing momentum.

For many Filipinos, Canva Offline is more than a convenience feature. It addresses a growing challenge in today’s flexible work environment by ensuring that creativity and productivity are not dependent on a stable internet connection. In a world where work can happen anywhere, it gives users the freedom to keep moving forward, wherever inspiration or opportunity takes them.

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Canva and DepEd III pilot shows strong early impact, with 81% of teachers reporting better classroom experiences

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MANILA, June 2026 – As part of Canva’s nationwide initiatives to boost digital transformation in Filipino Education, the global visual communications platform has partnered with the Department of Education (DepEd) Region III to roll out a regional pilot initiative aimed at addressing gaps in technology access, digital resources, and up-skilling opportunities across public schools in the region. 

Together with its Education Learning Partner Audentes Technologies, the initiative combines educator training, student certification, and access to Canva’s tools to support both teaching and school operations. This includes features such as Canva Offline, which allows users to continue working without stable internet connectivity, and Learn Grid, which provides structured, curriculum-aligned resources for lesson development, amongst others.

The initiative also included on-ground campus visits through the Canva Eskwela Caravan across selected schools and concluded with the Design Your Future: Career & Life Skills with Canva bootcamp for senior high learners.

“Digital transformation in education is not just about giving schools access to tools. It is about making sure teachers, learners,  and their non-teaching staff can use those tools in ways that are practical, creative, and relevant to their everyday realities,” said Ysa Delfin-Malinao, Philippines education marketing lead, Canva. “Through this pilot with DepEd Philippines Region III, we are seeing how the right mix of training, access, and localized support can help public schools unlock more engaging classrooms, more confident educators, and more future-ready students.”

The program was implemented across four schools in Region III, including Eastern Porac National High School (EPNHS), Malolos Marine Fishery and Laboratory School, Lydia Villangca Trade School, and Virgen de las Flores High School, reaching nearly 500 public school faculty and staff and certifying over 1,000 senior high school students.

“Our partnership with Canva has empowered our schools to embrace creativity, innovation, and transformation across our classrooms,” said Tolentino G. Aquino, Regional Director for DepEd Region III. “Looking ahead, we are committed to building a future-ready Region III, where creativity and education go hand in hand.”

Early results show strong classroom impact

Early results point to measurable improvements in classroom experience and engagement. At EPNHS, 81% of teachers reported improvements in their classroom experience after using Canva, while 94.6% believe the platform has strong potential to shape the future of education.

For public school leaders, the program’s impact is already visible in how classrooms are evolving. Dr. Rosaline Tuble, school head of EPNHS, shared how digital tools like Canva are transforming both teaching approaches and student participation.

“In my 29 years with DepEd, it has been our long-time dream to transform students from passive watchers into active co-creators and collaborators of the lesson itself. When Canva was first introduced in our classrooms two years ago, only 35% of teachers used it for instruction. Today, 92% of teachers use Canva for daily classroom delivery,” Tuble shared. 

Among the drivers of this shift is a better understanding of how today’s students learn and engage.

“We know that today’s learners respond best to visual and creative modes of communication and self-expression,” Tuble added. “With Canva, our teachers can redesign their lessons to be more dynamic and interactive to suit student needs.”

Building a scalable model for digital inclusion

Beyond the classroom, schools are also seeing operational benefits. Digital tools help streamline administrative tasks, improve turnaround times, and support more flexible blended learning approaches that enable collaboration beyond the classroom while reducing reliance on physical materials.

As Canva looks to expand the initiative across the Philippines, the Region III pilot provides a strong model for how targeted upskilling and accessible technology can help bridge digital gaps in public education, particularly in underserved communities.

“The Region III pilot gives us a strong proof point for what digital inclusion in education can look like when it is built around the needs of public schools,” said Delfin-Malinao. “As we continue working with education partners across the country, our focus is to help more teachers and students, especially outside Metro Manila, gain the skills, confidence, and access they need to thrive in an increasingly visual and digital world.”

Watch how the Canva DepEd Region III Pilot is supporting teachers and learners in bringing creativity into everyday learning.

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Canva launches nationwide initiatives to boost digital transformation in Filipino education

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MANILA – As the new school term begins, teachers are managing heavy workloads and tight preparation timelines. A 2026 survey by Canva found that presentation creation is the most time-consuming back-to-school task for educators at 35%, followed by classroom visual preparation at 30% and lesson planning at 21%.

While teachers are increasingly embracing digital learning, connectivity remains a major hurdle. The survey found that poor internet access was the biggest barrier to digital adoption, cited by 40% of respondents, followed by hesitation around using new technologies. Yet the momentum is clear: 97% of teachers surveyed already use Canva, with more than half (56%) using it daily, and 63% expressing enthusiasm about integrating digital tools more deeply into their classrooms.

To help bridge this gap, Canva launched Canva Eskwela 2026, an initiative designed to equip educators with the tools, training, and confidence to bring more creativity, efficiency, and AI-powered learning into everyday teaching.

“Filipino educators are among the most dedicated in the world, yet they face real barriers, from connectivity challenges to time constraints, that limit what’s possible in the classroom,” said Ysa Delfin-Malinao, education marketing lead at Canva Philippines. “Canva Eskwela 2026 is our commitment to removing those barriers and ensuring every teacher has the tools to inspire the next generation of Filipino innovators and leaders.”

Smarter classrooms, smarter learners

This campaign aims to address key barriers to digital integration and deepen Canva’s role in classroom workflows. Through hands-on teacher training, student workshops, and experiential activations, the campaign highlights Canva as a tool that enables more efficient, engaging, and transformative learning experiences.

Features like Learn Grid, Canva’s all-in-one learning hub with curriculum-mapped resources and AI-generated activities, simplify the education experience not just for teachers, but also for students and parents collaborating on schoolwork. Canva Offline, on the other hand, removes connectivity barriers, making it possible for users to seamlessly continue their work even without internet access.

By streamlining resources, the platform makes daily instruction and classroom activities easier to manage with ready-to-use materials designed for all grade levels. With this approach, integrating digital tools enables learners to build the essential skills needed to thrive beyond the classroom.

These initiatives support the Department of Education’s (DepEd) mission to strengthen 21st-century skills among Filipino students. By easing administrative and preparation burdens, teachers can focus more on fostering critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration in the classroom.

Building beyond the classroom

Canva continues to strengthen its commitment to education in the Philippines through community-driven initiatives that support local learning needs. Through the Canva Foundation, the company partnered with impact organization HOPE to rebuild classrooms for typhoon-affected schools across the Philippines. A handover ceremony at Jose Zabarte Elementary School in Tuy, Batangas, marks the latest milestone, with the initiative expected to benefit up to 17,500 Filipino students over time.

For the thousands of students who’ll learn in these classrooms, and the teachers who’ll show up for them every day, this is more than a building. It’s a place where the next generation can discover what they’re capable of, and the ripple effects of that will travel further than anyone can see. Canva has always believed that building a successful company and doing genuine good in the world go hand in hand. That belief is at the heart of their Two-Step Plan: build one of the world’s most valuable companies, then use that success to drive real, lasting change.

Additional initiatives under the Canva Eskwela 2026 include device donations through Devices for Good, school supply distribution for 860 students through Learning Essentials, and training programs such as Career Spark Days and Skills Webinars for students and educators.

By combining digital tools, training and community support, Canva Philippines aims to help Filipinos thrive in a digitally empowered future while creating more accessible, engaging and future-ready learning experiences nationwide.

About Canva

Launched in 2013, Canva is the world’s leading all-in-one platform for visual communication and collaboration. Built to empower everyone to design, Canva serves the creative and design needs of enterprises, small businesses, consumers, and students in more than 190 countries worldwide. Whether you’re a novice taking your first steps in design, or a creative professional seeking powerful tools, Canva ensures users have what they need to transform an idea into something beautiful. Underpinned by the world’s most comprehensive library of designer-made content, Canva is powered by a suite of products and proprietary AI tools that elevate how individuals and teams create, collaborate, and communicate with ease.

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Canva AI 2.0: Reimagining how the world designs and works

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CANVA, the world’s leading visual communication platform, today announced its most significant evolution since launching in 2013 with the introduction of Canva AI 2.0, ushering in a new era of AI-powered creation as the company transforms itself into the system where work gets done. 

Just over a decade ago, Canva ushered in a new generation of design, transforming complex, expensive desktop software into a simple, powerful, and interoperable platform in the browser. It replaced intimidating blank pages with millions of templates, and manual, pixel-by-pixel editing with intuitive drag-and-drop creation, becoming one of the most widely used platforms in the world, with more than a quarter of a billion people now using Canva every month. Today’s announcement, unveiled at the company’s flagship Canva Create event in Los Angeles, marks the beginning of the next era of creation. 

Powered by Canva’s frontier AI lab and years of investment in foundation models for design, Canva AI 2.0 transforms Canva into a conversational, agentic platform where teams can go from idea to execution in one place. The result is a powerful creative partner across the entire process, from the spark of an idea to the final output.

A Powerful New Architecture Layer 

Canva AI 2.0 introduces a powerful new architecture layer that reimagines the entire design process, making it easier than ever to bring an idea to life. It marks Canva’s biggest shift since bringing design from complex desktop software into the browser. 

Here’s what’s new: 

  • Conversational Design brings ideas to life from natural language prompts or dictation. Creation is no longer limited to a blank page or the perfect template. Just describe an idea, goal, or rough structure, and Canva AI generates a fully editable design with structure, brand, and layout from the start. Unlike traditional AI tools that produce a single output and stop there, Canva AI 2.0 stays with you throughout the entire creative process. It maintains context as your ideas evolve, helping you brainstorm, refine, and iterate at every step.
  • Agentic Orchestration unlocks AI that finally works with you. Describe a goal, share a rough sketch, or provide a brief, and Canva AI brings it to life through a single conversation. Behind the scenes, a new orchestration layer brings together Canva’s full suite of tools to turn ideas into complete outcomes. It understands your intent, selects the right tools, and coordinates them to create everything you need, in every format. Ask it to “create a multi-channel campaign plan to launch our latest summer products,” and it will generate everything, ready to refine or publish. 
  • Object-Based Intelligence enables precise editing without starting over. Ask Canva AI to change something, and only that changes. Swap an image, adjust a headline, or refine a font without affecting anything else. Powered by Canva’s foundational Design Model, everything Canva AI 2.0 creates remains layered and fully editable, just as if it were built in the editor from scratch. Teams can jump in to collaborate, comment, and iterate as the work evolves. 
  • Living Memory gets smarter with you. With persistent memory, Canva AI understands how you work, keeping every project on brand, applying your style automatically, and evolving over time. It learns from your work and adapts to you and your team’s preferences and goals, becoming more helpful with every use. Personalise it with your existing designs to generate a custom memory library and an “About Me” profile that continuously tailors your experience. 

Intelligent New Workflows 

Canva AI 2.0 goes beyond design generation to become the system at the centre of how work gets done. From a quick design to a full campaign, it brings everything together in one place, unifying tools, workflows, and outputs to supercharge everyday work, making Canva the place where teams start and end their day. 

  • Connectors: Bring Your Work Together. Instead of being scattered across dozens of apps, Canva AI brings everything together, so you have everything you need to create. Connect tools like Slack, Gmail, Google Drive, and Calendar, and Canva AI can draw on your conversations, content, and schedule to create exactly what you need. Generate meeting summaries from Zoom transcripts, turn customer emails into personalised sales pitches, or create company newsletters based on activity across Slack. Initial connectors include Slack, Notion, Zoom, Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Calendar, with more to come.
  • Scheduling: Work On Autopilot. Set tasks once, and Canva AI runs them automatically in the background, even while you’re offline. Generate a full batch of social content every Friday, tailored for every channel and translated into the top ten languages spoken in the United States. Or have Canva AI scan your emails each morning and create briefing documents for your upcoming meetings based on your calendar. The work gets done in the background, ready when you log in, compressing hours of effort into seconds. 
  • Web Research: Insights, Built In. Web Research brings insights directly into your work. Run research on demand or schedule it in the background, and Canva AI gathers and structures information from across the web. From business proposals to market exploration, everything is delivered into your design as structured, editable content, ready to refine and share.
  • Brand Intelligence: On Brand By Default. Brand Intelligence ensures every design starts and remains on-brand. Just connect your data or describe what you need, and Canva AI automatically applies your fonts, colours, and style to every design. You can also instantly update existing work by asking Canva AI to apply your latest brand, turning hours of manual updates into a single step done in seconds. 
  • Canva Code 2.0: Now with HTML Importing. Describe any interactive idea and Canva AI builds a complete, responsive experience, structured, interactive, and designed to work across every device. Now with HTML importing, Canva unlocks one of the fastest-growing AI formats. Instead of regenerating code for every change, you can bring any HTML file or AI-generated experience into Canva and edit it with Canva’s visual editor, no rebuilds required. From there, everything happens in one place. Add forms that collect responses in Canva Sheets, drop interactive elements into presentations, or publish to your own domain with SSO protection.
  • Sheets AI: Smarter Spreadsheets Without the Hassle. Describe what you need and Canva AI 2.0 generates a fully structured, beautifully-designed sheet, populated with real data and research. From budget trackers to project timelines, content calendars to research tables, your sheet arrives structured, designed, and with all of the right data. 
  • Template Remix: An Infinite Library of Inspiration. Canva’s template library has always been vast, but now, it’s truly infinite. Canva AI 2.0 introduces an endless source of inspiration you can explore, remix, and make your own. Start with anything that catches your eye, then use Canva AI to shape it into exactly what you need. Every template becomes a starting point, not a limit.

A Rapidly Advancing Frontier AI Lab 

At the core of Canva AI 2.0 is Canva’s rapidly advancing frontier AI lab, where more than 100 researchers across Canva Original Research and Exploration (CORE) are building a new class of multimodal foundation models purpose-built for design. 

This investment has unlocked a major acceleration in Canva’s research velocity. The company’s first generation of models took over two years to develop. Today, new models are being trained, evaluated, and deployed in as little as a month, driven by advances in training infrastructure, model architectures, and closed-loop reinforcement learning systems.

Today, Canva’s research efforts span the full stack of visual AI, from image, video, and style transfer to structured design generation and evaluation. The company’s proprietary models are optimised not just for output quality, but for speed, editability, and real-world workflows. 

Canva’s models are up to 7x faster and 30x cheaper than comparable frontier alternatives: 

  • Canva Proteus, which enables Style Transfer, is 2x faster and 23x cheaper. 
  • Canva Lucid Origin, which enables image generation, is 5x faster and 30x cheaper. 
  • Canva I2V, which enables image to video, is 7x faster and 17x cheaper.

To support the scale of this work, Canva is building a vertically integrated AI stack, including self hosted training, large-scale reinforcement learning pipelines, and optimised inference infrastructure to bring this technology to its more than a quarter of a billion monthly active users. 

Expanding Across the AI Ecosystem

As part of today’s launch, Canva also announced it has deepened its collaboration with Anthropic, bringing the power of Canva’s Design Engine and Visual Suite directly into Claude. This marks the next chapter in a multi-year partnership between the two companies, and accelerates Canva’s broader strategy to embed its platform across every surface where ideas are generated. 

Users can now bring artifacts from leading AI platforms, including Claude and ChatGPT, directly into Canva. From there, they become instantly editable and collaborative using Canva’s simple drag-and drop editor, and can be published as fully functional websites in just a few clicks. 

As AI reshapes how content is created, leading platforms are integrating Canva to help users move from draft generations to fully editable, structured, and scalable work. This growing demand has propelled Canva to become the third most-used AI platform in the world, and the fastest-growing in customer spend on AI products among leading software companies, according to new research from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

Research Preview Launching April 16 

Starting April 16, Canva AI will launch as a research preview, rolling out to the first one million people who discover it on the Canva homepage. From there, access will expand progressively to more users over the coming weeks. 

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Canva and DepEd deepen partnership to support students After graduation

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MANILA – Graduating from senior high school marks a key transition for Filipino students as they prepare for university, employment, or entrepreneurship. To support this next step, Canva and the Department of Education (DepEd) have introduced the Canva Graduate Access Program, giving eligible Grade 12 graduates one year of continued access to Canva Pro.

The initiative enables students to keep using the AI-powered creative tools they relied on in school, from creating presentations to building portfolios, as they prepare for the next stage of their journey.

“Graduating from senior high school is an exciting moment when students begin carrying the creative and digital skills they’ve developed into university, careers, and entrepreneurship,” said Megan Townes, regional lead for Canva Education in Asia-Pacific and Japan. “At Canva, our goal is to ensure learners can continue building on these skills beyond the classroom by giving them the tools and confidence to keep creating, communicating, and pursuing opportunities in the path they choose.”

Eligible graduating Grade 12 students with an active Canva Education account will receive an official email from the DepEd Philippines team with a secure activation link. Once verified, they will receive a confirmation code that activates their one-year Canva Pro subscription.  The offer must be claimed between April 1, 2026, and July 1, 2026.

The Canva Graduate Access Program builds on the growing collaboration between Canva and DepEd to strengthen digital and creative skills among Filipino learners.

With an estimated 1.2M students graduating from senior high school this year, expanding access to digital tools remains an important part of preparing learners for future opportunities.

“Our goal is to ensure that Filipino learners are equipped not only with knowledge, but with the confidence and capabilities to pursue the opportunities ahead,” said Education Secretary Sonny Angara. “Partnerships like this help expand meaningful learning experiences that empower learners to shape their own paths after senior high school.”

The collaboration also includes initiatives such as Project AGAP – Artificial Intelligence (AI), which introduces students, teachers, and parents to the responsible use of AI in education. The program provides training on AI fundamentals and practical applications in research and content creation.

Another initiative, Project TAWID, focuses on helping learners translate digital skills into real-world opportunities. The program connects senior high school and Alternative Learning System learners with industry partners and provides access to AI-focused training, micro-credentials, and work immersion experiences.

As students move beyond the classroom and into new opportunities, the Canva Graduate Access Program allows them to continue using the tools they are already familiar with. Through this initiative, Canva and DepEd aim to support Filipino learners not only during their time in school, but also as they take their next steps toward higher education, careers, and entrepreneurship.

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Canva introduces Magic Layers
 turning static AI outputs into editable designs 

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NEW YORK – Canva, the world’s leading all-in-one visual communication platform, today unveiled Magic Layers, a new breakthrough technology that turns any flat design or image into something you can edit, refine, and remix to suit your vision.

Generative AI has triggered a flood of visual content, but most of it remains locked in static image files. Even small changes can require starting over, with reprompts that can unintentionally alter the entire design.



Powered by years of internal research and Canva’s growing investment in its AI development arm, Magic Layers ushers in a new era of editable content, where speed meets true creative control.

Available in public beta today, it turns AI-generated content into a launchpad, not a locked file, empowering creators to refine, reshape, and perfect every detail.

How it works


Magic Layers bridges the gap between AI-generated content and true creative control by turning flat images into structured, editable layers inside the Canva editor. Fixed files are unlocked, becoming brand-ready and scalable design assets. Whether starting with a new idea or an existing design, Magic Layers brings a new level of flexibility to AI-powered content creation: 

  • Upload your image, and Canva does the rest:
    • Elements are intelligently separated into individual, movable objects  
    • Layout relationships are preserved automatically
    • Text remains live and fully editable  
    • Outputs can be refined and iterated without starting over each time

  • Generate a fully editable design with Canva AI: 
    • Go from prompt to refining in the Canva Editor in moments 
    • Create visually-rich and on-brand presentations, docs, social posts and more
    • Then, move elements, swap backgrounds, or change fonts, all inside Canva

Magic Layers supports single-page .png and .jpg files in beta, with expanded capabilities in development.

For marketing teams refreshing campaigns, small businesses updating product messaging, and creators remixing ideas, what was once a barrier is now a starting point. 

“There’s been an explosion of AI-generated content that has, until now, been a dead end. You’d get a finished image you couldn’t edit, refine, or make your own. We think AI should spark creation, not stop it,” said Cameron Adams, co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Canva. “After a breakthrough from our AI research team, we’re introducing Magic Layers so anyone can take a flat image and turn it into a fully editable design inside Canva. There’s no need to start over, or to figure out the right prompt. Generation is just the beginning – real creative freedom comes from being able to edit without losing momentum.”

The technology behind Magic Layers

When an image is exported, flattened, or generated by AI, its structure collapses.  Text becomes pixels, individual objects merge together, and the design logic that once held everything in place disappears. Until now, editing that image meant starting over.



While traditional vector tools can trace shapes by converting pixel regions into outlines, they can’t understand what those shapes represent. They can’t distinguish a headline from a background, or identify which elements belong together. Magic Layers was built to solve that problem.

Instead of simply tracing an image, Magic Layers interprets the design as a whole. It analyzes structure, identifies relationships between elements, restores text as live boxes, and separates components while preserving the original layout. The result is a fully editable design – not just traced shapes, but a set of elements that preserve the intent behind the original creation. 

Canva’s foundational AI layer


Magic Layers is a new capability of the Canva Design Model, the company’s proprietary foundation model, and the first to generate designs that are editable from the start. Since launching in October, the Canva Design Model has generated hundreds of millions of editable presentations, documents, and social posts while also powering Canva’s integrations with ChatGPT, Claude, and Microsoft Copilot.



Magic Layers begins rolling out today in public beta in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia, with global availability to follow. Learn more at www.canva.com/magic-layers. 

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Canva announces dual acquisitions to accelerate AI 
and professional design roadmap

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CANVA, the global visual communication platform, announced the acquisitions of MangoAI and Cavalry, two companies that further advance Canva’s long-term product roadmap by bolstering its AI and professional creative suite.

These acquisitions mark Canva’s fourth and fifth in the past two years, following Affinity (2024), Leonardo (2024), and MagicBrief (2025), as the company doubles down on building the world’s most comprehensive suite of visual communication tools. By bringing Cavalry and MangoAI into its unified design platform, Canva is accelerating its investment in the technologies and talent shaping the future of creativity.

Today, more than 265 million people use Canva, including teams at over 95% of the Fortune 500. Canva’s AI products have now been used more than 24 billion times, and in 2025 alone, more than 50 million new users joined the platform as visual communication becomes increasingly central to how teams work. The company also announced it closed 2025 with more than $4 billion in annualized revenue (up 36% year-over-year), more than 31 million paid seats, and strong free cash flow for the ninth consecutive year.

We’ve always believed creative tools should be accessible to everyone, and we’re seeing that reflected in how the design community is responding. Affinity has already surpassed five million downloads in just a few months. Now, with Cavalry joining Canva, we’re taking another big step toward helping professional designers break free from bloated and expensive tools, bringing everything from vector to motion design into one powerful creative suite.With the acquisition of MangoAI, we’re also doubling down on building powerful new products for marketing and creative teams. Building on MagicBrief, MangoAI’s algorithms and learning loops will power the next generation of our AI-driven marketing products, laying the foundations for a new era where performance data continuously improves and adapts creative in real time. Cliff Obrecht, co-founder and COO, Canva

Cavalry: Bolstering Canva’s professional creative suite


With the acquisition of Cavalry, the UK-based 2D animation platform trusted by top motion designers, Canva is advancing its push into professional-grade creative tools. This builds on the strong momentum and demand for Affinity, which has surpassed more than five million downloads since launching in October.

Created by animators, for animators, Cavalry makes 2D animation smarter, easier, and faster to produce. Joining Affinity’s comprehensive tools for photo, vector, and layout editing, the acquisition significantly expands Canva’s professional design suite into a fully interoperable solution for creatives. This removes the final barrier for creatives working across separate, expensive, and fragmented tools. 

“We built Cavalry to give motion designers a faster, more flexible creative playground suitable for the demands of modern production. Canva’s platform and long-term vision make it a natural next chapter for our technology. Together, we have an incredible opportunity to redefine motion design, bringing smarter workflows that make animation more powerful and far more accessible to a new generation of creatives,” said Chris Hardcastle, co-founder of Cavalry.

Trusted by companies including Amazon, Meta, Google, and Netflix, Cavalry already powers some of the world’s leading creative and technology companies. Their team brings deep domain expertise in motion and animation. Cavalry founders Chris Hardcastle, Ian Waters, and Adam Jenns will join Canva to help shape the future of the company’s professional creative offering.

The acquisition of Cavalry marks Canva’s seventh Europe-based acquisition, joining Affinity (2024), Flourish (2022), Kaleido (2021), Smartmockups (2021), Pexels (2019) and Pixabay (2019). 

MangoAI: Accelerating Canva AI with advanced data intelligence 


Canva has also acquired MangoAI, an early-stage US startup specialising in AI-powered creative optimization for video advertising. With more than 24 billion uses of Canva’s AI tools to date, the acquisition lays important foundations for brand-intelligent, personalised marketing and content creation workflows. 

MangoAI have built proprietary algorithms and a closed-loop reinforcement learning system for generating and launching effective video ads. Using ad platform reward signals, it automatically improves content, increasing performance and effectiveness while reducing the time and spend it takes to find what works. The acquisition builds on the creative intelligence capabilities added to Canva through the acquisition of MagicBrief last year, and will strengthen Canva Grow, the company’s suite of marketing intelligence tools.

“Canva has built one of the world’s most impactful creative platforms. I’m excited to join the team and help shape how data, algorithms, and AI power personalised experiences across the product – supporting everyone from first-time creators to the most advanced teams,” added Nirmal Govind, co-founder of MangoAI.

As part of the acquisition, MangoAI co-founder Nirmal Govind joins Canva as its first chief algorithms officer, a newly created role reflecting Canva’s deepening investment across AI research, personalisation, and in-house model development.

Formerly vice president of data science & engineering at Netflix, Nirmal brings over two decades of experience building large-scale machine learning and AI systems. He’ll lead personalization and algorithmic experiences across Canva, working closely with Canva’s AI Lab to build the future of Visual AI. Co-founder Vinith Misra, formerly a machine learning scientist and leader at Roblox and Netflix, will also join Canva in the role of reinforcement learning lead within Canva’s Research Lab.

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Valentine’s Day is expanding, and so is how people celebrate love

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ONCE A moment reserved largely for romantic gestures, Valentine’s Day has gradually made room for something more expansive. Alongside partners and spouses, people are using the day to celebrate friendships, chosen family, and the relationships that shape everyday life.

As February 14 approaches, that shift is increasingly visible in how people create. Over the past year, millions have turned to Canva to design cards, invitations, and social posts that express love in many forms. Together, these creative choices offer a window into how people are using design to celebrate meaningful relationships of all kinds.

Valentine’s Day is bigger than ever 🌹 

For all the ways the holiday has expanded, romantic Valentine’s traditions remain at the heart (pun intended). The enthusiasm showed up clearly on Canva over the past year, with global searches for “Valentine’s Day” and “Valentines” exceeding 412 million, highlighting the scale of love-centered creativity across cards, social posts, invitations, and more. Interest in the holiday overall also continued to grow, with Valentine’s Day searches up 31% compared to 2024.

This growth reflects how people are choosing to engage with the moment: using creativity to make familiar Valentine’s rituals feel more personal and intentional.

Friendship takes the spotlight with ‘Galentine’s Day’ 💕

Alongside romantic traditions, Valentine’s season is increasingly becoming a moment to celebrate friendship. What started as a lighthearted alternative has grown into a meaningful way for people to recognize the friends and chosen family in their corner.

Increasingly, Galentine’s Day is becoming a fully realized creative moment – turning friendship celebrations into thoughtfully themed gatherings shaped by shared aesthetics. This shift is seen in how our community is creating on Canva with global searches for “Galentine’s Day” and “Galentines” exceeding 8.6 million in 2025, with interest surging 207% compared to the year before. 

A more inclusive celebration of connection 🫶

At its core, the evolution of Valentine’s Day reflects a broader cultural shift in how people think about relationships. Friendship, chosen family, and increasingly, even the people we work alongside every day, are now being recognized as equally meaningful parts of modern life.

In an era where attention is scarce, cultural moments that invite true participation matter more. The growth of both Valentine’s and Galentine’s creation points to a change in behavior rather than a fleeting trend, as people use established moments like February 14 to acknowledge a wider circle and recognize shared connection.

What was once reserved for full-time creators – designing cards, social posts, and shareable visuals – is now part of how everyday moments are marked. As creative tools become more accessible, people are using design to express ideas quickly and clearly.

Looking ahead, this shift is likely to shape how both Valentine’s Day and other cultural moments continue to evolve beyond 2026, as more people use them to celebrate broader relationships and shared experiences.
Explore ideas for every kind of connection, and get ready to celebrate the people who matter most.

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Canva brings on-brand designs directly into AI assistants

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SAN FRANCISCO – The future of work is being rewritten by AI, with professionals accomplishing in minutes what used to take hours. But there’s been one persistent breaking point in AI assistants: generic visual outputs and off-brand colors that undermine AI speed with tedious manual cleanup. 

Today, that friction ends as Canva brings brand intelligence directly into the AI tools where modern-day work happens most. Starting now, ChatGPT users can create designs completely tied to their Canva Brand Kit, making a company’s brand come to life visually and function as a living participant in AI workflows.



This expansion marks the coming together of Canva and ChatGPT, two category-defining platforms, in a new way to make on-brand design more accessible and fluid. From client-ready pitch decks to social posts and professional-looking posters, the partnership continues to fuel Canva’s mission to empower everyone to design with ease. 

Empowering everyone to create at speed, with brand integrity 

Canva is rapidly becoming the foundation for AI-powered design. Today’s update to the Canva app in ChatGPT, following last week’s debut in Anthropic’s Claude, reinforces Canva’s growing ubiquity and impact as the visual layer of the AI ecosystem. 



Already consistently ranked in the top ten sites receiving the most referrals from AI assistants according to Similarweb, Canva brings essential visual capabilities powered by its own design model into leading LLMs. Canva acts as each platform’s design brain, keenly understanding a brand’s unique fonts, colors, and logos in new and inventive ways, serving as a critical piece of the AI productivity revolution. 

In just the last year, Canva has pioneered the Canva Design Model for editable design outputs, Canva AI, an all-in-one design copilot, and the Canva MCP Server, which has already created over 12 million designs in ChatGPT, Claude, and Microsoft Copilot.  

“The soul of a brand is visual identity, yet it has been the missing puzzle piece in how AI creates,” said Anwar Haneef, GM and head of ecosystem at Canva.  “Today, we’re bridging that gap by bringing our design expertise to the daily tools used by millions. Whether you are in ChatGPT or Claude, Canva acts as the connective tissue that quickly turns a text conversation into beautiful brand-aligned visuals. This marks a significant leap in how LLMs and design models can bring creativity and productivity closer than ever.”

The big picture: AI workflows that actually complete the job

2026 marks a turning point in which teams move beyond isolated AI conversations to highly intuitive workflows with a clear understanding of context, enabling consistency and finished work at speed. This represents a fundamental shift from static brand guidelines buried in forgotten PDFs to an interactive resource that lives across the tools people use every day. 

“We believe an agent’s personal brand is their X-Factor; it’s the superpower that builds trust before they even enter the room,” says eXp realty chief marketing officer, Wendy Forsythe. “This integration is a game-changer because it allows agents to scale that superpower without diluting it. By accessing Canva Brand Kits within ChatGPT, our agents can move from a text prompt to a fully branded visual in seconds. Ultimately, this frees our agents to spend less time formatting and more time connecting, ensuring their X-Factor shines through in every digital interaction.”

How it works: your brand, instantly accessible in AI

Once you’ve set up your Brand Kit in Canva, you can access new features, including: 

  • Brand-Native Creation: Describe what you need in plain language, and ChatGPT and Claude will generate designs that use your brand’s colors, fonts, layout,s and logos. 
  • Guided Presentation Builder: Nail your story structure first, collaborate with the AI assistant, then watch it come to life in your brand’s style with polish and precision.
  • Live Design Preview: Interact with and refine your designs right inside ChatGPT through the Canva app, seamlessly connecting AI conversation and visual creation.

The Canva AI connector is available to ChatGPT users starting today. Connect your accounts at canva.com/ai to bring your brand into the future of AI work.

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AI-assisted coding gains momentum, but oversight remains critical

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MANILA — Canva, the all-in-one visual communication platform, today released new insights from 300 technology decision makers across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, revealing that while AI-assisted coding is gaining significant momentum, technology leaders are equally aligned on the importance of pairing AI with human oversight — ensuring code is rigorously reviewed and quality-controlled before reaching production.

The top global findings include:

  • AI adoption is nearly universal. Ninety-two percent report using AI-assisted coding tools, with 78% of developers relying on them every day. Adoption is set to accelerate further, as two-thirds (66%) expect their organization’s use of AI coding to increase significantly over the next 12 months, with productivity gains cited by 64% as the primary driver.

  • Thoughtful use required. AI is emerging as a powerful catalyst in enterprise software engineering. Rapid prototyping, exploration of new ideas, and generating first drafts of code are proving especially valuable, helping teams move faster, innovate more freely, and reduce the cost of iteration. At the same time, tech leaders emphasize the need for thoughtful use: 95% flagged potential risks when deploying AI-generated code without sufficient review, pointing to the need for guardrails around maintainability, security, and quality.

  • Human-in-the-loop is critical. To maintain code quality, 93% say AI-generated code is always or often reviewed before merging. This robust peer review culture highlights that while AI can generate code in seconds, human judgment remains the essential gatekeeper to production. Governance structures reinforce this oversight, with more than half (58%) placing responsibility at the CTO and CIO level.

  • The developer skill profile is evolving. Nearly all (94%) believe AI tools are transforming developer skillsets, with 95% comfortable with them being used in technical interviews. Yet this enthusiasm is tempered by caution: one in three (30%) cite over-reliance on AI without developer accountability as their top concern, while one in five (21%) worry that junior engineers may see their development stunted. These concerns highlight the importance of training that ensures developers not only adopt AI tools but also use them with discernment and accountability.

“AI in engineering is a real disruptive change that can’t be ignored,” said Brendan Humphreys, CTO, Canva. “When paired with human judgment and expertise, it unlocks significant benefits — from rapid prototyping to faster development cycles and greater productivity. The engineers who will thrive in this new era are adopting AI to enhance their thinking and output, not replace it. They’re bringing creativity, critical thinking, and a deep sense of ownership. That’s how organizations will move fast, innovate, and build responsibly.”These findings underscore Canva’s position that AI should amplify, not replace, human ability. The greatest value emerges when AI tools are paired with human judgment, imagination, and expertise.  For insight into Canva’s stance on the use of AI-coding tools during technical interviews, read this blog here.

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