Work Kits
7 minutes
By Canva Team
5 ways to create cut-through content at scale
PR
Marketing
Standing out is paramount when it comes to your campaigns.
But balancing competing priorities of maintaining brand consistency, producing huge amounts of content, and cutting through with your audience can be tricky.
Luckily, Canva is here to help you build a supercharged content creation machine.
Here are five ways to do it in Canva:
Part 1
Keep it consistent with Brand Kits
We know how important it is to stay on brand across every marketing touchpoint. And we know the struggle involved in keeping track of your logos, color palettes, fonts, photos, and assets.
That’s why we built Brand Kits, a centralized home for every brand’s assets and visual identity guidelines.
Set your Brand Kit up with every asset you need, from colors and logos to photos and fonts, and you’ll have it all at your team’s fingertips when it comes time to create on-brand content.
Forget hunting down hex codes, searching through email attachments and long-forgotten folders. With Brand Kit you can drive brand consistency and increase productivity while saving valuable time and effort.
Part 2
Save time with Resize & Magic Switch
There’s nothing more tedious than creating multiple slightly different versions of the same creative to fill out a campaign asset sheet.
Well, Resize & Magic Switch is here to save the day. With this feature, you can take one piece of creative, and reformat it into any size you like in just a few clicks.
This feature is a massive help when it comes to navigating the huge variety of digital platforms and print outputs, all with their own creative spec requirements. Preset and custom resize options make it a breeze to adapt your creative to any format.
Plus, you can use Resize & Magic Switch to automatically translate your design’s copy into just about any language instantly. Ideal for international campaigns.
You can even use this feature to transform your Whiteboard brainstorms into action plans, or make your Canva Docs into websites in a snap.
Part 3
Bulk Create for varied collateral
Imagine you have a few hundred nearly-identical assets to create. Say, personalized invitations to a client’s big event.
With the Bulk Create app, you can forget tedious manual data entry and automatically create a huge set of assets with the names and details – even photos – of your event already in place.
This feature is similar to Resize & Magic Switch, but more suited to collateral like business cards and invitations.
By connecting elements in your designs with data and image sets, Bulk Create lets you make a massive set of content with different information in individual designs.
You can import whole spreadsheets, type in the key data yourself, and connect your elements to images, then once you’ve assigned a destination for them, watch it roll out en masse.
Part 4
Automatically replace logos and images
We all love a brand refresh, but no one loves manually updating the company logo and stock images in key assets.
So it’s a good thing you can do it all automatically in Canva. You’ll save hours of time, and thousands of clicks.
When it comes time to make those changes, all you’ll need to do is locate the original logo or image in your Project or Brand space, hit Replace across designs, and pick the replacement asset you want to roll out.
Talk about a time-saver.
Part 5
Magic Studio saves the day
Speaking of time-savers, we’d be crazy not to mention the AI-powered tools in our Magic Studio. Whether you need to do some creative ideation, fast image edits, or get a headstart on your first draft, Magic Studio is here to help.
On the ideation front, our Magic Media app will generate images and videos with a prompt, while the Magic Write feature will get you a first draft fast when writer’s block hits.
Or if you have an image that’s not quite right, you can use Magic Erase to clean things up, Magic Edit to transform objects and colors, Magic Expand to blow an image past its boundaries, or Magic Grab to move things around in your picture.
Then, of course, trusty Background Remover is here to strip the background from any video or image.
And that’s not even mentioning the dozens of third-party AI-powered apps in our Marketplace, including apps that allow you to generate images, videos, talking-head avatars and original voice-overs.
When it comes to creating cut-through content at massive scale and epic speed, we hope these tips make your day just a little bit easier.
Marketing Work Kit