All-in-one visual communication platform company Canva has partnered with Warner Music Group and Merlin to allow Canva customers to use music clips from some of the world’s biggest artists in their designs.
With these partnerships, Canva will be the first visual communication platform to add commercially released music clips at the point of creation. In the coming months, songs from Warner Music Group (including Warner Recorded Music and Warner Chappell Music) and Merlin will be available for Canva Pro, Canva for Education, and Canva for Nonprofit customers to add music clips to their designs, with small teams using Canva for Teams to follow.
“Music is such a fundamental expression of creativity, and offers an inspirational starting point for many. We are thrilled to welcome Warner Music Group and Merlin to the Canva content ecosystem, and can’t wait to see what millions of music fans, content creators, educators and beyond design using content from their favourite artists,” Canva head of content, discovery and print Silvia Oviedo said.
By making today’s music clips available in the Canva editor, users can instantly resize their design for any channel, and export it directly to social platforms, content management tools, collaboration software and more.
Canva is home to a community of 135 million people globally, who create an average of 250 designs every second. Labels and artists now have an opportunity to get their music in front of millions of engaged creators in the US, Europe, Brazil, Canada, and Australia and will earn royalties when clips of their songs are used in published Canva designs.
In addition to using the popular songs trending across social platforms in videos or carousels for social media, Canva customers can also add clips of their favourite tracks to presentations, internal training videos, educational videos, and more.
On-trend templates and the drag-and-drop editor make it simple to create professional-looking designs, and take them to the next level with animations, graphics, audio tracks, filters, and special effects. Canva also recently launched Beat Sync, a tool in the Canva editor that helps users match their video footage to the beat of their selected soundtrack.
Content creation for social media on Canva has grown exponentially in recent years, as video-based social platforms drive the growth of the emerging visual economy. Online video usage represents more than 80 per cent of global internet traffic (according to Cisco), and exports of Canva designs using TikTok templates has more than tripled in the last year. The number of videos created on Canva has grown by 70 per cent in the last 12 months, and an increasing number of searches are for specific audio tracks.
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