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Sure, Canva is cool...
just not for your business.

Canva is great for design, but when it comes to scaling content and giving your team access to a tool that doesn’t bite you in the... well, we get it.

You need a platform that optimizes for brand consistency and makes content creation simpler. We got you.

Thousands of businesses  trust Marq with their brands.

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Yeah, we said it.

Manage your brand, don’t chase it down.

Choosing the right brand management platform for your business can feel overwhelming- that's why we broke it down for you, highlighting what sets us apart from Canva.

Choose which elements of your brand to
lock down

Teams can easily self-serve their own content requests without going off-brand

Team members only see the branded templates they have access to

You can require approval for specific content pieces or team members

You no longer see off-brand content in the wild (No more Frankenstein designs!)

With marq
With canva

Brand locking is all or nothing, and can lack flexibility to teams that need it

Creating content from scratch is easy, but can easily lead to off-brand content

Teams have access to all branded templates, not just the ones assigned to their team

You can require approval for content pieces, but not specific team members

You end up babysitting your brand instead of strategically managing it

Protect your brand in ways Canva can’t.

BRAND CONTROLS

Brand locking flexibility you’ll absolutely co-sign.

Stop babysitting Canva created content. A powerful design tool in the hands of a
non-designer can wreak havoc on your brand. With Marq’s granular locking permissions, you can give users as much or as little control as you want.

Canva’s Way:
Lock everything or nothing (and no in-between).

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TEMPLATE ORGANIZATION

Give the right content to the right people.

Share your brand-approved templates with the teams that need them, streamlining content creation and approvals across your business.
Canva’s Way:
No dedicated view for brand-approved templates. Everyone sees everything.

CREATIVE AUTOMATION

Why create when you can automate?

With Marq, team’s can not only personalize brand-approved designs, they can do it faster with data automation, populating names, addresses, pricing, and more.
Canva’s Way:
Pay for multiple platforms and integrate them with Canva.
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HOW MARQ WORKS

01

Design Anywhere

Import designs from your favorite design platforms or create directly in the Marq editor.

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02

Templatize Anything

Turn your designs into templates by locking critical elements like logos, fonts, and colors.

03

Personalize Everything

Share your branded templates across teams so they can customize for their audience.

04

Share Everywhere

Immediately publish your content to social channels, send to print, or embed to email.

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Marq vs Canva

Curious how Marq compares to Canva? Let’s stack them side by side and find out.

Platform
Features

Canva 
Pro

Canva for
Enterprise

Marq for Enterprise

Brand Locking

Ability to lock critical brand elements within templates at varying degrees

Lock elements in place

Lock pages

Lock font weight, size, and style

Lock template settings

Lock elements in place

Lock pages

Lock font weight, size, and style

Lock template settings

Lock elements in place

Lock pages

Lock font weight, size, and style

Lock template settings

Automation

Integrate with any data source to make populating data in your designs as easy as one click

Native MLS integration

XML, .CSV, and Google Sheet integration

Custom template personalization fields

Native MLS integration

XML, .CSV, and Google Sheet integration

Custom template personalization fields

Native MLS integration

XML, .CSV, and Google Sheet integration

Custom template personalization fields

Template Management

Organize templates by team and implement design requests to best match your workflows

Centralized template location

Show/hide content by team

Require design approval

Organize with custom filters

Centralized template location

Show/hide content by team

Require design approval

Organize with custom filters

Centralized template location

Show/hide content by team

Require design approval

Organize with custom filters

Analytics

See which individuals and teams are using your templates so you can build more of what works

Template views

Template collaborators

Most popular templates

Templates that need a refresh

Template views

Template collaborators

Most popular templates

Templates that need a refresh

Template views

Template collaborators

Most popular templates

Templates that need a refresh

Why hundreds of the fastest-growing
 brands love using Marq

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Protect your brand

“Our creative team exists to present Yext in a consistent, buttoned-up way. Marq helps us do that by giving our reps the freedom to personalize their own assets while still adhering to our brand guidelines.”

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Alex Felsenstein
Creative Director
Yext
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Grow your brand

Marq allows us to design marketing materials, lock down the brand, then share them with franchisees to update for their community. It helps our team get more on-brand content out the door.

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Mike Abramson
President
D1 Training
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Save valuable time

“Marq introduced the concept of self-serve design requests to our business. For the very first time, not everything has to go through our design team.”

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Bill McCandless
Head of Content House
Kyndryl

See what Marq can do for your business.