News Signals API Use cases

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      "title": "Digital products to sell online: 10 ideas that pay off",
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      "ai_summary": "Creators can produce and sell various digital products like templates, online courses, and printable planners, leveraging a model where they create once and sell indefinitely. This business model minimizes ongoing costs and allows for potential recurring income through platforms like Etsy and online course websites. Notable product categories include e-books, stock media, and design templates, each appealing to specific market segments. ",
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      "full_text": "Future of Work 10 digital products you can create once and sell forever These digital products to sell online let creators build once and collect income for years, from templates and courses to presets and stock media\n\n1 / 12 List slides 10 digital products you can create once and sell forever List slides Previous Start over By · Updated August 14, 2026 Add QZ to Google Credit: https://kaboompics.com/ / Pexels A digital product only has to be built once. It can then be sold to the 10th customer as easily as the first, which is what separates it from almost every other way of making money online. Digital products to sell online — files, templates, courses and other work that lives entirely on a screen — do not require inventory, shipping or a factory floor. Once a file is finished and uploaded to a marketplace or a personal store, it can be downloaded again and again. That can happen a hundred times or a hundred thousand times without the creator repeating the original work. That does not mean these products build themselves, or that they never need attention after launch. A course still needs updated slides when the software it teaches changes. A font still needs new weight variations if a foundry wants it to compete with established libraries. What changes is the relationship between effort and income. The bulk of the work happens up front. Every sale after the first one is close to pure profit, since the marginal cost of another download is close to zero. This list focuses on 10 categories that people are actually building and selling right now, not abstract ideas. Some, like e-books and online courses, require real subject-matter expertise and a fair amount of time to produce well. Others, like Lightroom presets or Canva templates, can be built from skills many people already have, using software many already own. What they share is a business model: create the file once, then distribute it indefinitely. A marketplace, a personal website or a simple checkout page can handle the transaction from there. None of these require a large existing audience to start. A handful of Etsy sales, a small course cohort or a modest download count on a stock media platform can validate an idea early. That validation can happen before a creator invests significant additional time. The rest of this guide walks through 10 specific product types and the platforms where each one is typically sold. It also covers what makes each one realistic to build without any prior experience running a business. Notion templates for productivity and small business systems Credit: appshunter.io / Unsplash Notion templates are pre-built pages inside the workspace app Notion, sold as a shareable link that a buyer duplicates into their own account. They range from simple habit trackers to full small-business operating systems. The appeal for a creator is structural. Notion lets anyone build a page using its own free interface. That page can then be published as a template through Notion's own template gallery, a personal storefront, or third-party marketplaces such as Gumroad. There is no software to code and no file format to manage beyond a link. A buyer clicks it, hits duplicate, and the entire structure — databases, linked pages, formulas and formatting — copies into their own account in seconds. Demand tends to cluster around a few categories. Freelancers and small agencies buy client management systems that track projects, invoices and deadlines in one place. Students and job seekers buy study planners and application trackers. Content creators buy editorial calendars that link scripts, deadlines and publishing status together. Small business owners buy inventory and order-tracking systems that replace a messy spreadsheet. The common thread is that Notion already has the audience, and a template saves a buyer the hours it would take to design that structure from scratch. Building one requires no special software beyond a free Notion account and a clear sense of a real workflow problem. The more valuable templates tend to solve a specific, named problem — a wedding planning system, a freelance tax tracker, a semester course planner. A generic \"productivity system\" with no particular user in mind tends to sell less well. Pricing on most platforms sits well under $50, since the product is a single license to duplicate a structure rather than ongoing software access. The main maintenance a template needs is occasional updates when Notion changes its own features. A template built on an older database format can look dated or even break in minor ways. Beyond that, a finished template can be sold indefinitely without the creator rebuilding it for each buyer, which is the core appeal of the format. Self-paced online courses sold through Teachable or Thinkific Credit: Kelly Huang / Unsplash A self-paced online course is a set of pre-recorded video lessons sold through a hosting platform such as Teachable, Thinkific or Kajabi. Students learn on their own schedule without live instruction from the creator. The format works because the platform, not the creator, handles the repetitive parts of running a school. Video hosting, student logins, payment processing and progress tracking are built into the software, so a creator's job is limited to recording the lessons once and organizing them into modules. After that, enrollment can happen at any hour without the creator present. That is different from a live cohort course or a coaching call, where the creator's time is tied to every student. The subjects that tend to sell well share a pattern: a skill with a clear before-and-after, taught by someone who can demonstrate it rather than only describe it. Software tutorials, creative skills like photography or illustration, language learning, and professional certifications for fields such as project management all fit this pattern. A course on a broad topic like \"productivity\" tends to compete with too much free content already on YouTube. A narrow course such as \"batch editing wedding photos in Lightroom\" competes with almost nothing. Production quality matters less than structure. Screen recordings made with free software such as OBS Studio can work well, paired with a clear outline of what each module teaches. A short assignment or checklist at the end of each section tends to perform better than expensively produced video built around a vague curriculum. Students buying a self-paced course are paying for a result and a clear path to it, not cinematography. The ongoing work after launch is real but limited. A creator might answer questions in a course community, update a lesson when the underlying software changes, or refresh an outdated screenshot. None of that requires the course to be rebuilt from scratch. Platforms typically take a percentage of each sale or charge a flat monthly hosting fee, which is the tradeoff for not building payment and hosting infrastructure independently. E-books on a narrow, specific topic Credit: @felirbe / Unsplash An e-book sold on a narrow, specific topic tends to outperform a broad one. A reader searching for an exact answer will pay for a short, focused text faster than a long general one. Self-published e-books can be distributed through Amazon $AMZN Kindle Direct Publishing, Gumroad, or a creator's own website, with formats ranging from a simple PDF to a formatted e-reader file. Unlike a course, an e-book requires no video equipment or recording software, only writing and, ideally, a round of editing. That lower production barrier is also why the category is crowded, which is why specificity matters more here than in almost any other digital product on this list. The topics that succeed commercially tend to solve a defined problem for a defined reader. Examples include a meal-prep guide for a specific diet, a grammar guide for a specific language pair, or a legal and tax explainer for a specific profession. Another common example is a guide focused on one specific software feature. A 15,000-word book that answers one question thoroughly generally sells better than a 60,000-word book covering a subject broadly. The buyer already knows what they want before they click purchase. Formatting affects perceived value more than length does. A plain document with inconsistent fonts and no table of contents reads as unfinished, even when the writing itself is strong. A clean layout with a table of contents, consistent headers and a simple cover signals that the content was made with care. Tools such as Canva, Vellum or even a well-formatted Google $GOOGL Doc exported to PDF can produce a professional result without any design software experience. Pricing for a niche e-book commonly falls between $5 and $25, depending on how specific and how immediately useful the content is to the buyer. Once written, edited and formatted, the file requires no further work to sell again. The main exception is occasional updates, needed if the underlying facts, laws or software the book describes change over time. Printable planners and worksheets sold on Etsy Credit: Kendra Wesley / Unsplash Printable planners and worksheets are digital files, usually PDFs, that a buyer downloads and prints at home. They remain one of the best-selling digital product categories on Etsy. The format sits between a physical product and a pure digital one. The buyer receives a file rather than a shipped item, so the seller avoids packaging and postage. The finished product still gets used on paper, though, which appeals to a specific kind of shopper who wants a printed planner without the cost of a commercially bound one. Categories that consistently find buyers include budget trackers, meal planners, and wedding planning packets. Chore charts for children and habit trackers built around a specific goal, such as training for a first five-kilometer race, also sell steadily. Design tools have lowered the barrier to entry sharply. Canva's grid and template system lets a creator lay out a multi-page planner without any graphic design training. Etsy's own seller tools handle the checkout and automatic file delivery once a design is uploaded. This means a single creator can list dozens of printable designs without needing separate software for each one, since the design and sales infrastructure are already built by the platforms. Differentiation in a crowded printable market usually comes from specificity and cohesive design, not novelty of concept. A generic weekly planner competes against thousands of similar listings. A planner built for a specific audience, such as freelance photographers tracking client shoots, or families managing a child's individualized education plan, faces far less direct competition. Bundling several related printables into one listing, such as a full set of budgeting worksheets sold together, also tends to raise the average order value. That bundling requires little additional design work beyond what a single sheet would take. Because the file is delivered automatically after purchase, a printable requires essentially no ongoing labor once it is designed. The main exception is occasional updates to keep the layout current with seasonal trends, or to add sizing for buyers who prefer to fill planners out digitally on a tablet. Stock photos and video clips licensed for commercial use Credit: Alexander Wang / Unsplash Stock photos and video clips are licensed images and footage sold through platforms such as Adobe $ADBE Stock, Shutterstock and Pond5. A single file can be licensed to hundreds of different buyers over time. Unlike most items on this list, stock media does not require teaching a skill or solving a workflow problem. It requires producing footage or images that businesses, marketers and publishers need regularly and would rather license than shoot themselves. Common subjects that stay in steady demand include office and workplace scenes, food close-ups, nature and landscape footage, and diverse groups of people in everyday settings. These cover the widest range of commercial uses in advertising and editorial content. Technical quality matters more here than in almost any other category on this list, since stock platforms reject submissions that fail basic standards for sharpness, lighting and file resolution. A modern smartphone camera can meet these standards for many subjects. Platforms increasingly favor 4K video and high-resolution raw photo files, though, for maximum licensing flexibility across print, web and broadcast use. Income in stock media is built on volume rather than a small number of high-value sales. A single photo might earn a modest royalty each time it is licensed. Successful contributors typically upload libraries in the hundreds or thousands of files across a range of subjects, rather than relying on a handful of images to generate meaningful income. Metadata — the keywords and descriptions attached to each file — affects how often a file appears in a buyer's search. That makes accurate, thorough tagging as important as the image itself. Model releases and property releases are required whenever a recognizable person or private property appears in a submission. Platforms will reject or later remove files that lack proper legal clearance. Once a file is approved and live on a platform, it continues generating royalties from new licenses without any further action from the creator. The main ongoing task is periodically refreshing an aging library with newer footage that reflects current fashion, technology and design trends. WordPress and Shopify themes built for a specific niche Credit: Balázs Kétyi / Unsplash WordPress and Shopify $SHOP themes are pre-built website designs that a buyer installs on their own site, giving a business a professional layout without hiring a web designer from scratch. Marketplaces such as ThemeForest, along with the official WordPress and Shopify theme stores, handle distribution, licensing and often customer support tiers. That infrastructure lets a single designer sell the same theme to thousands of different website owners. A theme built for WordPress typically needs to work with the block editor and common plugins for forms, e-commerce and search engine optimization. A Shopify theme instead needs to integrate with that platform's own checkout, inventory and app ecosystem. Niche-specific themes tend to outperform generic ones in a marketplace as saturated as ThemeForest. A general \"business theme\" competes against thousands of similar listings. A theme built specifically for restaurants, wedding photographers, dental practices or online course creators faces a smaller, more targeted pool of competitors instead. It can also be marketed directly to that audience through niche-specific communities and search terms. Building a sellable theme requires real front-end development skill, typically HTML, CSS, and either PHP for WordPress or Shopify 's Liquid templating language. It also requires an understanding of responsive design across phone, tablet and desktop screens. This is a higher technical bar than most items on this list. That is part of why individual themes often sell for $30 to $80, rather than the $5-to-$25 range typical of a printable or a template. The ongoing obligation with themes is heavier than with a static file. Both WordPress and Shopify update their core software regularly, and a theme that is not maintained can eventually stop working correctly or create security vulnerabilities for buyers. Many theme marketplaces require sellers to provide updates for a set period after purchase. Reputable sellers continue supporting a popular theme well beyond that window, to protect their reviews and repeat sales. Even with that maintenance cost, a single well-designed theme can generate sales for years without being rebuilt from scratch. Custom fonts sold through type foundries and marketplaces Credit: Elena Mozhvilo / Unsplash Custom fonts are typefaces designed and licensed for use in branding, print and digital design, sold through marketplaces such as Creative Market and MyFonts or through independent type foundries. A single font file can be licensed repeatedly to individual designers, small businesses, and in some cases large companies paying for extended commercial use. The type designer does not need to produce any new work after the initial design is finished. This licensing structure is what makes fonts one of the more durable digital products on this list. A well-designed typeface can remain in active commercial use for decades after its release. Designing a font that sells requires real typographic skill. That includes consistent letterforms across an entire character set, proper spacing between letter pairs known as kerning, and support for the accented characters needed for languages beyond English. Software such as Glyphs or FontLab is standard for professional type design, though free tools exist for designers building their first typeface at a smaller scale. This is a more specialized skill than most items on this list, closer to graphic design or lettering than to general content creation. Font styles that tend to sell consistently include handwritten and script fonts for wedding and greeting card design. Clean sans-serif fonts for branding and logo work also sell well, as do display fonts with strong personality for social media graphics and packaging design. Font families that include multiple weights, from light through bold, tend to command higher prices than a single-weight font, since they give buyers more flexibility across a single design project. Licensing terms matter as much as the design itself. Foundries typically sell separate licenses for personal use, commercial use, and app or software embedding. Pricing scales based on how the font will be used and how large the buyer's business is. Once those licensing tiers and the font files themselves are finished, a foundry can continue selling the same typeface indefinitely. The main additional work is periodic expansion into new language character sets or font weights, to keep a popular typeface competitive. Lightroom presets and video color grading LUTs Credit: Helena Jankovičová Kováčová / Pexels Lightroom presets and video LUTs are saved color-editing settings that a buyer applies to their own photos or footage with one click. They recreate a specific visual style without manual color correction. A preset for Adobe $ADBE Lightroom stores adjustments to exposure, contrast, color temperature and other settings as a small file that photographers install into their own editing software. A LUT, short for look-up table, does the same job for video footage and works across editing programs such as Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve and Final Cut Pro. Both formats let a photographer or video editor achieve a consistent, polished look in seconds, rather than adjusting each setting manually on every photo or clip. Wedding, travel and portrait photographers make up a large share of the buyer base. These photographers often shoot large volumes of images that need a consistent, recognizable editing style applied across an entire client gallery. Content creators making short-form video for platforms such as Instagram and TikTok drive much of the demand for video LUTs. A distinct visual style helps a creator's content stand out and stay consistent from post to post. Creating a sellable preset pack starts with developing an editing style that looks distinctive across a range of different lighting conditions and photo subjects. A preset that only looks good on one type of image has limited resale value. Sellers typically demonstrate this by showing before-and-after examples across several different photos, proving the preset performs consistently rather than relying on a single flattering example. Distribution happens through marketplaces such as Creative Market and Etsy, or through a creator's own website paired with a simple digital delivery service. Because the file itself is tiny, often just a few kilobytes of adjustment data, hosting and delivery costs are negligible. Once a preset pack is finished and tested across a range of images, it can be sold indefinitely without any further editing work from the creator. The main exception is occasional updates when Adobe or another company changes its editing software's underlying tools. Royalty-free music loops and sound effect packs Credit: Cristian Benavides / Pexels Royalty-free music and sound effect packs are audio files licensed for use in videos, podcasts and games. They are sold through platforms such as AudioJungle, Epidemic Sound and Pond5 without ongoing royalty payments to the creator each time a track is used. The licensing model is what separates this category from traditional music sales. A buyer pays once, or subscribes to a platform, for the right to use a track in their own project without needing to negotiate rights or pay performance royalties afterward. That is why the format appeals heavily to podcasters, YouTube creators and independent video producers working with limited budgets. A single well-made track or sound effect pack can be licensed to thousands of different creators over its lifetime. Instrumental tracks tend to perform better commercially than vocal tracks. Background music with lyrics can compete with a video's own dialogue or narration, which limits how a buyer can use the track. Genres in steady demand include upbeat corporate background music for advertising and presentations, and ambient or cinematic tracks for documentary-style content. Short musical stings used for transitions and intros across podcasts and YouTube videos also sell steadily. Sound effect packs occupy a related but distinct niche. Categories include user-interface clicks and notifications for app design, along with foley sounds like footsteps and door creaks for film and game production. Ambient background noise, such as city traffic or rainfall, rounds out the category for podcasts and video backgrounds. These packs often sell in bundles of dozens or hundreds of related sounds, since a single sound effect rarely justifies its own purchase. Producing commercially viable audio requires either music production training or genuine skill with production software such as Ableton Live, Logic Pro or FL Studio. It also requires understanding how tracks need to be structured for practical use, including versions with and without a strong ending so editors can loop or cut a track cleanly. Once mixed, mastered and uploaded to a licensing platform, a track continues generating income from new licenses without any further work from its creator. Canva templates for social media and marketing Credit: Jonathan Borba / Pexels Canva templates are pre-designed layouts built inside Canva's design platform, letting a buyer swap in their own text, photos and colors without starting a design from a blank page. Canva already has hundreds of millions of active users, so template sellers benefit from an existing audience that already knows the software. That is unlike a product that requires a buyer to learn a new tool before they can use it. Templates are typically sold through Canva's own Creator marketplace, through Etsy, or through a creator's personal website. They are delivered as a link that opens directly inside a buyer's own Canva account for editing. Instagram carousel posts, Pinterest $PINS pins, resume and cover-letter layouts, and small-business marketing materials such as flyers, menus and price lists are among the most consistent sellers. These are documents that a wide range of buyers need repeatedly but rarely have the design skill or time to build well from scratch. A small business owner without a design background, for instance, can buy a single branded template set and reuse the same layout structure for months of social media posts. Building a template that sells requires an eye for layout, color and typography more than technical software skill, since Canva's own interface handles most of the execution. Sellers typically build several variations within a single cohesive style, such as 10 different Instagram post layouts that share the same fonts and color palette. Buyers value a full set they can rotate through more than a single standalone design. Canva regularly updates its own features, and design trends shift over time. Template sellers who keep a library current tend to earn more than those who list a set once and never revisit it. That said, the core economics remain the same as everything else on this list. Once a template set is designed and listed, it can be sold to any number of buyers without being rebuilt. The seller's ongoing work becomes optional polish, rather than a requirement for every transaction."
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      "full_text": "Artificial intelligence startups founded by Turkish entrepreneurs are emerging as success stories, with companies such as fal.ai and Periodic Labs surpassing the $1 billion valuation threshold through recent funding rounds. According to the 2025 Turkish Artificial Intelligence Ecosystem and Global Impact Report, Turkish AI entrepreneurship has evolved into an international ecosystem. The report estimates that 1,188 active AI startups currently operate within Türkiye. Including companies founded overseas by Turkish entrepreneurs, the total exceeds 1,400 startups. The ecosystem remains relatively young, with most companies established after 2020. Between 2024 and 2025, around 180 AI startups secured early-stage funding. One of the report's central conclusions is that Türkiye's AI ecosystem can no longer be measured solely within its borders. Data from industry monitor startups.watch treats startups founded in Istanbul alongside companies established in global technology hubs such as San Francisco by Turkish founders, offering a more comprehensive picture of the country's entrepreneurial footprint. Diaspora startups reach unicorn status Some of the ecosystem's most prominent success stories are now emerging from Silicon Valley. Founded in San Francisco in 2021 by Turkish engineers Burkay Gür and Görkem Yurtseven, fal.ai provides developers with APIs for deploying AI models that generate images, video and audio. In December 2025, the company raised $140 million in a Series D funding round backed by investors including Sequoia Capital and Nvidia, lifting its valuation to $4.5 billion. Its customer base includes technology companies such as Perplexity, Canva and Quora. The founders have indicated that an eventual U.S. public listing is among the company's long-term objectives. 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She said the trend is accelerating in Türkiye as well, stressing that the number of AI startups founded annually has increased by 137% since 2021, and the number of active startups has reached 1,500. \"Any startup that is global from day one and solves the customer's real problem in the most agile way using its own models and agents will become the 'Peak' of AI in its category.\" Bigger funding rounds Data from startups.watch shows that although the number of AI investment deals worldwide declined during 2025, the total value of funding reached a record high. The trend suggests venture capital firms are becoming increasingly selective, concentrating larger investments in companies viewed as potential market leaders rather than spreading capital across numerous early-stage startups. As of November 2025, there were 326 AI unicorns globally, with the overwhelming majority based in North America. Europe and Asia, meanwhile, are emerging as rapidly growing but increasingly competitive secondary hubs. Türk Telekom takes startups to Silicon Valley One of Türkiye's leading telecoms and technology companies, Türk Telekom, is expanding its efforts to help Turkish startups that have developed expertise in next-generation technologies and possess global growth potential reach global markets. Through its venture capital arm TT Ventures, the company has taken artificial intelligence and cloud-focused ventures to Silicon Valley for a program featuring training in the arena where AI startups are growing the fastest. TT Ventures launched the two-week program focused on \"Scaling and Globalization\" in San Francisco in cooperation with Stanford University's School of Engineering Global and Online Education Center. The effort is part of Türk Telekom's vision of bolstering the national technology initiative. Nine startups from the TT Ventures portfolio participated in workshops, mentoring sessions and networking events led by Stanford academics while also taking part in meetings and events across Silicon Valley and presenting their businesses during a Demo Day. Thanks to TT Ventures' strong global connections, the startups also had the opportunity to connect with an international network of investors and leaders from the world's leading technology companies. Startups participating in the program included Refabric, Priam AI, Homster, Zuzzuu, Werover, Milvus and Macellan Super App, all of which develop AI-based solutions. Over decade of support The international program serves as an extension of TT Ventures Pilot, the accelerator that Türk Telekom has been running for over 10 years. Under the Pilot program, startups receive mentoring, cash and investment support, office and infrastructure support and access to a broad customer network. They are also provided with comprehensive support ranging from strategic management consulting to business development. TT Ventures General Manager Muhammed Özhan. (Courtesy of TT Ventures) TT Ventures General Manager Muhammed Özhan said they not only invest in startups but also take strategic steps to help them gain a foothold on the global stage. Özhan noted that the program they designed in collaboration with Stanford is of great importance for the growth of these startups and their ability to create value on a global scale. Portfolio value tops $600 million Türk Telekom's efforts in this area are yielding tangible results. The total portfolio value of startups that have graduated from the Pilot program has exceeded $600 million. It demonstrates that the program has made a significant contribution to the company’s vision of transforming Türkiye into a country that produces and exports high-tech products. Fake airline, travel sites fuel rise in phishing attacks Planning a trip these days means juggling ride-sharing apps, airlines, and online travel agencies. This usually takes place across numerous tabs and devices, all while rushing to make sure you don’t miss out on the best offers. It is precisely this sense of urgency, combined with trust in familiar brands and heavy cross-platform traffic, that creates the perfect opportunity for cybercriminals to mimic legitimate transportation and travel services and offer phishing pages, fake apps and scam-oriented deals. Researchers from cybersecurity company Kaspersky examined threats spread by exploiting the names of leading transportation brands. Between the second quarter of 2025 and the first three-month period of 2026, Kaspersky detected 262,663 cyber incidents associated with these brands. Attacks impersonating the Emirates brand ranked first, accounting for 61% of all detections in the transportation category, followed by Uber at 37%. Cybercriminals are mimicing legitimate transportation and travel services and offer phishing pages, fake apps and scam-oriented deals. (Courtesy of Kaspersky) The fact that the overwhelming majority of activity observed in this category was carried out through these two industry-leading brands indicates that attackers are focusing their efforts on well-known services with large user bases and high payment traffic. Trojan attacks on rise Among files and objects associated with transportation brands, the most commonly detected threat type was Trojans (30.5%), followed by Banking Trojans (22.5%). This malware is designed specifically to steal banking login credentials and payment data. In other words, cybercriminals impersonating transportation brands are not just after reservation details; in the vast majority of cases, they are directly targeting the user’s bank account. One of the fraud methods identified by Kaspersky researchers is a classic scam scenario in which the scammers impersonate Irish low-cost carrier Ryanair and tell victims they are \"entitled to compensation.\" Victims receive a message stating that they are eligible for a compensation payment due to their flight. They are then asked to enter their account information or pay a small \"processing fee\" to receive the payment. The scam creates a strong sense of urgency to pressure victims into taking action, giving the impression that the so-called offer will expire in just a few seconds. This kind of extreme time pressure is a major red flag. Legitimate compensation claims are not time-limited in a way that forces people to make decisions within seconds, and airlines do not charge fees in advance for reimbursement. Monitoring communications In addition to transportation, Kaspersky also examined threats that impersonate travel and accommodation platforms. In the aforementioned period, 5,414 attack attempts associated with these brands were detected. The most commonly distributed threats under the guise of these services were once again Trojan horses, accounting for 54.6%. Travel platform accounts have become attractive targets because they often contain payment details, personal information, booking histories and conversations with hotels or service providers. Attackers use counterfeit booking sites, malicious attachments and fake applications to steal login credentials, compromise payment information, install additional malware or gain remote access to victims' devices.\n\nshortlink copied Last Update: Aug 07, 2026 6:36 pm"
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In terms of Canva’s disadvantages, the key drawback to be aware of is that Canva’s export options are relatively limited — meaning that the projects you export from the platform can’t always be edited in other (more professional) tools. Additionally, Canva’s AI-generated images and videos aren’t automatically provided in high resolution; it doesn’t offer phone support; and the options it gives you for backing up your work are limited. Our overall rating: 4.5 out of 5 | ⭐⭐⭐⭐½ How to get started with Canva Try Canva Pro free >\n\nI’ll start my full review with a quick overview of what Canva is.\n\nCanva: an overview\n\nCanva is a graphic design app that aims to let you design visual materials without needing extensive graphic design experience. It can be used to create social media graphics, simple videos, presentations, slides, posters, and other visual assets — and a wide range of customizable templates, royalty-free images, and AI features is provided to help users do so easily.\n\nThe Canva interface\n\nUnlike traditional graphic design tools like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, Canva’s learning curve is designed to be extremely gentle. This means that its feature set is considerably more basic than these sorts of ‘pro’ solutions — but its pricing is a lot lower than them too.\n\nLaunched in 2013 by technology entrepreneur Melanie Perkins, Canva is now a hugely popular solution for creating designs — as of July 2026, it boasts over 265 million monthly active users (MAUs) in over 190 countries.\n\nOver 30 billion designs have been created with the tool and 5,500+ people are employed by the company.\n\nBut how does Canva actually work?\n\nHow does Canva work?\n\nCanva can be used either in a web browser or as a downloadable app (for Mac, PC, Chromebook, iOS, or Android).\n\nIt gives you four key things to help you create your design:\n\ntemplates — pre-designed layouts that you can use for a wide range of applications (for example to create presentations, videos, adverts, business cards, infographics, or charts)\n\n— pre-designed layouts that you can use for a wide range of applications (for example to create presentations, videos, adverts, business cards, infographics, or charts) ‘ elements ‘ — royalty-free photos, videos, and graphics that you can add to your Canva templates\n\n‘ — royalty-free photos, videos, and graphics that you can add to your Canva templates AI tools — AI features that let you create new content for your projects (or manipulate existing designs in interesting ways)\n\n— AI features that let you create new content for your projects (or manipulate existing designs in interesting ways) a drag and drop editor that lets you move elements around a template.\n\nAdditionally, Canva provides controls for editing the typefaces and colors used on a template, and it lets you create custom templates too.\n\nThe idea is that you simply pick a template, drop some content into it, make a few edits and then export your design for use online or as a printed item.\n\nBut how easy is it to actually use the platform?\n\nEase of use\n\nWhen you log into Canva, you are presented with a question: ‘What will you design today?’\n\nThe home page of the Canva interface\n\nYou can answer this question by entering design ideas in the search bar provided, or clicking the icons underneath it. Doing so will give you access to suggested layouts for presentations, social media posts, videos, printed products and more.\n\nCanva design type icons\n\nEither way, you’ll end up with a wide range of templates to choose from. You can pick one of these as the starting point for your design.\n\nExamples of some of Canva’s template formats\n\nFrom there, it’s a case of editing the template so that it meets your requirements. You can do this by clicking on one of the design’s elements (text, visuals etc.) and using the controls that appear above it to change that element.\n\nEditing a Canva design\n\nAlternatively, you can replace the placeholder content with your own images or text (or add additional pictures and copy).\n\nTo add an image to a template, you can either search for an element from Canva’s ‘elements’ library (hundreds of thousands of these are available, and I’ve yet to come across a search phrase that isn’t adequately catered to).\n\nYou just click on an element to add it to your design, and you can resize it easily to suit your purposes.\n\nBrowsing Canva design elements\n\nOne annoying thing to note, though, is that if your design contains only a single premium graphic, Canva won’t let you export it — whenever you try to do this, you’ll see a message saying that premium images “can’t be exported on their own” (see my screenshot below).\n\nCanva doesn’t let you export premium images on their own\n\nEven applying a background color doesn’t solve this problem; you’ll need to add at least one other distinct element to your canvas before Canva allows you to download the design. This is a frustrating limitation of the platform.\n\nWhere changing text is concerned, it’s simply a case of overwriting the existing copy, or using the ‘text’ tool (pictured below) to add new headings or body text.\n\nAdding text to a Canva project\n\nUltimately, the process involved in creating a design in Canva is simple and its interface is extremely user-friendly — anyone who’s used a word processor or a simple graphics tool won’t face much of a learning curve.\n\nAnd this learning curve has been made even more gentle with the addition of Canva’s AI-powered ‘Help Assistant‘ tool (accessible at the bottom right-hand side of the interface). This gives you a search facility that lets you easily access either graphic design elements or individual Canva tools (the video editor, the presentation maker etc.).\n\nThe screenshot below shows you the sort of help I received when using this tool:\n\nCanva’s Help Assistant in use\n\nFinally, the fact that Canva’s interface is available in over 100 languages helps matters from an ease-of-use point of view too.\n\nSo all in all, it’s fair to say that Canva meets its goal of making graphic design extremely accessible to non-designers.\n\nUsing AI to create or manipulate content in Canva Over the past couple of years, Canva has launched several AI-powered features and bundled them into a new ‘Magic Studio’ feature set. This contains 20+ AI tools, with key ones including: Magic Eraser — a tool that lets you remove elements from images easily\n\n— a tool that lets you remove elements from images easily Magic Resize — a tool that automatically repurposes or translates existing designs for other platforms / markets\n\n— a tool that automatically repurposes or translates existing designs for other platforms / markets Magic Morph — a tool that lets you transform the appearance of images and text based on instructions provided by the user\n\n— a tool that lets you transform the appearance of images and text based on instructions provided by the user Magic Grab — a feature that lets you separate the subject of a photo from its background\n\n— a feature that lets you separate the subject of a photo from its background Magic Expand — a ‘picture expander’ that lets you generate a bigger background for an image (for example, an awkwardly framed one)\n\n— a ‘picture expander’ that lets you generate a bigger background for an image (for example, an awkwardly framed one) Magic Animate — a tool that lets you animate aspects of your designs (or add movement to them)\n\n— a tool that lets you animate aspects of your designs (or add movement to them) Magic Write — a copywriting tool that uses ChatGPT-style prompts to create text\n\n— a copywriting tool that uses ChatGPT-style prompts to create text Magic Media — a text-to-image generator that creates graphics or photos based on the prompts you give it.\n\n— a text-to-image generator that creates graphics or photos based on the prompts you give it. Magic Charts — a tool that lets you quickly create data visualizations from spreadsheet information.\n\n— a tool that lets you quickly create data visualizations from spreadsheet information. Magic Layers — a tool that lets you select individual objects in an image and edit or replace them using AI, without affecting the rest of the design\n\n— a tool that lets you select individual objects in an image and edit or replace them using AI, without affecting the rest of the design Highlights — a tool for generating highlight reels automatically from your video footage. You can view a quick demonstration of these AI features in the video below. In terms of how well these new AI features work, when testing them, I was pretty impressed overall — particularly so with the ‘Magic Expand’ and ‘Magic Eraser’ features, which I felt worked as well as equivalent features I’ve encountered in high-end graphic design software like Adobe Photoshop. One newer AI feature that I found particularly useful is ‘Magic Layers.’ This lets you select and edit individual parts of an image rather than having to regenerate or modify the whole thing. It’s especially handy when working with AI-generated graphics from tools like ChatGPT, where only one element of an otherwise good image needs changing. So, for example, if ChatGPT creates a poster with excellent artwork but contains a typo or an awkward-looking object, you can simply select the relevant area in Canva and use AI to replace or refine it, without affecting the rest of the design. In practice, this makes Magic Layers a great companion to external AI image generators, giving you a much faster way to polish their output before using it in your designs. Canva’s Magic Layers makes it easy to edit specific parts of AI-generated images, helping you fix errors or improve individual design elements quickly I found the ‘Magic Write’ tool to be rather less impressive, though. It’s powered by an OpenAI GPT model, with the latest information from OpenAI suggesting that this is GPT-4. Given that ChatGPT is now on version 5.6, you can expect better copywriting results from ChatGPT itself, or Google’s Gemini 3. For basic text generation purposes, Magic Write is fine, but I wouldn’t write blog posts with it! As for the ‘Magic Media’ tool, I was a bit disappointed by its image generation capabilities. All the images it produced during my tests were output in a low resolution — meaning that none of them were usable in my designs. (I did find a workaround for this issue: if you generate the images outside of a design using the ‘Canva AI’ option, and then click the ‘Ultra’ option, you can get higher-res versions of AI images. But this makes for an awkward workflow.) Additionally, Canva’s AI images seemed to suffer occasionally from some ‘uncanny valley’ problems when it came to the depiction of hands (see my screenshot below for an example). ‘Uncanny valley’ artifacts in an image I asked Canva to generate I had better luck with images created in other styles (anime, watercolor, retro, etc.), but ultimately, if you want to incorporate AI-generated images in your Canva projects, you will for now be better off making use of a more established AI image generation tool — like Midjourney, Nano Banana or DALL-E — and importing your output from it into Canva. As for AI video generation in Canva, depending on the prompts I deployed, I found this to be reasonably good — but as with the images it produced, all the video output was relatively low-res (1366 x 768 pixels), meaning that it wasn’t really usable in professional contexts. As with image generation, if video generation is one of your key aims, I’d look in the direction of other tools. One thing I did really like about Canva’s AI tools is how easy they were to access, thanks to the platform’s ‘Ask Canva’ feature. This appears in the toolbar above your design and lets you request immediate help from Canva with whatever you’re doing. You can ask it to generate text, make an image, or give design advice, with answers or content provided instantly (see screenshot below for an example of this in use). Using the ‘Ask Canva’ feature Finally, it’s worth noting that if you’re on a premium Canva plan, you get access to some of the pro AI features provided by ‘Canva Affinity’ — a recently introduced desktop app that provides advanced photo editing, vector illustration and multi-page layout work (tasks that users typically turn to the likes of Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign to perform). These include access to Affinity’s background removal, generative fill, and image generation tools.\n\nWhat about adding your own assets to Canva? Although a key aim of Canva is to give you everything you need to create designs all in one place — photos, videos, typefaces, templates etc. — it also lets you import your own assets too. This can be done via its ‘uploads’ section, which allows you to import images, documents, videos, audio and fonts to your Canva account. Accepted formats include AI (Illustrator), PSD, HEIC, HEIF, JPG, GIF, MP3, MP4, MOV, PNG, SVG and WebP. Microsoft formats like DOCX, XLSX and PPT can also be imported, and OTF, TTF and WOFF fonts can be uploaded too (more on fonts in a moment). The ‘Uploads’ feature in Canva Another way of importing content is by recording a video of yourself — this will reside in the uploads section too. Once you’ve imported an asset, you can simply grab it from the ‘images,’ ‘videos’ and ‘audio’ tabs provided and insert it into your projects.\n\nPhoto editing options in Canva\n\nWhen you add an image to a design, you can tweak it easily using Canva’s photo editing tool.\n\nTo access this, you just click on an image contained in one of your projects, and then on the ‘Edit’ button.\n\nThe ‘Edit Image’ option\n\nThis gives you access to a set of simple controls that let you alter that image’s appearance in various ways. Sliders to adjust brightness, contrast, highlights and saturation are provided (along with several others), and you can also make use of Instagram-style filters.\n\nYou can apply changes to your whole image, its background, or the foregrounded object (see my screenshot below for an example of Canva controls being used).\n\nEditing an image in Canva\n\nYou can also make use of an ‘auto-adjust’ option for correcting image colors.\n\nCanva’s ‘auto-adjust’ option for correcting image colors.\n\nOne thing I particularly like about the image editing options in Canva is the background remover feature provided. This is a handy tool that, as its name suggests, lets you remove or replace the background from photographs. It works well and is particularly useful for creating headshot photos for websites or email signatures and thumbnails for YouTube videos.\n\nCanva’s background removal tool in action\n\nAnother photo-editing tool worth mentioning is Canva’s ‘Color Edit’ feature (pictured below). This automatically extracts the main colors from a photo into a palette, allowing you to incorporate them into other parts of your design — text, shapes, graphics etc.\n\nThe ‘Color Edit’ feature in Canva\n\nUltimately, it’s fair to say that Canva’s image editing tools are of a relatively ‘cut-down’ nature. But they are nonetheless powerful and easy to use (the whole point perhaps), and they give you access to the features that are arguably the most relevant to effective graphic design work.\n\nEditing videos in Canva\n\nIn addition to letting you create ‘static’ designs, Canva allows you to create videos too. The process for video creation works in a broadly similar way to designing static content — you pick a template, tweak it, and add clips to your video as necessary.\n\nVideo template examples\n\nClips can either be imported to the uploads section, or you can add them to your video timeline using Canva’s extensive library of stock videos (which you’ll find in its ‘Elements’ section). Alternatively, you can use your webcam to record video directly into Canva.\n\nBrowsing stock videos in Canva\n\nOne particular editing feature that’s worth singling out as being particularly impressive is Canva’s video background removal feature (pictured below).\n\nUsing the video background removal tool in Canva\n\nThis is surprisingly effective at stripping out busy backgrounds behind speakers — and just as easy to use as Canva’s background removal tool for static images. When testing it I was pleased to discover that it worked with quite long video clips — I could remove backgrounds from videos that were up to ten minutes in length.\n\nAnother nifty feature that helps simplify video editing is Canva’s automated ‘beat sync’ tool. This automatically matches your clips, footage, and accompanying animations to the tempo of the background music you’re using in your video.\n\nRecently, Canva has started rolling out a beta version of its video editor. This introduces more precise timeline editing and improved responsiveness, making it easier to fine-tune clip timing.\n\nCanva video editing timeline\n\nUltimately, it’s fair to say that the video creation functionality on offer from Canva is not as extensive as that which you’d find in a dedicated video editing application — you won’t be able to play with a particularly wide range of transitions, or professionally grade your video content, for example.\n\nPerhaps most significantly, Canva’s video editing tool gives you no real control over what quality your video is exported in. You can choose an export resolution (which on the plus side includes 4K) but you don’t get any control over things like which codec to use, or bitrate settings.\n\nOverall though, Canva’s video editor is generally useful and usable, and its built-in library of stock videos brings with it the potential to save users a lot of money. For putting simple videos together, it’s fine.\n\nYou can learn more about editing videos with Canva here.\n\nUsing royalty-free music in Canva videos Canva lets you add audio to your video from a royalty-free library of over 500,000 pieces of music / sound effects. However, despite technically being royalty free, unless you are careful with how you work with these audio files, you may end up triggering copyright claims on YouTube. This is down to Canva’s ‘one-design-use’ approach to licensing, where every time you export a video that contains audio from Canva’s library, Canva treats that export as a distinct use of the music, and requires you to generate a license information for that specific video (which you then add to your video description in YouTube.) This isn’t ideal. Let’s say you’ve created a short branded intro clip for your YouTube videos — one that uses a Canva-sourced music track. Every time you publish a new video, you’ll need to re-download that intro for each upload, so that each one had its own license. The result is a time-consuming, irritating process — and one that may nudge you in the direction of services like Epidemic Sound or Artlist, which integrate directly with YouTube’s Content ID system and let you avoid situations like this.\n\nCreating presentations in Canva\n\nA key use of Canva is as an alternative to Microsoft PowerPoint (or Google Slides, if you’re a Google Workspace user).\n\nNow, it doesn’t give you all the bells and whistles that Microsoft PowerPoint does (there are no 3D models or maths equation features to play with, for example, and the types of graphs you can create are more basic than those you can make with PowerPoint).\n\nHowever, the range of tools on offer is still pretty extensive, and the interface for designing presentations is extremely easy to use — in my view, a lot easier than PowerPoint’s.\n\nThe template range is much bigger than PowerPoint’s too: as of July 2026, Canva gives you 20,000+ templates to choose from, which come in 3 formats (16:9, 4:3 and ‘mobile first’). By contrast, PowerPoint gives you around 30 out of the box.\n\n(You can read our full Canva vs PowerPoint comparison here.)\n\nCanva’s presentation maker. One of the key applications of the tool is an alternative to Microsoft 365.\n\nRecording a presentation in Canva is simple too; you can use your computer’s webcam and built-in microphone to record a video of yourself as you present the content (a circular video of you appears in the bottom left corner of the presentation when you do so — see highlighted section in screengrab below).\n\nRecording a presentation in Canva — you can add a video of yourself as you do so\n\nImportantly, Canva also lets you present your presentations offline — so long as you enable the option to do so in your presentation’s settings. This is an important (and welcome!) departure from the otherwise ‘online-only’ nature of Canva — the last thing you want at a business meeting is not to be able to show your presentation due to a Wi-Fi failure.\n\nCanva now gives you the option to show a presentation offline\n\nAnd Canva does a very good job of exporting to PowerPoint format: when testing the feature, I was pleased to see that the exported version looked exactly how it did in Canva (see screenshot below).\n\nUsing Microsoft PowerPoint to edit a presentation created in Canva\n\nIf you like, you can import PowerPoint files to Canva for editing too. My experience of this was less positive — when I imported PowerPoint files into Canva, a lot of them ended up rather garbled.\n\nSome of this was down to my font selection (not all the typefaces installed locally will be available in Canva), but other design elements didn’t import exactly as I’d hoped for either.\n\nYou can learn more about creating presentations in Canva here.\n\nCreating documents with Canva\n\nCanva has been traditionally associated with the creation of visual assets — but thanks to the addition of its ‘Canva Docs’ feature, it now facilitates more text-based content creation.\n\nAs its name suggests, Canva Docs lets you create documents and it can, if desired, be used as a simple alternative to desktop publishing apps like Microsoft Word.\n\nAdding elements in Canva Docs\n\nCanva Docs lets you use all of Canva’s design tools, templates, brand kits and stock visuals when creating a document, giving you a quick way to create attractive, on-brand content that ‘pops’ off the page or screen.\n\nAt the time of writing (July 2026), there are over 1,900 Canva templates available that are specifically for creating documents with — these include project proposal, press release, style guide and student journal templates.\n\nNote: The content you create with Canva Docs can be exported to Word or PDF format; however, if you choose to export to Word, you’ll need to be careful with font selection — any fonts you use in a Canva doc will need to be installed locally on your machine for your document to display correctly.\n\nAlthough you could technically create similar documents using tools like Microsoft Word or Google Docs, the process for doing so would arguably take a lot longer, and you’d need to source all the imagery for your documents outside of the applications themselves.\n\nThat said, Canva Docs is not yet a substitute for a professional desktop publishing app — try inserting a table of contents, advanced markup or page numbers into a Canva document and you’ll find out why!\n\nOne thing I really liked about Canva Docs was its neat integration of the ‘Magic Write’ tool into proceedings. This lets you ask Canva to create the copy for your document (and, in fact, request that it use your ‘brand voice’ to use while doing so — i.e., a writing style that is consistent with your corporate style).\n\nTesting the Magic Write feature in Canva Docs\n\nIn my tests, I found that the copy that Magic Write provided was reasonably good — but there were definitely problems with factual accuracy.\n\nFor example, when I asked Magic Write to create a comparison of Wix and Shopify, it provided me with completely incorrect information about Shopify’s support offering, and the number of pricing plans available for the platform.\n\nI found Magic Write to be of most use for getting ideas for document structures. As a test, I asked it to give me an outline for a blog post comparing two web design platforms we write about a lot, Shopify and WordPress — and I was pretty impressed with the content headings it suggested (see screenshot below for the test results). The headings provided definitely reflected the type of sections we typically use in our ecommerce and web design builder comparisons.\n\nSuggested content headings generated by the ‘Magic Write’ feature\n\nUltimately the Magic Write feature has a bit of a way to go before it can create copy that doesn’t require editing before publication. But it is unquestionably good at generating ideas that can inform how you go about creating text-based content.\n\nCreating charts and data visualizations in Canva\n\nAlthough Canva is often thought of primarily as a tool for creating social media graphics and marketing material, it also gives you some really useful (and often overlooked) features for creating charts and graphs.\n\nYou can create around 30 different types of chart using Canva, including bar charts, line graphs, pie charts, histograms and more.\n\nSome of the types of charts you can create in Canva\n\nThe feature is extraordinarily easy to use — you simply enter your data into a table on the left-hand side of the Canva interface, which Canva then automatically turns into a chart or graph (see screenshot below).\n\nEditing a bar chart and its data in Canva\n\n(You can also generate these charts by importing an external spreadsheet.)\n\nYour charts can be exported to a variety of file formats, or embedded on websites via a code snippet, with the latter method of presentation giving you a way to update your data in Canva and show the most up to date graphs on your site automatically.\n\nCanva has also recently introduced a ‘Magic Charts’ feature, an AI-powered feature that automatically suggests the best chart for your spreadsheet data and generates it for you. The chart stays synced as you update your figures, making it an especially handy option for quick, polished data visuals.\n\nAnd if that’s not enough for you, Canva now also offers a new data visualization option through its integration with the Flourish platform — a tool used by thousands of organizations worldwide to create interactive charts and graphics. This feature is available on Canva’s ‘Business’ plan and higher, giving users access to Flourish’s powerful visualization templates directly within their designs.\n\nWe’ve used Flourish in the past and found it capable of producing truly stunning, interactive results, so its inclusion in Canva represents a particularly exciting addition for data-focused users.\n\nFor me, Canva’s charting capabilities and the Flourish integration represent standout features of the tool that give you really simple ways to present statistics and data in an extremely attractive, on-brand way.\n\nYou can learn more about creating charts with Canva here.\n\nExporting your projects\n\nOnce you’ve created a design in Canva, you can export it to a variety of formats, namely:\n\nPNG\n\nJPG\n\nPDF (low-res and print quality)\n\nDOCX\n\nSVG\n\nMP4\n\nGIF\n\nPPTX\n\nTo be honest, by comparison to professional design tools (or even similar ‘prosumer’ tools like Adobe Express), this is quite a small range of output formats, and represents one of the key disadvantages of using Canva.\n\nIf you use a professional graphics or video editing package, you’ll be able to export your content into just about any format going — but Canva really limits your options here.\n\nCanva output options\n\nSignificantly, you can’t export Canva projects to Adobe Photoshop’s PSD format, meaning that if you want to start a design off in Canva and then send it to a professional graphic designer for enhancement, you’re out of luck.\n\n(Workarounds for addressing this situation exist — involving converting files to PDF and using third-party tools to separate layers out — but they’re clunky).\n\nAnd, as discussed earlier, only one video export format is provided: MP4 (with no options provided to adjust compression or output quality).\n\nThe only video output option in Canva is MP4\n\nNow, to be fair, Canva does cover the basics with its output formats, and a lot of its users won’t really need additional ones; the key aim of the product is to let people create quickly, and export simply. For most applications, the range of export formats provided will be fine (especially if you’re using Canva to create content that’s destined to be consumed online).\n\nBut some users, particularly those with more pro-level requirements, will miss the flexibility to output their work to a format of their own choosing.\n\nEmbedding Canva projects elsewhere It’s important to note that you don’t always have to export your Canva project to a file format to share it with others. If displaying a design digitally, you can also embed it. To do this, you simply grab a snippet of code from Canva and add it to your website. Doing so will display your project — but crucially, reflect any changes that you make to it in Canva automatically.\n\nCanva’s Magic Resize tool\n\nA particularly useful feature of Canva is its ‘Magic Resize’ tool, which lets you repurpose existing designs for different platforms really easily.\n\nThis tool lets you automatically reformat an existing design to suit different applications or social platforms.\n\nFor example, you can use the Resize option to turn a blog post banner into a Facebook post image or a YouTube video thumbnail, just by clicking the appropriate option.\n\nThe ‘Magic Resize’ feature in use\n\nNot only this, but Magic Resize lets you completely change the format of your design — you can use it to turn a static image into a video or presentation, for example.\n\n(How well this works will depend heavily on the source material, however — and expect to do some editing on the output!)\n\nEnsuring brand consistency with Canva\n\nAs we’ve seen above, Canva provides users with a lot of tools and content to create marketing materials with — templates, graphics, stock photos, videos etc. In theory, you could use all these to design your assets, without needing to resort to anything else.\n\nYou could even use Canva to create an entire brand identity — i.e., create a logo in Canva; define a color palette; and choose fonts for your brand from the extensive range provided within the platform.\n\nBut in practice, most businesses will need to configure Canva so that they can create designs that reflect an existing brand identity.\n\nTo this end, Canva provides you with the option to create a ‘brand kit.’\n\nCreating brand kits in Canva\n\nThis lets you:\n\nadd a brand logo\n\ndefine a color palette\n\nupload your own font\n\nupload your own images\n\nadd regularly-used graphics\n\nupload your own icons\n\ncreate branded charts\n\ndefine your brand voice.\n\nOn paid-for plans, you can create multiple brand kits (five on the ‘Canva Pro’ plan, 100 on ‘Canva Business’, and 1,000 Canva’s ‘Enterprise’ plan).\n\nOnce your brand kit is in place, whenever you’re creating in Canva, you can apply or add any of these brand assets to your design.\n\nApplying fonts that you’ve added to a Canva brand kit\n\nOn paid Canva plans, you also get a few other features to help you maintain brand consistency across your designs:\n\nthe option to create reusable brand templates\n\na ‘ brand controls ‘ section (pictured below), where you can restrict your team members’ ability to use colors or fonts that are not part of your official brand guidelines\n\n‘ section (pictured below), where you can restrict your team members’ ability to use colors or fonts that are not part of your official brand guidelines an ‘ element locking ‘ feature, which lets you lock design elements so they can’t be edited\n\n‘ feature, which lets you lock design elements so they can’t be edited an ‘ approvals ‘ feature, which lets brand managers notify team members when a design has been signed off\n\n‘ feature, which lets brand managers notify team members when a design has been signed off the option to bulk replace logos and images across multiple designs.\n\nCanva’s ‘brand controls’ feature\n\nIn general, the brand controls in Canva are good. There is one annoying aspect to them though: for some reason, all the brand templates you create end up in a ‘general’ brand templates section, rather than stored in individual brand kits with all the other brand assets — colors, logos, typefaces etc.\n\nOrganizing work and collaborating in Canva\n\nOrganizing your work in Canva is pretty straightforward. A simple folder structure lets you create folders that house your designs.\n\nIf you’re on a ‘Canva Business’ plan, these folders can be shared with other team members, who can then edit any designs that they contain. This works in a similar way to Dropbox and other file sharing services — you simply share a folder with a team member by entering their email address into the folder’s settings.\n\nCreating and sharing folders in Canva\n\n(More details on ‘Canva Business’ and Canva pricing in a moment!).\n\nCan you back up a Canva project? Although Canva uses a traditional files and folder based approach to organizing your design, it’s important to note that the platform doesn’t really give a way to back up your projects. You can recover deleted files for a set period — after deleting a design, it’s kept in a trash folder for 30 days before being permanently deleted (if you delete a team, that team and its content can be recovered for up to 14 days). While these grace periods are welcome, they’re no substitute for being able to back up your projects to a device and reimport them in the event of accidental deletion of a project (or loss of access to a Canva account). Yes, you can export your files to PNGs, JPGs etc. — but these will flatten all the layers in your design, meaning that when you re-import them to Canva, they’re no longer editable.\n\nBuilding a website with Canva\n\nIn addition to being able to create visual assets with Canva, you can technically use it to build websites too.\n\nBuilding a website using Canva\n\nIt has to be said however that only very simple websites can be created with the platform — you can build a one-page site ‘brochure’ site with Canva, but that’s about it. The sites that you can make with Canva look very professional and on-brand, but you can forget about incorporating things like a complex navigation structure or ecommerce into them.\n\nSimply put, although you can create a simple online presence with Canva (and a lot of people have: over 333,000, according to Builtwith.com), it doesn’t give you the sort of professional website building features that dedicated site builders like Shopify and Squarespace do.\n\nThe site designer might be appropriate for some users’ needs, however — if all you need is a basic resume site with some copy and a few pictures, it’ll do the job fine. Over 2,230 web design templates are currently available from Canva, all of which can be populated with content very easily.\n\nCanva website design templates\n\nWhen you’ve created your site, you can publish it in three ways:\n\nvia a free Canva site address (yoursitename.my.canva.site)\n\n(yoursitename.my.canva.site) by purchasing a new domain for it through Canva (using the desktop version only)\n\nthrough Canva (using the desktop version only) by mapping it to a domain you already own.\n\nMaking products with Canva\n\nAnother interesting aspect of Canva is the fact that you can actually manufacture physical products using the platform\n\nTo do this, you go to its ‘Printshop’ section, where a wide range of 60+ items can be designed and purchased. These include:\n\nhoodies\n\nt-shirts\n\ntote bags\n\ngreeting cards\n\nflyers\n\nstationery (notebooks, brochures, diaries etc.)\n\nphoto gifts (books, mugs, prints etc.)\n\nmarketing printables including table tents and retractable banners.\n\nDesigning hoodies in Canva\n\nIn a nice ‘ethical’ touch, Canva runs an ecological scheme to offset the environmental impact of manufacturing a product through the platform: for every order made, Canva plants one tree.\n\nUltimately though, I’d view Canva’s product manufacturing option as a ‘nice to have’ feature rather than a core one.\n\nFirst, all the products available are quite expensive, meaning that you can’t really make something, mark up on it, and sell it to somebody else. The cost price of a t-shirt is around $24, for example — though Business plan users receive a 10% discount on print orders.\n\nSecond, the number you can order at once is capped — when testing the feature, many of the items I tried to manufacture was limited to 50 copies. This makes the option unsuitable for anyone wishing to mass produce items — such users would be better off using a dedicated print on demand solution like Printful or Printify instead.\n\nFinally, it’s worth noting that printed products created with this feature can’t be shipped to all countries yet (this is a particular problem where African nations are concerned).\n\nAdditionally, you need to be careful regarding using stock imagery on items that you print from Canva — various licensing restrictions apply. The below video explains some of the issues involved.\n\nEmail design in Canva\n\nCanva has recently introduced a new email newsletter design tool, which lets you create branded emails using the same drag-and-drop interface as the rest of the platform.\n\nEditing an email design in Canva\n\nOnce designed, your emails can either be downloaded as HTML files or sent directly via integrations with Gmail or Mailchimp.\n\nIn my tests, the emails displayed very well on both desktop and mobile devices — layouts stayed consistent, and images rendered crisply across different screen sizes.\n\nMy Canva email design as it appears in a Gmail inbox\n\nHowever, there are some limitations to be aware of. The HTML that Canva produces when you export an email is quite simple under the hood — it relies on fixed-width tables and lots of inline styling.\n\nThis makes the design display consistently across most inboxes, but it also means the code isn’t very flexible. If you import it into a more advanced email marketing platform, you might find it tricky to edit or customize your design without breaking the layout.\n\nCanva’s email tool is also focused purely on design rather than marketing, so you won’t find features like personalization tags, automation workflows or in-depth analytics. And while Canva’s templates look great, its image-heavy designs can load a bit slowly in certain email clients.\n\nCanva email templates\n\nThat said, it’s still a very welcome addition — especially for individuals or small teams who want to create good-looking newsletters quickly and send them through Gmail, Mailchimp, or similar tools without needing to master HTML or specialist email software.\n\nApps and integrations\n\nAs with a lot of other SaaS (software as a service) products, you can integrate Canva with other platforms, or add extra functionality to it, through the use of apps and integrations.\n\nAt time of writing (July 2026), I found 1,300 available in Canva’s ‘Apps Marketplace’ (pictured below).\n\nCanva’s ‘Apps Marketplace’\n\nThe apps on offer are generally to do with adding special effects to your images, or retouching them — but an increasing number of AI image, video and audio generation apps are now on offer too.\n\nExamples of image enhancement apps for Canva\n\nThe integrations available typically help you import images or videos from other apps into Canva. For example, you can connect your Canva account to services like Google Photos, Google Maps, YouTube and Facebook and bring content in from them (which you can then incorporate into your designs).\n\nFor me, one of the most useful of these is the ‘Mockups‘ one (previously ‘Smartmockups’). This lets you see how your design will look in context in the ‘real world’ — for example on a book cover, in a picture frame, in a smartphone etc.; it can serve as a built-in alternative to the similar ‘PlaceIt’ mockup generator.\n\nThe ‘Mockups’ app lets you see how your Canva design will look in a real-world context.\n\nAnother app I found particularly useful while testing Canva was ‘Typecraft,’ which lets you bend, warp and twist text in lots of interesting ways using mirror points.\n\nUsing the ‘Typecraft’ app\n\nOddly however, I couldn’t find any Canva apps for popular website builders, like WordPress, Wix and Squarespace. These are all services that could definitely benefit from an integration with Canva, because it is so good for producing web graphics, product mockups and blog banners.\n\nA new Canva app has been made available for the popular Shopify ecommerce platform, however — ‘Shopify Connect.’ This lets you add images from Shopify to your Canva designs.\n\nEmail marketing services and CRM tools are fairly well catered for — integrations are available for popular tools like Mailchimp, Hubspot, iContact and MailerLite.\n\nBut if the apps on offer aren’t enough for you, you could always consider building your own — a developer’s platform for Canva provides access to the platform’s API and lets you create your own ‘content extensions’ that let you integrate Canva with other tools in various ways.\n\n(Obviously you’ll need development skills to do this.)\n\nUsing Canva on mobile phones\n\nAs you’ll have noticed from the screenshots on this post, I’ve largely based this Canva review on the browser-based version of the app (for the record, the desktop versions for macOS and Windows are very similar to this).\n\nYou can however also use Canva on a mobile device, thanks to iOS and Android apps that are available for the platform.\n\nUsing Canva on a mobile device (iOS)\n\nCanva’s mobile app performs very well in user reviews — it holds a 4.7-star rating in the iOS app store and a 4.8-star rating in the Google Play store.\n\nIn my own test of the mobile app, I found that it was very easy to use, providing an interface that was very similar in nature to the desktop version (albeit squashed down a bit!). And we are not talking about a cut-down version of the platform here; you can do fairly serious work with Canva on a smartphone.\n\nThat said, I’d still be inclined to use the browser or desktop-based version of Canva wherever possible: editing photos and videos on a phone is rather fiddly and I don’t enjoy doing that much!\n\nBut for users who need to create slick-looking content for social media platforms on the move, Canva’s mobile version is great.\n\nCustomer support\n\nThere are a few ways to avail of customer support from Canva.\n\nFirst, there’s the Canva help center. This provides AI-powered instant answers to queries (which, based on my experience of them, are usually pretty good); it also contains a searchable archive of help articles and how-to guides.\n\nThe Canva help center\n\nThere’s also email support. As with a lot of other SaaS products, accessing the form for this requires searching for a solution to your problem first, which can be a bit annoying.\n\nAs for live chat support, this is listed on Canva’s pricing page as a feature. A footnote states that this is available for ‘select issues’ only, however — and when testing the product, I couldn’t find a way to access it for any issue (select or not!).\n\nSignificantly, when I asked Canva’s AI assistant to help me access live chat, I got a message saying that Canva doesn’t offer a live chat feature for support. All I can conclude here is that Canva’s approach to the provision of live chat support is at best confusing, and at worst misleading.\n\nAs for phone support, there’s none available (on regular plans anyway — Enterprise customers may be able to avail of it, depending on what they negotiate). But given the low price point of Canva, it’s fairly understandable that its customer service is largely email-based.\n\nAnd speaking of pricing…\n\nPricing and value for money\n\nSo far, we’ve looked at all the key features of Canva, but not its pricing. Let’s dive into that now.\n\nCanva pricing plans\n\nThere are four main versions of Canva to consider:\n\nCanva Free — $0 per month\n\n— $0 per month Canva Pro — $18 per month (for one user)\n\n— $18 per month (for one user) Canva Business — $25 per month per user\n\n— $25 per month per user Canva Enterprise — negotiable pricing\n\nIf you pay for your Canva plan on an annual basis, a discount of up to 16% is applied.\n\nSubject to a vetting process, free or discounted plans are provided to educational organizations (via the company’s ‘Canva for Education‘ and ‘Canva for Districts’ plans). Similarly, and again subject to eligibility checks, non-profits can use Canva for free too (via the ‘Canva for Nonprofits’ plan).\n\nCanva pricing table\n\nIn terms of the differences between the three main plans aimed at small businesses (‘Free’, ‘Pro’ and ‘Business’), the key things to watch out for are as follows:\n\nSeats — the number of users varies by plan, with the free plan and Canva Pro both providing just one user account, and the ‘Canva Business’ plan letting you purchase multiple seats.\n\n— the number of users varies by plan, with the free plan and Canva Pro both providing just one user account, and the ‘Canva Business’ plan letting you purchase multiple seats. AI features — the premium plans give you full access to all of Canva’s AI design tools (Magic Switch, Magic Eraser, Magic Morph etc.) and more generous allowances to use on the AI tools that are available on both the paid-for and free plans. Paid-for Canva plans also unlock the pro AI features provided by Canva’s sister ‘Affinity’ platform (these include generative fill, background removal, and image generation).\n\n— the premium plans give you full access to all of Canva’s AI design tools (Magic Switch, Magic Eraser, Magic Morph etc.) and more generous allowances to use on the AI tools that are available on both the paid-for and free plans. Paid-for Canva plans also unlock the pro AI features provided by Canva’s sister ‘Affinity’ platform (these include generative fill, background removal, and image generation). Templates — the paid-for plans give you considerably more templates than the free one.\n\n— the paid-for plans give you considerably more templates than the free one. Images and videos — the paid-for plans give you access to over 141 million stock photos, videos and graphics; the free one gives access to 4.7m+ of these assets.\n\n— the paid-for plans give you access to over 141 million stock photos, videos and graphics; the free one gives access to 4.7m+ of these assets. Brand kits – you get one of these on the free plan; five on ‘Pro’ and 100 on ‘Business.’\n\n– you get one of these on the free plan; five on ‘Pro’ and 100 on ‘Business.’ Storage space — the free plan gives you 5GB of cloud storage; the ‘Pro’ plan provides 100GB; and on the ‘Canva Business’ plan, you get 500GB per user.\n\n— the free plan gives you 5GB of cloud storage; the ‘Pro’ plan provides 100GB; and on the ‘Canva Business’ plan, you get 500GB per user. Export options — output formats are more limited on the free plan, and you won’t be able to use it to export print-ready / CMYK designs.\n\n— output formats are more limited on the free plan, and you won’t be able to use it to export print-ready / CMYK designs. User controls – only the ‘Canva Business’ plan provides controls over what can be uploaded to or edited in Canva.\n\n(Note: our Canva Pro vs Free comparison spells some of these feature differences out in more detail.)\n\nAs for the ‘Enterprise’ version of Canva, this includes the main features of the ‘Canva Business’ plan, plus additional ones aimed at larger businesses, key ones being:\n\nThe option to manage multiple teams\n\nIP indemnity content control\n\nSSO\n\nAutomate license provisioning with SCIM\n\nPriority support\n\nA dedicated customer success manager (if you buy 100+ seats)\n\nThe ability to create up to 1,000 brand kits\n\n1TB of storage.\n\nValue for money\n\nThere’s no doubt about it: Canva offers you a lot of bang for your buck. For a relatively small monthly fee, you can enjoy access to a wide range of design tools and visual assets that let you create very professional results, extremely quickly.\n\nAnd, when you consider that Canva’s per-user monthly fee can be less than what you’d pay for just a single stock photo from Getty or iStock, but gives you access to millions of stock images and videos, this sense of value for money becomes even more pronounced.\n\nIt’s worth pointing out Canva is not quite as good value as it used to be, however. Not that long ago, you could purchase a $29-per-month ‘Teams’ plan for Canva that included 5 seats.\n\nEven with this increase in pricing, you need to remember that many business apps requiring a monthly subscription typically cost a lot more than Canva — the SEO apps we review, for example, typically range from $139 to $400 per month in price, and come with extremely small seat counts. So despite the hike in price, I’m still struggling to think of any product that we’ve reviewed to date that offers quite so much functionality for such a low price.\n\nCanva Free vs Pro video comparison Canva Pro 30-day trial >\n\nCanva user reviews\n\nSo far, I’ve shared my own thoughts on Canva, but it’s also useful to consider what other users are saying.\n\nThe table below summarizes feedback from Canva users on major software review platforms (accurate as of July 2026):\n\nReview site User ratings Capterra 4.7 out of 5 (13,378 reviews) G2 4.7 out of 5 (8,150 reviews) Trustpilot 4.0 out of 5 (6,220 reviews) TrustRadius 4.6 out of 5 (2,132 reviews)* Average user rating 4.5 out of 5\n\n* Recalculated from an out-of-ten score\n\nAs you can see, the average user rating for Canva was 4.5 out of 5. While Trustpilot reviews were notably lower — mainly due to concerns about billing and customer support — ratings on the other platforms remained consistently high, with Canva scoring 4.6 or 4.7 out of 5 across the remaining review sites.\n\nCanva review conclusion\n\nOverall, Canva is a very solid, easy-to-use app that is absolutely packed with features that make designing visual assets simple. While not always a substitute for a professional graphic design tool or video editing package, it is considerably easier to use than such tools, and in many contexts will do the job just as well as them (and much more cheaply, too).\n\nThe main downsides of Canva are the fact that its output formats are limited (particularly where video is concerned); there’s no way to back up projects; and support is email-only. I also feel that the AI-generated images and videos need improvement — until Canva provides high-resolution versions of them to users, they’re not really much use in any professional context.\n\nAs always, the best way to get a sense of whether or not the platform is right for you is to try it out yourself — and you can access a fully-functional, 30-day trial of it here.\n\nI’ll leave you with a summary of the key pros and cons of Canva, and you’ll also find some information on some alternative tools below. Do leave a comment if you have any queries about this review or the Canva platform in general.\n\nKey pros and cons of Canva\n\nReasons I’d use Canva It’s extremely good value — for a small monthly fee you can get access to a host of design tools and millions of bundled graphics, photos and videos.\n\n— for a small monthly fee you can get access to a host of design tools and millions of bundled graphics, photos and videos. The Canva features are extremely easy to use, even if you don’t have any graphic design skills.\n\neven if you don’t have any graphic design skills. The free plan is very usable, and even comes with support .\n\n. Its brand kit option and the way it lets you upload your own photos and typefaces make it easy to ensure brand consistency across designs produced in Canva.\n\nand the way it lets you upload your own photos and typefaces make it easy to ensure brand consistency across designs produced in Canva. It provides a fantastic way not just to create promotional material, but, thanks to its graphic features, statistics too.\n\ntoo. If you’re on a ‘Canva Business’ plan, you’ll find that Canva makes it extremely easy to collaborate on designs .\n\n. Its ‘Magic Resize’ tool makes it extremely easy to create lots of visual assets at once.\n\nmakes it extremely easy to create lots of visual assets at once. Canva’s mobile app is extremely functional and is particularly good for creating ‘on-the-go’ visuals for social media marketing.\n\nand is particularly good for creating ‘on-the-go’ visuals for social media marketing. It provides an easy way to produce one-off printed items. Try Canva Pro Free >\n\nReasons I’d avoid Canva The formats you can output your visuals to are quite limited , with the lack of an ‘export to PSD’ option being a particular concern.\n\n, with the lack of an ‘export to PSD’ option being a particular concern. Canva is primarily an online graphic design tool . It does now offers an offline mode for selected designs, but you’ll still need an internet connection to access AI features, most stock assets and many of the platform’s more advanced capabilities.\n\n. It does now offers an offline mode for selected designs, but you’ll still need an internet connection to access AI features, most stock assets and many of the platform’s more advanced capabilities. There’s no obvious way to back up your projects .\n\n. The licensing system for using Canva’s audio files on YouTube is very clunky.\n\nis very clunky. By default, AI-generated images and videos are output in low resolution (there is a workaround for making AI images hi-res, but it interrupts workflow).\n\n(there is a workaround for making AI images hi-res, but it interrupts workflow). There’s no phone support, and the situation with regard to the availability of live chat support is confusing. Try Canva Pro Free >\n\nAlternatives to Canva\n\nThere are quite a few alternatives to Canva available.\n\nBrowser-based alternatives\n\nIn terms of browser-based apps, key alternatives include Visme, Kittl, Adobe Creative Cloud Express (formerly Adobe Spark), Picsart, and VistaCreate (formerly Crello). These are similarly affordable graphic design tools that let non-professional designers create visual material easily.\n\nIf you’re interested in learning more about these tools, we have Visme vs Canva, Adobe Express vs Canva, Kittl vs Canva and Canva vs VistaCreate comparisons available, along with a Picsart review.\n\nFigma is also worth investigating if you need a graphic design tool to create prototypes of websites and apps with (it also gives you whiteboarding and presentation making tools). Our Canva vs Figma comparison explores how it stacks up against Canva.\n\nFor browser-based video editing, dedicated tools like Descript or Riverside provide more advanced functionality.\n\nAdobe apps\n\nIt’s tempting to think of desktop Adobe applications like Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere (and other tools you get in an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription) as direct alternatives to Canva. But they are actually quite different beasts.\n\nWhile Canva comes with a built-in library of graphics, stock photos and videos, when using the Adobe apps, you often have to source assets ‘outside’ of them. But they are nonetheless great tools for putting visual assets together with, and at the end of the day, considerably more functional than Canva.\n\n(You can learn more about the differences between Adobe Photoshop and Canva in our in-depth comparison of Canva and Photoshop.)\n\nWeb design tools\n\nAlthough Canva can technically be used as a web design tool, the truth is that there significantly better platforms available for building websites — just a few examples include WordPress, Squarespace, Webflow, Wix and Shopify.\n\nPrint-on-demand tools\n\nIf a key aim of using Canva is to create printed materials or physical items with it, you might also want to investigate dedicated print-on-demand apps like Printful or Printify. These tend to come with larger and cheaper product ranges, and facilitate the production of greater number of items in one go.\n\nCanva review FAQ What are the advantages of Canva? The main advantages of Canva are that it’s easy to use, cheap, and packed full of features — not only can you design visual content with it, you can also use the tool to create videos, presentations, digital art, and even websites. What are the disadvantages of Canva? The main disadvantage of Canva is that its range of output formats is quite limited, meaning that the projects you export from the platform can’t be easily edited by professional graphic designers in other tools. Other disadvantages include the fact that no phone support is available for the tool, its AI-generated images and videos are only provided in low resolutions, and its options for backing up your work are limited. Is Canva good for beginners? Canva is extremely easy to use. You won’t need any graphic design skills to create projects with the tool (although an eye for design will of course help). Can I use Canva for free? Yes. A cut-down free version is available, or alternatively you can make use of a 30-day free trial of the ‘Canva Pro’ version."
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Canva Business trial > If you’re running a large organization and need enterprise-grade features (advanced security, SSO, custom integrations, and priority support), try Canva Enterprise. Pricing for this plan is negotiable. Canva Enterprise >\n\nI’ll start this pricing comparison off with a look at Canva’s free plan.\n\nCanva Free — $0 per month\n\nAs the name suggests, this plan is entirely free — but it’s surprisingly good! It’s perfectly possible to use a free Canva account to create designs that are professional in appearance and look great both online and printed.\n\nKey features of the free Canva plan\n\nThe free plan gives you access to the following key features:\n\n1.6+ million free templates\n\nOver 100 design layouts (social media posts, presentations, letters, etc.)\n\nOver 4.7 million free photos and graphics\n\nThe ability to work on your designs with others at the same time\n\n5GB cloud storage\n\nlimited access to some Canva AI features\n\nThe option to save your work in an unlimited number of folders\n\nThe option to export your work into various file formats.\n\nCanva features\n\nUsing these features, you can do some pretty decent design work – if you’re starting a new business and have no budget to invest in design, the Canva free plan can empower you to create some very professional-looking visual assets without any monthly fees to worry about.\n\nDespite being free, ‘Canva Free’ lets you access a wide range of assets, and create professional designs easily.\n\nYou can learn more about all the features included in the free plan here.\n\nCanva pricing table\n\nHowever, as your business operations expand, you may find yourself outgrowing the capabilities of ‘Canva Free’, and exploring one of its premium plans.\n\nLet’s take a look at those, starting with ‘Canva Pro.’\n\nCanva Free vs Pro video comparison 30-day Canva Pro trial >\n\nCanva Pro — $18 per month or $144 per year\n\n‘Canva Pro’ can be paid for in two ways: either on a monthly basis or an annual one.\n\nPaying annually for ‘Canva Pro’ gives you a $72 discount\n\nPaying monthly involves an $18 per month fee; doing so annually costs $144 per year (saving you around $72 in total over a 12-month period).\n\nTry every feature of Canva Pro for free – for 30 days Canva is currently making a 30-day free trial of Canva Pro available to Style Factory readers. This special trial gives you full access to all the Canva Pro features and assets for several weeks, and lets you export all your designs too. 30-day Canva Pro trial >\n\n(You can learn more about the Canva free trial features here).\n\nBut what do you get for this extra fee that’s not available from the Canva free plan?\n\nBelow you’ll find a list of the key features that I think it’s worth upgrading to the ‘Canva Pro’ plan for (in order of significance).\n\nPremium stock photos, videos and graphics\n\nWhile you can get by on the free version of Canva, and create some very professional visuals with it, the plan limits you to a more basic library of stock images and graphics.\n\n‘Canva Pro’ gives you access to all of its premium photos, videos and audio assets\n\nWith ‘Canva Pro,’ you get an enormous range of additional royalty-free multimedia assets — 141+ million in total. These include graphics, icons, photos, videos and audio (music and sound effects).\n\nEditing a video in Canva\n\nThis library opens up the creative possibilities significantly — and when you consider how much some stock photo sites charge for just one image, it represents really good value for money.\n\nEven if you only ever used Canva to source stock photos and videos, and didn’t bother with any of its design tools, you’d be getting an awful lot of bang for your buck.\n\nSearching the stock photo library in Canva — even if you only used it as a way of sourcing royalty-free images, Canva would represent very good value for money\n\nMore templates\n\nAlthough the ‘Canva Free’ plan is pretty generous when it comes to templates, giving you access to 1.6+ million, you get a lot more of them on the ‘Canva Pro’ one: 3.6+ million.\n\nExamples of Canva templates — you get access to a lot more of them on a paid-for plan\n\nBrand kits\n\nCanva’s ‘brand kit’ feature lets you upload a logo and your own fonts, and define a palette containing your brand colors.\n\nBrand controls in Canva\n\nThis helps you ensure that anything you produce in Canva remains aligned with your brand’s visual identity.\n\nWhile you can only create one brand kit (with only 3 colors) on the free plan, on the ‘Canva Pro’ plan you can work with up to 5 of them. Furthermore, ‘Canva Pro’ gives you extra tools for maintaining control over your brand, including element locking and sign-off features.\n\nFull access to Canva’s ‘Magic Studio’ features\n\nCanva Pro users get full access to Canva’s ‘Magic Studio’ — a growing arsenal of 20+ different AI-powered design tools.\n\nSome of Canva’s ‘Magic Studio’ AI tools\n\nMagic Studio includes image generation tools, a translation tool, and a range of useful editing features that let you use Canva’s built-in AI to expand, animate and transform your designs.\n\nThe Magic resize tool\n\nA particularly useful feature only available to ‘Canva Pro’ users is the ‘Magic Resize’ tool — this lets you repurpose existing designs for different platforms really easily.\n\nIt lets you open an existing design, and then automatically reformat it to suit different social media channels.\n\nUsing the ‘Magic Resize’ tool in Canva\n\nFor example, you could use this to turn a blog post banner into a Facebook post image and a YouTube video thumbnail just by clicking a button (helpfully, the feature lets you output all your repurposed assets in one go).\n\nTake a look at the video below to get a sense of how this works in practice.\n\nBackground remover\n\nOn the ‘Canva Pro’ plan, you get access to a background removal tool. This makes it very easy to take a headshot with a background and put whatever you like behind it.\n\nThe background removal tool in Canva\n\nIf you’re a YouTube creator, you’ll find this particularly handy for creating brash video thumbnails of yourself looking shocked at the content of your own videos…\n\nTransparent background downloads\n\nA related feature that’s available on ‘Canva Pro’ but not on the free version is the option to download your designs with a transparent background.\n\nExporting designs with a transparent background in Canva\n\nThis is particularly useful if you’re designing logos that you want to superimpose onto different assets — the transparent background means that your design can be applied neatly and easily over something else.\n\n(The Pro version also lets you compress your work to a specified file size.)\n\nCustom template design\n\nWhile the free version of Canva only lets you work with pre-designed Canva templates, ‘Canva Pro’ lets you create your own ones.\n\nThis means that you can create on-brand, standardized templates for your team to use.\n\nStorage and folders\n\nWith the free version of Canva, you get 5GB of storage; this will be eaten up quickly by any large multimedia files that you add to the platform.\n\n‘Canva Pro’ gives you 20 times that amount — a 100GB storage limit applies. This limit should be fine for most — the only users who might not be entirely satisfied with it are those who edit a very large amount of video content.\n\nStorage limits in Canva Free vs Canva Pro\n\nCustomer support\n\nOn ‘Canva Pro,’ you get access to full support services (via a contact form / email).\n\nThe Canva help center\n\nThis is not the case with the free version of Canva — if you’re on this plan, you’ll largely have to make do with Canva’s help portal and AI chatbots.\n\n\n\n(Help with ‘select issues’ is provided to free plan users, however — presumably serious ones, like issues with account access.)\n\nCanva Business — $25 per user per month or $250 per user per year\n\nThe ‘Canva Pro’ plan will usually satisfy the needs of ‘solopreneurs’ perfectly well. However, it’s not great for organizations that need multi-user access.\n\nThis is where ‘Canva Business’ — formerly ‘Canva Teams’ — comes in.\n\nCanva Business\n\nThis plan costs $25 per user per month, or $250 per user per year (if paying annually).\n\n‘Canva Business’ monthly pricing per person\n\nSo, what do you actually get on a ‘Canva Business’ plan that isn’t available on the free or ‘Pro’ versions?\n\nLet’s find out.\n\nWorkflow management\n\nIf you want to run a managed approvals process on designs, you can use the ‘Canva Business’ plan’s workflow management features to do this.\n\nThese tools give you a huge amount of control over collaboration — they let you invite team members to work on projects, assign specific roles, and transfer ownership of designs or brand assets when responsibilities change. They also let you generate activity reports to keep track of how Canva is being used across your organization.\n\nTogether, these features make ‘Canva Business’ well suited to larger teams that need oversight of creative workflows and a structured approval process.\n\nCanva Business features more sophisticated sharing and approval tools than the other plans.\n\nTemplate locking\n\nThe ‘Canva Business’ plan lets you lock down your templates more tightly — this gives you more control over the appearance of your assets and helps you avoid ‘drift’ away from standard brand guidelines.\n\nAnother useful feature you get on ‘Canva Business’ but not on ‘Canva Pro’ is the ability to share team-only links. These let you share designs securely within your organization, ensuring that only team members can view or edit your work.\n\nAI admin controls\n\n‘Canva Business’ lets you oversee and manage your team’s access to the many AI design tools available in Canva.\n\nStorage\n\nWhile the ‘Free’ and ‘Pro’ plans limit you to 5GB and 100TB of storage space respectively, the ‘Canva Business’ plan allocates 500GB of storage to every member of your team, making it a more suitable and scalable option for companies that work with a large number of big multimedia files (video, audio, etc.).\n\nDomain report\n\nThe ‘Domain Report’ feature in ‘Canva Business’ provides business owners with comprehensive analytics on design activities.\n\nIt tracks the number and types of designs created, edited, and shared by team members, allowing owners to monitor user engagement and identify both power users and those who may need additional support. This feature ensures efficient and productive use of Canva across the team.\n\nMore brand kits\n\nWhile the ‘Canva Pro’ plan lets you create up to 5 brand kits, the Canva Business plan expands this to 100. It also lets you link folders to brand kits, making it easier to organize and access the right assets for each project.\n\nPrint discounts\n\nCanva lets you order printed versions of your designs directly through its built-in printing service — available products include business cards, flyers, posters, stickers, tote bags and more. With the ‘Canva Business plan’, you get a 10% discount on all print orders.\n\nCanva Enterprise — custom pricing\n\n‘Canva Enterprise’ is a relatively new offering from Canva, aimed at larger organizations.\n\nPricing for ‘Canva Enterprise’ is customized to the specific needs and requirements of your organization — you’ll need to contact Canva to negotiate a price for it.\n\n‘Canva Enterprise’\n\nUnlike the other Canva plans, ‘Canva Enterprise’ lets you create multiple teams across one organization; it also lets admins control element editing and design permissions more tightly.\n\nSome of the other key features only available to ‘Canva Enterprise’ users are as follows…\n\nIP indemnity content control\n\nThe IP indemnity content control feature in Canva for Enterprise offers businesses protection against intellectual property (IP) infringement claims. It ensures that any content created or used within Canva complies with legal standards — reducing the risk of legal disputes over IP rights.\n\nNote: to access this feature, you’ll need to have a minimum of 100 users on your ‘Canva Enterprise’ account.\n\nSingle Sign-On (SSO)\n\nSingle sign-on (SSO) lets a user use one set of login credentials to access multiple applications, making username and password management easier.\n\nOn a ‘Canva Enterprise’ plan, you can include Canva in the apps you use SSO for.\n\nCanva SSO\n\nDedicated support and training\n\n‘Canva Enterprise’ users benefit from dedicated support and training resources. These include a dedicated account manager, priority support, and access to training sessions tailored to your team’s needs.\n\nMore storage\n\nThe ‘Canva Enterprise’ plan gives each user 1TB of cloud storage — double the 500GB provided on ‘Canva Business’ and ten times the 100GB available on ‘Canva Pro.’\n\nEven more brand kits\n\nThe ‘Canva Enterprise’ plan takes brand management significantly further than the other plans, letting you create and use up to 1,000 brand kits. This makes it ideal for large organizations or agencies handling multiple brand portfolios.\n\nCanva for educational and not-for-profit organizations — what are the costs?\n\nIn addition to the plans that are aimed at businesses, Canva provides several plans that are designed for the education and charity sectors.\n\n‘Canva for Education‘ is free for ‘K-12’ teachers and students (with ‘K-12’ referring to US education levels that stretch from Kindergarten to 12th grade).\n\n(For the record, Canva contains around 100,000 templates that are specifically designed for educational purposes.)\n\nCanva for Education\n\nAs its name suggests, ‘Canva for Nonprofits‘ is a version of the platform that’s free for those working in the charity sector. It can be used for free by up to 50 people (depending on the type of organization), with extra seats available at a 50% discount.\n\nAn application process is involved before you can use Canva for Nonprofits, during which Canva’s team will verify your eligibility for the plan.\n\nCanva for Nonprofits\n\nRecently, Canva also launched a plan aimed at universities and higher education institutions. This is called ‘Canva Campus.’\n\nUnlike the ‘Canva for Education’ and ‘Canva for Nonprofits’ plans mentioned above however, ‘Canva Campus’ is not entirely free to use, however — institutions need to pay for seats (pricing for these is negotiable).\n\n‘Canva Campus’\n\nSo which version of the Canva app is right for me?\n\nHopefully this Canva pricing guide has helped you identify the key differences between the various plans on offer and helped you understand whether or not a free or a paid-for plan is best for you.\n\nBut to sum up, here’s my take on which plan is best suited for different types of users:\n\nGot any questions? 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But they’re a bit different in nature — while Canva offers you a built-in library of royalty-free photos, graphics and videos, you usually have to source assets ‘outside’ of the Adobe apps.\n\n(You can learn more about the differences between Adobe Photoshop and Canva in our in-depth comparison of the two products.)\n\nUnderstanding the pros and cons of Canva\n\nAlthough we generally love Canva and view it as a really user-friendly solution for creating graphics, it’s not going to be right for everyone: there are quite a lot of pros and cons to consider when deciding whether or not to use it.\n\nSo, to get a really in-depth appraisal of all the features Canva provides, do check out our detailed Canva review. You might also find our What is Canva? article and our Canva Pro vs Free comparison guide helpful.\n\nCanva pricing — FAQ Can I use Canva for free? Yes. A cut-down version of the tool is available that can be used indefinitely, and free plans are available to students and not-for-profit organizations (subject to eligibility criteria). A 30-day free trial of the ‘Pro’ version is also available. Is paying for Canva worth it? Although you can do a lot with the free version of Canva, the design tools you get on a paid-for plan let you create much more sophisticated visuals. The strongest arguments for upgrading to a premium plan are probably the amount of free stock images, videos and audio files you get; the export options; the brand kit features; and the background removal tools. How much does Canva cost each month? It depends on whether you are using ‘Canva Pro’ or ‘Canva Business’. Canva Pro costs $18 per month, and the pricing for Canva Business costs $25 per user per month. Are there any discounts available for Canva? At time of writing, Canva is offering 50% off its Canva Pro or Canva Business plans to new customers."
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The first, Audience Agent, analyzes a brand’s data to build a stronger audience for marketer approval. The second, Performance Accelerators, are activation features to overcome first-party audience barriers, such as eroding match rates, segments that don’t scale, and the complexity of household and precision targeting.\n\nCanva Grow 2.0 to create and optimize ads. Canva has launched a marketing automation platform called Grow 2.0, an expansion of its Grow tool. Grow 2.0 automates the entire performance marketing workflow, from ad creation and publishing to performance optimization, helping businesses build and run campaigns at scale. Introduced in 2025, Grow marked Canva’s push into performance marketing, integrating with LinkedIn, TikTok, and Meta.\n\nContentful introduces Palmata to influence how AI represents a business. Contentful, an content optimization platform, has announced Palmata, designed to help organizations understand, measure, and improve how AI answer engines represent their company. According to Contentful, Palmata helps explain the factors that influence AI-generated answers and provides guidance on improving them.\n\nMobigital launches virtual livestreams. Mobigital, a global B2B commerce and supply chain platform, has launched AI Virtual Livestream. The new tool creates virtual presenters to conduct product demonstrations, promote campaigns, and engage customers. According to Mobigital, AI-powered livestreams can operate 24/7, helping merchants maintain visibility and customer interaction across multiple markets and time zones — all while reducing marketing and operational costs.\n\nCloudinary introduces Image to Video. Cloudinary, an image and video platform, has launched Image to Video, an AI capability that helps brands generate channel-ready videos directly from existing image libraries. Brands can automatically review videos at scale with Cloudinary Moderation and edit, resize, and crop them with Cloudinary Video.\n\nAutonomous delivery firm Neolix expands European presence. Neolix, a logistics company, is expanding its commercial autonomous delivery fleet to consumer goods, retail, and fulfillment leaders across Europe. Neolix’s delivery vehicles support operations across middle-mile and last-mile scenarios to increase operational efficiency, extend service hours, and reduce delivery costs. The vehicles operate around the clock across a range of weather and traffic conditions, per Neolix.\n\nCaelith launches Fypro.ai to help creators monetize content. Fypro.ai, a product of Caelith, has launched to personalize and connect content strategy and commerce monetization within a single engine. 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      "full_text": "Bryan Wolfe has spent 15+ years writing about the tech people actually use — and occasionally the tech they probably shouldn't. With bylines at Yahoo, MakeUseOf, TechRadar, and Digital Trends, he brings an MBA-sharpened perspective to consumer tech, AI tools, and digital productivity. He's based in State College, PA, where he also runs GoingSolo.Life, a solo travel brand for the independently minded.\n\nAdobe Photoshop has been the default answer to photo editing for over three decades. On a Mac, it runs beautifully, integrates with the rest of Creative Cloud, and does more than most people will ever need. It also costs $22.99 per month, forever. That's not a one-time fee. It's a subscription you can never own, for software you can never keep. For years, Affinity Photo was the best argument against that model. At $69.99, it was a one-time purchase that gave you a genuine professional-grade editor with layers, RAW support, non-destructive editing, and masking tools, without the monthly toll booth. Now, Canva has made Affinity completely free, and that changes everything. Related Pixelmator Pro vs. Affinity Photo vs. Photoshop: Which Is the Best Image-Editing Tool? Features, performance, and value. Who wins? Affinity is now free: here's what changed Affinity Photo, Designer, and Publisher are now one app After design software giant Canva acquired Serif, the UK developer behind Affinity, in 2024, many creatives were understandably freaked out. Canva runs on subscriptions. Would Affinity go the same way? But at the Canva Keynote in late 2025, we got the exact opposite answer. Affinity CEO Ash Hewson told the crowd the new app was \"completely free, forever, for everyone.\" In just the first four days after launch, more than one million people signed up. This rebrand is also about more than just stripping away the price tag. The three separate apps, Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer, and Affinity Publisher, have been unified into a single app simply called Affinity. Photo editing, vector design, and page layout now live under one roof, without switching apps or importing files between them. If you've ever had to bounce a RAW image from one Affinity app to another just to finish a project, that’s no longer necessary. The free version requires a free Canva account but includes the full professional toolkit. The only thing behind a paywall is Canva's generative AI Studio, which includes features like Generative Fill, Expand & Edit, and AI background removal. Those require a Canva Premium subscription, which costs $120 per year. But if you're not chasing AI tools, you get everything else for nothing. Affinity by Canva Affinity is a free, all-in-one creative app for photo editing, vector design, and page layout, built for professional work without the subscription treadmill. Why Affinity is better than Photoshop on Mac A familiar interface that's easier to customize Credit: Bryan M. Wolfe / MakeUseOf On paper, Affinity has always worked on both Mac and Windows. But on a Mac, especially one running Apple Silicon, it has always felt more at home. Affinity is noticeably leaner than Photoshop on macOS. It starts faster, uses less memory, and stays responsive with large layered files. Where Photoshop can feel sluggish when working with complex compositions on older Intel Macs, Affinity stays smooth. On M1, M2, and M3 machines, the difference is even more pronounced. The app is optimized for Apple's GPU architecture in a way that Photoshop, with its legacy Windows roots, still hasn't fully matched. There's also the interface. Affinity's workspace will feel immediately familiar to anyone who has spent time in Photoshop. Panels sit where you expect them. Layers behave logically. Keyboard shortcuts map to muscle memory. If you're jumping ship from Photoshop, you’ll feel right at home almost instantly. And with the new version's customizable studios, where you can rearrange panels, hide tools you don't use, and save different layouts for different projects, it feels more like your editor than Adobe's editor. Affinity's key features for Mac photographers Focus stacking, HDR, and panorama stitching Credit: Bryan M. Wolfe / MakeUseOf Affinity's photo editing tools cover everything most photographers need day-to-day: Non-destructive RAW editing. The Develop persona handles RAW files directly, with full control over exposure, white balance, highlight and shadow recovery, curves, and lens corrections. Every adjustment is non-destructive, meaning you can tweak your edits later without ruining the original shot. Advanced layering and masking. Affinity matches Photoshop here. Live filters, adjustment layers, blend modes, and layer effects all work as expected. The magnetic selection tools are fast and accurate, and complex masks that would require multiple steps in Photoshop often come together in a single step. Focus stacking, HDR merging, and panorama stitching. These features are baked right into the app, meaning there’s no need to hunt down third-party plugins. Photoshop offers similar tools, but Affinity's implementations are clean and straightforward. Batch processing. You can automate repetitive edits across multiple files using macros, which is a massive timesaver if you’re batch-editing event or product shots. File format support. Affinity opens PSD, AI, PDF, SVG, TIFF, IDML, and more. You can open Photoshop files, edit them, and export them back out. The reverse isn't true; Photoshop can't open Affinity's native format. However, as long as you're working in standard formats, compatibility isn't a real obstacle. Where Adobe Photoshop still has the edge Credit: Bryan M. Wolfe / MakeUseOf Look, let’s be real: Affinity isn't going to kill Photoshop for everyone just yet. Adobe's generative AI tools are genuinely impressive. If removing complex objects, intelligently expanding canvases, or swapping skies with a single click is central to your workflow, Photoshop’s AI still goes deeper than anything in Affinity's free tier. Neural Filters and Generative Fill are massive time-savers for commercial retouching. Photoshop is also the industry default. If you collaborate with designers, agencies, or clients who expect PSD files and Creative Cloud sharing, sticking with Adobe just saves you a massive compatibility headache. Affinity is a better tool for independent creators than for teams embedded in the Adobe world. And Affinity still has no catalog or asset management. It's a file-by-file editor. If you need something to replace Lightroom's library function alongside its editing tools, Affinity isn't that. You'd pair it with something like Capture One or Apple Photos for organization. So, is this better than Photoshop? For most Mac users doing personal projects, freelance work, or content creation, yes. Now, 'better' depends heavily on your workflow, but consider what you're weighing: Photoshop costs you $22.99 every month. Over three years, that's more than $800. Affinity costs you nothing. The tools for everyday editing, such as retouching, compositing, RAW processing, and design work, will do the same job for 95% of what you need. Affinity is faster on Mac hardware, runs cleaner, and no longer asks you to pay for it. Of course, it’s worth asking what Canva’s endgame is here. The company is worth billions and is clearly using Affinity to funnel professionals toward Canva Premium subscriptions. Some in the creative community have noted that making something free rarely comes without a catch, and the AI paywall is the current form of that catch. But the core editing tools are genuinely free, with no time limits and no missing features. To get started, download Affinity. You'll create a free Canva account during setup, which takes about two minutes. The app is available now for macOS and Windows. An iPad version is in development. If you've been paying Adobe month after month for tools you mostly use to edit photos, resize graphics, and occasionally composite something together, give Affinity a real trial. Don't just open it once. Rather, spend a week in it. Set up your workspace. Import your RAW files. Run through the tools you use daily. Chances are, you'll realize you've been throwing money at an Adobe subscription you just don't need anymore."
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The fund purchased Class A Common Stock of the design platform company on Tuesday.\n\nSarah Pinto, President of Robinhood Ventures Fund I, said the firm believes Canva is one of the world’s most compelling design platforms. \"With its mission to put the power of design in everyone’s hands, Canva represents the kind of category-defining company our investors deserve access to,\" Pinto said.\n\nKelly Steckelberg, Chief Financial Officer at Canva, said more than a quarter of a billion people now use the platform every month. \"As we continue to accelerate our investment in building the world’s best visual AI tools, we believe we’re still in the very early stages of the opportunity ahead,\" Steckelberg said.\n\nCanva launched in 2013 as an all-in-one platform for visual communication and collaboration. 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      "full_text": "Personal Finance Oil Current price of oil as of August 7, 2026 By Joseph Hostetler Joseph Hostetler Staff Writer, Personal Finance Commerce Down Arrow Button Icon By Joseph Hostetler Joseph Hostetler Staff Writer, Personal Finance Commerce Down Arrow Button Icon August 7, 2026, 5:22 AM ET Getty Images Add Fortune on Google for similar content. Add us on Google Add us on Google\n\nAt 5:20 a.m. Eastern Time today, oil was priced at $86.04 per barrel with Brent serving as the benchmark (we’ll explain different benchmarks later in this article). That’s a gain of $2.40 compared with yesterday morning and around $19 higher than the price one year ago. Oil price per barrel % Change Price of oil yesterday $83.64 +2.86% Price of oil 1 month ago $72.62 +18.47% Price of oil 1 year ago $66.99 +28.43% Price of oil yesterday Oil price per barrel $83.64 % Change +2.86% Price of oil 1 month ago Oil price per barrel $72.62 % Change +18.47% Price of oil 1 year ago Oil price per barrel $66.99 % Change +28.43% Will oil prices go up? It’s impossible to forecast oil prices with detailed precision. Many different elements affect the market, but ultimately it boils down to supply and demand. When worries about economic recession, war, and other large-scale disruptions increase, oil’s path can shift fast. How oil prices translate to gas pump prices Gas prices at the pump don’t only track crude oil. They also include what it takes to refine and move that fuel, the taxes layered on top, and the extra markup your local station adds to stay in business. Since crude oil generally makes up a majority of the per-gallon cost, changes in its price have an outsized impact. When oil surges, gas prices typically rise in tandem. But when oil retreats, gas prices often lag on the way down, a trend sometimes described as “rockets and feathers.” The role of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve In case of emergency, the U.S. has a store of crude oil known as the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Its primary purpose is energy security in case of disaster (think sanctions, severe storm damage, even war). But it can also go a long way toward softening crippling price hikes during supply shocks. It’s not a long-term answer and is more meant to provide temporary relief, assisting consumers and keeping critical parts of the economy running, like key industries, emergency services, public transportation, etc. How oil and natural gas prices are linked Both oil and natural gas are key sources of the energy we use every day. Because of this, a big change in oil prices can affect natural gas. For example, if oil prices increase, some industries may swap natural gas for some segments of their operations where possible, which increases demand for natural gas. Historical performance of oil To gauge oil’s performance, we often turn to two benchmarks: Brent crude oil , the main global oil benchmark.\n\n, the main global oil benchmark. West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the main benchmark of North America Between these two, Brent better represents global oil performance because it prices much of the world’s traded crude. And, it’s often the best way to track historical oil performance. In fact, even the U.S. Energy Information Administration now uses Brent as its primary reference in its Annual Energy Outlook. Looking at the Brent benchmark across several decades, oil has been anything but steady. It’s seen spikes due to factors such as wars and supply cuts, and it’s also seen crashes from global recessions and an oversupply (called a “glut”). For example: The early 1970s brought the first big oil shock when the Middle East cut exports and imposed an embargo on the U.S. and others during the Yom Kippur War.\n\nPrices dropped in the mid-1980s for reasons such as lower demand and more non-OPEC oil producers entering the industry.\n\nPrices spiked again in 2008 with increased global demand, but it soon plummeted alongside the global financial crisis.\n\nDuring the 2020 COVID lockdown, oil demand collapsed like never before—bringing prices below $20 per barrel. All to say, oil’s historical performance has been anything but smooth. Again, it’s hugely affected by wars, recessions, OPEC whims, evolving energy initiatives and policies, and much more. Energy coverage from Fortune Looking to stay up-to-date regarding the latest energy developments? Check out our recent coverage: Asia needs deeper energy markets if it’s going to achieve its AI ambitions\n\nRWE’s $1.22B exit marks the latest in Trump’s billion-dollar offshore wind buyouts\n\nAI’s volatile power demand is damaging its own data centers Frequently asked questions How is the current price of oil per barrel actually determined? The current price of oil per barrel depends largely on supply and demand, including news about potential future supply and demand (geopolitics, decisions made by OPEC+, etc.). In the U.S., prices also move based on how friendly an administration is to drilling, as it can affect future supply. For example, 2025 saw the Trump administration move to reopen more than 1.5 million acres in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas leasing, reversing the Biden administration’s policy of limiting oil drilling in the Arctic. How often does the price of oil change during the day? The price of oil updates constantly when the “futures” markets are open. A futures market is effectively an auction where people agree to buy or sell oil in the future. As long as people and companies are trading contracts, the oil price is changing. How does U.S. shale oil production affect the current price of oil? In short, shale is rock that contains oil and natural gas. Think of shale as energy yet to be tapped. The more shale the U.S. accesses, the more energy we’ll have—and the more easily oil prices can keep from spiking as much thanks to a greater supply. How does the current price of oil impact inflation and the broader economy? When oil is expensive, it tends to make everyday items cost more. This can be related to energy (your heating, gas utilities, etc.), but it’s also due to the logistics involved with making those items accessible to you. Shipping, for example, can affect the price of things at the grocery store, as it’s more expensive to get those products from warehouses and farms onto the shelf. Fortune Daily breaks the traditional barrier between audience and newsroom. The show transforms Fortune’s trusted reporting into actionable, conversational, and entertaining insights for an emerging class of business leaders. breaks the traditional barrier between audience and newsroom. The show transforms Fortune’s trusted reporting into actionable, conversational, and entertaining insights for an emerging class of business leaders. Watch here. About the Author By Joseph Hostetler Staff Writer, Personal Finance Commerce Joseph is a staff writer on Fortune's personal finance commerce team. He's covered personal finance since 2016, previously serving as a reporter and editor at sites like Business Insider and The Points Guy. He has also contributed to major outlets such as AP News, CNN, Newsweek, and many more. 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      "full_text": "Personal Finance Oil Current price of oil as of July 24, 2026 By Joseph Hostetler Joseph Hostetler Staff Writer, Personal Finance Commerce Down Arrow Button Icon By Joseph Hostetler Joseph Hostetler Staff Writer, Personal Finance Commerce Down Arrow Button Icon Follow July 24, 2026, 5:35 AM ET Getty Images Add Fortune on Google for similar content. Add us on Google Add us on Google At 5:35 a.m. Eastern Time today, oil was priced at $97.04 per barrel with Brent serving as the benchmark (we’ll explain different benchmarks later in this article). That’s a drop of $1.45 compared with yesterday morning and around $27.50 higher than the price one year ago. Oil price per barrel % Change Price of oil yesterday $98.49 -1.47% Price of oil 1 month ago $77.50 +25.21% Price of oil 1 year ago $69.51 +39.60% Price of oil yesterday Oil price per barrel $98.49 % Change -1.47% Price of oil 1 month ago Oil price per barrel $77.50 % Change +25.21% Price of oil 1 year ago Oil price per barrel $69.51 % Change +39.60% Will oil prices go up? It’s impossible to forecast oil prices with detailed precision. Many different elements affect the market, but ultimately it boils down to supply and demand. When worries about economic recession, war, and other large-scale disruptions increase, oil’s path can shift fast. How oil prices translate to gas pump prices Gas prices at the pump don’t only track crude oil. They also include what it takes to refine and move that fuel, the taxes layered on top, and the extra markup your local station adds to stay in business. Since crude oil generally makes up a majority of the per-gallon cost, changes in its price have an outsized impact. When oil surges, gas prices typically rise in tandem. But when oil retreats, gas prices often lag on the way down, a trend sometimes described as “rockets and feathers.” The role of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve In case of emergency, the U.S. has a store of crude oil known as the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Its primary purpose is energy security in case of disaster (think sanctions, severe storm damage, even war). But it can also go a long way toward softening crippling price hikes during supply shocks. It’s not a long-term answer and is more meant to provide temporary relief, assisting consumers and keeping critical parts of the economy running, like key industries, emergency services, public transportation, etc. How oil and natural gas prices are linked Both oil and natural gas are key sources of the energy we use every day. Because of this, a big change in oil prices can affect natural gas. For example, if oil prices increase, some industries may swap natural gas for some segments of their operations where possible, which increases demand for natural gas. Historical performance of oil To gauge oil’s performance, we often turn to two benchmarks: Brent crude oil , the main global oil benchmark.\n\n, the main global oil benchmark. West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the main benchmark of North America Between these two, Brent better represents global oil performance because it prices much of the world’s traded crude. And, it’s often the best way to track historical oil performance. In fact, even the U.S. Energy Information Administration now uses Brent as its primary reference in its Annual Energy Outlook. Looking at the Brent benchmark across several decades, oil has been anything but steady. It’s seen spikes due to factors such as wars and supply cuts, and it’s also seen crashes from global recessions and an oversupply (called a “glut”). For example: The early 1970s brought the first big oil shock when the Middle East cut exports and imposed an embargo on the U.S. and others during the Yom Kippur War.\n\nPrices dropped in the mid-1980s for reasons such as lower demand and more non-OPEC oil producers entering the industry.\n\nPrices spiked again in 2008 with increased global demand, but it soon plummeted alongside the global financial crisis.\n\nDuring the 2020 COVID lockdown, oil demand collapsed like never before—bringing prices below $20 per barrel. All to say, oil’s historical performance has been anything but smooth. Again, it’s hugely affected by wars, recessions, OPEC whims, evolving energy initiatives and policies, and much more. Energy coverage from Fortune Looking to stay up-to-date regarding the latest energy developments? Check out our recent coverage: The $70 billion oil services giant poised to cash in on AI data centers\n\nSaudi Arabia takes center stage as oil hits $100\n\nFord’s F-150 now doubles as a $1,100 home backup generator Frequently asked questions How is the current price of oil per barrel actually determined? The current price of oil per barrel depends largely on supply and demand, including news about potential future supply and demand (geopolitics, decisions made by OPEC+, etc.). In the U.S., prices also move based on how friendly an administration is to drilling, as it can affect future supply. For example, 2025 saw the Trump administration move to reopen more than 1.5 million acres in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas leasing, reversing the Biden administration’s policy of limiting oil drilling in the Arctic. How often does the price of oil change during the day? The price of oil updates constantly when the “futures” markets are open. A futures market is effectively an auction where people agree to buy or sell oil in the future. As long as people and companies are trading contracts, the oil price is changing. How does U.S. shale oil production affect the current price of oil? In short, shale is rock that contains oil and natural gas. Think of shale as energy yet to be tapped. The more shale the U.S. accesses, the more energy we’ll have—and the more easily oil prices can keep from spiking as much thanks to a greater supply. How does the current price of oil impact inflation and the broader economy? When oil is expensive, it tends to make everyday items cost more. This can be related to energy (your heating, gas utilities, etc.), but it’s also due to the logistics involved with making those items accessible to you. Shipping, for example, can affect the price of things at the grocery store, as it’s more expensive to get those products from warehouses and farms onto the shelf. The Fortune 500 Innovation Forum will convene Fortune 500 executives, U.S. policy officials, top founders, and thought leaders to help define what’s next for the American economy, Nov. 16-17 in Detroit. Apply here. will convene Fortune 500 executives, U.S. policy officials, top founders, and thought leaders to help define what’s next for the American economy, About the Author By Joseph Hostetler Staff Writer, Personal Finance Commerce Follow Joseph is a staff writer on Fortune's personal finance commerce team. He's covered personal finance since 2016, previously serving as a reporter and editor at sites like Business Insider and The Points Guy. He has also contributed to major outlets such as AP News, CNN, Newsweek, and many more. See full bio Right Arrow Button Icon Add Fortune on Google for similar content. Add us on Google"
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      "full_text": "Personal Finance Oil Current price of oil as of July 13, 2026 By Joseph Hostetler Joseph Hostetler Staff Writer, Personal Finance Commerce Down Arrow Button Icon By Joseph Hostetler Joseph Hostetler Staff Writer, Personal Finance Commerce Down Arrow Button Icon July 13, 2026, 6:00 AM ET Getty Images Add Fortune on Google for similar content. Add us on Google Add us on Google As of 6 a.m. Eastern Time today, oil sold for $78.31 per barrel (using Brent as the benchmark, which we’ll get into momentarily). That’s $1.08 lower than yesterday morning and approximately a $7.24 rise over the past year. Oil price per barrel % Change Price of oil yesterday $79.39 -1.36% Price of oil 1 month ago $88.60 -11.61% Price of oil 1 year ago $71.07 +10.18% Price of oil yesterday Oil price per barrel $79.39 % Change -1.36% Price of oil 1 month ago Oil price per barrel $88.60 % Change -11.61% Price of oil 1 year ago Oil price per barrel $71.07 % Change +10.18% Will oil prices go up? It’s impossible to predict the future of oil prices. Several factors determine the movement of oil, but it ultimately boils down to supply and demand. Again, when threats of economic downturn, war, etc. are high, the oil trajectory can turn rapidly. How oil prices translate to gas pump prices When you pay for gas at the pump, you’re paying for more than just the crude oil itself; you’re also springing for links along the chain, such as the refineries and wholesalers—not to mention taxes and local gas station markups. Still, the crude oil aspect affects the final price most dramatically, as it typically accounts for more than half the price per gallon. When oil prices spike, so do gas prices. And frustratingly, when oil prices drop, gas prices tend to take their time drifting down to the lower price (sometimes referred to as “rockets and feathers”). The role of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve In case of emergency, the U.S. has a store of crude oil known as the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Its primary purpose is energy security in case of disaster (think sanctions, severe storm damage, even war). But it can also go a long way toward softening crippling price hikes during supply shocks. It’s not a long-term answer—more of an immediate relief to assist the consumer and keep critical parts of the economy running, like key industries, emergency services, public transportation, etc. How oil and natural gas prices are linked Oil and natural gas are both major energy fuels. A big change in oil prices can affect natural gas by extension. For example, if oil prices increase, some industries may swap natural gas for some segments of their operations where possible—which increases demand for natural gas. Historical performance of oil When examining oil’s performance, there are generally two major benchmarks: Brent crude oil is the main global oil benchmark.\n\nis the main global oil benchmark. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) is the main benchmark of North America. Between the two, Brent better represents global oil performance because it prices much of the world’s traded crude. And, it’s often the best way to track historical oil performance. In fact, even the U.S. Energy Information Administration now uses Brent as its primary reference in its Annual Energy Outlook. Looking at the Brent benchmark across several decades, oil has been anything but steady. It’s seen spikes due to factors such as wars and supply cuts, and it’s also seen crashes from global recessions and an oversupply (called a “glut”). For example: The early 1970s brought the first big oil shock when the Middle East cut exports and imposed an embargo on the U.S. and others during the Yom Kippur War.\n\nPrices dropped in the mid-1980s for reasons such as lower demand and more non-OPEC oil producers entering the industry.\n\nPrices spiked again in 2008 with increased global demand, but it soon plummeted alongside the global financial crisis.\n\nDuring the 2020 COVID lockdown, oil demand collapsed like never before—bringing prices below $20 per barrel. All to say, oil’s historical performance has been anything but smooth. Again, it’s hugely affected by wars, recessions, OPEC whims, evolving energy initiatives and policies, and much more. Energy coverage from Fortune Looking to stay up-to-date regarding the latest energy developments? Check out our recent coverage: Hormuz route open despite Iran declaration, maritime group says\n\nTrump’s time is running out to avoid a nightmare Strait of Hormuz scenario\n\nThe U.S. and Iran can’t agree on fully reopening the Strait of Hormuz Frequently asked questions How is the current price of oil per barrel actually determined? The current price of oil per barrel depends largely on supply and demand, including news about potential future supply and demand (geopolitics, decisions made by OPEC+, etc.). In the U.S., prices also move based on how friendly an administration is to drilling, as it can affect future supply. For example, 2025 saw the Trump administration move to reopen more than 1.5 million acres in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas leasing, reversing the Biden administration’s policy of limiting oil drilling in the Arctic. How often does the price of oil change during the day? The price of oil updates constantly when the “futures” markets are open. A futures market is effectively an auction where people agree to buy or sell oil in the future. As long as people and companies are trading contracts, the oil price is changing. How does U.S. shale oil production affect the current price of oil? In short, shale is rock that contains oil and natural gas. Think of shale as energy yet to be tapped. The more shale the U.S. accesses, the more energy we’ll have—and the more easily oil prices can keep from spiking as much thanks to a greater supply. How does the current price of oil impact inflation and the broader economy? When oil is expensive, it tends to make everyday items cost more. This can be related to energy (your heating, gas utilities, etc.), but it’s also due to the logistics involved with making those items accessible to you. Shipping, for example, can affect the price of things at the grocery store, as it’s more expensive to get those products from warehouses and farms onto the shelf. The Fortune 500 Innovation Forum will convene Fortune 500 executives, U.S. policy officials, top founders, and thought leaders to help define what’s next for the American economy, Nov. 16-17 in Detroit. Apply here. will convene Fortune 500 executives, U.S. policy officials, top founders, and thought leaders to help define what’s next for the American economy, About the Author By Joseph Hostetler Staff Writer, Personal Finance Commerce Joseph is a staff writer on Fortune's personal finance commerce team. He's covered personal finance since 2016, previously serving as a reporter and editor at sites like Business Insider and The Points Guy. He has also contributed to major outlets such as AP News, CNN, Newsweek, and many more. See full bio Right Arrow Button Icon Add Fortune on Google for similar content. Add us on Google"
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grocery purchases, and expensive dining out. The indirect impact can come from higher prices of finished goods made using crude oil derivatives.\n\n[**Gopal Gidwani**](https://www.livemint.com/authors/gopal-gidwani)\n\nPublished6 Jun 2026, 08:00 AM IST\n\nWith the OMCs passing on some fuel price hikes to the customers, the cost of travel has gone up.\n\nAt the start of the US-Iran war, [crude oil prices](https://www.livemint.com/economy/how-have-crude-oil-prices-behaved-during-the-west-asia-war-11780481497551.html) spiked above $100 a barrel. Since then, depending on the news flow, prices have risen above and dipped below $100/barrel. However, for most of the duration since the war started, the crude oil prices have stayed above $100/barrel. In this article, we will understand how the high crude oil prices can impact your monthly budget.\n\n## **Hike in fuel prices**\n\nDuring the initial phase of the US-Iran war, even though [crude oil prices](https://www.livemint.com/economy/crude-oil-prices-brent-crude-wti-israel-lebanon-ceasefire-hezbollah-west-asia-war-iran-nuclear-talks-11780541204042.html) spiked above $100/barrel, the Indian oil marketing companies (OMCs) did not hike domestic prices of fuel. It seemed the war would be over quickly, and the crude oil prices would revert to where they were before the war started. However, the war has now continued for more than 3 months, and crude oil prices have continued to stay higher.\n\nAs a result, oil marketing companies (OMCs) have started hiking the prices of fuels like petrol, diesel, CNG, aviation turbine fuel (ATF), and LPG cylinders. The prices of petrol were hiked four times in May: 15 May ( ₹3/litre), 19 May ( ₹0.90/litre), 23 May ( ₹0.87/litre), and 25 May ( ₹2.61/litre)\n\nFor retail customers, while OMCs have announced some fuel price hikes, they still continue to incur losses on the sale of petrol and diesel. So, whether there will be more price hikes to cover the losses remains to be seen. For commercial and industrial customers, hotels/restaurants, airlines, etc., the fuel price hikes have been higher.\n\n## **Higher fuel prices: Impact on monthly budget**\n\nWith the OMCs passing on some [fuel price hikes](https://www.livemint.com/market/commodities/from-120-to-95-crude-oil-prices-surged-70-during-the-us-iran-war-can-brent-crude-price-drop-to-80-11780462146554.html) to the customers, the cost of travel has gone up. If you use your personal vehicle for commuting, you are already paying more for refuelling than you did earlier. You will have to allocate more money in your monthly budget for your daily commute.\n\n**Also Read** | [RBI moots steps to curb digital fraud: How will they protect bank customers?](/money/rbi-moots-safeguards-to-curb-digital-payment-fraud-how-will-they-protect-bank-customers-11778077924693.html)\n\nHigher fuel prices increase the cost of transporting goods (food grains and others) from one place to another. The food producers/transporters pass on these fuel price hikes to end customers. As a result, you are paying more for groceries and other products.\n\nFrom March to May 2026, the commercial LPG (19 Kg cylinder) saw monthly price hikes, with the largest in May. As a result of these price hikes, a commercial LPG cylinder that cost around ₹1,700 in New Delhi in February now costs more than ₹3,000 in June. Restaurants have passed on these price hikes to customers by revising their menu prices upwards.\n\nIf you are a foodie who dines out frequently, eating out is going to be expensive for you. You will have to either allocate more money from your monthly budget towards dining out or reduce the frequency of dining out. The domestic LPG customers have been spared, with a lower price hike of ₹60 per cylinder.\n\n## **Vacation travel has become more expensive**\n\nThe OMCs have passed on some of the impact of higher fuel prices to airlines by hiking the ATF prices. The airlines, in turn, passed on the higher costs, due to higher ATF prices and other expenses, to their customers through higher flight ticket prices.\n\nApril and May are usually busy travel months as many families plan their annual vacations during this time, as schools are closed for summer vacation. However, the higher flight ticket prices upset the vacation budgets of many families. As a result, some families either took a shorter vacation or even postponed or cancelled it.\n\nMany flights to the Middle East were cancelled due to war and airspace closures in the region. As a result, some people had to change their international vacation plans to other destinations, such as Southeast Asia, or take a domestic vacation within India.\n\n## **Higher prices of goods**\n\nCrude oil derivatives (petrochemicals) are used as raw materials in the manufacturing of many products. For example, polyester, nylon, and spandex are used in making garments, carpets, bags, etc. Similarly, plastic products such as water bottles and food containers require petrochemicals as inputs. Paints used for houses, offices, and automobiles use petrochemicals.\n\n**Also Read** | [Are you dependent on your salary? Here's how to create multiple income streams](/money/are-you-dependent-on-just-your-salary-heres-how-to-create-multiple-income-streams-to-boost-your-cash-flow-11776442274225.html)\n\nWith crude oil prices spiking, the cost of manufacturing all the finished products that use crude oil derivatives has risen. Most manufacturers have passed on the higher costs, either fully or partially, to end customers by increasing product prices. So, when you go out to buy any of these products, be ready to shell out more money than before.\n\n## **Higher cost of imports due to a depreciating rupee**\n\nCrude oil forms one of India’s biggest imports. With higher crude oil prices, the fiscal deficit is expected to increase. As a result of higher crude oil prices, FPI selling, and other factors, the Indian rupee has been depreciating and hitting new all-time lows regularly.\n\nA depreciating rupee makes imports of all goods expensive. The higher cost is passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices. So, if you are planning to buy an imported mobile, laptop, or any other gadget, you will have to shell out more money due to the rupee depreciation.\n\nEven if a product, such as an electronic or consumer durable item, is manufactured in India, some of its components may be imported. The manufacturer has to pay a higher amount for imported components due to the depreciation of the Indian rupee. Thus, whether the finished product or its components are imported, the rupee depreciation increases their costs for customers.\n\n## **Impact of higher crude oil prices on the monthly budget**\n\nHigher crude oil prices impact consumers in several ways, directly and indirectly. The direct impact is higher travel costs, whether for a daily office commute or a family leisure vacation. The daily impact is with higher food prices, whether you buy groceries and cook at home or dine out.\n\nThe indirect impact is through crude oil derivatives, which serve as raw materials for many finished goods. Also, higher crude oil prices put pressure on the Indian rupee, leading to its depreciation, which in turn makes imported products or their components costlier. Thus, higher crude oil prices can have a significant impact on the monthly budget. An individual can mitigate the impact by increasing the budget and allocating more money for various spending categories or rebalancing by reducing spending in other categories, wherever possible.\n\n[*Gopal Gidwani*](https://www.livemint.com/authors/gopal-gidwani) *is a freelance personal finance content writer with 15+ years of experience. 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      "title": "Current price of oil as of Aug. 5, 2026",
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      "ai_summary": "On August 5, 2026, Brent crude oil was trading at $83.72 per barrel, representing a $6.09 decrease from the previous day but a $15.38 increase from the same time last year, with the one-month change showing a $11.07 gain. The article explains that crude oil prices are primarily driven by supply and demand dynamics, with additional factors including geopolitical events, economic conditions, and U.S. energy policy affecting market movements. It also provides context on how oil prices translate to consumer gas prices and describes the role of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve as an emergency supply buffer.",
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      "full_text": "At 5:30 a.m. Eastern Time on Aug. 5, the price of oil sits at $83.72 per barrel, using Brent as the benchmark (we’ll explain what that means shortly). That’s a decrease of $6.09 since yesterday morning and roughly $15.38 more than at this time last year.\n\noil price per barrel % Change Price of oil yesterday $89.81 -6.78% Price of oil 1 month ago $72.65 +15.23% Price of oil 1 year ago $68.34 +22.50% Check Out Our Daily Rates Reports Discover the highest high-yield savings rates, up to 4.50% for August 6, 2026.\n\nDiscover the highest CD rates, up to 4.50% for August 6, 2026.\n\nDiscover the top CD rates from major banks on August 6, 2026.\n\nDiscover the current mortgage rates for August 6, 2026.\n\nDiscover current refi mortgage rates report for August 6, 2026.\n\nDiscover current ARM mortgage rates report for August 6, 2026.\n\nDiscover current HELOC rates for August 6, 2026.\n\nDiscover the current price of gold for August 6, 2026.\n\nDiscover the current price of silver for August 6, 2026. Will oil prices go up? Nobody can predict the future path of oil prices with certainty. A range of factors influence how oil trades, yet supply and demand remain the main drivers. When fears of economic slowdown, conflict, or similar shocks rise, oil prices can move sharply. How oil prices translate to gas pump prices The price you see at the gas pump reflects more than just crude oil. Also built in are the costs of refining, distribution through wholesalers, various taxes, and the margin your neighborhood station charges. Crude oil is still the largest single driver of the final pump price, typically representing over half of each gallon’s cost. Spikes in oil prices tend to push gas prices higher in short order. But when oil prices decline, gas prices often ease down gradually, a behavior known as “rockets and feathers.” The role of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve In the event of an emergency, the U.S. maintains a stockpile of crude oil known as the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Its main goal is to safeguard energy security when disasters strike—think sanctions, severe storm damage, or war. It can also do a lot to ease the pain of sudden price jumps when supply gets disrupted. It’s not a permanent fix, as it’s more meant to provide immediate support for consumers and ensure critical parts of the economy like key industries, emergency services, public transportation, and so on can keep operating. How oil and natural gas prices are linked Both oil and natural gas play key roles as major sources of energy. A big change in oil prices can affect natural gas by proxy. If oil prices increase, some industries may swap natural gas for some segments of their operations where possible, increasing the demand for natural gas. Historical performance of oil Oil prices are often measured by two key benchmarks: Brent crude oil is the main global oil benchmark.\n\nis the main global oil benchmark. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) is the main benchmark of North America. Between the two, Brent is a better representation of global oil performance because it prices much of the world’s traded crude. It’s also often the best way to review historical oil trends. In fact, the U.S. Energy Information Administration now leans on Brent as its primary reference in its Annual Energy Outlook. When you look at the Brent benchmark across multiple decades, you’ll see that oil has been anything but consistent. It has experienced spikes driven by wars and supply cuts, as well as crashes linked to global recessions and an oversupply (called a “glut”). For example: The early 1970s brought the first big oil shock when the Middle East cut exports and imposed an embargo on the U.S. and others during the Yom Kippur War.\n\nPrices dropped in the mid-1980s for reasons such as weaker demand and more non-OPEC oil producers entering the industry.\n\nPrices spiked again in 2008 with rising global demand, but soon crashed alongside the global financial crisis.\n\nDuring the 2020 COVID lockdown, oil demand collapsed like never before, bringing prices to under $20 per barrel. In short, oil’s historical performance has been far from steady. It’s massively affected by wars, recessions, OPEC whims, evolving energy initiatives and policies, and much more. Energy coverage from Fortune Looking to stay up-to-date regarding the latest energy developments? Check out our recent coverage: Oil rebounds as Iran war de-escalation, yen intervention worries ease\n\nCould a UN-backed plan to reopen Hormuz break the deadlock?\n\nFortune gets exclusive access to a UN-backed plan to reopen the strait Frequently asked questions How is the current price of oil per barrel actually determined? The current price of oil per barrel depends largely on supply and demand, including news about potential future supply and demand (geopolitics, decisions made by OPEC+, etc.). In the U.S., prices also move based on how friendly an administration is to drilling, as it can affect future supply. For example, 2025 saw the Trump administration move to reopen more than 1.5 million acres in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas leasing, reversing the Biden administration’s policy of limiting oil drilling in the Arctic. How often does the price of oil change during the day? The price of oil updates constantly when the “futures” markets are open. A futures market is effectively an auction where people agree to buy or sell oil in the future. As long as people and companies are trading contracts, the oil price is changing. How does U.S. shale oil production affect the current price of oil? In short, shale is rock that contains oil and natural gas. Think of shale as energy yet to be tapped. The more shale the U.S. accesses, the more energy we’ll have—and the more easily oil prices can keep from spiking as much thanks to a greater supply. How does the current price of oil impact inflation and the broader economy? When oil is expensive, it tends to make everyday items cost more. This can be related to energy (your heating, gas utilities, etc.), but it’s also due to the logistics involved with making those items accessible to you. Shipping, for example, can affect the price of things at the grocery store, as it’s more expensive to get those products from warehouses and farms onto the shelf."
    },
    {
      "id": 31247655,
      "title": "Current price of oil as of August 4, 2026",
      "url": "https://fortune.com/article/price-of-oil-08-04-2026/",
      "publisher": "Fortune",
      "published_date": "2026-08-04T09:20:20",
      "sentiment": "Neutral",
      "sentiment_score": 0.4381,
      "ai_summary": "As of August 4, 2026, Brent crude oil is trading at $89.81 per barrel, representing a $2.43 increase from the previous day and a $20.50 rise compared to one year ago, with the one-year change standing at approximately 30%. The article explains that crude oil prices are primarily driven by supply and demand dynamics, geopolitical factors, and OPEC+ decisions, and typically account for more than half the cost consumers pay at the gas pump. It also discusses the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve's role in providing short-term energy security during crises, and provides historical context on oil price volatility tied to geopolitical events, recessions, and market gluts.",
      "word_count": 1175,
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Oil price per barrel % Change Price of oil yesterday $87.38 +2.78% Price of oil 1 month ago $72.65 +23.62% Price of oil 1 year ago $69.31 +29.57% Price of oil yesterday Oil price per barrel $87.38 % Change +2.78% Price of oil 1 month ago Oil price per barrel $72.65 % Change +23.62% Price of oil 1 year ago Oil price per barrel $69.31 % Change +29.57% Will oil prices go up? No one can say for sure where oil prices will go next. Many forces shape the market—but at the core, it’s still about supply and demand. When risks like a potential recession or war ramp up, oil prices can change direction quickly. How oil prices translate to gas pump prices When you buy gas at the pump, you’re covering more than the cost of crude oil. You’re also paying for every step in the process, including refineries, wholesalers, taxes, and the markup your local gas station adds. Even so, crude oil has the biggest influence on what you pay, often making up more than half the cost per gallon. When oil prices jump, gas prices usually climb right along with them. But when oil falls, gas prices often slip much more slowly—a pattern sometimes called “rockets and feathers.” The role of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve If an emergency hits, the U.S. keeps a backup supply of crude oil called the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. It’s mainly there to protect energy security during crises, such as sanctions, catastrophic storm damage, even war. It can also help cushion the blow when supply shocks send prices soaring. It’s not meant to solve long-term problems. Instead, it provides quick relief for consumers and helps keep vital parts of the economy moving, like essential industries, emergency services, and public transit. How oil and natural gas prices are linked Oil and natural gas are two of the world’s primary energy sources. A big change in oil prices can affect natural gas by extension. For example, if oil prices increase, some industries may swap natural gas for some segments of their operations where possible, which which increases demand for natural gas. Historical performance of oil When looking at how oil performs, two main benchmarks stand out: Brent crude oil is the main global oil benchmark.\n\nis the main global oil benchmark. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) is the main benchmark of North America. Of the two, Brent gives a better picture of global oil performance because it prices a large share of the world’s traded crude. It’s also the go-to for tracking oil’s historical trends. In fact, even the U.S. Energy Information Administration now relies on Brent as its primary reference in its Annual Energy Outlook. If you look at the Brent benchmark over several decades, oil has been far from stable. It has experienced sharp rises tied to wars and supply cuts, along with steep drops linked to global recessions and oversupply (called a “glut”). For example: The early 1970s delivered the first major oil shock when the Middle East slashed exports and placed an embargo on the U.S. and others during the Yom Kippur War.\n\nPrices fell in the mid-1980s due to lower demand and an influx of non-OPEC oil producers joining the market.\n\nPrices surged again in 2008 as global demand grew, but then crashed alongside the global financial crisis.\n\nDuring the 2020 COVID lockdown, oil demand plummeted like never before—pushing prices below $20 per barrel. To sum up, oil’s historical performance has been anything but smooth. Again, it’s heavily influenced by wars, recessions, OPEC whims, shifting energy policies, and much more. Energy coverage from Fortune Looking to stay up-to-date regarding the latest energy developments? Check out our recent coverage: The Danube is running dry, and Europe’s power grid is suffering as a result\n\nOil tumbles and stock futures surge after Trump said Iran deal was near\n\nAmerica’s $500 million bet on rare earths depends on a tiny New Hampshire refinery Frequently asked questions How is the current price of oil per barrel actually determined? The current price of oil per barrel depends largely on supply and demand, including news about potential future supply and demand (geopolitics, decisions made by OPEC+, etc.). In the U.S., prices also move based on how friendly an administration is to drilling, as it can affect future supply. For example, 2025 saw the Trump administration move to reopen more than 1.5 million acres in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas leasing, reversing the Biden administration’s policy of limiting oil drilling in the Arctic. How often does the price of oil change during the day? The price of oil updates constantly when the “futures” markets are open. A futures market is effectively an auction where people agree to buy or sell oil in the future. As long as people and companies are trading contracts, the oil price is changing. How does U.S. shale oil production affect the current price of oil? In short, shale is rock that contains oil and natural gas. Think of shale as energy yet to be tapped. The more shale the U.S. accesses, the more energy we’ll have—and the more easily oil prices can keep from spiking as much thanks to a greater supply. How does the current price of oil impact inflation and the broader economy? When oil is expensive, it tends to make everyday items cost more. This can be related to energy (your heating, gas utilities, etc.), but it’s also due to the logistics involved with making those items accessible to you. 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      "full_text": "Personal Finance Oil Current price of oil as of June 11, 2026 By Joseph Hostetler Joseph Hostetler Staff Writer, Personal Finance Commerce Down Arrow Button Icon By Joseph Hostetler Joseph Hostetler Staff Writer, Personal Finance Commerce Down Arrow Button Icon June 11, 2026, 9:10 AM ET Add us on Getty Images By 9 a.m. Eastern Time today, oil had reached $95.15 per barrel, measured using the Brent benchmark. That’s 88 cents less than it cost yesterday morning and about $24 above its price a year earlier. Oil price per barrel % Change Price of oil yesterday $94.27 -0.93% Price of oil 1 month ago $107.79 -11.72% Price of oil 1 year ago $71.17 +33.69% Price of oil yesterday Oil price per barrel $94.27 % Change -0.93% Price of oil 1 month ago Oil price per barrel $107.79 % Change -11.72% Price of oil 1 year ago Oil price per barrel $71.17 % Change +33.69% Will oil prices go up? Oil prices are inherently unpredictable. While many variables come into play, the basic push and pull of supply and demand is what ultimately matters. In times of heightened concern about recession, war, or other major disruptions, oil can swing suddenly. How oil prices translate to gas pump prices Each gallon you pay for at the pump bundles together several costs. Crude oil is one piece, but you also pay for refineries, wholesalers, government taxes, and the price markup set by gas stations. Because crude oil usually accounts for more than half of the price per gallon, it tends to move the needle the most. Sharp increases in oil almost always show up quickly at the pump. Declines in the price of oil, on the other hand, often translate into slower, more delayed drops in gas prices—the “rockets and feathers” effect. The role of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve When an emergency arises, the U.S. has a reserve of crude oil called the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Its chief function is to secure energy during disasters like sanctions, severe storm damage, or war. It can also help take the edge off brutal price spikes when supply gets hit. It’s not a solution for the long haul. It’s more of an immediate safety net to support consumers and keep crucial sectors of the economy running (think key industries, emergency services, public transportation, and the like). How oil and natural gas prices are linked Oil and natural gas are two of the main fuels that keep the world running. A big change in oil prices can end up affecting natural gas. As an example, if oil prices increase, some industries may sub natural gas for certain areas of their operations wherever possible. This can increase demand for natural gas. Historical performance of oil The oil market typically tracks two benchmarks: Brent crude oil (the main global oil benchmark)\n\n(the main global oil benchmark) West Texas Intermediate (WTI) (the main benchmark of North America) Between the two, Brent offers a clearer view of global oil performance because it prices much of the world’s traded crude. It’s also often the preferred gauge for tracking historical oil trends. In fact, the U.S. Energy Information Administration now uses Brent as its primary reference in its Annual Energy Outlook. Looking at the Brent benchmark over multiple decades, you’ll find oil has been anything but stable. It’s seen sharp rises due to factors like wars and supply cuts, along with steep declines tied to global recessions and oversupply (called a “glut”). For example: The early 1970s saw the first major oil shock when the Middle East slashed exports and placed an embargo on the U.S. and others during the Yom Kippur War.\n\nPrices fell in the mid-1980s for reasons including lower demand and the entry of more non-OPEC oil producers.\n\nPrices jumped again in 2008 with increased global demand, but then plunged alongside the global financial crisis.\n\nDuring the 2020 COVID lockdown, oil demand collapsed like never before—bringing prices below $20 per barrel. Bottom line, oil’s historical performance has been anything but smooth. It’s hugely affected by wars, recessions, OPEC whims, evolving energy initiatives and policies, and much more. Energy coverage from Fortune Looking to stay up-to-date regarding the latest energy developments? Check out our recent coverage: Analysts expected oil to surge above $200\n\nThe U.S. strategic petroleum reserve is so low it’s near panic levels\n\nAmerica’s emergency oil reserve is about to hit its lowest level since Reagan was in office Frequently asked questions How is the current price of oil per barrel actually determined? The current price of oil per barrel depends largely on supply and demand, including news about potential future supply and demand (geopolitics, decisions made by OPEC+, etc.). In the U.S., prices also move based on how friendly an administration is to drilling, as it can affect future supply. For example, 2025 saw the Trump administration move to reopen more than 1.5 million acres in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas leasing, reversing the Biden administration’s policy of limiting oil drilling in the Arctic. How often does the price of oil change during the day? The price of oil updates constantly when the “futures” markets are open. A futures market is effectively an auction where people agree to buy or sell oil in the future. As long as people and companies are trading contracts, the oil price is changing. How does U.S. shale oil production affect the current price of oil? In short, shale is rock that contains oil and natural gas. Think of shale as energy yet to be tapped. The more shale the U.S. accesses, the more energy we’ll have—and the more easily oil prices can keep from spiking as much thanks to a greater supply. How does the current price of oil impact inflation and the broader economy? When oil is expensive, it tends to make everyday items cost more. This can be related to energy (your heating, gas utilities, etc.), but it’s also due to the logistics involved with making those items accessible to you. 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      "full_text": "Personal Finance Oil Current price of oil as of May 22, 2026 By Joseph Hostetler Joseph Hostetler Staff Writer, Personal Finance Commerce Down Arrow Button Icon By Joseph Hostetler Joseph Hostetler Staff Writer, Personal Finance Commerce Down Arrow Button Icon May 22, 2026, 8:59 AM ET Add us on Getty Images At 9 a.m. Eastern Time today, oil was priced at $104.68 per barrel with Brent serving as the benchmark (we’ll explain different benchmarks later in this article). That’s a drop of $4.08 compared with yesterday morning and around $40.46 higher than the price one year ago. Oil price per barrel % Change Price of oil yesterday $108.76 -3.75% Price of oil 1 month ago $99.89 +4.79% Price of oil 1 year ago $64.22 +63.00% Price of oil yesterday Oil price per barrel $108.76 % Change -3.75% Price of oil 1 month ago Oil price per barrel $99.89 % Change +4.79% Price of oil 1 year ago Oil price per barrel $64.22 % Change +63.00% Will oil prices go up? It’s impossible to forecast oil prices with detailed precision. Many different elements affect the market, but ultimately it boils down to supply and demand. When worries about economic recession, war, and other large-scale disruptions increase, oil’s path can shift fast. How oil prices translate to gas pump prices Gas prices at the pump don’t only track crude oil. They also include what it takes to refine and move that fuel, the taxes layered on top, and the extra markup your local station adds to stay in business. Since crude oil generally makes up a majority of the per-gallon cost, changes in its price have an outsized impact. When oil surges, gas prices typically rise in tandem. But when oil retreats, gas prices often lag on the way down, a trend sometimes described as “rockets and feathers.” The role of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve In case of emergency, the U.S. has a store of crude oil known as the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Its primary purpose is energy security in case of disaster (think sanctions, severe storm damage, even war). But it can also go a long way toward softening crippling price hikes during supply shocks. It’s not a long-term answer and is more meant to provide temporary relief, assisting consumers and keeping critical parts of the economy running, like key industries, emergency services, public transportation, etc. How oil and natural gas prices are linked Both oil and natural gas are key sources of the energy we use every day. Because of this, a big change in oil prices can affect natural gas. For example, if oil prices increase, some industries may swap natural gas for some segments of their operations where possible, which increases demand for natural gas. Historical performance of oil To gauge oil’s performance, we often turn to two benchmarks: Brent crude oil , the main global oil benchmark.\n\n, the main global oil benchmark. West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the main benchmark of North America Between these two, Brent better represents global oil performance because it prices much of the world’s traded crude. And, it’s often the best way to track historical oil performance. In fact, even the U.S. Energy Information Administration now uses Brent as its primary reference in its Annual Energy Outlook. Looking at the Brent benchmark across several decades, oil has been anything but steady. It’s seen spikes due to factors such as wars and supply cuts, and it’s also seen crashes from global recessions and an oversupply (called a “glut”). For example: The early 1970s brought the first big oil shock when the Middle East cut exports and imposed an embargo on the U.S. and others during the Yom Kippur War.\n\nPrices dropped in the mid-1980s for reasons such as lower demand and more non-OPEC oil producers entering the industry.\n\nPrices spiked again in 2008 with increased global demand, but it soon plummeted alongside the global financial crisis.\n\nDuring the 2020 COVID lockdown, oil demand collapsed like never before—bringing prices below $20 per barrel. All to say, oil’s historical performance has been anything but smooth. Again, it’s hugely affected by wars, recessions, OPEC whims, evolving energy initiatives and policies, and much more. Energy coverage from Fortune Looking to stay up-to-date regarding the latest energy developments? Check out our recent coverage: 2025 was a turning point for your electricity bill and it’s just getting more expensive from here\n\nPrices at the pump hit $4 a gallon in all 50 states\n\nHow the Iran war is changing the global energy map Frequently asked questions How is the current price of oil per barrel actually determined? The current price of oil per barrel depends largely on supply and demand, including news about potential future supply and demand (geopolitics, decisions made by OPEC+, etc.). In the U.S., prices also move based on how friendly an administration is to drilling, as it can affect future supply. For example, 2025 saw the Trump administration move to reopen more than 1.5 million acres in the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas leasing, reversing the Biden administration’s policy of limiting oil drilling in the Arctic. How often does the price of oil change during the day? The price of oil updates constantly when the “futures” markets are open. A futures market is effectively an auction where people agree to buy or sell oil in the future. As long as people and companies are trading contracts, the oil price is changing. How does U.S. shale oil production affect the current price of oil? In short, shale is rock that contains oil and natural gas. Think of shale as energy yet to be tapped. The more shale the U.S. accesses, the more energy we’ll have—and the more easily oil prices can keep from spiking as much thanks to a greater supply. How does the current price of oil impact inflation and the broader economy? When oil is expensive, it tends to make everyday items cost more. This can be related to energy (your heating, gas utilities, etc.), but it’s also due to the logistics involved with making those items accessible to you. Shipping, for example, can affect the price of things at the grocery store, as it’s more expensive to get those products from warehouses and farms onto the shelf. The Fortune 500 Innovation Forum will convene Fortune 500 executives, U.S. policy officials, top founders, and thought leaders to help define what’s next for the American economy, Nov. 16-17 in Detroit. Apply here. will convene Fortune 500 executives, U.S. policy officials, top founders, and thought leaders to help define what’s next for the American economy, About the Author By Joseph Hostetler Staff Writer, Personal Finance Commerce Joseph is a staff writer on Fortune's personal finance commerce team. He's covered personal finance since 2016, previously serving as a reporter and editor at sites like Business Insider and The Points Guy. He has also contributed to major outlets such as AP News, CNN, Newsweek, and many more. See full bio Right Arrow Button Icon"
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