Create and Promote Your Presentation with Canva and Issuu

Whether pitching your company's holiday marketing campaign or putting together an investment proposal for the next industry-disrupting start-up, a next-level presentation is a must-have. But keeping your audience’s attention is difficult; the average person's attention span for a presentation is only 8 minutes! To avoid those glossy, blank-eyed stares from your audience, build an eye-catching and engaging presentation with Issuu's app on Canva.

Easily create beautiful slides with free Canva presentation templates and export them into Issuu's all-in-one platform to transform, share, and publish your presentation.

Best Canva Presentation Templates to Use

Forget starting from scratch in PowerPoint or Google Slides. Canva is one of the best PowerPoint alternatives, with thousands of professionally designed templates for marketing campaign pitches, sales decks, and mobile-first presentations.

Take a look at some of our favorite Canva presentation templates.

Marketing Strategy

This dynamic Lifecycle Strategy presentation has everything you need to hype up your team for your next product launch or marketing campaign. It also already has a pre-designed competitive landscape, buyer persona, market position, user journey, and pricing model slides — guaranteed to quickly get your leadership, operations, and sales teams on the same page.

Training and Development

Want your internal sales team to brush up on their latest cold-calling knowledge? This Modern Training and Development presentation is 100% fully customizable to communicate new tactics and encourage implementation.

Interactive Brainstorming

Instead of a one-way conversation, make your presentation an interactive brainstorming session with this playful, creative template on Canva. It includes easy-to-drag-and-drop sticky notes, a mind map for brain dumps, and a competitive analysis worksheet.

Make it Interactive With Issuu's App on Canva

The final touches are in, and you're ready to bring your presentation to life with more interactive elements like music or YouTube videos. Turn your Canva presentation into an Issuu Flipbook by exporting it with Issuu’s app on Canva, and instantly start the next stage of your content creation process in Issuu.

Insert YouTube Videos and Music Into Your Canva Presentation

No more crickets during downtime or long pauses as you wait for a video to load. Dynamically insert a YouTube video into your Canva presentation, keeping your audience engaged and focused on your message. Plus, to set the tone, add music to lighten the mood, somber your audience, or create excitement with audio clips and soundtracks.

How to add music to a Canva presentation:

Select the audio tab on the left-side Canva panel.
Scroll through different music categories or search thousands of different tracks.
Click on an audio to add it to your design. You can even upload your audio from your device.

How to embed a video in Issuu:

Select "Insert video."
Search for your Vimeo or YouTube video.
Hit "Save."

For a splashy product launch, chances are your presentation was full of important graphics, statistics, and customer-facing messaging. A small marketing team means you must be savvy and extra resourceful when repurposing your content across platforms.

With your Issuu Flipbook created you can easily turn your most important highlights into bite-sized Articles. For example, turn your three key messaging points into a shorter blog post or create a teaser of your big idea. Create a scroll-stopping Instagram Story series to walk potential customers through a product sneak peek using Issuu's Social Posts drag-and-drop tool to restyle and reformat in just a few clicks.

Now that you're creating more content in less time, you can focus on repetition and frequency with your audience. Accelerate your marketing distribution by embedding your new presentation on your website with zero technical coding skills required, and then blast your message with a LinkedIn post or an Instagram Story. Plus, embrace being data-driven with Statistics that tell you exactly how your presentation performs. Numbers and data feel intimidating, but Issuu captures it all in visuals chock full of reader demographic and performance data.

Try Advertising Credits as a Marketing Channel

With an Optimum or Teams plan, you get $2,000 in free advertising credits to promote your content via Promoted Reads or Promoted Impressions, helping you reach an even wider audience on Issuu. An extra boost in readership helps share your product or business and build upon brand recognition.

Simplify your creative process and transform your creations with Issuu's app on Canva. Select a free or paid presentation template on Canva to get started, and begin building your slides, copy, and imagery. Once you're finished, export it to Issuu to add another layer of dimensionality with videos, social posts, statistics, and easy embedding for more sharing.