Using the perfect visual just got easier

Getty Images subscribers can now seamlessly search, license, and integrate the perfect visuals into their Canva designs.

Canva

Getty Images

Integration

Summary

Canva and Getty Images wanted to offer mutual customers a way to access Getty Images content direct from the Canva design editor. Everest partnered with Canva and Getty Images to build a front end app and backend orchestration layer that integrated Canva with Getty’s API. The outcome was a seamless experience that allowed users to focus on creativity, not compliance.

Challenge

Getty Images offers premium, high-quality content, but comes with strict licensing and rights management requirements. Canva needed to:

Integrate Getty’s licensing flows into the Canva editor
Manage compliance without burdening the user
Support creative teams with access to images at the right point in their workflow
Enable a solution that worked seamlessly with Canva’s existing infrastructure

Solution

Everest worked with Canva and Getty Images teams to:

Build an orchestration layer that acts as a proxy between Canva’s frontend/editor and the Getty Images API
Enable real-time licensing, search, and usage rights validation inside the Canva experience
Expose Getty’s licensing engine in a controlled, scalable way that preserves the user experience
Abstract away complexity so users can focus on creativity, not compliance

Our Approach

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Collaborated closely with Canva’s platform, compliance, and product teams

Scoped a clear API layer to simplify downstream integration and accelerate front-end adoption

Delivered in less than a month, with ongoing support to tune and evolve the API post-launch

Ensured compatibility with Canva Pro user flows and internal content validation tools

Technical Highlights

Developed a scalable proxy API layer between Canva and Getty Images platforms
Enabled Canva's editor to trigger rights-checked requests via simple API calls
Built in analytics hooks and traceability for compliance auditing
Normalised Getty's licensing rules into a format that Canva's systems could validate and enforce

Tech stack

Custom proxy and orchestration API
Getty Images licensing API
Canva’s internal content and licensing platforms
Monitoring and logging integrations for rights validation

Results and Impact

Launched to Canva Pro users as part of their licensed content experience
Enabled access to Getty Images without complex license management
Protected Canva and its users by ensuring compliant use of licensed content
Internal teams now have better tools to manage usage rights and approvals

Using the perfect visual just got easier

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Challenge

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Technical Highlights

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Results and Impact

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Using the perfect visual just got easier

Summary

Challenge

Solution

Technical Highlights

Tech stack

Results and Impact

Let us innovate and create together, as a team at Everest!

Or send an email to hi@everest.engineering

++ See more of our work

Using AI to predict what customers actually want before going to market.

Using AI to predict what customers actually want before going to market.

Pick the fun way! c

Let us innovate and create together,
as a team at Everest!