Top updates from 2026
October 2026
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Does local marketing actually drive franchise sales? Here’s what the data says.
Marvia and Franchise Business Review’s 2026 Franchise Marketing Insights survey reveals 91% of franchisors believe HQ marketing support boosts franchisee sales, while 79% say locations participating i…

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New in Marvia: partners can build their own Social Campaigns
Marvia introduced a new capability in Social Campaigns allowing partners and franchisees to run their own paid social campaigns while central teams maintain brand control. Central teams can set guardr…
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How to Balance Brand Consistency and Local Flexibility
Marvia argues that brand consistency in multi-location marketing fails due to execution bottlenecks, not policy. The post highlights how centralized content management, editable templates, and selecti…

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Fall 2026: Marvia AI, Flex Templates, and platform updates | Marvia
Marvia introduced a new AI Assistant that automates file discovery, download, and sharing from its DAM system, reducing routine asset requests for teams. The platform also launched Flex Templates to s…
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Slice of success
Marvia introduced 'Slice of Success,' a free webinar series featuring real franchise marketing campaigns from brands like Boston Pizza and HomeWell Care Services. Episodes focus on practical strategie…

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Marketing a national brand withlocal heart
Boston Pizza generated $7M in sales and raised $600K for local charities on Valentine’s Day 2025 using Marvia’s platform. Franchisees customized on-brand marketing materials via Marvia’s templates and…
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Why franchisees create their own marketing materials, and why HQ should pay attention
Marvia’s research with Franchise Business Review reveals 88% of franchisees create their own marketing content outside HQ-provided materials, primarily due to local fit (29%), slow approvals (25%), an…

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Marvia at FBR Summit 2026
Marvia will attend the FBR Summit 2026 in Austin, TX (Oct 28-30) to showcase franchise marketing insights from a recent study with Franchise Business Review. The company will highlight how its platfor…

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The hidden cost of franchisees going off-script: time, budget, and brand equity
Marvia and Franchise Business Review's 2026 research reveals 88% of franchisees create their own marketing content outside HQ materials, with 80.5% spending 3+ hours weekly on local marketing and 56% …

September 2026
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Franchisees aren't waiting for permission to use AI
A new Franchise Marketing Insights 2026 report by Marvia and Franchise Business Review finds franchisors prioritize AI while franchisees use it to create content not provided by HQ. Localization remai…

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The brand consistency gap isn’t where franchise HQ thinks it is
Marvia and Franchise Business Review’s 2026 research reveals 84% of franchisors have found off-brand content used by franchisees, despite 69% expressing confidence in on-brand execution. The study sho…

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Marvia Analytics
Marvia introduced Marvia Analytics, a centralized dashboard providing real-time insights into content usage, partner engagement, and campaign performance for franchise and multi-location brands. The t…

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Brand Guidelines
Marvia introduced a Brand Guidelines feature that integrates directly into its local marketing platform, linking guidelines to approved assets and templates in a DAM. Updates to guidelines propagate i…

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Local Distribution
Marvia introduced Local Distribution, a feature enabling partners to propagate marketing content across offline and online channels—including out-of-home ads, direct mail, door-to-door, social media, …

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Marketing Shop
Marvia introduced Marketing Shop to consolidate supplier management for franchises and multi-location brands, offering live inventory tracking, approval workflows, and automation like pre-bundled pack…
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Marketing Calendar
Marvia introduced a Marketing Calendar feature to centralize franchise campaign planning, execution, and sharing across hundreds of partners. The tool offers Timeline and Monthly views, one-click asse…

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Jeremiah's Italian Ice
Jeremiah's Italian Ice switched from Marq to Marvia in 2022 to overcome platform limitations in scaling franchise marketing. Marvia’s integrated DAM, Template Studio, and Marketing Shop enabled faster…

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Fletcher Hotels
Fletcher Hotels, a Dutch hotel chain with 110+ locations, adopted Marvia to eliminate a central marketing bottleneck where all requests from hotels were routed through a single team. Marvia enabled ho…

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Dynamic Templates
Marvia introduced Dynamic Templates, enabling partners to create on-brand marketing materials without design skills or central marketing approval. Users customize locked-down templates (social, print,…
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Social Campaigns
Marvia introduced Social Campaigns, a tool that automates the creation, customization, and scheduling of localized social media posts for franchise locations. Using Marvia DNA, it pulls location-speci…

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