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title: "Canvas LMS: search popularity worldwide"
description: "Canvas LMS is a learning management system used in New Zealand. Branded searches tell you how often people look for a brand by name or related terms. Comparing these searches across competitors helps you see how popular each brand is over time."
canonical: "https://gobrandwave.com/demand/global-en/brands/canvas-lms"
publisher: "Brandwave"
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# Canvas LMS: search popularity worldwide

Canvas LMS is a learning management system used in New Zealand. Branded searches tell you how often people look for a brand by name or related terms. Comparing these searches across competitors helps you see how popular each brand is over time.

## Key facts

- **Brand**: Canvas LMS
- **Market**: Global
- **Measured month**: Aug 2026
- **Share of Search among learning management systems**: 1.9%

## Where the brand sits

| Competitive set | Rank | Share of Search | Estimated monthly branded searches |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Learning management systems | 4 | 1.9% | 148K |

- [Learning management systems](/demand/global-en/categories/learning-management-systems)

## How has branded search demand for Canvas LMS changed worldwide over the last 12 months?

- Across the 11 months ending August 2026, estimated monthly branded searches for Canvas LMS worldwide fell from 330K to 148K.
- Across the 11 months ending August 2026, Canvas LMS’s estimated Share of Search among learning management systems worldwide peaked at 4.1% in July 2026 and was lowest at 1.7% in November 2025.

## How did search popularity change for learning management systems worldwide in August 2026?

- In August 2026, Schoology overtook Moodle to take the highest estimated Share of Search among learning management systems worldwide, at 53.4%.
- In August 2026, Moodle lost estimated Share of Search among learning management systems worldwide, from 62.5% to 35.8%.
- In August 2026, Canvas LMS lost estimated Share of Search among learning management systems worldwide, from 4.1% to 1.9%.
- In August 2026, D2L lost estimated Share of Search among learning management systems worldwide, from 10.3% to 8.8%.
- Estimated monthly branded searches for Blackboard worldwide fell 18.2% over 11 measured months, from 9.9K to 8.1K in August 2026.

## Historical estimated branded-search demand

| Month | Competitive set | Estimated monthly branded searches | Share of Search | Rank |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Oct 2025 | Learning management systems | 330K | 2.4% | 4 |
| Nov 2025 | Learning management systems | 181K | 1.7% | 4 |
| Dec 2025 | Learning management systems | 330K | 3.7% | 4 |
| Jan 2026 | Learning management systems | 330K | 3.3% | 4 |
| Feb 2026 | Learning management systems | 181K | 1.9% | 4 |
| Mar 2026 | Learning management systems | 220K | 2.1% | 4 |
| Apr 2026 | Learning management systems | 220K | 2.2% | 4 |
| May 2026 | Learning management systems | 220K | 2.5% | 4 |
| Jun 2026 | Learning management systems | 148K | 2.4% | 4 |
| Jul 2026 | Learning management systems | 148K | 4.1% | 4 |
| Aug 2026 | Learning management systems | 148K | 1.9% | 4 |
| Sep 2026 | Learning management systems | — | — | — |

## How is Canvas LMS measured?

Brandwave collects information about searches that people make online using Canvas LMS’s name. When viewed over time, estimated search volumes for these branded terms can be used to understand whether interest in the brand is growing, holding steady, or fading.

- “canvas lms”
- “canvaslms”

## Which learning management systems compete with Canvas LMS?

- [Schoology](/demand/global-en/brands/schoology): Head-to-head: /demand/global-en/compare/canvas-lms-vs-schoology
- [Moodle](/demand/global-en/brands/moodle): Head-to-head: /demand/global-en/compare/canvas-lms-vs-moodle
- [D2L](/demand/global-en/brands/d2l): Head-to-head: /demand/global-en/compare/canvas-lms-vs-d2l
- [Blackboard](/demand/global-en/brands/blackboard): Head-to-head: /demand/global-en/compare/blackboard-vs-canvas-lms

## Methodology

- [How is branded search demand measured?](/demand/methodology): Where the figures come from, what they compare, and how they may be reused.

## Cite this page

Brandwave. "Canvas LMS: search popularity worldwide". https://gobrandwave.com/demand/global-en/brands/canvas-lms

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