# Feature Announcement Localization | Vitra.ai > Announcements are time-sensitive and go to every market at once. What to translate, what to hold, and how to avoid announcing something a market cannot use. **Canonical URL**: https://www.vitra.ai/saas/feature-announcement-localization **Source**: This is the Markdown rendering of https://www.vitra.ai/saas/feature-announcement-localization, generated at build time from that page. --- 3 min read # Feature Announcement Localization Announcements are time-sensitive and go to every market at once. What to translate, what to hold, and how to avoid announcing something a market cannot use. [Samhitha J Bhatt](https://www.vitra.ai/author/samhitha) Senior Product Manager , Vitra.ai Updated Aug 17, 2026 ![Feature Announcement Localization](https://www.vitra.ai/static/images/blog/feature-announcement-localization.jpg) Table of contents [Announcing what a market cannot use](#announcing-what-a-market-cannot-use) [What goes in each language](#what-goes-in-each-language) [Simultaneous, or staged deliberately](#simultaneous-or-staged-deliberately) [Reuse the same words everywhere](#reuse-the-same-words-everywhere) [Measure adoption, not reach](#measure-adoption-not-reach) [FAQ](#faq) Contributors [Samhitha J Bhatt](https://www.vitra.ai/author/samhitha) Senior Product Manager Subscribe to our newsletter Subscribe > **Quick answer —** Announce simultaneously or not at all, and check availability per market first. The common failure is telling customers about a feature that is not enabled in their region or not available in their language.[Vitra.ai Universe](https://www.vitra.ai/platform) ships product and customer content in every language. ## Announcing what a market cannot use The damaging failure is not a late translation. It is telling a customer about something they cannot have. A feature gated by region, held behind a plan not sold in that market, or shipping with an English-only interface is not an announcement in that language — it is an advertisement for a gap. Check availability before scope. It takes a conversation and prevents the support tickets that follow. ## What goes in each language Element Translate What the feature does Yes Who it is for Yes How to turn it on Yes, with localized help links Feature name Usually not — [see naming](https://www.vitra.ai/saas/saas-feature-naming) Screenshots Only if the UI is localized Availability caveats Yes, and prominently The last row is what keeps the announcement honest. If a feature is English-only for now, say so in the announcement rather than letting the customer discover it. ## Simultaneous, or staged deliberately Publishing in English on Tuesday and other languages the following week teaches every non-English customer to read the English feed. Either ship together — which means the announcement enters the translation workflow before it is final, the same discipline as a [multilingual content calendar](https://www.vitra.ai/general/multilingual-content-calendar) — or publish a short translated summary at the same time and link to the English detail. The second is honest and cheap. Silence in a language is neither. ## Reuse the same words everywhere An announcement, the release note, the help article and the in-product tooltip all describe the same feature and are usually written by different people at different times. One [memory](https://www.vitra.ai/features/translation-memory) is what stops that becoming four descriptions, and [quality control](https://www.vitra.ai/features/quality-control) catches the claims before they go out in nine languages at once. ## Measure adoption, not reach Views tell you the announcement was seen. Feature adoption in that market tells you it worked, and it is the number that reveals whether the feature was genuinely usable there. ## FAQ **What should be checked before translating a feature announcement?** Whether the feature is actually available in that market — not region-gated, on a plan sold there, and usable in that language. Announcing something a customer cannot use creates support tickets. **Should announcements ship in all languages at once?** Yes, or publish a short translated summary simultaneously and link to the English detail. Publishing English first teaches non-English customers to follow the English feed instead. **Should feature names be translated in announcements?** Usually not. The name should match the product, the help centre and the release note, so translating it in the announcement alone creates a second name for the same thing. **What measures announcement success in a market?** Feature adoption in that market rather than views. 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