How to Achieve Advertising Cut Through in a Digital Age

Digital advertising has transformed Marketing through sophisticated technology and platforms that has created efficient and effective ways to reach audiences. But with it has also brought a raft of irrelevant and cluttered advertising from advertisers that haven’t applied the right principles and approaches. A lumen study claims that 90% of digital display ads are viewed for less than 1 second. That is a lot of wasted advertising.

That creates an opportunity for advertisers to stand out from the crowd.

The course provides a fast track way to differentiate yourself from the ‘average’ advertiser to make your ads cut through and be distinctive with relevance and meaning.

The course overcomes the most common pitfalls that ‘average’ advertisers fall into such as buying ads without a strategy, spreading too thin across channels and creatives lacking focus, not matching targeting with relevant creative, not segmenting your audience and misattributing what is truly valuable and profitable.

The worlds’ biggest advertisers apply the advertising models, theory, principles and approaches covered in the course.

The course is designed for beginners with some basic knowledge of digital advertising.

At the end of the course delegates will be able to:

1. Apply the right digital advertising principles

2. Be able to create your own audience segmentation

3. Drive personalisation by matching data signals with relevant creative

4. Know how to make your brand culturally relevant

5. Understand creative and targeting best practice across Paid Social, Programmatic Display, Online Video and Search platforms

6. Understand the role of digital channels and which of the 34 ad formats in the course will be relevant to your objectives / KPIs.

7. Know the best in class approach to using influencers to tell your brand story

8. Know how to use different social platforms

9. Know the difference between paid, owned and earned social media and how best to apply them

10. Understand how programmatic display advertising works

11. How to maximise attention spans with online video

12. Understand Best in class approach to paid (PPC) and organic (SEO) search

13. Understand how to plan your remarketing approach

14. Know how to maximise your brand safety measures

15. Know how to create tracking across your user journey

16. Know what to track and when

17. Choose the right attribution model and be able to assign the right value for your campaign

18. Create your own testing plan with hypothesis test

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Frequently Asked Questions

How long do I have access to the course materials?

You can view and review the lecture materials indefinitely, like an on-demand channel.

Can I take my courses with me wherever I go?

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