Learn how digital advertising connects business objectives, audiences, creative formats, media buying, and performance measurement across the marketing funnel. You will examine display, search, social, video, native, mobile, and programmatic advertising; distinguish the roles of agencies and advertising-technology partners; and use common campaign metrics and spreadsheet calculations to evaluate results. The course emphasizes practical decision-making: selecting formats and placements, interpreting evidence, weighing privacy and targeting tradeoffs, and identifying opportunities to improve creative, budgets, and measurement. Examples of platforms and industry organizations are presented as dated illustrations of broader capabilities, so the concepts remain useful as tools and policies change. By the end, you will be able to explain how digital campaigns work, connect objectives to key performance indicators, and make more defensible advertising recommendations.

Introduction to Digital Advertising

Introduction to Digital Advertising
This course is part of Concepts, Strategies, and Analytics in Performance Marketing and Digital Advertising Specialization

Instructor: Chris J. Vargo
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Identify key digital advertising types in digital advertising
Understand key terms and metrics in digital advertising
Comprehend the advertising lumascape, including: advertising agencies, DSPs, DMPs, and SSPs.
Be critical of pros and cons of various digital platforms, and how to be critical of claims made by demand side platforms
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Reviewed on Jun 26, 2020
An excellent overview of all the aspects of digital advertising for people outside the industry and even people IN the industry (ahem), covering display/video, social, mobile and search advertising.
Reviewed on May 29, 2020
This course really gave me an informative and in-depth (with different sources) introduction to the digital advertising landscape
Reviewed on Feb 24, 2021
In some cases I wish there was more content. Overall, I learned a lot as someone who has no solid base in advertising.
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