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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Digital Marketing: Customer Engagement Strategy

This course examines how modern digital marketing integrates technology, creativity, and analytics to shape discovery, competition, and customer experience across digital and physical channels. Through a progression from foundational strategy to content, ecosystem integration, and artificial intelligence, the course explores how brands build trust, deliver value, and drive measurable growth in the contemporary digital marketplace. Module 1 introduces the foundations of modern digital marketing strategy (i.e., how digitization reshapes discovery, competition, and consumer experience across online and physical channels). Module 2 builds on this foundation by exploring how content is designed for multi-audience environments where people, algorithms, and generative AI all “read” and respond to information differently. Module 3 examines the integration of paid, organic, and influencer activities into unified ecosystems that turn storytelling and trust into measurable growth. Module 4 concludes by showing how artificial intelligence transforms service delivery, where data, empathy, and automation combine to create more personalized and anticipatory customer experiences. Together, these modules chart how technology, creativity, and analytics converge to define success in the modern digital marketplace.

Status: Data Visualization
Status: Marketing Strategy and Techniques
BeginnerCourse13 hours

Featured reviews

LD

5.0Reviewed Dec 31, 2016

Great course! Give you new thoughts on Consumer Behaviour by using what you learn about marketing analytics. Want to learn more! Can't wait to get to the "practice" in the next course.

OA

5.0Reviewed Feb 29, 2016

I really enjoyed this course. I liked the professor's teaching style as well as the materials the course provided. All the knowledge I've got from the course helps me when I do research online.

JL

5.0Reviewed Oct 17, 2019

It´s been a great experience to follow the course. It really helps to have a very good understanding of the key principles of the Marketing Digital. Really enjoyed the way of learning !

MQ

4.0Reviewed Jan 7, 2019

Some of the case study is a bit long time back, still helpful but maybe it will be more effective to read recent theories and articles and researches. Thank you for this great platform.

VB

5.0Reviewed Apr 16, 2018

Well, this is great course since I did it online, but the material well covered and the lecturer give clear and interesting material through video. I will take another course after this. Thank you.

AV

4.0Reviewed Nov 8, 2021

I​ looove the course! Though there were some mistakes in the powerpoint and in the practice quiz (they were repeated or talks about a different topic) at the very end but that's alright!

HS

4.0Reviewed Aug 27, 2019

Very valuable knowledge about digital marketing analytics and web analytics taught during this course, however some of the supplemental reading materials requires premium subscription

EB

5.0Reviewed Feb 19, 2016

I really think this is the best Introduction for any beginner who needs to start learning about Digital Analytics. Thank you Prof Kevin for all the information and resources you provided us !

BM

5.0Reviewed Oct 9, 2019

Very interesting. Kevin explains things really well and introduces complex concepts clearly. I learned a lot from the peer review process -- seeing how other students respond to the exercises.

SC

5.0Reviewed Jun 3, 2020

I enjoyed learning about the theories behind digital marketing and what all goes into it. I liked how I could see the lessons learned in the class applying to my own life as a consumer.

SR

4.0Reviewed Sep 1, 2020

A very well covered course. However, it would have been great if examples and best practices were included depicting the use of various digital techniques in a bit more detail. Regards.

ML

5.0Reviewed Nov 23, 2021

Very good insight in to theory of DMA terminology and review of tools that could be potentially used. Helped me to broaden my perspective and understanding of Digital marketing analytics.

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