Campaign Planning and Optimization

Overview

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This course is targeted towards digital marketers, advertising professionals, business owners, marketing students, freelancers, and third-party businesses seeking skills to plan and optimize digital campaigns. Campaign planning refers to the process of documenting the steps of a marketing or advertising campaign and how they will be implemented. Learning to effectively engage in campaign planning can unlock your brand’s potential by working backwards from customer experiences and interests, as well by tapping Amazon Ads insights to plan, buy, and optimize media. This course will teach you how to strategically leverage Amazon Ads solutions to meet campaign goals and accomplish day-to-day tasks in strategy and planning roles.

Syllabus

Campaign Planning

This module will measure your proficiency in strategically leveraging Amazon Ads solutions toward meeting campaign goals and day-to-day tasks in strategy and planning roles. Topics include campaign planning using audience tools, using retail insights to make decisions on campaign strategy, and identifying strategies to meet both long and short-term goals.

Campaign optimization

This module builds on the topics learned in module 1, focused on more advanced campaign strategy, reporting, and optimization for sponsored ads, Amazon DSP, and cross-product campaigns. Topics include campaign goals and metrics, retail insights, cross-product strategy, and planning for key shopping moments throughout the year.

Video Ads

This module focuses on Amazon video ads offerings. Topics include an introduction to video ads, how to incorporate video into your advertising portfolio, video ads audiences, and video ads reporting and measurement.

Capstone Project

Sponsored ads can help ensure you engage customers at every stage of their shopping journey. In this activity, you will optimize a Sponsored Brands campaign for a key shopping period. First, you will read a client brief. Then, using this client brief, you will develop an advertising strategy for a sponsored ads campaign. You’ll build your recommendations around the brand’s advertising goals and the best practices you’ve learned about in the course. As you complete this activity, we will provide you “example” answers as feedback. These may not include all the possible answers. The feedback is there to give you an idea of what could be correct and the quality expected from your work. All details about Organique and any campaign performance are fictional and intended for educational purposes only.