Digital Advertising Certification Course:
Digital Advertising Certification: Develop a Winning Online Advertising Strategy
Discover how to create remarkable digital ads in HubSpot Academy’s Digital Advertising Certification Course. Learn how to strategize and plan paid media campaigns, target the right audience, and optimize ad conversion paths. Grow your skills in social media and programmatic advertising!
Who is this for?
- Small business owners looking to refine their digital advertising knowledge to drive buyer conversions
- Advertising and marketing professionals seeking to refine ad conversion strategies and tactics
- Individuals interested in digital advertising and excited to develop skills in the field
What you'll learn
- Create effective digital advertising campaigns that convert at different stages of the buyer’s journey
- Learn advertising best practices and strategies across multiple platforms, from social media platforms to Google Ads
- Evaluate the performance and success of your digital ad campaigns
Includes
Content Marketing Lead Generation Social Media
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Instructors

Corey Braccialini
Corey is a content creator who is passionate about teaching people how to do complicated things in simple ways. Corey received an M.S. in Digital Marketing Strategy from Trinity College Dublin and is inspired by using new technologies to solve timeless problems. On the weekends, you can find Corey drinking a pint of local craft beer while thinking of ways to reduce flywheel friction.

Davis Mastin
Davis hails from Chattanooga, Tennessee and is a Product Manager at HubSpot. He is committed to helping HubSpot customers develop and execute meaningful inbound marketing strategies that will resonate with their consumers. He is an active kickball player, loves scary movies, and has been known to cut a rug or two.

Gaurav Nihalani
Gaurav enjoys working with others who are passionate, confident, humorous and genuine. In his role at LinkedIn, he has the pleasure of working with many people fitting this description. His career consists of utilizing LinkedIn's robust data set and media platform to bring targeted audiences the content they care about.

Melissa McKay
Melissa McKay is the Director of Display at Booyah Advertising, a full service digital agency in Denver, Colorado. Melissa is the lead subject matter expert for the display channel, which, at Booyah, includes banner, video, native, audio, digital out of home, and paid email advertising. She is responsible for the thought leadership, strategic direction, training and onboarding of staff members, and application of learnings within display advertising. Originally hailing from Chicago, Illinois,…

Samantha Noble
Samantha Noble is the Founder of Biddable Moments, a Paid Media Consultancy Agency dedicated to helping brands and agencies increase their revenue through PPC and Paid Social. They have helped many brands across the UK and US including Tenpin, Roland Mouret, OKA, Leisure Jobs and the University of Southampton to name a few. She can often be found speaking at leading conferences across the world sharing her knowledge on all things paid media related. In 2019, she launched her first online course…

Tom Hammel
Tom became well acquainted with Wpromote while partnering with them as a Googler on profit-driven marketing. After spending six years building partnerships and sales revenue in Silicon Valley, he returned to his native SoCal to lead Wpromote's Paid Media teams. Tom is responsible for delivering fully-integrated, profit-driven advertising services across paid channels to accelerate bottom-line growth for clients. When he's not geeking out about customer lifetime value modeling, you'll find him…

Costas Tsiappourdhi
Having joined Brainlabs in 2016 as part of an early iteration of the graduate scheme, Costas has moved from account manager, account director, strategy lead to Head of Strategy and Planning where he now acts to ensure Brainlabs' client strategies are best-in-class across the agency.

Kirk Williams
Kirk is the owner of ZATO, his Paid Search micro-agency of experts, and has been working in Digital Marketing since 2009. He has been named one of the Top 25 Most Influential PPCers in the world by PPC Hero the past 4 years, and is known for his Ecommerce PPC articles across various industry publications. He is one of the revolving hosts of the weekly #PPCChat on Twitter, as well as an international conference speaker presenting on all things Paid Search (especially Shopping Ads). Kirk…

Richard Cliffton
Rich is a Head of Biddable at Brainlabs, the smartest digital marketing agency in the world! He is responsible for a division of 50 paid social, search and programmatic display specialists, working on some really interesting clients such as F1 and Financial Times. His goal is to truly understand the challenges that his clients are facing, then build bespoke, cross-functional teams that can deliver real value to businesses. When he isn't marketing, he loves to DJ!

Brandon Sanders
Brandon is an acquisition marketing manager for HubSpot, who loves to learn and teach others. Having obtained a degree in Digital Technology and Culture, with years of experience working in B2B SaaS, Brandon is highly skilled in digital marketing. In his free time, Brandon spends time exploring the great outdoors, building computers, and watching Netflix.

Dayne Topkin
Dayne is a versatile content professional born and raised in South Africa who focuses on solving challenging user problems through content and education. By day, he sits on the HubSpot Academy team, creating educational content on topics related to marketing, sales, and service. And by night, he’s a blend of storyteller, UX writer, and content designer who geeks out identifying user needs and finding the right content to meet those needs.

Eddie Shleyner
Eddie Shleyner is a direct-response copywriter, content marketer, and the founder of VeryGoodCopy.com.

Jorie Munroe
Hailing from the wintry north of Vermont, Jorie is a data nerd in perpetual search of cheeky banter and caffeine. When not exploring with their husband and aussiedoodle, they're typically trying to keep their houseplants alive (and probably failing) and listening to a podcast about ghosts and ghouls. Sour candy connoisseur and wannabe mead-maker.

Josh Chang
Josh manages the global analytics team supporting Acquisition and Paid Marketing at HubSpot. With nearly 10 years of experience running digital advertising campaigns and managing marketing analytics pipelines, he has extensive experience with digital advertising channels as well as analytics and measurement platforms. In his free time, he’s a marathon runner, skier, and sake consumer.

Jocelyn Chen
Jocelyn Chen is a Senior Analytics & Strategic Partner Lead at Seer Interactive. When she's not working with teams to help optimize and prove the value of their digital efforts, Jocelyn can be found plotting her next baking endeavor or escaping to the beach with her e-reader.

Jen Stefancik
Jennifer Brault is a manager on the HubSpot Brand Social Team. Her marketing career has spanned acquisition, brand marketing, social media marketing, and content marketing. She is passionate about mentoring and teaching brands how to grow their social media accounts.

Jami Oetting
Jami Oetting is the Director of Brand & Editorial at HubSpot. She oversees social, communications, podcasts, and advertising and works with her team to develop brand narratives that educate and inspire.
Curriculum

Setting the Foundation for Digital Advertising Strategy
Lesson - 17 min
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Lesson instructor: Corey Braccialini Digital advertising can work alongside your organic marketing efforts to maximize impact. In this lesson, you'll learn how content marketing fundamentals can be applied to digital advertising and gain access to HubSpot Academy's Digital Advertising Workbook.
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Getting Started With Journey-Based Advertising
Lesson - 20 min
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Lesson instructor: Davis Mastin Developing a digital advertising strategy is crucial to businesses looking to build brand awareness, expand their reach, and drive revenue. Whether you are new to advertising or looking to amplify your current efforts, learn how to get started building a journey-based advertising plan.
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How to Strategize and Plan Your Paid Media Campaigns
Lesson - 29 min
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Lesson instructor: Corey Braccialini Great digital advertisements have a well-thought-out campaign behind it. In this lesson, you'll learn how to strategize and plan your paid media campaigns by identifying your target audience, setting your goals and objectives, and more.
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How to Use Targeted Advertising
Lesson - 18 min
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Lesson instructor: Brandon Sanders Across the various advertising platforms, there are three key types of ad targeting, including demographic targeting, behavioral targeting, and contextual targeting. In this lesson, you'll learn the difference between each of these targeting strategies and understand how they fit into your digital advertising strategy.
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Mastering the Art of Ad Copy, Creative, and Conversion
Lesson - 27 min
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Lesson instructor: Dayne Topkin An optimized conversion path is the key to a successful digital advertising strategy. In this lesson, you'll learn how to communicate the value of your offer, design your ad creative, and optimize your conversion path.
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Introduction to Social Media Advertising
Lesson - 27 min
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Lesson instructor: Corey Braccialini There are a lot of options out there when it comes to social media advertising. In this lesson, you’ll learn about the advertising options that are available across multiple platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, Snapchat, and TikTok. Plus, you’ll learn best practices for creating remarkable digital ads for social media and see examples of effective social media ads in action.
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Introduction to Paid Search Advertising
Lesson - 18 min
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Lesson instructor: Corey Braccialini When it comes to paid search advertising, Google is by far the most popular option. In this lesson, you’ll learn how paid advertising on search engines works and how to get started with advertising on Google. Plus, you’ll learn best practices for creating remarkable digital ads for paid search and see examples of effective paid search ads in action.
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Advanced Google Ads Strategies
Lesson - 13 min
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Lesson instructor: Jorie Munroe Once you understand the basics of Google Ads, dive into the advanced Google Ads strategies to create high-performing ad campaigns. In this lesson, you'll learn the ins and outs of Google Ads extensions, dive deeper into the Google auction, and learn how to diagnose and optimize your campaigns.
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What is Programmatic Advertising and How Does It Work?
Lesson - 15 min
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Lesson instructor: Corey Braccialini Programmatic advertising is the automated buying and selling of digital ads. In this lesson, you'll learn how programmatic advertising works, the types of programmatic media buying, understand the programmatic advertising channels, and be introduced to the ad platforms.
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How to Monitor and Report on Ad Performance
Lesson - 33 min
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Lesson instructor: Corey Braccialini Digital advertising does more than just receive clicks or drive website traffic. They are a fundamental element of driving revenue and growing a business. In this lesson, you'll learn what attribution models are, how to build and scale your reports, measure and communicate return on investment, and launch experiments to improve your performance.
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Digital Advertising Certification Course Next Steps
Lesson - 11 min
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Course transcript
Digital Advertising Certification Course: Introduction Video [Transcript]
Hi there, I'm Corey with HubSpot Academy. Welcome to the Digital Advertising Certification Course. The chances are that you're here to learn how to create a digital advertising strategy that not only drives business value, but that also delights your audience.
So what exactly is digital advertising? Digital advertising is a targeted, data-driven advertising strategy that reaches consumers online at every stage of the buyer's journey, including awareness, consideration, and decision stages. Think of social media, paid search, display advertising, and more. Digital advertising across platforms can work together to drive leads, nurture contacts, and generate revenue for your business. But let's be honest, digital advertising doesn't have the best reputation among consumers. In fact, consumers are actively avoiding ads. But I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Consumers don't hate ads. They hate bad ads. Can you guess the number one reason why consumers report disliking ads? They find ads both annoying and disruptive. But here's the thing, digital advertising doesn't have to be this way.
Enter a digital advertising strategy that's inspired by the inbound methodology. By completing the certification course, you'll receive a globally recognized credential that shows the world that you know how to do digital advertising the inbound way. In this course, you'll learn how to use digital advertising across the buyer's journey, what targeting strategies are, and how to use them. You will also learn how to strategize your paid media campaigns by learning how to create ad copy, design creative, and build a conversion path. Additionally, you'll learn, how to advertise on social media channels and how to do paid search advertising. Advanced strategies for advertising on Google, what programmatic advertising is, and how it works. How to evaluate the performance of your digital advertising campaigns. Plus, throughout the course, you'll hear from industry-leading experts and have access to guides, templates, and additional resources along the way.
Once you get started, be sure to download the digital advertising workbook. It contains a series of practical exercises associated with each lesson in this course. As you work your way through the course, consider completing each practical exercise as you go. Anyone who completes the workbook will have a complete strategy ready to be implemented for their own business. Plus, this workbook is a great resource to add to your portfolio and to show prospective employers. One last thing before we get started. As you know, this course is produced by HubSpot Academy. But not only is HubSpot a leader and marketing education, HubSpot also offers several free tools to help marketers scale and grow a business, including ads management. By signing up for this course, you will also have access to all of HubSpot's free tools. If you want to get hands-on digital advertising practice, be sure to learn more about HubSpot's free tools in the resources section during the course. Now, are you ready to dive into the Digital Advertising Certification Course? Best of luck and I'll see you there.