Discover audience targeting options for effective online display advertising

Targeting your online display advertising helps you focus a campaign or ad group on audiences who meet specific criteria so you can increase visibility and ensure adverts resonate with those who see them.

On this two-week course, you’ll be guided through the range of targeting options and what you need to consider to select the best option for your online display campaign to drive a positive return on investment (ROI) from your ad spend.

Explore the different online display ad targeting options

You’ll explore the range of online targeting available, starting with basic options most commonly used in advertising platforms, such as geographic, demographic, and device targeting. Then you’ll move onto contextual advertising, topic and interest-based targeting, lookalike audiences, and retargeting. You’ll also look at the connection between targeting and ad costs.

Learn to choose the right targeting options to improve ad performance

You’ll learn about automatic targeting, programmatic targeting, and how retargeting can be used to help progress audiences through their online journey. You’ll also explore the future of targeting and the use of artificial intelligence (AI) within platforms.

By the end of this course, you’ll know how to select and make the best use of the wide range of online display targeting options and techniques to drive improved campaign results without irritating your audience.

Learn from industry experts, Target Internet, with The Open University

You’ll benefit from practical training content created by digital experts who have years of experience, having worked with leading brands like the BBC, Sony, Tesco, Vodafone, Mercedes, L’Oreal and Warner Bros.

What topics will you cover?

Understand the role of different online display targeting options for different situations
Audience vs. content-based targeting
The targeting and ad cost connection
Demographic, geographic and device targeting
Topic and interest-based targeting
Retargeting and lookalike audience targeting
Automatic targeting and AI in online display advertising

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What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

Identify how different online display targeting should be used in different situations
Explain the range of different online display targeting options available
Describe the role of retargeting and its role in using online display advertising for progressing audiences through their online journey
Explore the future of targeting and the use of AI within online ad platforms

Who is the course for?

This course is ideal for those who are interested in gaining an understanding of online display advertising as part of their overall approach to digital marketing.

It will be of particular interest to anyone wishing to further their studies and practical knowledge of marketing, communications, and business.

Who will you learn with?

Daniel Rowles

MD TargetInternet.com - helping upskill the world's leading organisations in Digital Marketing & Digital Transformation.

Host of the Digital Marketing Podcast, a global top 20 business podcast.

Who developed the course?

The Open University

As the UK’s largest university, The Open University (OU) supports thousands of students to achieve their goals and ambitions via supported distance learning, helping to fit learning around professional and personal life commitments.

Established
1969
Location
Milton Keynes, UK
World ranking
Top 510Source: Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020

Target Internet

Target Internet delivers digital training to some of the world’s leading organisations, as well as building online learning that is used in over 100 countries worldwide. As publishers of the global Digital Marketing Skills Benchmark and the Digital Marketing Podcast, they have unrivalled access to market insights and expertise.

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Gain the skills to create, manage and optimise successful online display advertising campaigns that deliver results.

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