Creative Marketing with Advertising Week and Fernando Machado
Learn creative marketing from award-winning marketer Fernando Machado and upskill in branding, ads, social media and podcasts.
387 enrolments
Duration
Approx 8 weeks3 hrs per week
Creative Marketing with Advertising Week and Fernando Machado
387 enrolled on this ExpertTrack
Learn with Advertising Week how to produce great creative work that moves people
This ExpertTrack from Advertising Week will supercharge your professional marketing skills as you explore the real-life strategies behind successful brands.
Guided by experienced marketing specialists like award-winning innovator and ex-global CMO at Burger King, Fernando Machado, you’ll further your career as a marketer by exploring specialist areas you may not have had the confidence to tackle before.
Whether you’re new to the marketing industry or you have been a marketing professional for years, this ExpertTrack is a masterclass in essential creative marketing skills.
Develop your branding and creative strategy
Learning from Fernando Machado, one of the most famous and decorated marketers in the world, you’ll go behind the scenes to discover how to carry off a branding project.
From initial ideas to getting stakeholders on board, you’ll understand how to brand your business and examine real-life examples to see effective strategies in action.
Launch a successful advertising campaign
Many ad campaigns underperform due to the marketers being unclear on what success looks like. You’ll overcome this obstacle as you learn what it takes to create a high-performing advertising campaign.
From examining types of advertising and piecing together different campaigns based on desired outcomes, right through to learning how to measure campaign performance, you’ll be able to identify the steps to take towards success.
Build skills in social media marketing
Social channels are a powerful marketing avenue for online promotion for both businesses and individuals. You’ll learn how to tap into the potential of social media marketing and discover how to run creative campaigns that get results.
You’ll build your understanding of the strategies and principles you should use as a social media marketing professional to make your online activity more effective.
Delve into audio and podcast marketing
You’ll examine case studies from top industry experts like Spotify to explore the key strategic marketing avenue of audio marketing.
You’ll receive top tips on how to create your audio content and strategy before learning how to successfully execute a full radio marketing campaign.
By the end of this ExpertTrack, you’ll feel confident tackling a range of marketing avenues with greater creativity. You’ll have the skills to implement effective marketing strategies to help promote your business and increase your revenue.
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Key skills you will learn
- marketing
- creativity
- audio
- content
- podcast
- design
- advertising
- marketing strategies
Learning outcomes
By the end of the ExpertTrack, you’ll be able to...
- Investigate the correct branding strategy for your company.
- Assess your brand against its peers in its category.
- Evaluate how to get stakeholders on board with your branding projects.
- Identify a set branding review process for your teams.
- Explore how to collaborate with creative teams.
- Explore how to make your brand work on audio channels such as radio and podcasts.
- Identify how to create branded content and advertising on social media.
- Improve your advertising and creative work.
Experience required
This ExpertTrack is designed for anyone interested in improving their marketing knowledge and you don’t need any prior experience to benefit from joining. It will teach you how to employ greater creativity in your marketing strategies.
Getting started
This ExpertTrack will suit you if you are just beginning your career in marketing and want to build your confidence, or if you already work in marketing and want to upskill in marketing strategies.
ExpertTrack course overview
Course 1
Creative Branding with Advertising Week and Fernando Machado
Learn effective branding strategies from the world's most creative marketer – ex-Burger King CMO Fernando Machado.
1 peer-graded assignment
2 weeks
3 hours per week
Course 2
Advertising and Creative Marketing with Advertising Week
Launch a successful advertising campaign as you learn how to choose the right ad channels to effectively target your customers.
1 peer-graded assignment
2 weeks
3 hours per week
Course 3
Radio and Podcast Marketing with Advertising Week
Analyse successful audio marketing strategies and learn how to create memorable podcast and radio ads that hit marketing goals.
1 peer-graded assignment
2 weeks
3 hours per week
Course 4
Social Media Marketing with Advertising Week
New to social media marketing? Upskill with AWLearn and master how to plan and run powerful social media marketing campaigns.
1 peer-graded assignment
2 weeks
3 hours per week
Prove you're job ready
Highlight the new, job-relevant skills you’ve gained and supplement existing qualifications with a hard-earned, industry-specific digital certificate – plus one for every course within your ExpertTrack.
- Learn the latest in your chosen industry or subject.
- Complete each course and pass assessments.
- Receive certificates validated by the educating organisation.
- Impress employers with learning outcomes you can add to your CV.
- Make your career dreams a reality.
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World-class learning with Advertising Week
AWLearn is the education arm of Advertising Week. Advertising Week is a global thought leadership organization. The AWLearn philosophy is that all our courses and learning follow the same philosophy: Educate, Entertain, Enable. This means our courses offer the educational oversight on a particular topic; we use real-life entertaining case studies featuring professionals who already do these jobs; and show you the tactics that will enable you to get ahead in your career.
Meet your instructors
Managing director for global education at Advertising Week. I run our thought leadership and our learning platform AWLearn.
A supporting educator for the course is Brendan Porter, a practitioner and constantly curious consumer of marketing. Working across a variety of industries including hospitality, CPG and entertainment
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