Online ExpertTrack in Business & Management

Digital Marketing Analytics and Measurement

Understand how to use web and channel analytics to plan, implement and optimise effective digital marketing campaigns.

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The Open UniversityThe Open University

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Target InternetTarget Internet

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Learn to measure and analyse web analytics to drive your digital marketing

Using web analytics is key in helping you develop a successful digital marketing strategy to grow your business.

Over ten weeks, this ExpertTrack will give you the skills you need to use and interpret web and channel analytics reports to plan and optimise your digital marketing. This knowledge will help you become a more strategic, data-driven marketer.

Develop web analytics skills to achieve your digital marketing objectives

You’ll discover the core principles of web analytics, how to set digital marketing objectives and how to turn them into analytics goals. Using practical guidance, you’ll learn how to use Google Analytics, including how to set up goals, and create reports and dashboards. You’ll also build your knowledge of analytics tracking using Google Tag Manager and explore advanced features and technical considerations.

Your learning will cover Google Analytics 4 (GA4), which is similar to many other commercial analytics packages, so the principles you learn will be transferable.

Explore Google Analytics reports and go beyond last-click attribution

Diving deeper, you’ll learn how to interpret and analyse web and channel analytics reports and use attribution modelling reports to see how different channels and content contributes to your end goals. You’ll be guided on how to draw out better insights, so you can feed them into your planning and optimise your marketing activity.

Use analytics dashboards to take a data-centric approach to planning

Finally, you’ll learn about creating and using Google Analytics dashboards. These will inform your channel planning and uncover insights that may be missed in web or channel analytics. This will help you better understand the value of your digital marketing and interactions between channels.

By the end, you’ll know how to set effective digital objectives and take a data-driven approach to optimise your digital marketing.

Learn about web analytics with digital marketing experts

You’ll learn from Target Internet, who have provided expertise for the BBC, Sony, Tesco, Vodafone, Mercedes, L’Oréal and Warner Bros. You’ll benefit from practical and hands-on training content and best practice approaches to develop in-demand key skills.

The courses in this ExpertTrack are designed to complement each other, so it’s recommended that you take them in the order presented to develop your knowledge effectively.

Industry statistics

  • Median base salary

    £42,500
  • UK job openings/month

    1,966

Key skills you will learn

  • Set up analytics goals for successful digital marketing
  • Set up analytics tracking using Tag Manager
  • Analyse web analytics using Google Analytics 4
  • Interpret channel analytics and conduct analysis
  • Analytics tracking using Google Tag Manager
  • Use reporting dashboards to gain insights
  • Technical awareness to help you engage with developers
  • Channel and website analytics planning

Learning outcomes

By the end of the ExpertTrack, you’ll be able to...

  • Interpret and understand web analytics reports
  • Interpret and understand channel analytics reports
  • Analyse analytics to plan digital marketing activity
  • Analyse analytics to optimise current activity
  • Produce digital marketing objectives

Experience required

This ExpertTrack is ideal for anyone who would like to deepen their understanding of web analytics. You may benefit from having a basic understanding of digital marketing channels to join, and any work experience will help contextualise your learning.

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

If you are looking to gain introductory digital marketing skills, see our ExpertTrack Introduction to Digital Marketing.

Getting started

This ExpertTrack will help anyone who would like to use web and channel analytics to get more from their digital marketing activity.

The courses are suitable for those who want to grow their digital marketing skills; traditional marketers and communicators who would like to accelerate their digital skills; or more experienced marketers who want to cement their knowledge and learn latest trends.

The content has a global focus and the skills you will learn can be applied to a wide range of marketing roles around the world.

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World-class learning with 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

World-class learning with 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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