MIT Sloan School of Management
Digital Marketing Analytics
Discover how digital channels can be leveraged to optimize marketing spend.
Start date
07 April 2021
Enroll by 30 March 2021
Course duration
6 weeks
Excluding orientation
Language
English
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Effort
6–8 hours per week
Self-paced learning online
Course overview
The increase in website traffic from a consumer packaged goods company that started using data with AI to customize content and offer a more personalized experience.
MIT Sloan Management Review (Jun, 2019).
Data shows that, in eight weeks, we jumped five years forward in consumer and business digital adoption due to COVID-19 forcing many companies to digitize at least part of their business.
McKinsey (Oct, 2020)
Duration: 6 weeks (excluding orientation)
Digital technologies have reshaped marketing, leading to a drastic shift in the quality and quantity of information we can store, access, and analyze. This proliferation of data allows businesses to better understand and react to consumer patterns. However, it also increases the need to evolve measurement, planning, and implementation of their marketing activity. Companies require skilled professionals who are equipped to ensure optimal return on investment (ROI) for marketing spend, and to deliver valuable insights that drive better customer service.
The MIT Sloan Digital Marketing Analytics online short course unpacks how to leverage measurement and analysis within your digital marketing strategy. With a focus on analytics-based marketing, you will assess the latest applications of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and predictive modeling that will help drive ROI for campaigns.
Is this course for you?
Digital media and analytics tools have transformed traditional marketing theory and practice, making this course valuable to anyone working within the field or aspiring to a marketing career. This MIT Sloan digital marketing program is designed to give you the opportunity to close the gaps in your analytical knowledge and skills. If you’re involved in the field of marketing, this online course will help to supplement your level of expertise and offer an opportunity for career growth, or increase your attractiveness to potential employers. If you’re the owner of a small business, this program aims to help develop your ability to generate sales and improve revenue. This program is also aimed at validating the data analytics skills of established marketing professionals with an MIT Sloan certificate of completion.
Course overview
Introduction
Duration: 6 weeks (excluding orientation)
Digital technologies have reshaped marketing, leading to a drastic shift in the quality and quantity of information we can store, access, and analyze. This proliferation of data allows businesses to better understand and react to consumer patterns. However, it also increases the need to evolve measurement, planning, and implementation of their marketing activity. Companies require skilled professionals who are equipped to ensure optimal return on investment (ROI) for marketing spend, and to deliver valuable insights that drive better customer service.
The MIT Sloan Digital Marketing Analytics online short course unpacks how to leverage measurement and analysis within your digital marketing strategy. With a focus on analytics-based marketing, you will assess the latest applications of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and predictive modeling that will help drive ROI for campaigns.
Is this course for you?
Digital media and analytics tools have transformed traditional marketing theory and practice, making this course valuable to anyone working within the field or aspiring to a marketing career. This MIT Sloan digital marketing program is designed to give you the opportunity to close the gaps in your analytical knowledge and skills. If you’re involved in the field of marketing, this online course will help to supplement your level of expertise and offer an opportunity for career growth, or increase your attractiveness to potential employers. If you’re the owner of a small business, this program aims to help develop your ability to generate sales and improve revenue. This program is also aimed at validating the data analytics skills of established marketing professionals with an MIT Sloan certificate of completion.
What will set you apart
Hands-on experience in applying analytics tools and techniques to real-world marketing problems.
An understanding of the potential and current application of machine learning and artificial intelligence for digital marketing.
The ability to recommend ROI-optimization strategies for digital marketing campaigns.
A digital marketing plan for an efficient campaign optimization that is grounded in consumer data and research.Course curriculum
Orientation module
Welcome to your Online Campus
Module 1
Understanding the digital marketing channel mix
Module 2
Implementing integrated digital marketing
Module 3
Understanding predictive analytics and predictive marketing
Module 4
Interpreting data for predictive modeling
Module 5
Optimizing return on investment (ROI)
Module 6
The future of integrated digital marketing: Video, mobile, and AI
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Faculty Director
Sinan Aral
David Austin Professor of Management, Marketing, IT and Data Science, MIT; Director, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy; Founding Partner, Manifest Capital
Earn a certificate of completion from MIT Sloan
Learn to apply data analytics knowledge to enhance your digital marketing efforts, and earn an official certificate of completion from MIT Sloan.
This program also counts towards an MIT Sloan Executive Certificate, which you can earn upon completion of four programs where at least three of the four come from your chosen certificate track and at least one is completed in person. Find full details here.
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