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Digital Marketing (2235.YR.015718.1)

General information

Type:

OPT

Curs:

1

Period:

S semester

ECTS Credits:

3 ECTS

Teaching Staff:

Group Teacher Department Language
Year 1 Joando Reverter Guillot Marketing ENG

Prerequisites

A Google account and a Facebook account to access the advertising platforms and tools.

Previous Knowledge

Understanding of basic marketing and communications principles.

Workload distribution

The workload of this 3 ECTS course is distributed among:
- Lectures and discussions in class
- Readings and homework
- Google Skillshop Certificates
- Social Media Advertising quiz
- Group exercise about a company: Public presentation to the class

COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

- Understand how digital influences the consumer and the opportunities for companies and marketing departments, with a special focus on auditing and benchmarking digital media strategies.

- Achieve Google Skillshop Certificates.

- Develop presentation and teamwork skills.

Course Learning Objectives

This hands-on course is designed to provide students with the key principles of digital media marketing and arm them with the necessary skills to evaluate and audit digital marketing activities.

Learning objectives:
- Understand the importance of strategic marketing when implementing digital media activities.
- Learn about the main digital media platforms and tools and become familiar with the terminology used in the field.
- Understand the context of social networks and the role of social media in digital marketing.
- Develop the capability to classify the resources and the knowledge needed to audit digital media strategies.
- Become familiar with self-learning and the use of official resources to stay up to date.
- Develop the capability to work in teams and present in public to enrich the learning experience.

CONTENT

1. Digital Transformation & Digital Marketing (course intro)

2. Customer and search for information

3. SEM: SEO & SEA

4. Social Media Marketing I

5. Social Media Marketing II

6. Digital Advertising Framework

7. Email Marketing, automation and CRM

8. Digital Media Marketing

9. Group presentations

Methodology

- Master classes presenting concepts supported by real life examples
- Introduction to tools and in-class demos
- Class discussions around topics presented
- Homework to learn about specific topics including the Google Search Ads & Meta Ads
- Group presentations to learn a process and teach interesting cases to the rest of the class

ASSESSMENT

ASSESSMENT BREAKDOWN

Description %
Class contribution & attitude 20
Google Analytics Certification 10
Keyword Research Group Exercise 10
Google Search Ads Certification 10
Social Media Advertising Quiz 10
Group Project and presentation 30
Peer evaluation 10

Assessment criteria

Class attendance is mandatory and will be considered in your final grades.
Please note that there is a minimum class attendance required to pass the course according to the "Program Regulations". Hence if the attendance rate is less than an 80% the student will automatically fail the course.
Please check the "Program Regulations" to follow the attendance requirement.
Behaviour during classes will be part of the participation grade, which may be affected if the student does not have the correct attitude during the sessions.

Bibliography

There is no book or physical binder for this course: any readings, notes, handouts, dataset or additional course material will be available through the course website.

For Strategic Marketing concepts the following book is recommended:

- Jean-Jacques Lambin. (2000), Market-Driven Management. Strategic and operational marketing, Macmillan Press LTD.

Timetable and sections

Group Teacher Department
Year 1 Joando Reverter Guillot Marketing

Timetable Year 1

From 2024/5/2 to 2024/6/27:
Each Thursday from 16:45 to 18:15.
Each Thursday from 15:00 to 16:30.