Master of Advertising Effectiveness
Master the development of advertising that creates outstanding business results, with this six-week online programme taught by one of the world’s leading advertising effectiveness experts. Next cohort starts
And how do I make it work better, more consistently, and more predictably?
Delivered flexibly via a combination of 30-minute video lessons and 1 hour live Zoom discussions with James, with an overall time commitment of around 12 hours.
Designed to equip professionals with a deep understanding of the fundamental and evidence-based principles of advertising effectiveness, enabling them to build their ability to consistently create highly effective advertising, and their confidence and influence in doing so.
For marketing professionals, agency planners, account management and creatives, marketing and advertising consultants and freelancers, and business leaders.
Delivered in ten modules, each exploring a core principle of advertising effectiveness in depth.
Evidence-based and teaches principles that have been developed by the world’s leading independent marketing science academics and researchers.
Delivered by James Hurman, an internationally recognized expert in and practitioner of advertising effectiveness.
Module 1: How advertising works?
A primer on the fundamentals of how and why advertising works to build brands and grow sales, how we define effectiveness, and what campaigns need to achieve to deliver business results.
Module 2: Investing for growth
The principle of Excess Share of Voice, the relationship between share of voice and share of market, and how to ensure your advertising budget is sufficient to achieve your business’ growth objectives.
Module 3: Targeting for Growth
The principle of growth through penetration, the pitfalls of loyalty, and how to build brand and business through the targeting of all category buyers.
Module 4: Managing long & short
The difference between short-term advertising that works to convert the existing demand in the market, and long-term advertising that works to create future demand – and how to balance those activities to achieve the most effective mix.
Module 5: Building mental availability
The difference between physical availability and mental availability, and how to use distinctive assets and harness brand familiarity to make brands easier to buy.
Module 6: The power of emotion
How emotion plays a role in human decision-making, and what that means for the commercial effects of emotionally-led vs rational, informational advertising.
Module 7: Creativity & effectiveness
How creativity works to create fame and commercial success, and how to use advertising creativity as a magnifier of campaign effectiveness.
Module 8: Creative commitment
How to manage key campaign variables of spend, duration and spread of media channels to maximise effectiveness potential.
Module 9: Objective setting, tracking & measurement
How to create clarity by correctly and robustly setting advertising objectives, demonstrate value by tracking and measuring advertising effectiveness, and nurture confidence by socialising results in powerful ways.
Module 10: Applying the principles to brands you work on.
How to take what you’ve learned on the programme and apply it to the brands you work on. A series of frameworks and canvases with which to apply your new knowledge to your day-to-day.
Exam week
Take this practical exam to test your knowledge of the programme material and earn your Master of Advertising Effectiveness certification.