Digital analytics in the marketing context refers to the tools used to analyze and report on marketing data collected through the digital channels on which your brand holds a presence. This course introduces students to the science of web analytics while casting a keen eye toward the artful use of numbers found in the digital space. The goal is to provide the foundation needed to apply data analytics to real-world challenges marketers confront daily.
Student Learning Outcomes:
1. Digital Marketing Analytics: Understand digital marketing analytics and how to apply it to your marketing career.
2. Digital Consumer: Understand how the scale of collected consumer data and the emergence of consumer privacy protections affect marketing in the digital age.
3. Digital Company: Recognize a business’s current level of analytics maturity and plan how to enhance that analytics maturity.
4. Data-driven Decisions: Know the advantages of data-driven decision-making and be able to apply the decision-making framework — question, curate, analyze, and optimize.
5. Analyze: Determine the analysis approaches and techniques that best support various business questions.
6. Optimize: Understand that insights are only impactful when implemented and know how to prioritize persuasive recommendations for various audiences.
7. Owned Media Analytics: Understand owned media analysis and optimization strategies to create lasting business value.
8. Paid Media Analytics: Know how to connect paid media analytics to business results.
9. Earned Media Analytics: Interpret earned media analytics and provide performance insights.
10. Competitive Research: Interpret competitor analytics and provide actionable business recommendations.