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Ads & Promotion Mastery: Zero to Expert Media Buyer

Everything about promoting products, brands and causes: strategy, copywriting and creative, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp ads, Google Search and YouTube ads, TikTok and LinkedIn, tracking, testing, scaling, influencers, email — and how to get paid for it.

75 lessons11h 11m of video4 quizzes2 practical tasks Certificate

What you'll learn

  • Plan campaigns with funnels, audiences, positioning and clear goals
  • Write ad copy and landing pages that convert
  • Run Facebook, Instagram and click-to-WhatsApp ads with proper tracking
  • Build creative strategies and test ads systematically
  • Run Google Search, Performance Max and YouTube campaigns
  • Advertise on TikTok and LinkedIn
  • Measure results with GA4, UTMs and the key metrics, and scale profitably
  • Promote with influencers and email, follow the rules, and work as a media buyer

Course content

Part 1. Start here: how advertising really works3 lessons
Part 2. Foundations: funnels, copy and landing pages5 lessons
Part 3. Meta ads: Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp12 lessons
Part 4. Creative strategy and testing5 lessons
Part 5. Google ads: Search, Performance Max and YouTube7 lessons
Part 6. TikTok and LinkedIn ads3 lessons
Part 7. Tracking, analytics and attribution16 lessons
Part 8. Budgets and scaling2 lessons
Part 9. Beyond paid ads: influencers and email3 lessons
Part 10. The rules: platforms, law and honesty6 lessons
Part 11. Career: becoming a media buyer12 lessons
Part 12. Final project1 lesson

Capstone project: Capstone: plan, launch and report a full-funnel campaign. You finish by building something real; a mentor reviews it before your certificate is issued.

About this course

Every business wants more customers — and people who can make advertising profitable are paid well everywhere, from Lagos and Nairobi to London and remote jobs worldwide. This one course takes you from zero to advanced across every major channel. You'll learn marketing strategy (funnels, positioning, brand vs performance with Mark Ritson), copywriting and landing pages, Meta ads end to end (Ads Manager, Pixel and Conversions API, retargeting, lookalikes, Advantage+, click-to-WhatsApp ads), creative strategy and UGC ads with Dara Denney, structured testing and scaling with Ben Heath, Google Search, Performance Max and YouTube ads, TikTok and LinkedIn ads, GA4, UTMs and attribution, influencer and email promotion, and the rules — from platform policies to Nigeria's ARCON approval and sponsorship disclosure. Nigerian and African instructors show how it works in local markets. You'll finish by planning, launching and reporting on a real campaign. About 11 hours of video plus hands-on campaigns.

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