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About the Course

This course examines how modern digital marketing integrates technology, creativity, and analytics to shape discovery, competition, and customer experience across digital and physical channels. Through a progression from foundational strategy to content, ecosystem integration, and artificial intelligence, the course explores how brands build trust, deliver value, and drive measurable growth in the contemporary digital marketplace. Module 1 introduces the foundations of modern digital marketing strategy (i.e., how digitization reshapes discovery, competition, and consumer experience across online and physical channels). Module 2 builds on this foundation by exploring how content is designed for multi-audience environments where people, algorithms, and generative AI all “read” and respond to information differently. Module 3 examines the integration of paid, organic, and influencer activities into unified ecosystems that turn storytelling and trust into measurable growth. Module 4 concludes by showing how artificial intelligence transforms service delivery, where data, empathy, and automation combine to create more personalized and anticipatory customer experiences. Together, these modules chart how technology, creativity, and analytics converge to define success in the modern digital marketplace. This course is part of Gies College of Business’ suite of online programs, including the iMBA and iMSM. Learn more about admission into these programs and explore how your Coursera work can be leveraged if accepted into a degree program at https://degrees.giesbusiness.illinois.edu/idegrees/....

Top reviews

OA

Feb 29, 2016

I really enjoyed this course. I liked the professor's teaching style as well as the materials the course provided. All the knowledge I've got from the course helps me when I do research online.

BM

Oct 9, 2019

Very interesting. Kevin explains things really well and introduces complex concepts clearly. I learned a lot from the peer review process -- seeing how other students respond to the exercises.

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By Salma R

Sep 2, 2020

A very well covered course. However, it would have been great if examples and best practices were included depicting the use of various digital techniques in a bit more detail. Regards.

By Mai Q

Jan 8, 2019

Some of the case study is a bit long time back, still helpful but maybe it will be more effective to read recent theories and articles and researches. Thank you for this great platform.

By Hesham S

Aug 28, 2019

Very valuable knowledge about digital marketing analytics and web analytics taught during this course, however some of the supplemental reading materials requires premium subscription

By Bernhard S

Oct 30, 2015

Good introduction into the material. It's great how rating other students' writeups helps you penetrate the material yourself, especially since there are no right or wrong answers.

By Sameeya R

Dec 17, 2019

Great information in this course. Excited to learn these tools in practice. Some of the links and materials given are a little outdated or unavailable which needs to be rectified.

By Heather P

Feb 23, 2016

If you have slightly dabbled in the digital marketing space, you have probably come across what you will learn in this class. But overall, it was a very good beginner course.

By Alexander T

Dec 11, 2017

Overall, good course. I liked the first part of the series more though. It would be greate if there were more lectures in this course. It feels somewhat short at the moment.

By Rohit J

Jun 6, 2020

The course lays an excellent foundation if you are just starting your journey in analytics. I feel it could have included some case studies to explain few of the concepts.

By Danielle L (

Aug 3, 2019

Great Course! Great Knowledgeable Professor. Amazing way the course material was presented. So glad I decided to enroll. I learned so much.I highly recommend this course.

By Elsa V

Aug 17, 2020

I enjoyed this course. I liked the professor's teaching style that provided a summary at the end of every video, but to me, the course content is not very rich.

By Sumair B

Sep 13, 2019

The course provides adequate understanding of ZMOT and consumer's thought process in making purchase decisions through CDJ. Thanks to Professor Kevin Hartman

By Anthony B

Oct 28, 2019

Good course. Some of the material is outdated, but that's how fast advertising and marketing changes. Recommended to take if you're curious about analytics.

By Muhammad W M

Jan 27, 2020

Happy to have completed this certification which builds on the theory and foundations of #marketing #analytics and focuses on the use of data in marketing.

By Alison Z

Jul 2, 2019

good course to basic concepts and methodology in digital marketing area. could be better if lecture can introduce some samples to illustrate the approaches

By Daniel A

Jul 10, 2017

The course is interesting, but many of the sources of information are more than 3 or 4 years old, which is quite a lot when it comes to digital marketing.

By Steffen M

Feb 15, 2021

A good introduction, but a bit superficial. I would have expected a few examples for specific analysis results. Maybe this will come in the other course.

By Md A R S

Aug 6, 2020

As a digital marketer, I always ignored the Digital Analytics part but now I think it's a nice thing.

I really enjoyed the lessons.

Thanks, Kevin Hartman

By Sergei S

Sep 18, 2015

Great course. Sometime too easy, sometime a little bit boring. Actuality of recommended reading (Web Analytics Demystified, 2004) is under question IMO.

By Romany G

Jul 4, 2020

this course opens the gates before me in analytics in digital world. it gave me the interest to measure and collect data to tell a story.

so recommended

By ANISHA S

May 9, 2020

The course could have been more better , more interactive with more case studies revolving around all topics . All together it was a nice course

By Parth J

Jun 6, 2020

This course gives a good perspective of current digital tools businesses have at hand, how consumer habits have transformed into digital behavio

By Jonathan F G

Dec 7, 2020

Great course. I think that putting case studies (companies utilizing such marketing aspects) for each topic would enhance learning experience.

By Ritu P

Jan 8, 2020

I really enjoyed this course and have learnt a lot of new things that will help me in the future. I look forward to doing more courses.

By Givi M

Apr 14, 2020

This course was surprisingly interesting and full of good literature. Needs a bit of an update, but other than that, was very helpful.

By Kerry-Ann M K

May 16, 2021

For my first time being exposed to this subject area I found it very interesting, and the course was presented well by the lecturer.