The foundation of effective advertising is understanding the clients and stakeholders who commission the work, whether that client is an external brand or your own marketing director. This module develops your ability to communicate professionally, engage stakeholders at every level, and turn a digital campaign brief into something you can actually work with, including the commercial fundamentals behind the relationship. In this module, you'll learn:

• professional communication and stakeholder management;  
• client and stakeholder relationship structures and team dynamics;  
• brief analysis: distinguishing stated needs from underlying ones; and  
• client roadmap development, budgeting and billing fundamentals. 
   

Great campaigns don't happen by accident. They're planned. This module gives you the project management competencies to take a digital advertising brief and turn it into a structured, deliverable project plan. In this module, you'll learn:

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• project requirements and brief interpretation;  
• work breakdown structures and Gantt chart scheduling;  
• budget estimation and resource allocation; and  
• risk management and quality assurance. 

Strategy is the bridge between what a client needs and what a campaign delivers. This module develops your ability to research, plan and communicate an integrated marketing strategy, from situational analysis through to creative brief, with digital channels at its core. In this module, you'll learn: 

• market research, competitor analysis and audience segmentation;  
• marketing objectives and strategic direction;  
• tactics selection across paid, owned and earned digital channels; and  
• creative brief development. 

Where strategy ends, ideas begin. This module develops your ability to generate, evaluate and refine advertising concepts, using structured creative thinking to move from brief to a digital-ready concept worth presenting. In this module, you'll learn: 

• creative thinking principles and ideation techniques;  
• facilitating and running ideation workshops;  
• evaluating concepts against desirability, viability and feasibility; and  
• iterative concept refinement and prototyping. 

Ideas only have value when the people who fund them buy in, whether that's an external client, an internal marketing director or a business stakeholder. This module develops your ability to pitch persuasively, receive and respond to feedback, and navigate the approval process with confidence. In this module, you'll learn:

• persuasive pitching, storytelling and stakeholder communication;  
• presenting alignment to objectives and feasibility;  
• designing persuasive pitch decks using Canva;  
• receiving and actioning stakeholder feedback; and  
• negotiating approval and sign-off. 

This is where strategy meets execution. This module develops your ability to translate an approved campaign plan into live activity, from final audience and channel decisions through to briefing your team and executing with precision. In this module, you'll learn: 

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• campaign data interpretation and tactical insight;  
• audience segmentation and digital trend alignment;  
• channel mix, content strategy and user journey mapping; and  
• implementation team briefing and campaign execution. 

The campaign ran. Now what? This module develops your ability to measure what happened, tell the story of campaign performance, and use data to make smarter decisions next time, working with the analytics platforms that digital advertising runs on. In this module, you'll learn:

• campaign data sources, KPIs and analytics platforms;  
• interpreting performance data across multiple channels;  
• visual data storytelling and dashboard reporting; and  
• evidence-based recommendations for future campaign optimisation.  

The Work Block is unlike anything else in the programme. For nine weeks, you work full- time (8 hours a day, 5 days a week) in a real or simulated advertising environment, completing your workplace evidence across all seven modules and compiling your portfolio for formal sign-off by your workplace mentor. If you already work in a marketing team, your own workplace may serve as your evidence environment, subject to workplace approval.   

This is where theory becomes practice, and practice becomes proof. By the end of the Work Block, your Portfolio of Evidence is complete, your workplace competencies are documented and signed off, and you are ready to sit the EISA.