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Paid Advertising Across 9 Social Media Platforms

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Paid social advertising is no longer about mastering a single platform. Successful marketers need to understand where different audiences spend their time and how to choose the right advertising channel for each campaign objective. This course gives digital marketers, paid-media specialists, business owners, freelancers, and aspiring performance marketers a practical approach to advertising across nine major social platforms: Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok, X, Pinterest, Quora, Reddit, Snapchat, and ShareChat. You will learn how to plan, launch, track, and optimize campaigns while comparing each platform’s approach to targeting, ad formats, conversion tracking, and reporting. Throughout the course, you will build hands-on skills in campaign setup, audience targeting, custom audiences, bidding, ad creative, pixels and conversion tracking, reporting, and budget optimization. Practical labs and applied assessments will help you put these skills into practice across different advertising platforms. By the end of the course, you will be able to select platforms based on audience and campaign objectives and develop a multi-platform paid campaign plan that defines objectives, target audiences, creative approaches, and performance tracking across multiple social channels.

Syllabus

  • Facebook Page, Community, and Ads
    • Build a Facebook business presence, grow an engaged community, and run the full range of paid Facebook campaigns. Learners progress from page setup to advanced campaign tactics, custom audiences, pixels, and automated rules.
  • LinkedIn Ads for B2B Reach
    • Run LinkedIn ad campaigns that reach professional audiences with the right ad format, bid strategy, and conversion tracking. Covers all major LinkedIn ad types from single image to dynamic, message, document, and event ads.
  • TikTok Ads for Short-Form Video
    • Run TikTok ads from account setup through campaign optimization. Covers TikTok's auction, ad group targeting, creative production, audience and video insights, and AI-driven recommendation tools.
  • X Ads for Real-time Conversation
    • Run paid campaigns on X (formerly Twitter) to drive traffic, reach, and conversions. Learners cover the X ads structure, audience targeting features, ad creative, conversion tracking, and custom audiences.
  • Pinterest Ads for Visual Discovery
    • Run Pinterest ad campaigns aimed at brand awareness, performance, and video views. Covers account setup, ad group bid types, creative, conversion tracking, custom audiences, analytics, and the Pinterest business manager.
  • Quora Ads for Intent-Driven Reach
    • Reach high-intent audiences on Quora with brand-awareness, traffic, video view, lead-gen, conversion, and app-install campaigns. Covers Quora ad formats, custom audiences, lead-gen forms, and reporting.
  • Reddit Ads for Community Marketing
    • Run Reddit campaigns that reach engaged subreddits, from brand-awareness through conversion and app-install. Covers Reddit ads structure, account navigation, audience and events managers, AI copywriter, and the Reddit business manager.
  • Snapchat Ads for Mobile Audiences
    • Reach mobile-first audiences with Snapchat ad campaigns across awareness, traffic, leads, app promotion, and sales. Covers Snapchat ads structure, events manager, audiences, pixel, creative library, lens folders, camera kit, and business dashboard.
  • ShareChat Ads for Indian-language Audiences
    • Run ShareChat ad campaigns that reach Indian-language audiences across awareness, consideration, and conversion objectives. Covers ShareChat ads structure, account navigation, reports, event manager, and audience targeting.

Taught by

Starweaver and Tanmoy Das

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