For marketing professionals

Stay the best-informed person in the room

You already know how this works. The problem is that it keeps changing. The Academy's knowledge base is re-verified every week, and your path skips what you've got and goes straight to what's moved.

Sound familiar?

What usually gets in the way

  • Courses pitched at beginners when you need the advanced half
  • Platform changes you find out about from a client
  • Measurement debates you're expected to settle at board level
What you get

What changes

  • A weekly briefing on what changed and what to do about it
  • Advanced measurement you can defend to a finance director
  • Crisis, governance and team modules for the step up to Head of Social
  • An assessment that skips everything you already know
Your path

What comes first for marketing professionals

Everyone gets all 28 modules. What differs is the order — and what the assessment lets you skip. For marketing professionals, the path leads with these:

  1. 01
    How Algorithms Actually Work

    Ranking signals per platform — documented, not mythology — and what that means for your content.

  2. 02
    AI Tools I: Your Content Assistant

    Ideation, caption drafting, image and video AI, editing assistants — and the disclosure norms that keep it honest.

  3. 03
    Strategy: Audience, Pillars & Channel Mix

    Audience research, positioning, content pillars, briefs and budgets — social with a plan behind it.

  4. 04
    Analytics II: Attribution & ROI

    UTM tracking, attribution models, dashboards and reporting that proves social's value to stakeholders.

  5. 05
    Social Listening & Insights

    Tools, sentiment, share of voice and trend detection — hearing what the internet says about you.

  6. 06
    Advanced Measurement

    Incrementality, marketing-mix basics, brand-lift studies and board-level reporting.

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Five minutes, no card. You’ll get your level in six skill areas and a path built around being a marketing professional.

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Advanced Social Media Training for Marketers · The Social Media Academy