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Certificate in Media Planning

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Certificate in Media Planning


About Media Planning

Media planning often involves finding and choosing the best media outlets to employ for a client's brand or product. Finding the right media mix to accomplish the customers' objectives is the aim of media planning.

A media planner examines the ways in which a message is meant to assist a marketing or advertising strategy and then creates strategies for disseminating that message to the appropriate audiences in the appropriate locations.

Why is Media Planning important?

Media planning is examining target demographics, distribution channels, platforms, messages, and advertisements to identify the most successful marketing strategies for a certain brand or product. You can reach potential consumers with the appropriate message at the right time on the right channel with a careful media strategy.

Who should take the Media Planning Exam?

  • Advertising aspirants
  • Working professionals in advertising
  • Campaign Managers
  • Ad operations
  • Media Planners

Media Planning Certification Course Outline

  1. Overview of Media Planning
  2. Market Background
  3. Product/service background
  4. Budgets of the media
  5. Media characteristics
  6. Media scheduling
  7. Volume discount
  8. Local advertising rates
  9. Holding part of the budget back
  10. To increase campaign coverage
  11. To increase frequency of exposure to the campaign
  12. To allow for different executives to be used in different media
  13. To increase impact of the message

Certificate in Media Planning FAQs

The result will be declared immediately on submission.

It will be a computer-based exam. The exam can be taken from anywhere around the world.

You have to score 25/50 to pass the exam.

No there is no negative marking

There will be 50 questions of 1 mark each

You will be required to re-register and appear for the exam. There is no limit on exam retake.

You can directly go to the certification exam page and register for the exam.