COURSE OVERVIEW

  • icon1 day course
  • icon Certificate of Attendance
  • iconPrivate
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Advertising on YouTube is a key part of many brands' digital marketing strategies. This content-focused training focuses on the creative aspects of YouTube advertising, leaving you perfectly placed to deliver platform-specific content that resonates with your audiences.

One size doesn’t fit all, and ads made for other platforms often fail on YouTube. Creating purpose-built videos is crucial for success.

This course will teach you to turn your creative ideas into captivating YouTube ads. Whether working with a partner or creating ads yourself, you'll learn best practices and expert tips to optimize your ideas, scripts, or existing videos for YouTube. Discover how to maximize your production budget through careful planning, ensuring every penny counts.

This YouTube Ads Course is available as a private session that can be delivered via Virtual Classroom, at our training centre in The Shard, London, or at a location of your choice across the UK.

What you’ll learn

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • iconUnderstand how people engage with YouTube ads
  • iconValidate your creative idea and predict success on YouTube
  • iconUnderstand the nuances that exist between different YouTube ad formats
  • iconRecognize the key components of high-performing ads
  • iconApply a best practices framework to critiquing storyboards and edits

Course agenda

An Introduction to YouTube

  • How do YouTube ads differ from other social and display platforms?
  • How do people engage with YouTube ads?
  • Brand safety considerations

How to Sense-check Your Creative Idea (Audit, Trends)

  • Exploring creative considerations at each stage of the marketing funnel
  • Ad formats and best-in-class examples, long form and short form
  • How to structure your video story arc for performance
  • How to apply the ABCD framework (Attention, Branding, Connection, Direction) to your adverts for maximum impact

Shorts & Mobile

  • Best practices
  • Tips and tricks for optimizing mobile content
  • Creating rules for audience overlap
  • Best practice for audience targeting

Maximizing the Impact of Your Production Budget

  • Planning and execution tips and tricks
  • SDK and offline conversion integration

Case Studies

  • Real-world examples of successful YouTube ad campaigns
  • Set up recommendations based on a business or client brief
  • How to optimize campaigns based on business and paid media objective

Measurements & Reporting

  • Export and analyze ad reports
  • Determine how to optimize campaigns based on data signals
  • Writing paid social insights

Who it’s for

This course is designed for both those who brief YouTube ads to their creative partners and those who create them. It’s ideal for marketing professionals, small business owners, social media managers, paid media managers, and anyone interested in understanding what makes a YouTube ad most likely to perform effectively.

Next steps

If you’re looking for more YouTube Ads training options, why not check out our YouTube Buying in Display & Video 360 course or our Google Ads: YouTube training?

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