Overview

This unit introduces a range of digital channels that can be used for advertising, in particular websites and social media. Students will learn about platforms as a source of data to monitor and optimise advertising campaigns across different advertising formats, including search ads, display ads, boosted social posts, video ads, and in-app advertising.

Requisites

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Teaching Period 1
Location
Online
Start and end dates
10-March-2025
08-June-2025
Last self-enrolment date
23-March-2025
Census date
04-April-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
02-May-2025
Results released date
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
04-August-2025
02-November-2025
Last self-enrolment date
17-August-2025
Census date
31-August-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
19-September-2025
Results released date
09-December-2025
Teaching Period 3
Location
Online
Start and end dates
03-November-2025
08-February-2026
Last self-enrolment date
16-November-2025
Census date
28-November-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
02-January-2026
Results released date

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Understand the role of websites and social media platforms as sources of data to monitor and optimise advertising campaigns
  • Explore the technical and organisational use of websites, social media and mobile apps as publishing platforms for advertisers
  • Successfully model web and social media content with channel-independent and channel-specific variations in the context of advertising
  • Research, develop and evaluate industry standard web and social media content across a range of advertising formats

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Live Online
Lecture		1.00 12 weeks 12
On-campus
Class		2.00 12 weeks 24
Unspecified Activities
Independent Learning		9.50 12 weeks 114
TOTAL150

All Applicable Locations

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Online
Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning		12.50 12 weeks 150
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Analysis Individual  30%  1,2 
Technology Project Group 40%  1,2,3,4
Activity Report Individual  30%  1,2

Content

  • Introduction to the Ad Tech Ecosystem
  • Websites as a data source for audience targetting 
  • Analytics for Ad Optimisation
  • Visitor Acquisition, Activity and retention
  • Web advertising formats and layouts 
  • Mobile advertisng planning, strategy and creative development
  • Produce web and social media advertising analytics
  • Wireframing and prototyping web and social media content

Graduate Attributes

  • GA1 Communication - Verbal communication:
  • GA2 Communication - Communicating using different media:
  • GA3 Teamwork - Collaboration and negotiation:
  • GA4 Teamwork – Teamwork roles and processes:
  • GA5 Digital literacies– Information literacy:
  • GA6 Digital Literacies– Technical literacy:

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.