15 Best Advertising Courses on Coursera
We compared 15 Advertising courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $9.99 to $79.00. 4 come from a named university or institution, including University of Colorado Boulder, Northwestern University and Digital Marketing Institute. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 15
- Price range
- $9.99 – $79.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "advertising" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $9.99 to $79.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Advertising in Modern Economy and Consumer Behavior
Offered by EDUCBA
Understand how advertising shapes modern markets and consumer behavior. Learn how liberalization transformed advertising and business in India. This course explores the dynamic relationship between advertising, economic...
$49.00listed price -
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Integrated Marketing Communications and Advertising
Offered by EDUCBA
Master advertising and integrated marketing communications (IMC) from strategy to execution. Learn how brands create impactful campaigns across digital and traditional media. This course provides a comprehensive understa...
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Designing Breakthrough Timed Commercials
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
Designing Breakthrough Advertisements: Time Advertisements will teach you the skills to make breakthrough timed commercials; the advertisements that tells stories through time. Reels, TV commercials, radio spots, online...
$49.00listed price -
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Social Media Marketing
Offered by Northwestern University
Created in 2014, this Specialization is updated every quarter to ensure you are receiving the most up-to-date training. The Social Media Marketing Specialization is designed to achieve two objectives. It gives you the so...
$49.00listed price -
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Social Media Marketing in Practice
Offered by Digital Marketing Institute
Welcome to the Digital Marketing Institute, the global standard in Digital Marketing certification. Over 4.6 billion people globally are using social media in 2022. This explosive growth, coupled with the speed of innova...
$49.00listed price -
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Digital Marketing Capstone
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
This four-week Capstone of the Digital Marketing Specialization is designed to help you apply the principles you have learned in the previous courses. This capstone course is designed to give you hands-on experience in e...
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Designing Breakthrough Advertisements and Commercials
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
Most advertisements are immediately ignored. Not because the message is wrong, but because no one notices them. In this specialization, you will study the history and creative craft behind advertisements that break throu...
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Marketing Strategy: Consumer Insight to Positioning
Offered by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
In this Specialization, you’ll learn how to turn consumer insight into a clear marketing strategy and competitive positioning. You’ll start by learning how marketing creates value and how buyer behavior informs decisions...
$49.00listed price -
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Erstelle Social Media Anzeigen in Canva
Offered by Coursera
Nach Abschluss dieses Projekts, kannst du Anzeigen für soziale Medien mit Hilfe der gratis Version von Canva kreieren und gestalten. Egal, ob du eine neue Marke startest oder eine bestehende mithilfe deiner Social-Media-...
$9.99listed price -
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Advertise and grow your business on Facebook with Canva
Offered by Coursera
By the end of this project, you will know how to use Canva to promote and advertise your business on Facebook. You will learn how to create a Facebook Ad, a Facebook Post and a Facebook Cover with the help of Canva. We w...
$9.99listed price -
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Choosing an Objective for a Facebook Ad Campaign
Offered by Coursera
By the end of this project, you will be able to choose the right Facebook Ad Campaign Objective for your brand using the Facebook Business Manager’s “Ads Manager”. Throughout this project, you will be able to identify al...
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Claude AI for Marketing
Offered by SkillsBooster Academy
In this course, you will master the art of AI-driven marketing using Claude, moving far beyond basic prompt engineering to build sophisticated, long-form strategies. You’ll learn to leverage Claude’s massive context wind...
$49.00listed price -
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Content Creation and Copywriting
Offered by Coursera
Master the intersection of AI and creative content production in this comprehensive program that transforms marketing professionals into AI-enhanced content creators. Learn to leverage cutting-edge generative AI tools in...
$49.00listed price -
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Optimize Ads with Google Ads & Quality Scores
Offered by Coursera
Ready to transform your paid advertising results? This Short Course empowers digital marketers to master the fundamentals of Google Ads campaign execution and optimization. This Short Course was created to help digital m...
$49.00listed price -
15
Marketing Mix Implementation
Offered by IE Business School
In this Specialization we will delve into the marketing mix and the skill-set needed to implement successful marketing strategies. Join us and explore the four key concepts of the marketing mix model, also known as the 4...
$49.00listed price
Best Advertising Courses on Coursera compared
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 15 priced courses on this page run from $9.99 to $79.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $69.01. The options are closely priced, so cost is unlikely to be your deciding factor. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 4 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including University of Colorado Boulder, Northwestern University and Digital Marketing Institute — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
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