Programme
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Master in Management |
Academic Year
|
Academic Year 2025/2026 |
Module/course Code
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UL1A_02 |
Delivery location
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Madrid
|
Language
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English
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Course type
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Elective courses 15h
|
Contact hours
|
15 |
ECTS
|
2 |
Level
|
0 (year post baccalaureate) |
Semester
|
Spring |
Module name
|
BRANDED CONTENT |
Field (Discipline)
|
Marketing |
Outline
Module/course Summary
The course aims at developing an understanding on the specificities of
Contents. Content marketing or creating and publishing media rather than
“renting” advertising time and space. Contents produced or founded by brands
has always existed. Digital technologies, platforms, and channels now enable
any brand to function as a media company with very real advantages: building
branding, awareness, trust, purchase intent, and word-of-mouth, as well as
lowering acquisition costs and increasing engagement with target audiences.
Contents are today fueling lots of actions that brands are doing through their
paid and owned media; and are the key vehicle for engaging people in earned or
shared media.
Customers are tuning out advertising as they go
online to research purchases; interact with brands; and seek out news,
entertainment, and inspiration. There are even not paying attention to
advertising pieces. Marketers can serve customers and prospects with content
through every phase of awareness, branding, intent, conversion, and customer
service. Yet, unlike advertising, content initiatives are continual rather than
episodic, placing new demands on marketing organizations.
Content marketing requires a shift in mindset,
resources, budgets, partners, and strategy. A content strategy is a plan
for how a company will use content to fulfill a need, or solve a problem for
its customer, while simultaneously helping it achieve a business goal. Branded
Content development is tasked with creating, sourcing and curating content. But
that is not enough in today’s content-cluttered environment.
Thus a content marketing plan will be responsible for delivering that
content to the right audience, on the right channel and at the right time, to
let the content engage the audience and build brand positioning.
Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, said “When you
change the way you see the world, you can change the world you see” (Hannover
Messe April 2016,
https://www.businessinsider.com/satya-nadella-loves-wayne-dyer-quote-2016-4?IR=T)
Contents are all around and will increase invading us. Paraphrasing Nadella, we
can say that contents are changing the world of communication, so we need to
change the way we see Marketing Communications.