The Media Planning path provides advertisers needed guidance for communicating with clients and planning campaigns on Meta’s platforms. These courses give a high-level view at how Meta can fit into your media mix and direction on planning campaigns to meet your client’s marketing goals.

400-101 Planning Certified Media Planning Professional Exam Courses
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Fundamentals
The Media Fundamentals learning path provides advertisers new to Meta the essentials needed for building effective advertising campaigns in Ads Manager. By the end of this track, learners will have developed a solid foundation in the breadth of Meta’s platforms as an advertising channel.
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Meta Ads Manager
In this course, you'll learn how to set up a campaign in Meta Ads Manager and you'll explore the difference between campaigns, ad sets and ads.
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Manage assets and permissions with Meta Business Manager
In this course, you'll learn the features of Business Manager and how to set up an account.
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Define your audience
In this course, we examine the different targeting tools and discuss how to avoid obstacles with targeting parameters. You'll also learn how to adjust your creative to new target segments and align your targeting tools with your advertising needs.
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From business goals to ad objectives
Learn how to create measurable business goals and choose the campaign objective to meet your goal.
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Integrating data sources into your ad strategy
Learn how to use the Meta Pixel, Conversions API and Facebook SDK to deliver relevant ads while protecting customer privacy.
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Creative essentials
Use high-quality creative in your mobile marketing campaigns to develop content for a mobile world. This lesson explores how you can incorporate best practices and develop content that aligns to user behavior when you design for mobile.
Media Planning Core Lessons
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Determining the best buying type and bid strategy
Explore the available buying types and bid strategies to use for your campaigns.
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Aligning campaign objectives with business goals
Explore how to optimize your advertising strategy with campaign objectives, performance goals, and data-based decision making.
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Proposing a campaign budget
Explore how to create a budget for auction and reservation buying types.
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Strategies for targeting, placement and creative
Explore how to select the best ads targeting, placement and creative strategies with Meta Advantage solutions.
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Analyzing campaign reporting results and measurement strategies
This course provides an overview of how to analyze campaign results and implement measurement strategies to improve advertising effectiveness on Meta technologies.
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Privacy controls and brand safety
Explore brand safety controls, and learn about standards and policies relevant to ads on Meta technologies.