70-443 Digital Marketing and Social Media Strategy

9 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This course explores issues related to digital and social media marketing. This is a hands-on class where students utilize real world data. Specifically, we study the following topics: (a) Search Engine and Sponsored Search Optimization: how search engines, keyword auctions, retargeting, mobile marketing, social network marketing and search engine marketing work, and how to optimize pay per click advertisement efforts. (b) Econo-Mining: how firms are getting or can get useful information from user generated content using text mining and opinion mining capabilities to drive their product development, placement, and advertisement decisions. (c) Social Media/Viral Marketing: how to design a social media marketing campaign; the key ingredients that make such campaigns successful; how to run a campaign for a viral product; measuring the success of a social media campaign (d) Wisdom of the Crowds: how to design crowdsourcing contests; what and how to crowdsource; prediction markets and how to design them for success and the kinds of questions are best suited for prediction markets.

Prerequisites: none listed

Offered: Spring 2026

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