• reflect upon campaigns (a) as an institution and form of organization in communication practice (b) and the different ways they are conceived across communication disciplines (PR, advertising, IMC, public communication e.g.)
• design, coordinate and implement effective communication campaigns (a) selecting, applying and linking relevant theories and methods (b) motivating choice of theories and methods
• identify and articulate campaign objectives (a) with reference to communication strategy (b) and corporate strategy
• carry out stakeholder analysis (a) identify relevant stakeholders (b) relate stakeholder interests and campaign purposes
• carry out market analysis, focusing on consumer insights (a) designing and conducting empirical studies (b) basing campaign proposals on empirical studies
• developing campaign proposal and plan for implementation, (a) identifying target audiences and communication strategies (b) select and apply relevant campaign targets
• consider central issues of campaign management, including (a) media strategy, (b) creative input (c) budgeting, (d) intercultural integration/adaptation/coordination, (e) sustainability and ethics, (f) campaign organization and coordination
• evaluate campaign effectiveness (a) choose, apply, and justify appropriate criteria of evaluation, (b) choose and justify relevant empirical data, (c) propose improvements of campaigns based on evaluations
• communicate results in a scientifically valid manner, including: (a) proper and consistent use of academic language, (b) correct use of references, (c) presenting all parts of the assignment in a coherent and well-argued manner

Course content
The course investigates campaigns as institutions and organizing devices in market communication in practice. It confronts students with challenges, roles, relationships and inputs of different actors in the process of developing and executing campaigns from initiation to evaluation and follow-up. The aim is to enable students to contribute in various capacities to produce effective marketing communication and reflect upon the strategic context, social dynamics, specialist skills and knowledge of campaign work. 

The course examines various types of communication campaigns (in terms of e.g. objectives, openness and level of engagement, media, sector), while exploring trends towards convergence and more agile, interactive, precisely targeted, cross media, content-driven approaches anchored in digital media. The course places particular emphasis on the actors at various levels and organizational arrangements behind campaigns, (marcom) departmental authority and mandate, client-agency relations, affiliation of professionals to communities of practice and peer networks, audience and customer or other stakeholder groups, account teams and project groups whether organizations (such as advertising agencies, marketing and corporate communication departments, media providers), groups (account teams, consumer or activities) and professionals (CMOs, account managers, account planners, creative workers, digital and media specialists) .

Finally, the course has a methodological component focusing on the one hand qualitative methods for generating insights into target consumers and audience responses to inform creative development as well as quantitative methods of data gathering for tracking and documenting the impact of campaigns. The methodological part consists of theoretical and hands-on elements of field work and data analysis.
 
Teaching methods
The teaching of the course consists of lectures, case discussion tutorials, and method workshops. Guest lecturers will introduce and discuss contexts, organization, processes and outcomes of campaigns. A key learning activity is the live case pitch, which simulate campaign development and coordination. It pits opposing student 'agency' groups guided by tutorial lecturers against each other in a competitive pitches for the account of a real case company.  .

Articles and book chapters in compendium og readings

Andersen, S. E., & Johansen, T. S. (2014). Cause-related marketing 2.0: Connection, collaboration and commitment. Journal of Marketing Communications, 1-20.

Arnould, E. J., and A. Epp. (2006) “Deep engagement with consumer experience”. In Grover, Rajiv, and Marco Vriens, eds. The handbook of marketing research: uses, misuses, and future advances. Sage, 2006. 51-82.

Belk, R., Fischer, E., & Kozinets, R. V. (2012). Qualitative consumer and marketing research. Sage. 1-15, 31-91

Browne, S. et al. (2014) “Adapting a book to make a film: how strategy is adapted through professional practices of marketing middle managers”, Journal of Marketing Management, 30:9-10, 949-973

Cornelissen, J. (2014). Corporate Communication. A Guide to Theory and Practice. 4^th ed. London: Sage. Ch. 2 & 6.

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Fill, C. and Turnbull, S., eds. (2016) Marketing communications :discovery, creation and conversations. 7^th edition. Pearson, London. Ch. 8 & 20

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Grewal, Dhruv, et al. (2016), "Mobile advertising: a framework and research agenda." Journal of Interactive Marketing 34 (2016): 3-14.

Hackley, C. (2010). Theorizing advertising: Managerial, scientific and cultural approaches. The Sage handbook of marketing theory, 89-107.

Hanssens, D. M., & Pauwels, K. H. (2016). Demonstrating the Value of Marketing. Journal of Marketing, 80(6), 173-190.

Kendall, Nick (2016), How to develop an effective global brand strategy, Warc Best Practice, October 2016, 1-11.

Kotler, P., Hessekiel, D., & Lee, N. (2012). Good Works!: Marketing and Corporate Initiatives that Build a Better World... and the Bottom Line. John Wiley & Sons. 21-45.

Lemon, K. N., & Verhoef, P. C. (2016). Understanding customer experience throughout the customer journey. Journal of Marketing, 80(6), 69-96.

McConnell, Ted (2016) The Programmatic Primer: An overview of the online advertising ecosystem. WARC

Meitz, T. G. K., & Zurstiege, G. (2014). Strategy in Advertising. The Routledge Handbook of Strategic Communication, 370-382.

Moorman, C. and Day, G. S. (2016) “Organizing for Marketing Excellence.” Journal of Marketing: November 2016, Vol. 80, No. 6, pp. 6-35.

Moriarty & Schultz (2012), “Four Theories of How IMC works” Rodgers, S., & Thorson, E. (Eds.). (2012). Advertising theory. London: Routledge. 491-505

Nyilasy, G., Canniford, R., & J. Kreshel, P. (2013). Ad agency professionals' mental models of advertising creativity. European Journal of Marketing, 47(10), 1691-1710.

Ots, M., & Nyilasy, G. (2015). “Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC): Why Does It Fail?”. Journal of Advertising Research, 55(2), 132-145.

Peters, Kay et al. (2013) “Social Media Metrics — A Framework and Guidelines for Managing Social Media”, Journal of Interactive Marketing, Volume 27, Issue 4, November 2013, Pages 281-298

Phillips, B. J., McQuarrie, E. F., & Griffin, W. G. (2014). The face of the brand: how art directors understand visual brand identity. Journal of Advertising, 43(4), 318-332.

Sasser, S. L., & Koslow, S. (2012). Creativity and ad theory. in Rodgers, S., & Thorson, E. (Eds.) Advertising theory, New York Routledge, 191-211.

Schultz, Don (2016) “The Future of Advertising or Whatever We're Going to Call It”, Journal of Advertising, 45:3, 276-285

Storey, R. & E. Smith (2007), “The Creative Brief and its Strategic Role in the Campaign Development Process”, Chapter 11 in Tellis, G. & Ambler, T., The Sage Handbook of Advertising. London: Sage Publications, 171-183.

Turnbull, S. (2014). “The Pitch Process: Toward a Greater Understanding of How Clients Select Their Advertising Agencies”. International Journal Of Research In Business And Technology, 5(2), 603-608.

Turnbull, S. & Wheeler, C. (2015). “The advertising creative process: A study of UK agencies”. Journal of Marketing Communications, 1-19.

Vernuccio, M., & Ceccotti, F. (2015). Strategic and organisational challenges in the integrated marketing communication paradigm shift: A holistic vision. European Management Journal, 33(6), 438-449.

Visconti, Luca & M. Ucok-Hughes (2012) “Segmentation and Targeting Reloaded” in Penaloza, Toulouse & Visconti (ed.) Marketing Management: A Cultural Perspective. 955-314

Waller, D.S. (2004), “Developing an account-management lifecycle for advertising agency-client relationships”, Marketing Intelligence & Planning, Vol. 22 Iss: 1, 95 – 112.

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