
Digital Audiences Lab
Cronkite’s digital marketing agency prepares students to work in social media, SEO, strategy and beyond.
Dive into digital marketing
How do you find, nurture and grow a company’s audience? How do you create campaigns and content that drives them to take specific actions? This real digital marketing agency immerses students in real client work that develops student proficiency in digital strategy, social media, SEO/SEM, analytics, audience research and client relations.
Students work in client teams, researching audience opportunities and creating data-driven growth strategies. Then, they execute their strategies on behalf of clients using real budget to create real social media campaigns, perform search optimization, ideate and publish paid media ads, and measure performance in real time.
Using the storytelling techniques they’ve developed in their journalism curriculum, students also create written, video and graphic content to propel campaigns and form valuable brand/audience relationships. Students create analytics reports and make client presentations to demonstrate and quantify true audience growth.
Through hands-on analysis, digital platform management, and content creation, students are able to demonstrate legitimate results for clients and their personal resumes. Students gain a firm understanding of various digital marketing concepts that include:
- Search engine optimization (SEO)
- Paid search (SEM)
- Paid social media campaigns
- Organic social media
- Digital analytics and reporting
- Paid media
- Content creation and strategy
- A/B testing and site design
- Goal setting and tracking
The skills students learn in the Digital Audiences Lab are in demand, as nearly every organization has a digital audience to engage. Students go on to become social media managers, digital video and graphics specialists, content producers and analysts, reporters and editors. Students also pursue work in strategic communications, sales, technology and entrepreneurship.

Cronkite Professional Program Prerequisites
To be considered into the professional program students must complete the prerequisites of at least one experience. Students interested in the Digital Audience Lab experience must complete the following courses:
Undergraduate: JMC 305/306, MCO 307 and JMC 301/302 or JMC 315
Graduate: MCO 502 and MCO 561
Learn more about the Cronkite Professional Program.

Digital marketing careers start here
This is a place for individuals who are looking for a fast-paced environment and a different agenda every day — whether it be testing strategies, creating content or monitoring campaigns.
Programs Offered

Digital Audience Strategy, MS
Accelerate your career in marketing and communications by harnessing analytics, SEO, paid and organic social media campaigns and audience research in this graduate program.