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Test your knowledge with our free online course and gain CPD points

23/05/2023

We're delighted to present our brand-new online learning course:

How to Buy and Plan Media using ABC Data Free to access and created especially for media buyers and planners, the course shares expert knowledge for anyone new to the media industry or those who need a refresher on how ABC data can help them trade.

By taking the course, delegates will learn:

What ABC data is

Why its valuable

How to use it

Where to find it

How to Buy and Plan Media using ABC Data' takes around 30-45 minutes to complete and, as it's all online, delegates can choose to schedule the learning when it suits them.

As an added bonus, this course contributes towards learners' Continued Professional Development (CPD) hours. The benefits of CPD include:

Keeping pace with the standards of others in the same field

Maintaining and enhancing knowledge and skills to deliver a professional service

You stay up to date with changing trends

You become more effective in the workplace

You stay interested in your profession

You have increased understanding of the implications of your work

You can help advance the body of knowledge and technology within your profession

It gives you access to experts in the fields

It increases public confidence in a professional or group of professionals

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Previous feedback on ABC online learning courses:

Good layout to modules.

Excellent - very informative and interesting.

Very clear to follow.

Really insightful course. Makes you take in all the information with the test at the end!

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