IAB Certification Programs

Digital Media Sales Certification (DMSC)

The DMSC certification is for professionals that are consultative, critical thinking, marketing professionals tasked with driving revenue by selling digital advertising. The salesperson accomplishes this by understanding the digital ecosystem, recognizing the client’s marketing objectives, and providing impactful solutions.

Digital Media Buying & Planning Certification (DBPC)

The DBPC certification is for professionals that are consultative, critical thinking, marketing professionals tasked with driving reach to the highest possible number of people in a selected target audience while decreasing related cost. Media Buyers and Planners discover, purchase and analyze advertising space and time for their clients. They also determine the best platforms to use to optimize targeted reach.

Digital Ad Operations Certification (DAOC)

The DAOC certification is for professionals that work closely with advertisers and agencies to deliver exceptional customer service throughout the media buying lifecycle, to include creative management, launch confirmation, and pacing confirmation. This includes providing quality assurance, logging traffic, pulling campaign placement reports, entry of proposals, and reviewing the status of campaigns in order to optimize their performance, while assisting the Ad Sales, Marketing, and Product teams in formulating media plans.

Digital Marketing and Media Foundations Certification (DMFC)

The DMFC certification is for professionals that support companies throughout the media buying lifecycle. Representative companies include advertisers, agencies, media properties, and/or technology platforms. They often have a solid understanding of Digital Marketing and Media and the overall digital media ecosystem enabling this associate to complete campaign planning, execution, and analysis tasks for a range of Digital Marketing and Media departments.