How to Build Audience and Loyalty: Growing Digital Engagement

Learn about the current media landscape, measuring engagement and how to stop your content getting lost online

This half-day audience and engagement course will develop your understanding of the digital world and how to measure whether your content is doing well – and what to change if it isn’t.  

What you’ll learn: SEO, writing sells and adapting content for social media

Through an interactive exercise, this course will give you a comprehensive view of the current media landscape, from how people in different age groups get their news to which sources they trust the most.  You’ll take part in discussions on the current state-of-play, covering the pros and cons of paywalls and how social media continues to change the game. 

In digital journalism, your copy is only half the story and you’ll learn about all the additional extras – like punchy headlines, intriguing social sells and effective SEO – that will help ensure your content doesn’t get lost online.  

You’ll focus on audience and engagement – and what that actually means – as well as learning how to adapt your work for various social platforms and the aspects of digital publishing that will help your business or brand stand the test of time: building loyalty.   

How you’ll learn 

This four-hour course will be led by an experienced editor who will share their knowledge and expertise through presentations, discussion and practical exercises. 

Who the Build Audience and Engagement course is for

This course is for content creators looking to learn more about the current media landscape and how to be a unique voice within it. It follows on nicely from our How to be Digital First course.

We also offer full-day courses which focus on other specific areas within digital content and strategy, such as Editorial Planning for Digital Teams, a Social Media Masterclass and How to be a Brilliant Editor.  

We currently offer this course as bespoke training for teams and can deliver it remotely, or in your offices. Get in touch using the button below to discuss times and dates, as well as how we can tailor it to your needs. 

If you’re booking for yourself, find all of our scheduled courses here

Course Modules

Understanding Audiences and Engagement

  1. Publishing and audience trends
  2. Enduring media truths
  3. How to focus on engagement
  4. How to make your content findable
  5. How to make your content accessible

How to Stand Out Online

  1. Make a story personal
  2. Punchy headlines and intriguing sells
  3. SEO
  4. Adapting content for socials and managing your channels
  5. Building loyalty

How to Build Audience and Loyalty: Growing Digital Engagement

Learn about the current media landscape, measuring engagement and how to stop your content getting lost online

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What our students say

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It’s a great place to make connections – networking with teachers, guest speakers and fellow students can be key to gaining advice or even job opportunities during and after the course. 

James Saunders
, Digital News Reporter
, GB News 

The small class sizes nurture a comfortable environment where everyone supports and learns from each other. The staff helped me hone in on my writing skills and develop the confidence to feel comfortable on camera.

Camilla Foster
, Reporter
, Newsquest

I really could not recommend Press Association enough to anyone who is looking to jump into the fascinating world of journalism. The course equips you with all the necessary skills you need to enter the industry and the wide range of topics covered leaves it hard for you to ever feel bored.

Holly Bishop
, Digital Reporter
, GB News

Not only did I develop the necessary toolkit to become a journalist, but I also did so in an environment that fosters a real sense of community and personal career support.

Erin Waks
, Trainee Sub-Editor
, Daily Mail

PA Media Training were efficient, well organised and genuinely lovely people to deal with and, importantly for us, able to provide flexibility around our needs to create the bespoke training we required. I wouldn’t hesitate to use them for further training or to recommend them to other organisations.

Mayor of London’s Press Office
, Head of Media

The teaching I received was second to none and despite having no experience whatsoever in journalism, the tutors made sure there was a friendly environment where I felt welcome to ask any questions I needed. I was able to finish the course and go into a job working for The Sun.

Olivia Allhusen
, Junior Journalist
, The Sun

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