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Product Launch Marketing

Plan, position, and execute launches that build demand before day one and sustain momentum after go-live

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Quick Course Facts
16
Self-paced, Online, Lessons
16
Videos and/or Narrated Presentations
5.2
Approximate Hours of Course Media
About the Product Launch Marketing Course

This Product Launch Marketing course shows you how to plan, position, and execute launches that build demand before day one and sustain momentum after go-live. You’ll learn how to turn a product release into a coordinated Marketing effort that creates clarity, confidence, and commercial impact.

Master Product Launch Marketing To Drive Stronger Market Results

  • Learn how Product Launch Marketing supports clear goals, measurable outcomes, and commercial success.
  • Build positioning and messaging that helps your product stand out in a crowded market.
  • Plan, position, and execute launches that build demand before day one and sustain momentum after go-live.
  • Develop a repeatable launch process you can use to improve future launches with confidence.

A practical course on Product Launch Marketing, from strategy and planning through launch-day execution and post-launch optimisation.

This course begins with the foundations of launch marketing, helping you understand what a launch should achieve and how to define success in business terms. You’ll explore launch objectives, scope, and measurement so you can connect Marketing activity to real commercial outcomes rather than treating the launch as a one-day event.

You will then move into audience insight, market context, and timing, learning how to assess buyer needs and identify the best moment to launch. From there, the course guides you through crafting strong product positioning, building a clear message framework, and segmenting audiences so every part of the launch speaks to the right people in the right way.

Next, you’ll study channel strategy, pre-launch campaign planning, and launch asset creation so you can choose the most effective media mix and create content that supports demand generation. The course also covers sales and customer team readiness, launch timeline coordination, and launch-day activity, giving you the practical structure needed to keep teams aligned and execution on track.

Finally, you’ll examine PR, events, partnerships, analytics, and conversion tracking to measure what works and improve performance after release. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to plan, position, and execute launches with greater precision, build stronger cross-functional alignment, and create a repeatable Product Launch Marketing playbook that makes every future launch more effective.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

Foundations of launch marketing

1 lesson

Product launch marketing is the discipline of creating market awareness, demand, and trust around a new product before and after it goes live. It is not just promotion on launch day. It coordinates po…

Objectives, scope, and success measures

1 lesson

Lesson 2: Defining Launch Goals and Commercial Outcomes

18 min
This lesson defines what a successful product launch is meant to achieve, beyond simply going live. Learners will turn a launch into a set of clear commercial outcomes, such as revenue, pipeline, adop…

Audience insight and launch context

1 lesson

Lesson 3: Understanding the Market, Buyer, and Timing

20 min
This lesson explains how to evaluate the market, buyer, and launch timing before building a launch plan. Learners will identify who the real buyers are, what problem the product solves, how demand alr…

Positioning and differentiation

1 lesson

Lesson 4: Crafting the Product Positioning

20 min
Positioning is the core message that tells the market why this product matters, who it is for, and why it is a better choice than the alternatives. In this lesson, learners define a clear target custo…

Messaging architecture

1 lesson

Lesson 5: Building the Core Message Framework

18 min
This lesson explains how to build the core message framework for a product launch so every campaign asset says the same thing in the same way. Instead of writing slogans first, you will define the aud…

Target groups and priority audiences

1 lesson

Lesson 6: Segmenting Audiences for a Launch

18 min
This lesson shows how to segment audiences for a product launch so your team can prioritize the right people, shape the right messages, and choose the right channels. You will learn how to distinguish…

Channel strategy and media mix

1 lesson

Lesson 7: Choosing the Right Launch Channels

20 min
Choosing the right launch channels is about matching the channel to the audience, the message, and the launch goal. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to build a practical media mix for a product launch…

Demand creation before release

1 lesson

Lesson 8: Planning the Pre-Launch Campaign

22 min
This lesson shows how to design the pre-launch campaign that creates demand before a product is available. You will learn how to define the launch goal, identify the right audience segments, shape the…

Content, creative, and proof points

1 lesson

Lesson 9: Creating Launch Assets and Content

20 min
This lesson shows how to create the core launch assets that turn a product strategy into a coordinated campaign. You will learn how to build a launch message, select proof points, and produce the cont…

Internal enablement and readiness

1 lesson

Lesson 10: Preparing Sales and Customer Teams

18 min
This lesson shows how to prepare sales and customer-facing teams before a product launch so they can explain the product clearly, handle objections confidently, and create a consistent customer experi…

Project planning and orchestration

1 lesson

Lesson 11: Coordinating the Launch Timeline

20 min
This lesson shows how to coordinate a product launch timeline so work moves in the right order, deadlines are realistic, and every team knows what must happen before go-live. You will learn how to bui…

Execution on the day of release

1 lesson

Lesson 12: Running Launch Day Activity

18 min
This lesson covers how to run launch day as a coordinated execution window, not a single announcement. You will learn how to monitor pre-launch readiness, activate your channels in the right order, re…

Earned and collaborative launch tactics

1 lesson

Lesson 13: Managing PR, Events, and Partnerships

20 min
This lesson shows how to use earned media, launch events, and strategic partnerships to amplify a product launch without relying only on paid channels. You will learn how to decide what belongs in PR …

Analytics, attribution, and KPIs

1 lesson

Lesson 14: Measuring Performance and Conversions

22 min
This lesson shows how to measure launch performance without getting lost in vanity metrics. You will learn how to define the KPIs that matter, set up a simple measurement plan, track conversion throug…

Iteration, feedback, and follow-up

1 lesson

Lesson 15: Optimising After Launch

20 min
This lesson shows how to improve a product launch after go-live by using real customer feedback, launch metrics, and fast iteration. You will learn how to identify what is working, diagnose where mome…

Scaling launch capability

1 lesson

Lesson 16: Building a Repeatable Launch Playbook

18 min
This lesson shows how to turn a one-off product launch into a repeatable operating system . Instead of starting from scratch every time, you will define the launch inputs, team roles, timelines, decis…
About Your Instructor
Professor David Grant

Professor David Grant

Professor David Grant guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.