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Growth Hacking with Digital Marketing (Now with AI!) (Udemy.com)

Become a growth hacker! This course is used by teams at PayPal, IBM, Citibank & many other successful organizations!

Created by: Davis Jones

Last updated November 2025

Our take

Based on the ratings of 8,558 students, a sample of their written reviews and the syllabus, as the course stood in November 2025. No course pays to be reviewed.

Davis Jones and the Eazl team built this as a broad tour of growth marketing rather than a deep study of any one channel. Across 8.3 hours and 89 lectures the syllabus moves through Google Analytics, personas, funnels, LTV and CAC math, content and email, landing pages, retention, and a short section on growth careers. It's aimed at marketers who already know what SEO and email marketing are and want a way to tie them together with data. The requirements say there are no 101 lectures. The course was refreshed in November 2025, and the welcome section is labeled for 2026.

Reviewers like the visual elements, the expert interviews, and the step by step pacing, and one says the mental models stuck even when a section didn't apply to his job. The 4.1 rating across about 8,600 reviews tells the other half of the story. The most common gripes are broken or off-Udemy links in the resources, assignments that are fiddly to work through inside the Udemy player, and some older video segments that look their age. A couple of one-star reviews call it too simple and short on hands-on practice, and one B2B reader struggled to map the lessons onto their own business.

It has been around since 2015 and has the enrollment to show for it, about 64,000 students, and the Eazl certificate is a nice extra for a resume. Anyone wanting a structured overview with a clear syllabus, and who doesn't mind chasing a few external links, will get their money's worth. Marketers who already run campaigns and want a list of tactics may prefer the 150 Digital Marketing Growth Hacks course that sits beside it.

Best forMarketers who already know the channels and want a data-driven framework for connecting them, plus a certificate to show for it.
Skip it ifYou already run campaigns and want tactics to copy tomorrow; one one-star reviewer says it will not help anyone with any notion of marketing.

Pros

  • Animated modules and expert interviews instead of slide decks; reviewers say the pacing is easy to follow.
  • Covers the whole funnel in 8.3 hours: Google Analytics, personas, LTV and CAC, email, landing pages, retention.
  • Updated November 2025 with an AI angle, a 2026 welcome section, and a growth career paths module.
  • Eazl certificate on completion, and 20 caption tracks.

Cons

  • Broken or off-Udemy resource links come up repeatedly in the three-star reviews.
  • Assignments are fiddly: one reviewer had to juggle tabs in the Udemy player, another had trouble with the documents.
  • Too simple for experienced marketers, and some older video segments look dated.
It offers a wide range of materials, the instructors are clear, and the curriculum is easy to follow.
Hanh Nhan Tran, a student

Listed as all levels, but it assumes you already know what SEO, email marketing and paid ads are. There are no beginner primers.

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What you will learn

  • Integrate the data-driven and adaptive culture of Growth Hacking to improve digital marketing results.
  • Track, analyze, and leverage traffic and product usage data using Google Analytics.
  • Design customer action funnels and calculate per-user LTV / CAC.
  • Tell better stories and write marketing content to improve conversion rates.
  • Grow social media audiences using bots and organic techniques.
  • Segment email lists and automate email marketing communications.

Course content

12 sections · 89 lectures · 8.3 hours of video 4 quizzes, 4 assignments, 4 articles

  1. 1Let's Put You On the Rocketship! Welcome to Growth Hacking 7.6 -- New for 2026! 3 free previews7 lectures · 28 min
  2. 2How to Get Insights from Google Analytics & Apply them to Marketing Funnels 1 free preview8 lectures · 2 quizzes · 45 min
  3. 3Accelerate Growth by Developing Personas & Focusing on Specific User Segments9 lectures · 35 min
  4. 4Use Data to Learn Strategies and Run Your Growth Team10 lectures · 1 quiz · 52 min
  5. 5Language/Market Fit: Content Creation, Email Marketing, and SEO16 lectures · 2 quizzes · 1.7 hours
  6. 6Landing Pages and UX: Where should you drive your traffic?6 lectures · 1 quiz · 27 min
  7. 7TOFU: Top-of-the-Funnel Marketing9 lectures · 1.6 hours
  8. 8Growth's Financial Equation: LTV, CAC, and Reverse Engineering Marketing Funnels5 lectures · 1 quiz · 18 min
  9. 9How to Go Viral? Social Media and Public Relations5 lectures · 1 quiz · 19 min
  10. 10Growth Hacking Retention: Acquisition is Expensive. Retention is Not.7 lectures · 34 min

Who it is for

The instructor says it suits

  • The course is ideal for people looking to grow an existing organization's user or customer base, develop the skills necessary to launch a career in digital marketing, or seeking to add a digital component to their existing marketing skillset.

What you need before you start

  • Students need to have solid online navigation skills and an understanding of what these concepts are (e.g. SEO, social media, email marketing, online advertising). They don't need to be experts in these areas, but the course does not include "101" type introductory lectures on these web technologies.

How it compares

Against the other 27 rated Udemy courses in Growth Hacking on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.1 out of 5higher than 18% of them
  • Reviews8,558#1 of 28 by number of reviews
  • Length8.3 hourslonger than 84% of them
  • Last updatedNovember 2025more recently than 74% of them

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Overall Score : 82 / 100

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Course Description

Become a certified growth hacker! Join a network of more than 45,000 alumni and teams from top firms, like PayPal, IBM, Accenture, and others in the world's bestselling growth hacking course!

Grow your digital marketing results faster through the power of growth hacking! In this industry-leading course, you’ll discover the extraordinary benefits of digital metrics, including lean analytics, web traffic, digital conversion funnels, and LTV and CAC calculations. You’ll also gain access to cutting edge info about inbound marketing, email marketing, SEO, paid acquisition, public relations, viral marketing, and much more!

You can now earn your Eazl Growth Hacker certificate by completing 100% of this course. Eazl will customize, host, and issue your certificate so that you can impress clients and employers with your knowledge and commitment to building growth hacking skills!


Introducing…The Digital Marketing Toolkit for the Connected Economy
   

Want to have huge success in modern digital marketing? With this remarkable course at your fingertips, you can hone the much-needed skills to attract and retain customers through any online channel. By leveraging the advantages of growth hacking, you can:     

  • Compete head-to-head with even the biggest firms in Silicon Valley

  • Build your business with secrets unknown to most entrepreneurs

  • Qualify for more prestigious and higher-paying digital marketing jobs

  • Improve your outcomes with content marketing, social media, and SEO

  • Discover the real potential of email marketing, viral marketing and public relations

  • Lead digital marketing teams to massive increases in conversion rates

  • Multiply your results with growth hacking applied across numerous channels

The demand for digital marketing experts is increasing every day, and one of the key factors of success is keeping up with the latest trends. This growth hacking course puts you in the driver’s seat with the most relevant, most effective information available.     

And no boring power point slides, ever! This flagship course was developed in partnership with leading instructional designers. The course is exceptionally well-crafted, allowing you to learn growth hacking concepts and apply them immediately. You’ll also enjoy the beautifully animated learning modules, developed by Eazl’s own animation team.  

Growth Hacking – The Secret Key to Digital Marketing Mastery    

Ready to get feedback quicker – and make changes faster – to supercharge your digital marketing results? You’ve got all the strategies you need in this growth hacking course.    

In the first part of the course, you’ll gain essential “big picture” skills, including developing your customer personas, interviewing your target markets, and analyzing your “buyer center” (i.e. the individuals in your target market with the most purchasing power).    

Next, you’ll learn how to analyze your results. With any growth hacking effort, you always want to know what’s working, where it’s working, and what needs to be changed. For this, you need digital marketing tools like web traffic analysis and lean analytics.   

Lastly, you’ll discover highly effective tools to bring boatloads of new customers – ones with money to spend – into your online eco-system. This includes the concepts of digital conversion funnels, lifetime customer value (LTV), and customer acquisition costs (CAC).   

Develop a User-Centric Approach to Digital Marketing   

You’ll start by learning what growth hacking is and then move on to building your digital analytics skills. We'll take your Google Analytics skills to the next level by teaching you how to use these advanced tools with real data from the Google Merchandise Store. Then, you'll learn how to develop marketing personas and user segments--using online research methods (like Facebook Audience Insights) and the person-to-person interviewing methods used by companies like IDEO and Apple in Silicon Valley. Then, you'll learn how to work with Pirate Metrics and marketing funnels so that you can guide potential customers through each step... from awareness to revenue to referrals.

In the second half of the course, you’ll discover how to create digital marketing materials that target the unique wants and needs of your customer. This might seem like a given, right? In fact, it’s a much rarer skill than you might think, and absolutely crucial for maximizing sales. No growth hacking course is complete without this must-know info!

Then you’ll get a crash course in both online SEO and in content marketing, allowing you create relevant and memorable content that’s designed to be discoverable on the web. The email marketing section will introduce you to automated strategies for email. You’ll also develop the ability to use email platforms to manage your subscriber lists.

In the later parts of the course, you'll learn how to estimate and use both Lifetime Customer Value (LTV) and Customer Acquisition Costs (CAC)--two critical metrics for building a digital marketing engine. The course wraps up with a section on paid acquisition (like PPC Ads and social media ads) so that you can bring traffic into the "top of your funnel" on-demand.


Also, this is version 7 of this course! That's right--the Eazl team has updated this course 6 times since it launched. If you look at the content upgrade journal below, you'll see that it gets better and better--and you only have to enroll once to get lifetime access... including all the future upgrades!


Since giving you the most possible value is so important to us, Eazl is offering this course with our 30-day guarantee. If you’re not totally wowed by the content, feel free to ask for a refund. We will give you one immediately, no questions asked. Sound good?     

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Instructor Details

Davis Jones

Davis Jones is the Chief Learning Officer for Eazl, a business school whose courseware is used by organizations like Tesla®, Harvard, the World Bank, and Lyft® and more than 500,000 students worldwide. Mr. Jones also participated in the Harvard University Graduate School of Education Leaders of Learning.

Mr. Jones began his career in digital education following the publication of Career Hacking™, a learning experience helping people making career transitions. Today, it is the best-selling career management course in the history of the Internet and is integrated into undergraduate and graduate-level programs at the University of San Francisco, EDHEC Business School, Sonoma State University, and many other colleges and universities in the US and abroad. Following the publication of Career Hacking™, Mr. Jones negotiated commissions for Eazl to produce courseware on digital marketing, digital customer service, and multiple other business topics. Today, this courseware is used by organizations in both the private (e.g. Tesla®, PayPal®) and public (e.g. the World Bank) sectors.

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Reviews

4.1

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By Ruben De Vleeschauwer on 5/16/2026

It's very simple stuff. I requested a refund after going through it for half an hour at double speed, and apparently that's too much to get a refund. Don't buy it if you have any notion of marketing, because it will not help you.

By Hanh Nhan Tran on 11/16/2025

It’s a good course, I would say. It offers a wide range of materials, the instructors are clear, and the curriculum is easy to follow. After completing it, I now have a better understanding of growth hacking, and I find many of the tips and tactics quite practical and useful.

By László Toman on 3/18/2021

It's a great course overall, and I've learned a lot of skills by participating in it. But I'd like to have some theoretical Growth Hacking projects, where you model us the solution for some challenges with suggested practices. It would give us a bird-eye view of the growth-hacking processes.

By Rajeev Ranjan on 7/18/2020

It's been great to refresh all marketing basics with a touch of smart working to grow faster. However, the assignments could have been more interesting with access to demi websites and tools etc. especially for someone who doesn't have access to any website. That wi;l be a huge plus in this course.

By Justin Underhill on 3/29/2019

I absolutely loved this course! I've taken digital marketing courses as far back as 2012 but this has been the best learning experience of a topic that I love very much! Informative lectures, awesome practicums and thought provoking assignments really made this one of the best courses that I have taken this year! Another fantastic delivery by the EAZL team!

By Maya Menon on 11/18/2018

It was really a great experience to learn about Growth hacking through Eazl. The course was really amazing and informative for me. It gained me confidence to work in this field and now I am looking for opportunities to implement what I have learned through this course. Really wonderful !! The instructors especially Davis, Maja Voje and Jure were really great and the way they have explained the modules is fantastic. The interviews and practicums included in this course were really wonderful and informative. Thank you, everyone and thanks for providing such a great course in Eazl.

By Suketh Upadhya on 10/14/2018

This online course from Eazl helped me to understand digital marketing in a better way. I was already using most of the techniques before opting for this course, but now I can do it better by referring these content shared by Eazl. This course answered most of the doubts with real life examples.

By Priyanka Naidu on 1/14/2018

AMAZING! Highly recommend it to all who want to be a pro in Digital Marketing, everything has been explained so well, even if you have the very basic knowledge, you'll not find it tough at all. Standing by my rating, I love its practical aspect. Great tools to add to my list. A great investment.

By Greg Spence on 12/22/2017

Superbly presented, no powerpoint (yippeee!!). Excellent resources and superb skills taught in an accessible way for people of all skill levels. A slight criticism is that the logical flow to the course is not made apparent. One is not sure where in the Growth Hacking process one is.

By Laris Orman on 10/3/2017

Having a bit of a challenging time understanding speakers from Europe, which is funny in itself since I'm from Europe originally. I work for a B2B software company and other than Google Analytics portion, I'm still looking for ways on how we can implement these lessons for me to bring them more clients.

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