The Digital Marketing Institute Announces a Global Partnership with ImarComms

The Digital Marketing Institute has entered into a global partnership with leading digital marketing agency ImarComms. A Cypriot-based interactive marketing communications company, ImarComms works with global brands throughout the Eastern-Mediterranean region.

"The Digital Marketing Institute is delighted to announce a global partnership with ImarComms. We are particularly excited to be working with Pericles and his team who have shown that they can provide a range of world-class services to both corporate clients and individual students. By offering the Digital Marketing Institute's education programs to their clients and public classroom courses,ImarComms are continuing to diligently bridge the digital skills gap in Cyprus and indeed across the globe,' stated Ian Dodson, Co-Founder and Director of the Digital Marketing Institute.

ImarComms will commence delivering classroom training to students in Cyprus in November this year. The programs taught by ImarComms in partnership with the Digital Marketing Institute will provide practical and expert-facilitated training programs geared to help marketing and sales professionals gain the skills needed to succeed in the world of digital marketing.

As part of the global partnership, ImarComms will start by delivering the Professional Diploma in Digital Marketing (PDDM), the Digital Marketing Institute's flagship course which has been taught to over 17,000 graduates across the world. Recognized as the global certification standard in digital marketing by major players in the industry, the PDDM course content is updated every 3-6 months and is industry validated through the Syllabus Advisory Council which consists of representatives from the world's largest brands including Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, IBM, and Vodafone amongst others.

A credit rated and quality assured certification, the PDDM is equivalent to a Level 5 professional qualification on the European Qualification framework. In 2017, ImarComms plans to expand its course portfolio to include additional Digital Marketing Institute certifications including specialized diploma in search, social media, social selling and strategy and planning. ImarComms will also act as a reseller for the Digital Marketing Institute's post-graduate and Masters programs.

Pericles Ellinas, Founder and CEO of ImarComms said: ''We are very excited about this global partnership with the Digital Marketing institute and hope that we can share its merits with all marketing and business professionals in Cyprus and beyond for a more qualitative and practical upgrade of their knowledge and expertise, securing them a prosperous employment future.''

About the Digital Marketing Institute

Founded in Dublin, Ireland in 2008, the Digital Marketing Institute is the certification standard in digital marketing education, training more graduates to a single standard than any other certification body.

The organisation works with the world's largest and most influential brands to define the skills and qualifications required to excel in this rapidly growing industry through its Diploma, Postgraduate and Masters education programs. Industry-validated, the Digital Marketing Institute's training is taught full-time, part-time and online in over 80 countries by the Digital Marketing Institute and its network of licensed education partners.

The Digital Marketing Institute now certifies digital professionals through the following channels:

• Online: Where students can study for certification directly with the Digital Marketing Institute through online learning

• Licence: Where the Digital Marketing Institute licences its syllabus to an approved third party organisation to teach the content on its behalf

• Corporate: Where the Digital Marketing Institute offers access to its learning library to enterprise level corporates and delivers tailored certification programmes