SIMULATOR CERTIFICATIONS · FREE FOREVER

Don't study advertising.
Run it.

Seventeen playable certifications built on a real DCO decision engine. Serve live impressions, ride match moments, launch campaigns under pressure and earn a credential by actually doing the job. No slides. No trick questions. The exam is a simulation.

Enter the simulator → Try DCO Fundamentals 100% free. Certificate + LinkedIn credential included.
In the Creative AI Fund pilot? Start with the Scope Simulator
New for CMC users: five platform tutorials, from your first brief to go-live
Why playable

Certificates prove you read.
Simulations prove you can do.

Every certification here is a mission sequence inside a working simulation. Configure signals and watch a creative assemble in milliseconds. React to a stoppage-time winner before the moment passes. Rescue a launch when the publisher rejects your creative on day 11. Pass the simulation, earn the credential.

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A real decision engine

The simulator runs the same signal logic that assembles live DCO creatives in production: geo, weather, daypart, device, intent and live moments.

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Scored like the job

Relevance targets, launch deadlines, trust meters and cash cycles. You pass at 75%, and every decision shows you exactly why it scored.

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A credential that travels

Every pass issues a certificate with a unique credential ID and one-click add to LinkedIn. Free forever, retakes unlimited.

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Ranks that compound

Every mission earns XP. Climb from Rookie to Operator to Strategist to Grandmaster as you clear the seventeen simulations.

The certifications

Seventeen simulations. Four tracks.

Creative AI Fund track for brands and agencies in the Google pilot. Platform track for teams working in HockeyCurve CMC. Skill track for the craft of dynamic creative. Role track for the seat you actually sit in: sales, ops, solutions or finance.

🧭 Creative AI Fund track

SIM-16 → SIM-17

For brands, creative teams and media agencies joining the Google Creative AI Fund pilot. Start with the Scope Simulator, then Review Like a Pro, before your first brief. Operated by HockeyCurve. Google is a trademark of Google LLC; these simulators are not Google products.

🧰 Platform track

SIM-11 → SIM-15

For agency and brand teams using the Campaign Management Console, the format gallery and DCO Builder. Start with CMC Brief Setup and Write a Great DCO Brief before your first campaign.

🎮 Skill track

SIM-01 → SIM-06

🤵 Role track

SIM-07 → SIM-10
100Bn+Impressions served
1,500+Brands & agencies
400+DCO formats
100+Publisher integrations
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Certified and hungry for the real thing?

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Rookie

Clear missions to earn XP and climb the ranks.

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Where you stand

Standings are benchmarked against the AdInnovationLab simulation cohort. Earn XP in any simulation and your position updates instantly on this device.

Per-simulation standing

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Team boards with named rankings across all seventeen simulations are rolling out. Get your company on the list.

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DCO Fundamentals
Issued02 Jul 2026
Credential IDAIL-0000-0000
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