BSB50115 Diploma of Advertising

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for BSB50115 ended on 12 January 2016 — 10 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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For an RTO registered by ASQA, new enrolments are not permitted today, unless ASQA has approved otherwise — for your organisation, for a class of RTOs, or for all RTOs. The one-year point this rule counts from — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register — fell earlier, on 14 January 2017. That date is arithmetic, not a day on which this instrument prohibited anything: s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR Registered Training Organisations and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355) commenced on 1 July 2025 and imposes nothing before then. RTOs registered by VRQA in Victoria or by the TAC in Western Australia are not covered by it.

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

A second obligation follows from the same fact: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. For an RTO registered by ASQA, new enrolments in this product are not permitted today, so a course page advertising it is not permitted either — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

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For an ASQA-registered RTO that does not already hold it, adding the replacement to scope is a change-of-scope application to ASQA, with a fee set by law: A$200 application fee + A$1,100 assessment fee per application (up to 5 VET courses and 50 units of competency). RTOs registered by a state regulator, and ASQA delegates, sit under other arrangements. Source: NVR Fees Determination 2026, F2026L00814, from 1 July 2026 · read 5 September 2026.

Product type
Qualification
Training package
BSB — Business Services Training Package
Currency period ends
12 January 2016
Latest release
Release 1 · 25 March 2015
Supersedes
BSB50107
Superseded by
BSB52415 not equivalent

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

  1. BSB50115Superseded — not equivalentDiploma of Advertising
  2. not equivalent
  3. BSB52415Superseded — not equivalentDiploma of Marketing and Communication
  4. not equivalent
  5. BSB50620CurrentDiploma of Marketing and Communication

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

  • BSB50107BSB50115equivalent24 March 2015

    Updated to meet Standards for Training Packages

  • BSB50115BSB52415not equivalent13 January 2016

    Qualifications merged to better fit industry practices

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for BSB50115 and for its training package BSB (release 8.1), with the name and date the register publishes for each file. We link them; we have not read them, and nothing on this page is taken from their contents.

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What BSB50115 is made of

training.gov.au lists 44 units for BSB50115: 0 core and 44 elective. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. How many of the electives are required is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Elective units 44 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
BSBADV503Coordinate advertising researchnot current
BSBADV507Develop a media plannot current
BSBADV509Create mass print media advertisementsnot current
BSBADV510Create mass electronic media advertisementsnot current
BSBADV602Develop an advertising campaignnot current
BSBADV603Manage advertising productionnot current
BSBADV604Execute an advertising campaignnot current
BSBADV605Evaluate campaign effectivenessnot current
BSBCMM401Make a presentationnot current
BSBCRT501Originate and develop conceptsnot current
BSBCUS501Manage quality customer servicenot current
BSBDES601Manage design realisationnot current
BSBDES602Research global design trendsnot current
BSBFIM501Manage budgets and financial plansnot current
BSBINM501Manage an information or knowledge management systemnot current
BSBLED501Develop a workplace learning environmentnot current
BSBMGT502Manage people performancenot current
BSBMGT516Facilitate continuous improvementnot current
BSBMGT517Manage operational plannot current
BSBMKG402Analyse consumer behaviour for specific marketsnot current
BSBMKG501Identify and evaluate marketing opportunitiesnot current
BSBMKG502Establish and adjust the marketing mixnot current
BSBMKG506Plan market researchnot current
BSBMKG507Interpret market trends and developmentsnot current
BSBMKG508Plan direct marketing activitiesnot current
BSBMKG509Implement and monitor direct marketing activitiesnot current
BSBMKG510Plan e-marketing communicationsnot current
BSBMKG514Implement and monitor marketing activitiesnot current
BSBMKG515Conduct a marketing auditnot current
BSBMKG520Manage compliance within the marketing legislative frameworknot current
Show the remaining 14 elective units
CodeUnitIn this product
BSBMKG522Plan measurement of marketing effectivenessnot current
BSBMKG523Design and develop an integrated marketing communication plannot current
BSBPMG522Undertake project worknot current
BSBPUB501Manage the public relations publication processnot current
BSBPUB502Develop and manage complex public relations campaignsnot current
BSBPUB503Manage fundraising and sponsorship activitiesnot current
BSBPUB504Develop and implement crisis management plansnot current
BSBREL501Build international client relationshipsnot current
BSBREL502Build international business networksnot current
BSBRSK501Manage risknot current
BSBSUS501Develop workplace policy and procedures for sustainabilitynot current
BSBWOR501Manage personal work priorities and professional developmentnot current
BSBWOR502Lead and manage team effectivenessnot current
BSBWRT501Write persuasive copynot current

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