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Last updated on Feb 6, 2025
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Struggling to coordinate digital and traditional media teams?

To merge the strengths of digital and traditional media teams, focus on creating a unified strategy. Here are some steps to streamline collaboration:

- Establish common goals. Have both teams define clear, shared objectives to work towards.

- Facilitate regular communication. Schedule cross-team meetings to ensure ongoing dialogue and idea sharing.

- Leverage complementary skills. Identify each team’s unique strengths and coordinate efforts for maximum impact.

How do you encourage cohesion between your digital and traditional media teams?

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Struggling to coordinate digital and traditional media teams?

To merge the strengths of digital and traditional media teams, focus on creating a unified strategy. Here are some steps to streamline collaboration:

- Establish common goals. Have both teams define clear, shared objectives to work towards.

- Facilitate regular communication. Schedule cross-team meetings to ensure ongoing dialogue and idea sharing.

- Leverage complementary skills. Identify each team’s unique strengths and coordinate efforts for maximum impact.

How do you encourage cohesion between your digital and traditional media teams?

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    Neha C.

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    To encourage cohesion between digital and traditional media teams, it's crucial to establish clear, shared goals that both teams can rally around. Regular communication through cross-team meetings ensures ongoing dialogue, allowing both sides to exchange ideas and challenges. Identifying each team's unique strengths, digital agility and data-driven insights, and traditional media's broad reach and established brand presence helps in leveraging these assets for maximum impact. By integrating both approaches into a unified strategy, teams can amplify their efforts, ensuring consistency in messaging and optimizing resources. This collaborative approach leads to more effective campaigns and a seamless brand experience across all channels.

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    Josué Nevárez

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    What works best for us is simply getting both teams in the same room more often. Traditional media folks normally have amazing insights from their face-to-face client interactions that digital teams wouldn't otherwise hear. When the digital team understands these real-world experiences, they can craft social posts that actually connect with people. We started having quick weekly catch-ups where everyone shares what they're hearing from customers. It's not fancy, but it works - the traditional team feels valued for their experience, and the digital team gets authentic content ideas they couldn't get from analytics alone.

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    Adolfo Villanueva

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    Coordinar equipos de medios digitales y tradicionales requiere alinear objetivos y comunicación constante. 🔑 En mi experiencia, es clave definir bien los roles de cada equipo y asegurar que ambos compartan la misma visión de la marca. 💡 También funciona tener reuniones conjuntas para revisar avances y ajustar la estrategia según los resultados. ✅ Cuando ambos equipos entienden cómo complementarse, se potencia el impacto de las campañas y se logra una experiencia consistente para el cliente. 🚀

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    Dick Gillespie

    Sales Leader for all things Mobile Digital OOH. With service to New York, Tri State, Washington DC, Md, Va, NC, SC, GA , Atlanta, and Las Vegas.

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    Explain how they need or complement each other’s media.show increased awareness when both are used. Clients don’t buy one silo, they buy across them

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    Dan Prudhomme 🧭

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    Start with clear objectives, shared KPIs, and unified messaging to bridge the gap. Foster collaboration with cross-channel strategies and ensure both teams leverage insights from each other. Integration isn’t about competition. It’s about maximizing impact.

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    Andrés Zerpa Director Comercial

    Director Comercial | Estrategia de Ventas | Desarrollo de Negocios | Retail | Consumo Masivo | B2B | B2C | Expansión de Mercados

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    "La clave para una estrategia de medios efectiva está en la integración. Unificar los equipos de medios digitales y tradicionales no solo optimiza los resultados, sino que también potencia la creatividad y el impacto de las campañas. Establecer objetivos comunes, fomentar la comunicación constante y aprovechar las fortalezas de cada equipo son pasos esenciales para lograrlo. ¿Cómo han trabajado ustedes la sinergia entre estos equipos en sus organizaciones?"

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    Dan Prudhomme 🧭

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    Alignment beats silos every time. Bridge the gap with shared goals, clear data, and unified messaging. Digital and traditional should amplify each other. Not compete. The best teams don’t just coordinate. They collaborate.

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