Every person on the creative team is in these cross functional sort of pods, we call them astropods sticking with our space theme. We've got a centralized creative team, but every single person on that creative team is aligned to a marketing function. They may be lied to more than one, right? So like we might have an animator that's aligned with paid media, which is our biggest budget line item and might be doing stuff for social for like TikTok in particular. Because it's like they just get it. They're all the same meetings. The ideation is amazing. The speed at which we can move is amazing. But I'm dedicated essentially to these buckets of work
How much time do creatives actually spend creating?
Amrita Mathur, VP of Marketing at the Creative-as-a-Service agency, Superside, is in the studio to talk about why creatives spend so little time actually creating and how a great DesignOps team can increase workflow and efficiency among creatives.
She and Daniel also discuss the advantages of centralized vs. decentralized marketing, the best way to scale a marketing department, and how creative team success should be measured.
Plus, what’s the advantage of hiring freelancers over full-time employees? Tune in to find out!
0:00 Intro
2:08 Lessons from Computer Science
3:10 Scaling a team
5:45 Alignment is Key in Marketing
12:00 Do You Tie Outcome Results to a Creative Team?
14:03 Design Ops
22:08 A Marketing Hill to Die On
25:40 Words of Advice
29:44 Contact Us
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