In-Housing Your Digital Campaigns? Here’s What to Automate and What to Leave to Your Agency

More brands are bringing digital marketing capabilities in-house - driven by the need for greater control, cost-efficiency, and transparency. But that doesn’t mean agencies are obsolete. On the contrary, agency partners remain essential for strategic thinking, campaign concepts, and access to deep industry expertise.

So what does smart in-housing look like? And which parts of the campaign process should stay with your agency?

Here’s a quick guide to striking the right balance, with help from Cape.

1. Creative Production: Automate What’s Manual, Focus on What’s Strategic

Keep your agency partners focused on high-value work: big ideas, creative direction, and strategic insight. For everything else, especially scaling creative assets across formats, markets, and languages, automation is your best friend.

Cape helps in-house teams:

• Eliminate repetitive design work: Automatically version creative for every market, channel, and format.

• Make last-minute changes at scale: Need to update a product image or legal text across 100 assets? Do it in seconds.

• Stay on-brand, everywhere: Custom templates ensure local adaptations always reflect your visual identity.

Automation turns creative execution into a scalable process, freeing up time for design, storytelling, and performance.

2. Campaign Activation & Ad Ops: Replace Complexity with Consistency

Campaign setup across DSPs and ad servers is notoriously time-consuming. From managing tags and URLs to applying whitelist rules, compliance checks, and bid strategies, the process is often fragmented and error-prone.

With Cape:

• Ad ops setup is reduced by up to 80%.

• Manual errors are minimized with pre-configured publication profiles.

• Campaigns are deployed across ad platforms with a single click.

Let your media experts, whether in-house or agency, focus on optimization and performance. Cape handles the operational lift with automated delivery into your ad tech stack.

3. Workflows That Actually Work

More than 70% of digital campaigns are delayed due to bottlenecks - email chains, scattered feedback, and last-minute revisions.

Cape eliminates workflow chaos with:

• Built-in approval flows and version control.

• User-friendly interfaces for both marketers and designers.

• Scalable, on-brand templates for always-on and seasonal campaigns.

No need to be a media expert to launch a campaign. Cape turns media operations into an intuitive, error-free experience.

You Don’t Have to In-House Everything, Right Away

Think of in-housing as a journey, not an overnight shift. Start with automating “always-on” campaigns. Or let your agency partners use Cape to eliminate repetitive tasks and reduce turnaround time.

The result? Faster campaigns, fewer errors, and more time for strategic work; whether it happens in-house, at your agency, or across both.

Cape makes in-house campaigning feel effortless.

Ready to take the first step? Contact us at sales@bycape.io to learn more.