Hi! Has anyone here easily pivoted from a Media Director (strategy & planning focused) to an Account Director role at an agency? The more media has shifted to be technical, the less I enjoy it. I’m more interested in (and more skilled in) the people side of the business (presentations, client relationship building, team training) than the technical side (tagging, tracking, reporting, pacing, campaign set up, in platform setup, etc.) and lately the technical tasks have become excessive in media.

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Yeah pretty smoothly. There are a lot of agencies out there where the Media Planning Team assumes that client relationship role. Lots of transferable skills.

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Completely agree w/ VP 1. Good luck!

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