Stop Playing Content Ping-Pong: How to Get Your Marketing and Dev Teams Actually Working Together

Jennie Grant
June 5, 2025
3 mins
MachEcommerce

Picture this, your marketing team has a brilliant campaign idea that capitalizes on the biggest trend of the season. They’re buzzing with creative energy, ready to launch something spectacular. Meanwhile, your developers are drowning in a backlog of template updates and rigid code constraints, wondering when they’ll get time to build anything truly innovative.

Sound familiar? You’re not alone. Too many ecommerce brands are stuck playing content ping-pong, as marketing serves up ideas, and development hits them back with technical limitations. And customers? They’re enjoying better digital experiences elsewhere.

It’s time to change the game.

The real cost of team silos in ecommerce

Here’s what nobody talks about: When your marketing and development teams work in separate worlds, you’re not just slowing down campaigns, you’re losing opportunities.

Traditional ecommerce platforms often create friction between teams. Marketers want agility to craft compelling, on-brand content that reacts to trends in real time, but they have to rely on developers for help getting that content live. Developers need flexible tools to build dynamic, scalable experiences, but are instead bogged down by repetitive tasks and a backlog of tickets to work through.

The result? Campaigns take weeks to launch, opportunities slip away, and customers move on to competitors who deliver faster, more personalized experiences. Teams end up frustrated instead of fired up.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

What happens when marketing and development collaborate seamlessly

Imagine if your marketing and development teams were aligned, and you could easily create ecommerce experiences that captivate customers and drive conversions. Amplience turns this vision into reality with a headless CMS and Digital Asset Management designed to empower both teams. Marketers can craft, preview, and publish content across channels without touching code, while developers build dynamic experiences using a flexible, MACH-based architecture that supports monolithic, composable, or custom solutions.

At the heart of this ecommerce collaboration is Content Hub, a single source of truth where both teams manage assets, align on goals, and reduce miscommunication. This unified approach lets marketers launch campaigns swiftly and schedule promotions with confidence, while developers focus on innovation instead of maintenance.

The results speak for themselves. Shoe Carnival doubled its team productivity and saw landing page conversions increase by 6%, directly enabling the launch of last-minute campaigns almost instantly across all channels. With Amplience, teams create personalized, omnichannel experiences that don’t just keep up with customer expectations, they exceed them.

The Amplience approach: one platform, endless possibilities

Dynamic Content isn’t just another content management system, it’s a headless CMS integrated with Digital Asset Management, built specifically to bridge the gap between marketing creativity and technical excellence.

For marketers, this means:

  • Creating and publishing content without touching a single line of code.

  • Real-time previews that show exactly how campaigns will look across all channels.

  • The freedom to react to trends instantly, not next week.

  • One Content Hub for all your assets, so you spend time creating instead of searching.

For developers, this means:

It’s a single, powerful platform designed to remove the friction between teams, enabling them to build, innovate and adapt with unparalleled agility.

Real results from real collaboration

We’re not just talking about better teamwork; we’re talking about better business outcomes.

Liberty cut their content production time by 66%, freeing their creative team to focus on what they do best instead of wrestling with bottlenecks. Across our customer base, we’re seeing:

These aren’t just statistics, they’re the stories of teams that stopped fighting their tools and started using them to win.

We get it, ecommerce is complex, but your tools shouldn’t be.

Making it work: the human side of technology

Here’s something we never forget: ecommerce might be powered by technology, but it’s driven by people. The marketer who knows exactly what will resonate with your customers. The developer who understands how to make experiences that perform at scale.

Amplience brings out the best in both by removing the friction that usually keeps them apart.

The Agile CMS philosophy goes beyond technology. It fosters collaboration through structured workflows and planning tools that keep everyone aligned. These workflows streamline approvals and content updates, ensuring marketers and developers stay on the same page from ideation to launch. Whether you’re a marketer crafting SEO-optimized landing pages or a developer integrating real-time product data, Dynamic Content ensures your teams move together, not apart.

Ready to transform your ecommerce experience?

The gap between your marketing vision and technical execution doesn’t have to hold your brand back. Today, the brands that win are the ones that move fastest, not just in reacting to trends, but in creating experiences that make customers stop scrolling and start buying.

With Amplience, your teams don’t just work together, they work better. Faster content creation, smoother collaboration, and shopping experiences that actually stand out in a crowded market.

Want to see how marketer-developer collaboration could transform your content strategy? Book a meeting with us today to discover how Dynamic Content and Content Hub can turn your content bottlenecks into competitive advantages.