A unified view of directintegration (DI) and exponentialtimedifferencing (ETD) methods to incorporate Drude media, such as isotropic plasma and microwave graphene, into finitedifference timedomain (FDTD) simulators is provided. To this end, the Drude constitutive relation is expressed in integral form and the DI integrators are obtained by applying quadrature rules. Analogously, the ETD integrators are obtained by starting from the variation of constants formulae and applying the same quadrature rules as in the DI case. This approach allows one to directly compare the two families of methods. Additionally, the accuracy of each integrator is discussed and the stability condition of the resulting FDTD schemes is derived in exact closedform by applying the von Neumann method.