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Creative & Media (500-1000) January 2026

Emerging

Benchmark status

We consider this an emerging benchmark: it has enough data available for us to use bootstrapping to create a representative sample. As the sample grows in size, some scores may slightly change. Our research has shown that our bootstrapped scores are consistent with our standard benchmarks. Read more about the methodology.

Data provided by Culture Amp

Most represented industries in this benchmark

Marketing & Advertising, Online Media, Broadcast Media, Public Relations & Communications, Publishing, Design, Music, Performing Arts, Animation

Most represented regions in this benchmark

  • Northern America

    53%

  • Europe

    23%

  • Oceania

    13%

  • Asia

    5%

  • Latin America

    3%

  • MEA

    2%

Reported gender breakdown

  • Female

    53%

  • Male

    47%

  • Non-Binary

    0.29%

Are employees committed to their organizations?

Engaged people are emotionally committed to their organization. These people stay at their organizations longer and are more productive and effective. Successful organizations have more engaged employees.

64% of Creative and Media (500-1000) employees are engaged

This is in the bottom 28% compared with other industries.


The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 0 and is in the bottom 2% compared with other industries.

How does Creative and Media (500-1000) compare?

On the lower side, people in Creative & Media (500-1000) had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Leadership, and Service & Quality Focus.

People working in Creative & Media (500-1000) are less engaged than Education Management, Education, Utilities, and Internet.

The highest scoring question for Creative & Media (500-1000) had 89% of people agreeing that their manager genuinely cares about their wellbeing (+2% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.


People in Creative & Media (500-1000) were generally least favourable about Action, and were most negative towards 'I believe my total compensation (base salary+any bonuses+benefits+equity) is fair, relative to similar roles at other companies' with 32% of people disagreeing (+9% above average).

How long do people stay?

In the short term, 25% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+5% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 14% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+4% compared to overall).

Understanding Tenure distributions

Tenure describes how long an employee has worked for their company: we know through our research that newly hired employees tend to be more positive than their tenured counterparts. Positivity declines sharply before bottoming out between two to six years, then rises slightly for those that remain.

The tenure composition of a benchmark can influence overall scores.

Tenure distributions

  • Less than 3 months

    2%

  • 3 months to 6 months

    4%

  • 6 months to less than 1 year

    10%

  • 1 to less than 2 years

    15%

  • 2 to less than 4 years

    26%

  • 4 to less than 6 years

    15%

  • 6 to less than 10 years

    15%

  • Greater than 10 years

    13%

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