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Media & Marketing July 2025

  • ~2.5m

    Questions answered
    over 12 months

  • ~150

    Organizations

These insights represent ~2.5m questions answered from ~150 organizations, collected between July 2024 and June 2025.

The data meet our criteria as being robust and reliable; unlikely to substantially change over time; and representative of the wider industry. Read more about the methodology.

Data provided by Culture Amp

Most represented industries in this benchmark

Marketing & Advertising, Public Relations & Communications, Online Media

Most represented regions in this benchmark

  • Northern America

    39%

  • Europe

    30%

  • Asia

    12%

  • Oceania

    11%

  • Latin America

    5%

  • MEA

    3%

Reported gender breakdown

  • Female

    53%

  • Male

    47%

  • Non-Binary

    0.09%

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.

67% of Media and Marketing employees are engaged

This is in the bottom 40% compared with other industries.


The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 10 and is in the bottom 18% compared with other industries.

How does Media and Marketing compare?

People in Media & Marketing were much more positive than average regarding Decision Making, Innovation, and Growth.


On the lower side, people in Media & Marketing had much lower favorable scores than average in Equity, Company And Leadership, and Company Performance.

People working in Media & Marketing are less engaged than Private Company, Manufacturing, Technology, Science, Research, and Food & Beverage.

The highest scoring question for Media & Marketing had 90% of people agreeing that they know how their work contributes to the goals of %[Company]% (+0% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.


People in Media & Marketing were generally least favourable about Equity, 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 31% of people disagreeing (+8% above average).

Which questions matter the most?

Different things are important to different cultures. If you want to make more of your people engaged then you need to know what is important your people. These questions are most important to keeping people engaged in Media and Marketing organizations.

1

The leaders at %[Company]% demonstrate that people are important to the company's success

Leadership
2

The leaders at %[Company]% have communicated a vision that motivates me

Leadership
3

We acknowledge people who deliver outstanding service here

Service & Quality Focus

How long do people stay?

In the short term, 22% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+2% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 12% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+2% 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

    3%

  • 3 months to 6 months

    5%

  • 6 months to less than 1 year

    10%

  • 1 to less than 2 years

    17%

  • 2 to less than 4 years

    30%

  • 4 to less than 6 years

    12%

  • 6 to less than 10 years

    12%

  • Greater than 10 years

    10%

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