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%