Media & Marketing North America January 2026
~0.9m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~95
Organizations
These insights represent ~0.9m questions answered from ~95 organizations, collected between January 2025 and December 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
Reported gender breakdown
Female
59%
Male
40%
Non-Binary
0.13%
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.
66% of Media and Marketing North America employees are engaged
This is in the top 46% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 5 and is in the bottom 24% compared with the overall average.
How does Media and Marketing North America compare?
People in Media & Marketing North America were much more positive than average regarding Action, Service & Quality Focus, and Innovation.
On the lower side, people in Media & Marketing North America had much lower favorable scores than average in Equity, Company Performance, and Leadership.
People working in Media & Marketing North America are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management United Kingdom, Creative & Media Central Europe, Manufacturing Japan, and Computer Software Benelux. People working in Media & Marketing North America are less engaged than Insurance Oceania, Enterprise, Agricultural APAC, and Construction & Heavy Industry New Zealand.
The highest scoring question for Media & Marketing North America had 91% of people agreeing that their manager genuinely cares about their wellbeing (+4% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in Media & Marketing North America were generally least favourable about Equity, and were most negative towards 'I believe that my total compensation is fair, relative to similar roles at %[Company]%' with 33% of people disagreeing (+14% 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 North America organizations.
1 The leaders at %[Company]% have communicated a vision that motivates me | Leadership |
2 The leaders at %[Company]% demonstrate that people are important to the company's success | Leadership |
3 %[Company]% is in a position to really succeed over the next three years | Company Performance |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 23% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+3% 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
2%
3 months to 6 months
4%
6 months to less than 1 year
9%
1 to less than 2 years
14%
2 to less than 4 years
30%
4 to less than 6 years
15%
6 to less than 10 years
14%
Greater than 10 years
12%