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What We Love, Hate and Desire in Our Digital Media Jobs
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About the Survey • Goal to determine drivers and effects of job
satisfaction in digital media industry • Digiday polled its opted-in base of leading digital media
and marketing professionals • Incentive: chance to win 1 of 5 $100 AMEX Gift Cards • Results gathered over 3 weeks
– February 11 – March 3, 2012
• 601 Respondents
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How We Analyzed the Results
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• Multiple regression analyses were
conducted to identify the most important
predictors of Industry Job Satisfaction
• New variables were introduced to rinse
and condense the information present
in survey questions
• Explored using both interval scale and
dummy variables. In the end, we used
dummy variables for our analysis
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The Results
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We’re Generally a Happy Group
6.5
15.1 19.9
50.7
7.8
Miserable Unhappy Satisfied Enjoy Love
Rate Your Happiness 78.4%
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And We’re Getting a Bit Happier
4.8
19.4
40.0
26.2
9.5
Much Worse Worse Same Better Much Better
Change in Happiness in Last 12 Months
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What we LOVE about our jobs
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What We Love about Our Jobs We love the people and the dynamic nature of the business
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What we HATE about our jobs
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What We Hate about Our Jobs We hate the some of the people, the work, and the long hours
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We’ve Been Loyal to Our Employer
9.8
34.1
22.4 23.6
10.2
<1 year 1-2 years 3-4 years 5-10 years >10 years
Time in Current Job
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But Not Because We’re Happy
3.22 3.33 3.52 3.37 3.53
<1 year 1-2 years 3-4 years 5-10 years >10 years
Happiness by Time in Current Job 6.3% correlation (weak)
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2/3 of Us Plan to Leave in Next 2 years
19.3
42.7
30.6
7.5
Actively looking Next Year or Two Five Years Lifer
Percent by Commitment
62.0%
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We’re Leaving Because We’re Unhappy
2.3
3.4 3.9 4.1
Actively looking Next Year or Two Five Years Lifer
Happiness by Commitment Level 52.2% correlation (strong)
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Who is Unhappy?
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First, what doesn’t correlate with job happiness
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Both Sexes Equally Happy
3.30 3.48
Male Female
Happiness by Gender 8.9% correlation (weak)
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We Work Hard
0.7 0.5 1.8
33.1
41.4
16.9
3.2 2.5
<20 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69 70-79 80+
Percentage by Hours Worked
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Long Hours Don’t Make Us Unhappy
3.00 3.00 3.09 3.39 3.35 3.39 3.47
4.07
<20 20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69 70-79 80+
Happiness vs. Hours Worked 7.8% correlation (weak)
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We Feel Underpaid
5.5
32.7
50.7
6.0 5.1
Gulag Worker Underpaid Fair Overpaid Top of field
Rate Your Compensation
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But Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness
2.9 3.1
3.6 3.2
3.8
Gulag Worker Underpaid Fair Overpaid Top of field
Happiness by Compensation 20.6% correlation (medium)
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Tenure Doesn’t Matter Much
3.40 3.20 3.36 3.35 3.54
<1 year 1-2 years 3-4 years 5-10 years >10 years
Happiness by Time in Industry 8.8% correlation (weak)
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Role Doesn’t Matter Much Either
3.29 3.21 3.58 3.54 3.46
Advertiser Agency Publisher Tech / Service Provider
Other
Happiness by Role 11.7% correlation (weak)
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Now, here’s what does correlate with job happiness
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Location makes a difference
2.80 3.21 3.24 3.40 3.45 3.48 3.50 3.57 3.62 3.71 4.00
Happiness by Location
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20-somethings Least Happy
3.19 3.40 3.59 3.53 3.50
20-29 30-39 40-49 50-59 60+
Happiness by Age 12.5% correlation (weak)
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We Are Unhappiest in Lower Ranks
3.09 3.08 3.33 3.38 3.67 4.21
3.73 3.94
Happiness by Seniority 25.4% correlation (medium)
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Underlings Make Us Smile
3.25 3.34 3.56 3.78 3.79 4.40
0 1-10 11-20 21-50 51-100 101+
Happiness by # of People Managed 16.4% correlation (weak)
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Training Makes Us Happy
2.44 2.78
3.35 3.65
3.33
Drowning Need Help Adequately Trained
Maestro In My Sleep
Happiness by Preparation for Current Job 20.5% correlation (medium)
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A Career Path Makes Us Even Happier
2.22 2.91
3.47 3.77 3.89
Stuck in Dead End Job
A Chance for Advancement
Will Eventually Get Promoted
Easy to get promoted if work hard
Guaranteed with reasonable
effort
Happiness by Opportunity for Advancement 42.0% correlation (strong)
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focus on lower ranks with training + opportunities
-> happiness -> retention
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Other Interesting Findings
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Advertiser Perspectives
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Advertisers like their Agencies
10.0
17.5
35.0
30.0
7.5
Terrible Below Average Average Above Average The Best
Rate Your Media Agency
72.5% rated at or above average Agencies are from Lake Wobegon
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If advertisers had a magic wand…
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Advertisers want agency partners who lead with good experience
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Publisher Perspectives
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Publishers Not Fond of Media Agencies
3.1
34.0
56.8
5.6 0.6
Horrible Bad Average Pros Fantastic
Rate The Media Agencies You Deal With
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Because They Are Frustrated
23.9
40.3
17.0 11.3
7.5
Would Rather Sell Around
Them
Just Buy Same Things bc Easy
Repackage My ideas
Innovative / Open to Ideas
They Help Me Sell
Describe Your Working Relationship with Agencies
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If publishers had a magic wand…
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Publishers want agencies to be creative, understand, and communicate
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Agency Perspectives
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Agencies Love Microsoft Excel
1.8 1.2 7.9
54.3
34.8
Never <15 Minutes 15-60 minutes 1-4 hours >4 hours
Time Spent in Microsoft Excel
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Agencies Use Excel to Make Media Plans
1.3 4.5 8.4 9.7
76.1
Symphony MediaMind iDesk MediaVisor Excel
Tool for Creating Media Plans
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Agencies Use comScore for Research
1.3 1.9 5.0 9.4 12.5
70.0
Quantcast Alexa Compete Other Nielsen comScore
Tool for Research
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Agencies Use DFA for Ad Serving
0.6 4.5
7.6 11.5
21.7
54.1
Zedo Mediaplex Atlas Other MediaMind DFA
Tool for Ad Serving
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Most Agencies Not Happy With Tools
7.9
51.5
38.2
2.4
Bad Mediocre Good Double Rainbow
Rate Your Tools
59.4%
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If agencies had a magic wand…
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Agencies want better clients, better work, better tools, and fewer hours
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76.1%
Email Excel File Sharing
Research
Ad Serving
Buying / Billing
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replace excel
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Research
Ad Serving
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You Get Detailed Publisher Info
7,500+ sites
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AND
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It’s better than Excel
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Knowledge Worker
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