Introducing Ad Age Best Places to Work 2023

Best Places to Work delivers the score on 50 companies doing a standout job in the ad business. Winners earned high marks on factors ranging from compensation and benefits to corporate culture and leadership.

Introducing Ad Age Best Places to Work 2023

Ad Age Best Places to Work shows the score on companies that did a standout job last year amid the challenges of a tight talent pool, uncertain economy and ongoing effects of the pandemic.

What makes the best work better than the rest?

The winning companies outscored other workplaces in factors ranging from compensation and benefits to corporate culture and leadership.

Employees gave the winners significantly higher grades on some key differentiating policies, practices and other factors. In certain areas, the difference turned out to be comparatively small for winners and companies that didn’t make the ranking.

The 50 winners—top companies with more than 200 employees and top companies with 200 or fewer employees—reflect the highest overall scores based on an analysis of questionnaires submitted by employers and survey responses from employees.

Questionnaires submitted by employers reveal important differences between Ad Age Best Places to Work winners and other companies in factors relating to benefits, diversity, recruitment and work-life balance.

The winners tally includes a strong showing of ad tech ventures, digital agencies, marketing agencies, ad agencies and media agencies along with winners from other disciplines.

Ad Age partnered on the report with Best Companies Group, a research firm specializing in identifying and recognizing great places to work.

See Ad Age Best Places to Work 2023 here