Ad Council reviews

3.5

49% would recommend to a friend

(56 total reviews)

Lisa Sherman

99% approve of CEO

28% positive business outlook

Ad Council has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 56 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Ad Council employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Nonprofit & NGO industry (3.7 stars).

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56 reviews
1.0
Oct 2, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Some of the work is cool

Cons

They literally admit that there’s no room for growth. Even in interviews, but they try to put a spin on it to make it seem positive? They also hype up these low paying jobs even though they basically say you’ll end up doing everything that no one else wants to. Glorified note taker lol.

2.0
Jul 26, 2024

Disappointing

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

People - met and worked with some of the greatest people in my career. Extremely supportive and collaborative, and this is especially true in spaces like the ERGs and SIGs. Experience - a great place to learn just about everything within the advertising and communications space.

Cons

Office Culture - like many of the other reviews, I can attest to the Ad Council's terrible office culture. It can only best be described as a "high school" hierarchy where it's an openly discussed secret who is "in" and who is "out". Even up until recently I was being told what managers were openly saying about me and my coworkers, which further led to me leaving the organization. Work Life - teams are constantly stretched to the max with the expectation that you work late every night. Anything outside of that is "underperforming". DEI & B - This comes down to the "belonging" in DEIB and ties back to the overall office culture. Unfortunately, the ones with the most decision making power are the ones causing the problems to begin with. There is little to no accountability, and even less chance of any change with the current leadership.

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