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Music In Advertising[edit]

How Music Used in Advertising[edit]

Music in advertising is used to help draw in viewers. The music used can draw in viewers through familiarity or through complete mystery. Music is used advertisements due to the effects on the emotions that music draws out. The music sets the mood for an advertisement. An example of mood setting in advertisements is the ASPCA when sad music is played while showing hurt animals to convince the viewer to donate money. The use of music is a way of effecting the attitude of a viewer. The music is a tool companies use because the standard time for a television advertisement is fifteen seconds. If the attention is lost the sales decrease due to improper use of advertising. David Huron came up with six primary categories of how music affects advertising; they are entertainment, structure and continuity, memorability, lyrical language, targeting, and authority establishment. Also, music in advertising can be used to appeal to a person's emotions and senses. The music is used to target the viewer's emotions so that he or she is swayed toward what is being advertised.

Affects of Music on Sales[edit]

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is known for using sad music to make the viewer feel sad for the animals being shown in their advertisements.

The use of music can boost the sales by drawing in audiences. People tend to have a biased opinion on subjects relating to things the viewer likes. Music can trigger certain feelings for a topic and bring the customer in to learn more. Music in its own sense is a language. Customers buy from companies they trust and music can add to an advertisement's trustworthiness. Certain music can be associated with a certain product which can make a product easier to remember.

Other Factors of Music in Advertising[edit]

Entertainment[edit]

The entertainment aspect of music helps make an advertisement more appealing by adding aesthetic value to it. An advertisement that has high aesthetic value will be able to capture more attention from the audience. From this point of view, "music need not necessarily manifest any special affinity with a particular product or service in order to play an effective and useful function."

The music functions more as a bridge between the viewer and advertisement in this case.

“It simply draws attention to the advertisement or to the product. In this case, the music in the advertisement does not necessarily need to have anything to do with the product." The entertaining part of an advertisement is one of the most crucial steps to getting customers to buy the product. Music brings a certain flavor to an advertisement, without the music the ad would seem bleak. Music can create emotion and motivate people. When paired with the right ad music can make a person associate the product with a certain feeling enabling them to go buy the product.

Emotion and Music[edit]

Music can be used as a cue to help drive a message to a viewers. The music in an advertisement can be an indirect influence on the viewer's attitude towards the product being shown. Exciting music has been shown to increase arousal in skin response and heart rate which can be seen as a physical form of showing emotion through music.^[1] Sad music has been shown to influence the purchase of intent more than either happy or no music at all. ^[2]

ASPCA and use of music in advertisements[edit]

An example of the use of sad music is in the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) advertisements. The ASPCA uses sad music to help add emotion to the images and videos being shown to help drive the viewer to donate money to help the suffering animals.^[3] The music in the advertisement is used as a tool to get the viewer to empathize with the animals. ^[4]

Structure and continuity[edit]

Music supports an advertisement's structure and continuity by mediating between disjoint images. Accompanying a TV commercial, music either structures the narrative or tells a narrative itself. It can also create an antagonist and protagonist within this narrative by giving them typical musical figures, harmonies or melodies. Moreover, music has the ability to emphasize dramatic moments within the advertisement, and therefore creates both structure and continuity.

Music and its message in advertisements[edit]

Music can be used to carry the message of the advertisement which gives the music a dominant role or just be in the background. ^[5] If the music is used in the background instead it can be used to emphasize a key brand attribute or the logo.

Memorability[edit]

Music in advertising is "the most common musical technique for aiding memorability and hence product recall". A theory suggests that the initial sound (or notes in the case of music) activates a cohort of possible matches in memory, which is narrowed as the sound (or melody) progresses.

Music serves the function of making a product more memorable to viewers, as it is known to "linger in the listener's mind." When used in an advertisement, the content of the ad lingers along with the music. Easily recognizable music is put in television ads to produce a “significant positive relationship with recall and comprehension” for the viewer. On top of this, “recall of information is improved when cued with a well-known song.” Advertisements strategically use popular music to make a lasting impression on viewers.

The ability to be able to attract a consumer to a product usually requires an advertisement to be presented in a memorable way. Whether it be in a catchy, recognizable song or with loud, vivid colors, an effective commercial or advertisement must come across in a fantastic way in order for the consumer to actually consider taking a product into account. The viewer must be drawn to the advertisement for the product to be remembered later. Music is the number one way for companies to entice a consumer or buyer, usually spending up to half of a million dollars to create commercials that will stand out to the public. In this it includes using popular music that appeals to younger audiences, famous celebrities and musical artists that many can recognize, and star athletes that many look up to. "Picture-word congruence [was] found to enhance verbal recall when the picture does not evoke distracting imagery.” Music has a great part in drawing in a consumer to consider an item for purchasing, but visuals tend to enhance the advertisement for later recall. In times where both lyrical and visual advertisements are presented, it brings positive invocations to the viewer and memorizing certain products becomes more effective and easier for future recall. Studies have been conducted to compare various elements of “stimulus congruence” that prove how higher volume advertisements turn the eye and make products more appealing. Through this, companies become more involved in how to boost their products through musical advertising for the benefit of the message applied. It becomes easier to target younger people, seeing as that their ability to memorize words of a song faster and therefore creating commercials and advertisements that trend worldwide with their specific musical taste.

Lyrical Language[edit]

For providing rational facts in the same time "mixtures of speech and song provide advertisers with opportunities for both logical, factual appeals through spoken and written language and emotive, poetic appeals through music."

Contemporary advertisers must overcome the viewer's innate skepticism, which developed over years through desensitization. Music can provide a message without the customers consciously noticing it; in other words, they are "not involved, non-decision-making consumers rather than cognitive active problem solvers.”

Targeting[edit]

Using different kinds of musical genres in the advertising world helps advertisers draw from the kind of audience they think will be interested in their products. The idea that there is a specific group of people that an advertiser is trying to reach is called target audience and music is a significant aspect of what draws the target audience in.

Music can create different moods and sway people of different groups into thinking or feeling certain ways. The different tempos, time changes, pitches, and content of the music can target anyone or many groups of people the advertiser may be trying to reach.

Often, music in advertisements shows a viewer what a product is before the advert actually states it. Linda M. Scott, says in her journal, "Understanding Jingles and Needle-drop: A Rhetorical Approach to Music in Advertising, "Studies of advertising music share an underlying theory in which music is an effective background component that causes attachment to the product without the cognitive involvement of the viewer." Music can create a bond between a viewer and a product, which is why it is considered important for advertisers to choose the right music for their target audience.^{[citation needed]}

Authority Establishment[edit]

Authority establishment in music in advertising is the idea that using specific kinds of music can help give an advertisement more credibility because of the artist being used in the ad. This is another way that companies can help persuade consumers to buy their product. Using a specific song that holds weight in the target audience the advertiser is trying to reach can strengthen the bond between the product and the consumer.

Effects on Credibility[edit]

Credibility is often brought to question when considering how music is used in present-day advertising and marketing efforts. It is proven that certain types of music can lend credibility to individuals, companies or even specific products. This is exactly what advertisers want to have happen and they particularly prefer music as a source of adding credibility to their subjects.

Credibility has two key components: trustworthiness and expertise, which both have objective and subjective components. Trustworthiness is based more on subjective factors, but can include objective measurements such as established reliability. Expertise can be similarly subjectively perceived, but also includes relatively objective characteristics of the source or message (e.g., credentials, certification or information quality). Secondary components of credibility include source dynamism (charisma) and physical attractiveness.

Credibility online has become an important topic since the mid-1990s. This is because the web has increasingly become an information resource.

Entertainment-“It simply draws attention to the advertisement or to the product. In this case, the music in the advertisement does not necessarily need to have anything to do with the product”(Andersen 260). The entertaining part of an advertisement is one of the most crucial steps to getting customers to buy the product. Music brings a certain flavor to an advertisement, without the music the ad would seem bleak. Music can create emotion and motivate people. When paired with the right ad music can make a person associate the product with a certain feeling enabling them to go purchase the product.

The same can be said for advertisements. Generally, people are familiar with Nike, Puma and New Balance. A fairly new shoe company would have to work harder to gain customers. If a person/company is virtually unknown, they must create a sense of trust, believability in themselves and their product. People need to see evidence that the person/company can be trusted. The well-known person/company has to live up to the previous expectations and not disappoint those who have shown up to see them speak and possibly purchase product. The advertising and marketing industry calls this brand management.

On the other hand, the use of music in advertising, especially on platforms such as social media or television, are seen as less credible compared to advertisements that lack music and are placed in newspapers or articles. Consumers tend to have a more positive attitude towards commercials that supply accurate and relevant information about a product or a service that the consumer desires. Consumers rely on the credibility of what's being advertised so in order for them to trust in the advertisers' message or product there has to be solidified evidence for it.

Relationship with Musician[edit]

Music affects the moral value of the artist, in the sense the music he/she makes out of their feelings and emotional drive is then used for a car commercial, or maybe one of their songs is used for a mayonnaise commercial. This could be seen as "the ultimate sellout that offended aesthetic and bohemian values" Being that the original intent for the song was not intended for random advertisement, musicians may feel cheated.^{[citation needed]}

On the other hand, "by contrast, today advertisements represent one of the best opportunities for many musicians to gain access to mainstream markets (The erasure of antagonisms between popular music and advertising)." So, a musician having his or her song used in a popular ad may contribute to the success of that song.^{[citation needed]}

Interaction of music and brand[edit]

In general, one could say that music can be altered in meaning depending on its context. This is an opportunity for advertisers to create meaning for their brand by employing musical pieces for their own interest. But music has "a potential for the construction or negotiation of meaning in specific contexts." That means that some music can match better with one type of products than with another type. Different musical types can i.e. target high culture or popular culture oriented customers. The reason is that "musical styles and genres offer unsurpassed opportunities for communicating complex social or attitudinal messages practically instantaneously." One could literally say that music is worth a thousand words. That's why music became more and more important to advertisers. They have the chance to transfer specific characteristics connoted to certain musical types to their products. "Music now is more often employed as 'borrowed interest' capturing a feeling, setting a mood, recalling past experiences and playing them back on behalf of the sponsors." All these attributes help an advertisement appealing to the life world or lifestyle of the targeted group.^{[citation needed]}

And "music transfers its own attributes to the story line and to the product, it creates coherence, making connections that are not there in the words or pictures; it even engenders meanings of its own […] the music interprets the words and pictures." A brand's, product's or service's value is enhanced by the connection to music. It adopts meanings which are inherent in the music because “the object itself is not enough to sell it; it must also be linked to some sort of personal meaning, the very essence of branding.” That means that a brand or product has to pick up some kind of connotation which is added by the music. Also, a certain artist can change or shape an advert so that it fits a certain target group. "Advertising is not about what the product does but who the consumer is" and so advertisements have to find a good balance between adopting meaning from a used musical piece or artist and providing context in return to become authentic. Both the music and the advertisement can benefit from this symbiosis. There are artists and music bands that became famous through having their music inside of adverts which can in return mean to sacrifice their music to the brand.^{[citation needed]}

"The joining of music culture, through either a licensed track or the appearance of an artist, with a product or service in a commercial brings new connotations to both artist [and also the music] and company while naturalizing the relationship between the two. The value of articulating popular music to a product can be seen as especially important to advertisers competing with products similar, if not identical, in use-value."

History[edit]

Since the late 1920s, music has been a fundamental part in advertising. In the earliest adverts, companies would use jingles and specially composed songs to explicitly promote the product being advertised. In 1926, the first radio jingle was by the “Wheatles”, encouraging the audience to listen to Wheatles. As businesses started to become aware of the influence of music on consumers in advertising, a major emphasis on music in commercial services started to play an important part in the creation of consumer attitudes and associations towards the advertised product and brand.^{[citation needed]}

In 1934, “Muzak”, which is best known as the leader in business music, was founded. “Muzak” is a company brand of background music played in retail stores and other companies. In 1944, the first television commercial jingle “Chiquita Banana”, was broadcast across movie theaters. The jingle is described as catchy and informed the audience on various ways they can consume a banana. In the 1970s, Ronnie Bond, a jingle writer, created popular jingles such as Brank Flake's “Tasty Tasty, very very tasty” and Coco Pops’ “I’d rather have a bowl of Coco Pops.” In the 1980s, children became the targeted audience for advertisers, advertising children toys during cartoons. Up until 1985, the movement of the “jingle” ended, advertisers shifted to more developed and structured full-fledged songs for advertisement. In the 1990s, now television breaks have extended 12–15 minutes per an hour long programme. Eventually, in the 21 century “jingles” made a comeback due to the fact that jingles are catchy, causing the audience to associate the jingle with the product being advertised. Over the years, the use of music in advertising has not changed dramatically, it has just become more modernized and influenced by society's needs.