{"id":75889,"date":"2022-06-30T15:54:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T19:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=75889"},"modified":"2022-06-30T15:54:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T19:54:38","slug":"report-music-in-a-major-mode-may-get-consumers-to-act-on-their-good-intentions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2022\/06\/30\/report-music-in-a-major-mode-may-get-consumers-to-act-on-their-good-intentions\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT | Music In A Major Mode May Get Consumers To Act On Their Good Intentions"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_75893\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75893\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-75893\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/Music-and-Green-Marketing-REPORT.jpg\" alt=\"Image by Ilona Ily\u00e9s (CCOC\/Pixabay)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-75893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by Ilona Ily\u00e9s (CCOC\/Pixabay)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Music, provided it\u2019s uptempo, and played in a major mode, can change consumer habits, a new study shows.<\/p>\n<p>One of the key frustrations for many retailers is the gap between what people say they will do, and what consumers actually spend their money on. That\u2019s particularly true for makers and sellers of goods that are green, ethical or sustainable.<\/p>\n<p>Consider the so-called <strong>attitude-behaviour gap<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In surveys, <strong>30% of consumers<\/strong> claim to care about the ethical stance of the brands they support \u2013 but, in reality, only about <strong>3% actually<\/strong> put their money where their mouth is, so to speak.<\/li>\n<li>Similarly, about <strong>30% of consumers<\/strong> will say they would buy green products if they were given the alternative, but only about <strong>5% of them<\/strong> actually do.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;This attitude gap is a serious marketing problem because any exaggeration of consumers&#8217; ethical concerns can distort the market, leading to oversupply. Our research suggests one way to bridge that gap is to use advertising music more creatively \u2014 specifically, to use uptempo, major-mode music,&#8221; said Dr Haiming Hang of the University of Bath School of Management in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2022\/06\/220629121206.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subjectively, it is already established that when people enjoy the music associated with a brand, they are more likely to choose it at the cash register.<\/p>\n<p>The results from a study from the University of Bath, published in April 2022, indicate that using upbeat music in a major key can get more consumers to act on their stated preferences. It can turn those good thoughts into hard cash, in other words.<\/p>\n<p>The study, Liu, G., Abolhasani, M. and Hang, H. (2022), &#8220;Disentangling effects of subjective and objective characteristics of advertising music&#8221;, were published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1108\/EJM-01-2021-0017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>European Journal of Marketing<\/em><\/a>, Vol. 56 No. 4, pp. 1153-1183. Specifically, it involved creating radio ads for two products the research team had made up (i.e. were not real): an electric car (EcoCar) and a reusable coffee mug (EcoMug). The study used multiple experiments to examine how music affected buying patterns vs buying intentions.<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>major mode<\/strong>, and a tempo <strong>above 72 beats per minute,<\/strong> seems to do the trick.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The attitude-behaviour gap is reduced by <strong>40% to 50%<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The faster the tempo, the greater the effect, optimized somewhere above 95bpm;<\/li>\n<li>The finding was true regardless of what kind of musical background the individual had;<\/li>\n<li>It worked with any type of green product.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cMarketers must be aware that simply incorporating a piece of music that consumers enjoy may not be sufficient. When incorporating music into advertisements, marketers must recognise the importance of music mode and music tempo to ensure that a favourable attitude towards a brand translates into sales,\u201d Hang concluded.<\/p>\n<p>As the researchers point out, the study combined the subjective quality of how much the consumer enjoyed the music with objective criteria such as mode and tempo.<\/p>\n<p>Linking the right kind of music and the message is the key.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em><b>#LUDWIGVAN<\/b><\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily \u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ludwig-van.us9.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=4f785cb3f9058f2393ccad035&amp;id=57cdb68eac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>HERE<\/em><\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Music, provided it\u2019s uptempo, and played in a major mode, can change consumer habits, a new study shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":75893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39907,36,39,55],"tags":[33627],"yst_prominent_words":[30058,10394,25144,10109,13807,6616,8798,12762,17080],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/Music-and-Green-Marketing-REPORT.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-jK1","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75889"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75896,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75889\/revisions\/75896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75889"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=75889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}