Background music tempo effects on food evaluations and purchase intentions

2021 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 102730
Author(s):  
Felipe Pantoja ◽  
Adilson Borges
Keyword(s):  
Purchase Intentions ◽  
Background Music

The Influence of Different Levels of Musical Fit on the Efficiency of Audio-Visual Advertising

2020 ◽  
pp. 102986492090409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann-Kristin Herget ◽  
Priska Breves ◽  
Holger Schramm
Keyword(s):  
Laboratory Experiment ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Purchase Intentions ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Background Music ◽  
Visual Advertising ◽  
Four Levels ◽  
Different Levels

Music acts as a prominent element of advertising, but its simple presence does not automatically improve the effects of advertising. The concept of musical fit was developed more than 25 years ago to address the question of how music can be used effectively in advertising. However, existing empirical research on this concept has yielded inconsistent results. Recently, we developed an instrument to determine musical fit systematically in audio-visual advertising (Herget et al., 2018). To test this instrument empirically, we created six advertising stimuli (“commercials” or “ads”) representing six types of musical fit on four levels of musical fit, which varied only in terms of how many advertising reference points (spot narration, product, and/or target group) matched the background music. The findings of our between-subjects laboratory experiment (participants: 178 students, 74% female) reveal that the stimuli at different levels of musical fit differed sharply in terms of the intuitively perceived degree of musical fit (η2 = .33). In addition, increasing the level of musical fit improved advertising efficiency in terms of participants’ attitudes toward the ad (η2 = .12) and product (η2 = .12), as well as their purchase intentions (η2 = .06) and memory performance (η2 = .06). If other researchers were to use the instrument described, which defines and operationalizes musical fit systematically and transparently, results of future empirical studies would be more consistent. The results of the present study indicate that advertisers are well advised to select music to fit the commercial’s reference points as closely as possible, to intensify the music’s efficiency.

scholarly journals The Impact of Background Music on Customer Purchase Intentions

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. p220
Author(s):  
Jacob Shenje
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Purchase Intentions ◽  
Background Music ◽  
Differentiation Strategy ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Positive Experiences ◽  
Store Environment ◽  
Level Of Significance ◽  
Buying Behaviour ◽  
The Impact

Retail supermarkets in Harare have been finding it difficult to differentiate their store environment based on the traditional components of the retail mix. As such, a quantitative research study was conducted to determine the impact of background music on consumer buying behaviour for retail supermarkets in Harare, Zimbabwe. Specifically, the study sought to determine the effect of playing familiar songs on customer purchase intentions and examine the impact of music tempo on customer purchase intentions in retail supermarkets. The study also intended to determine the effect of music volume on customer purchase intentions in retail supermarkets. Key findings indicated that music volume has a negative effect on customers purchase intentions (r = -0.199; p < 0.05). The study also revealed that music tempo had a negative effect on customer purchase intentions with a coefficient r = -0.208 at 5% level of significance. The findings implied that when music tempo increases customer purchase intentions will equally inversely decrease at the sampled retail supermarkets. Furtherance, findings from the study revealed that familiar music was positively and significantly correlated with consumer purchase intentions with a coefficient r = 0.650 at 5% level of significance. Thus, the supermarkets can use background music as differentiation strategy for enhancing the value of products or services offerings through positive experiences. Indeed, creating pleasant experiences to customers while shopping products or services can help these customers to feel emotionally attached and bonded with the retail supermarkets.

Individual Differences in the Name Similarity Effect

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-118
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Howard ◽  
Roger A. Kerin
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Impression Management ◽  
Interactive Effect ◽  
Purchase Intentions ◽  
Brand Attitude ◽  
Self Monitoring ◽  
Similarity Effect ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Usage Context

The name similarity effect is the tendency to like people, places, and things with names similar to our own. Although many researchers have examined name similarity effects on preferences and behavior, no research to date has examined whether individual differences exist in susceptibility to those effects. This research reports the results of two experiments that examine the role of self-monitoring in moderating name similarity effects. In the first experiment, name similarity effects on brand attitude and purchase intentions were found to be stronger for respondents high, rather than low, in self-monitoring. In the second experiment, the interactive effect observed in the first study was found to be especially true in a public (vs. private) usage context. These findings are consistent with theoretical expectations of name similarity effects as an expression of egotism manifested in the image and impression management concerns of high self-monitors.

We're So Bad It's Funny - Effects of Using Humour in the Marketing Communication of Low-Quality Service Providers

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 84-99
Author(s):  
Ilias Danatzis ◽  
Jana Möller ◽  
Christine Mathies
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Purchase Intentions ◽  
Service Performance ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Service Research ◽  
Marketing Communication ◽  
Quality Service ◽  
Customer Expectations ◽  
Service Outcomes

Low-quality service providers who are unable or unwilling to compete through superior performance increasingly use humour in their marketing communication to generate positive service outcomes. Yet it remains unclear whether using humour to communicate poor service quality is indeed effective. Based on an online experiment in the context of budget hotels, this study finds that using humour to deliberately communicate poor service quality leads to higher purchase intentions and service quality evaluations by reducing both technical and functional service quality expectations. Theoretically, this study extends humour and service research by providing first empirical evidence for the viability of using humour as an effective tool for leveraging customer expectations of service quality rather than improving service performance. Managerially, these insights highlight how reducing customer expectations is an alternative strategy for attracting new customers and for achieving superior quality evaluations.

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