Music Might Be the Most Crucial Element in Your Commercial Mix


With so much free content around, marketers need to up the bar when they use music in their ads.

The payoff can be substantial. Good music can get a spot noticed; bland music can get it ignored. As my granddaughter Ramsay Hanson, an advertising major at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, told me: “If a TV is on and I’m busy with something else and I hear “blah blah blah buy me now blah blah’ I won’t bother to look up, but if I hear great music, the commercial will definitely get my attention.”

And because the internet has created such sophisticated musical tastes, “music — great music — has become totally decentralized and diffuse, meaning it can come from anywhere (Psy in Korea, Swedish House Mafia, a cover-band singer from Manila), and the traditional revenue streams are struggling to keep up,” Yaron Schwartzman, a partner in Game7Films, said.

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