The Science and Psychology of Music and Marketing

The panel will reveal how the world’s leading brands are harnessing the power of music and sound to enhance brand perception and connect with hard-to-reach consumer groups.

By engaging innovative and data-driven approaches, brands can use the psychology of sound to influence audiences.

Our panel will explain the psychological mechanisms that make audio branding work, and how to apply these understandings to match brands to audio assets.

There will be an explanation of explicit and implicit approaches to testing audio branding effectiveness and how audio changes consumer perceptions.

An interactive competition will challenge the audience to match selected musical tracks to a selection of brands, then the actual personality matches as determined by consumers will be revealed.

Programming descriptions are generated by participants and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of SXSW.

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Jo McCrostie

Global Entertainment Music and Publishing

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Daniel Müllensiefen

Goldsmiths University of London

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