Nudge

#1: How music affects what we buy

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Mar 25, 2019
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ANECDOTE

Music Changes Wine Purchases

  • Playing stereotypical French or German music dramatically increased sales of wines from that country at a local supermarket.
  • Music influenced customers to buy three times more wine from the country of the music being played.
INSIGHT

Music Activates Consumer Associations

  • Music activates related knowledge and associations in the brain, influencing consumer behavior.
  • Hearing music linked to a country makes people more predisposed to buy products from that country.
ANECDOTE

Margarine's Success via Associations

  • In the 1940s, margarine was unpopular despite tastings showing consumers preferred it to butter.
  • Changing its packaging and associations to resemble butter caused margarine to outsell butter for 50 years.
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