A structural investigation of advertisement music in terms of creating brand awareness

This research was carried out to reveal which characteristics (type, form, timbre) of the advertisement music used in commercials create awareness in different age groups and to study structurally the jingles which raise awareness. At the first stage of my research, by reviewing the literature, all the available resources written about advertisement, advertising and advertisement music were examined. Such variables as the students' age, gender, number of siblings, family's monthly income etc. were scrutinized in the first part of my research. Then, using unaided reminding method, 10 commercials whose recall rates are the most among 87 pieces of advertisement were identified. At the second phase of my research, the students at the levels of school, age, gender and socio-cultural life were made to watch individually those 10 commercials selected before and thus it was determined which characteristic of the music created awareness about the advertisement. Besides, in this part of my research, the main theme melodies of the 10 advertisement music choosen were notated and an identification card containing the structural properties of each advert music was created. At the final stage of my research, the data obtained were presented in tables by analyzing on SPSS 17.0 program. It was inferred from the present study that the advertisement music had an important role in the ads' being noticed and watched, what attracted most attention of students in ads and made them aware towards ads as musical characteristic were melody, rhythm, and the artist of the music, and there was a meaningful relationship between the general properties of the advert music and the targeted age, gender, income and level of education