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© 2024, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: Sports advertisements such as the Super Bowl showcase products and brands that have invested increasingly large sums financially to gain viewers’ attention. However, how audio features in advertisements impact viewers' behavior remains unexplored. Design/methodology/approach: Using the lens of signaling theory, this research uses advanced data analytics of voice and music audio in Super Bowl advertisements to examine its impacts on viewers. Findings: Results show that advertisement viewers prefer more voiced frames and have a greater liking behavior of voiced frames with a low intensity (less loud) and a higher F1 frequency, which is typically associated with male vocal tracts. A fast music tempo works better for longer advertisements. The model controls for various types of ad appeals. The research underlines the importance of voice and music in signaling successful brand features that are likely to increase the ad-liking behavior of consumers (positive effect). Research limitations/implications: The current research implies that brands advertising through sports ads must carefully select voice actors and music in order to provide the most positive signals for a brand to have the most significant effect and, thus, a greater return on the high sums invested in the ads. Originality/value: First, this research contributes in terms of a new research process for using audio analytics in advertising. The detailed research process outlined can be used for future research examining audio and music from advertisements. Second, our findings provide additional support to the important role of voice features (e.g. intensity and frequency) as signals in inducing responses from consumers (Biswas et al., 2019; Hagtvedt and Brasel, 2016). Third, the study surfaces a new theoretical association: the effect of tempo in moderating the relationship between duration and propensity to like an ad.
Author(s): Barnes SJ, Wang W
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Internet Research
Year: 2024
Pages: ePub ahead of Print
Online publication date: 20/08/2024
Acceptance date: 24/07/2024
Date deposited: 24/10/2024
ISSN (print): 1066-2243
ISSN (electronic): 2054-5657
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
URL: https://doi.org/10.1108/INTR-10-2023-0898
DOI: 10.1108/INTR-10-2023-0898
ePrints DOI: 10.57711/me1z-px74
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