In-Store Music Providers.
Music for selling, for shopping, to linger for longer, for meals out and meet-ups, tout suite or saunter.
Brands that sound better with Startle
music
- brand distinctiveness
- cover control
- responsive atmospherics
- repeat custom
- brand consistency
- top of mind
- driving spend
- increased dwell time
- throughput control
Music is too powerful to be left in the background.
We start with music and multiply it. By curating a branded atmosphere guided by behavioural science, and delivering it at scale via killer tech, the outcome is so much more than music.
It’s what we call music+.
Keep scrolling to find out how we make magic happen with music, science and tech.
Music
Our algorithm is a dancer.
He’s also a foot tapper, a head bobber and, very occasionally, a gifted air guitarist. He’s a person, called James, and he does the job that most places leave to the robots.
Startle has provided me with a fantastic music service for over 4 years and their control panel is so easy to use.
I can tailor the music required in any of my sites and even use the system to promote special offers via their audio messaging feature.
Multi-site Operations Manager at Anytime Fitness
Expectancy Theory
Primacy Effect
Peak-End Rule
Expectancy Theory
Primacy Effect
Peak-End Rule
Expectancy Theory
Priming
Von Restorff Effect
Mood
Fundamental Attribution Error
Priming
Von Restorff Effect
Mood
Fundamental Attribution Error
Priming
Von Restorff Effect
Science
Get in the middle of a chain reaction.
There are no medals for nice music and wishful thinking, just a fair bit of risk. Leave that to others. Instead, let’s focus on the science behind good vibrations that curate atmospheres with real intention.
Behavioural science
There are many areas that behavioural science can be applied commercially, with music and atmosphere being some of the least exploited.
Startle are at the forefront in this area.
Consultant and author of the choice factory
Tech
Scales easy like Sunday morning.
Curating perfectly branded atmospheres is hard, scaling it consistently across an estate is, well, harder. Our tech makes good vibrations across your estate feel easy like Su- oh, you get it.
Startle have consistently been a great support to our stores. From their content management, music profiling and technical support, Startle have enabled us to create a seamless shopping atmosphere across our full store estate.
Marketing Manager at schuh
“I cannot recommend their services highly enough. Having tried the rest, Startle certainly is the best.”
- Domino's Pizza
Support
S-U-P-P-O-R-T. Find out what it means to me.
We ain't gonna do you wrong while you're gone. In fact, our support team are pretty relentless. So much so, the name kind of stuck... Our Relentless Support™ crew are even relentless 24/7/365, sing it Aretha.
Sectors we master.
Our GRAMMY 2025 predictions
Spoiler alert: Sabrina Carpenter is OUR PREDICTED WINNER FOR ‘Record of the Year’
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How Background Music Can Influence Customer Loyalty
How can music actually have an impact on the loyalty of your customers?
Heard enough?
Get in touch to start playing your customers the kind of background music that creates those hair-tingling moments.
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