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May 2008
What music do advertising people listen to while they're working? (Part 2)
So what do the remainder listen to? Of course! It's Radio 4.
Actually, no. Radio 4 doesn't even get a look in. (Though whisper it quietly, I suspect that when they're in their car or in the kitchen at home, a lot of the older advertising bods actually listen to it. Including me.)
No, the remaining fifth or so actually listen to nothing at work. And you know what? I'm with them.
I actually can't work while there's music on. Not unless I'm able to successfully tune it out of my head altogether, which rather defeats the purpose. Or unless I'm doing something mindless.
Peace perfect peace….
May 2008
What music do advertising people listen to while they're working? (Part 1)
Another excellent poll from Scamp, this one. To summarise the results, 25% listened to dance / electronic / techno, 18.8% to hip-hop / rap, 16.7% to rock, 12.5% to classical, 2.1% to pop / RnB, and 4.2% to new age / world / weird shit.
I love that 'weird shit' category. As someone rapidly approaching grumpy old man status, most of the first two categories falls under 'weird shit'. Back in the day, of course, most people would listen to rock / pop. And RnB (or rather R&B) meant bands like Doctor Feelgood.
In fact most people would have simply had Radio 1 on. Then it was Capital when they came along, then it started fragmenting as new stations were founded, until today when no two radios in one building are ever tuned to the same frequency (and virtually no-one bothers with radios anyway).
Of course the mathematicians out there will have worked out that the above percentages still leave 20.8% unaccounted for. More on that next time…
Until then, here's that poll link:
http://scampblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/friday-poll-march-madness.html