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Amplify your competitive socialising brand with strategic music and digital signage experiences.
Startle is the fully managed background music and digital signage provider for competitive socialising venues and bars, expert curation, multi-zone control, and a team that takes responsibility for delivering it properly.
Whether you run a single venue or a growing estate, Startle gives head office complete control: distinct atmospheres across activity zones, event-led scheduling that shifts automatically, and Relentless Support™ available 24/7/365 so your experience never misses a beat.
Music affects our mood, perceptions and behaviours. While your customers are making memories, let's impact their choices and influence how they perceive your brand long after they've left the venue. It can also inspire happy and productive employees.
Adapt to the mood - choose from over 100 carefully crafted playlists (with managed explicit lyrics) which can vary in different areas of your venues. Enhance the buzz of first date conversations, spin slower songs to encourage longer dwell times during happy hour, and get the party started with upbeat evening tracks.
Sounds with substance - we know that if your music isn't spot on, your customers might leave. That's why your perfectly branded playlists are curated using a robust, academic model that was specifically designed for brand professionals, and we build a close collaborative relationship with you.
The best DJ content, flawlessly - our premium dance solution Ultimate DJ brings competitive socialising brands an alternative to pricey and unreliable live music, providing the perfect mixes to special events and quiet nights to life, curated by industry leading DJs.
Startle's cloud-based digital signage enhances the atmosphere in your competitive socialising venues - whether it's promoting food and drinks deals, showing the top scores of the day, or combining with your music to build anticipation and excitement around upcoming tunes.
Capture customers - digital signage is engaging, visual, and gets in front of visitors who are ready to spend. It's a great way to reinforce your promotions and brand messaging, especially in high dwell areas.
A complete audio visual experience - integrate dynamic digital signage with your music to put your soundtrack centre stage. Give your customers something to watch and discuss while they're waiting for their turn.
It's science - just like music, engaging visual displays are proven to influence customer experiences - reducing frustration and perceived wait times and improving brand recall.
Easily replicate a perfectly curated branded atmosphere across an entire competitive socialising estate, all from a single platform with Startle Studio, supported by our Relentless Support™ team.
We know that your venues' vibes change rapidly. Our simple drag-and-drop scheduling tool makes it easy to tailor music to different times of day and trading patterns, and even override with a DJ mix if a surprise party enters the door.
Set your venue's opening and closing hours, schedule your volume levels (great for late night volume control), and manage granular permission levels so you can take pressure off your staff, and there’s no unwanted mix meddling.
Access your audio visual schedule anywhere. Gone are the days of one computer in a dusty office controlling everything - Studio is wherever you are.
Startle is your partner for building a branded competitive socialising atmosphere that keeps customers coming back for more.
Enjoy personalised playlists and impactful visuals that work together to create and enhance an unrivalled and fun experience.
Our all-in-one approach to atmosphere building not only creates harmony between your audio visual experience, but saves on the hassle and cost of manually adjusting media throughout the day, and across sites.
It's everything you need to make your venues unforgettable.
It's your brand, amplified.
I’ve been really impressed with Startle since introducing it at Sixes. The setup process was smooth and efficient, and the team made everything easy from the start. The music creates a consistently upbeat and welcome vibe in our venues, and their support has been excellent – responsive, reliable, and a pleasure to work with!
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Frequently asked questions.
Startle's Studio platform gives your head office central control over music and digital signage across every zone and every venue. You set the playlists, the schedules and the energy levels, so the atmosphere matches the activity, whether it's a busy Friday evening or a quieter midweek session.
Yes. Multi-zone audio lets you run distinct playlists simultaneously across different activity areas, bars, event spaces and reception zones, all managed from one central platform and scheduled automatically to shift with the pace of your day.
Yes. Campaign scheduling lets you launch event-specific playlists automatically across the whole venue or individual zones at a set time, without manual intervention on the night.
Yes. Startle's digital signage runs from the same Studio platform as the music, so your team can manage promotional screens, event content, leaderboards and brand campaigns across every screen in every venue from one central dashboard.
Startle operates on a predictable monthly cost per venue, with no surprise hardware fees. Free next-day shipping, plug-and-play setup and no-quibble hardware replacement are included as standard.
Yes, playing music in commercial premises requires a licence (typically PPL PRS for Music in the UK). Find out more about music licenses here.
