Contents:
- IKEA’S “DG ROOM” FEATUR FIRST OPENLY GAY COUPLE COMMERCIAL
- IKEA’S INIC “DG ROOM”: THE FIRST MERCIAL TO SHOW A GAY UPLE
- HOW IKEA MA HISTORY 1994 WH THE FIRST GAY COUPLE AN AD
- WORLD’S BT ADS EVER #74: IKEA AIRS FIRST MERCIAL FEATURG OPENLY GAY UPLE
- THIS 1994 IKEA AD WAS TV'S FIRST-EVER AD WH A GAY COUPLE
IKEA’S “DG ROOM” FEATUR FIRST OPENLY GAY COUPLE COMMERCIAL
Dtsch’s 1994 ad “Dg Room” for Ikea marked a pivotal moment advertisg as the spot shar TV’s first gay uple. And this go back to 1994, well before beg openly gay was monplace. It was an IKEA mercial that Dtsch produced, showsg the first openly gay uple, buyg furnure.
Lookg back, the 1990’s emerged as a of niche marketg, and a number of advertisers targeted gays, as surveys showed they often enjoyed a higher disposable hoehold e. In 1994, IKEA aired their TV ad “Dg Room” and beme the first brand to release a mastream mercial featurg a gay uple.
IKEA’S INIC “DG ROOM”: THE FIRST MERCIAL TO SHOW A GAY UPLE
Fast forward to 2022, and gay upl featured advertisg no longer seem radil. It was hard to be openly gay, which n be seen by the sheer amount of backlash that IKEA faced bee of this advertisement.
HOW IKEA MA HISTORY 1994 WH THE FIRST GAY COUPLE AN AD
Still, the cultural difference between Swen and the US uld be the reason behd IKEA’s “long history of cludg gay and transgenr them s advertisg”.
WORLD’S BT ADS EVER #74: IKEA AIRS FIRST MERCIAL FEATURG OPENLY GAY UPLE
What’s groundbreakg and unique about this ad is that portrayed a gay uple a posive light durg a tumultuo time perd.
Ellen Carton, executive director of the New York chapter of GLAAD, said the ad showed “an aspect of gay life that people never see: our daily liv. Instead of showg gays and lbians marchg at gay rights ralli or sufferg om AIDS, the IKEA ad humaniz . For example, Unilever’s “Go Gay” Axe mercial that me out 3 years after IKEA’s.
On this new episo of our Tagle podst, we close out Pri Month wh a look back at the 1994 Ikea mercial that was the first mastream ad ever to feature a gay uple. The Dtsch-produced spot is wily regard as the first ad the US to feature an openly gay s release, ‘Dg Room Table’ ma headl around the globe, havg been released s before gay marriage beme legalized the US.
THIS 1994 IKEA AD WAS TV'S FIRST-EVER AD WH A GAY COUPLE
Whereas many prev ads hted at homosexual them, the Ikea spot leav no room for doubt that the men featured are partners, th markg a pivotal moment the ad the two men, who we learn have been together for three years, fish each other’s sentenc.
And this go back to 1994, well before beg openly gay was monplace, ” Dtsch NY chief executive Val DiFebo famoly said about the mercial. Never one to shy away om a sndal, ntroversy or unorthodox marketg scheme, 1994, Ikea aired a mercial featurg two men shoppg for a dg room table, the first major natnal TV ad to portray a gay uple, well, ever.